"The imaginal is never pure. It is mediated by a material substrate, language, ritual, belief system, and the technologies available for externalizing what is interior." My introductory essay at Machina Imaginalis. machinaimaginalis.substack.com/p/imaginal-m...
Will Luers
@wluers.bsky.social
Writing on AI cinema & language Editor @ The Digital Review https://will-luers.com
DREAM FACTORY — a new AI cinema work made with Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder, following our 2023 Posthuman Cinema. posthumancinema.com/dream-factory DREAM FACTORY is included in EXTRA/PHENOMENALITIES, Jan 22-March 13 at the Stanford Art Gallery. events.stanford.edu/event/extrap...
Honored that Posthuman Cinema—my collaboration with Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder—is included in the NON/PHENOMENALITIES show in Berkeley. posthumancinema.com
POSTHUMAN CINEMA
Posthuman Cinema is a practice of creative cosmotechnics. Together, in human-AI symbiosis, the artist collective (Will Luers, Chad Mossholder and Amerika) improvises with each other and with AI tools ...
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NON/PHENOMENALITIES — July 26 – Aug 30, 2025 at Gallery 120710 in Berkeley NON/PHENOMENALITIES — a show that I am co-curating with artist Brett Amory at Gallery 120710 in Berkeley — opens July 26 with an amazing lineup of artists. The title of this exhibition plays on the multiple senses of the…
To celebrate 30 years of experimental open-access publishing at the electronic book review < @electronicbr.bsky.social > I wrote, coded and designed the site ebr@30, featuring Zoom interviews of co-editors and contributors, along with selected essays and ephemera. electronicbookreview.com/ebr30/
ebr@30 | Celebrating 30 Years of Experimental Publishing
An interactive history of the electronic book review (ebr), marking 30 years of digital literary innovation, collaborative editing, and networked scholarship.
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Thinking about the tragic loss of life in Texas, floods, rain, water... and the flowing prose of Joseph McElroy's "Water on Us" where he asks: "What has water to say on the subject of us?" electronicbookreview.com/essay/water-...
Water on Us
This excerpt was published simultaneously as part of the Cognitive Fictions gathering by ebr editor Joseph Tabbi in Volume 31, Number 6 September/October 2010 of American Book Review. *** Is it rea...
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@jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social, your book flipped my thinking about machines and humans in so many ways. An important history to prepare us for the coming AI disruptions.
Delighted to read the excellent review by @wluers.bsky.social of my book Endless Intervals in @electronicbook electronicbookreview.com/essay/a-revi... @uminnpress.bsky.social
POSTHUMAN CINEMA "The humans had already left themselves behind..." 10 cinépoèmes by the PHC Collective: Will Luers, Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder- improvising in human-ai symbiosis: posthumancinema.com/episodes.html and the PHC manifesto: posthumancinema.com/phcmanifesto...