Ok, there are wise and funny people in America. So there's that. Certainly not more than anywhere else but they exist all around us and sometimes we meet them. Like an oasis in the desert.

But not every circle is a square.

Imagine owning SpaceX and not knowing what the ozone does.

How normative is my autocorrect when it never accepts the first two attempts of writing anything and only lets me write what I want on the third, emphatic, attempt at writing the same thing I was trying to type…

Spotted in the wild… Open Solitude is coming up on the 29th of November

If a sector of our society as significant and all-encompassing as the workplace is “ruined” by the inclusion of half the population then by definition it was never working to begin with.

Gilles Deleuze died thirty years ago today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...

If you haven't had the chance to experience the performance, the second release in this series stemming from it is now available! It's been wonderful to develop this with @ptudela.bsky.social and @visiophone.bsky.social and to get fantastic remixes by @earlabs.bsky.social and Joana de Sá.

Narrator: The AI was, in fact, the problem.

Dispatch #12274 from █████ ███████ ██ (CONFIDENTIAL) 1. House of L'IL Styrofoam 2. Liminal Tacos 3. Tower of Crumbling Webcams

Critically acclaimed horror film or your life as an academic? (or a secret third thing: they’re the same thing) “a malevolent force keeps returning [your manuscript] to you with increasingly disturbing revisions.”

While perusing the gift shop at Kunsthalle Praha, I found the catalog for Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, where I wrote the entry on Anna Ridler‘s work, Mosaic Virus. The exhibition and book explore how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, (1/2)

Rarely does an image capture a moment so well as this

Umede Festival closed with a gathering around a bonfire, with words from philosopher Audrius Beinorius. What a warm, open, and generous group, I feel so lucky to have been able to be a part of this and to get to bring home so many lovely experiences.

I’m giving a guest talk at FAMU in Prague: Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1 Algorithmic Processes in Image Production The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.

On this day in 2011, Friedrich Kittler died in Berlin. Born in Rochlitz, Germany in 1943, Kittler was, and for many still is, the leading figure in German media theory, or Medienwissenschaften. 1/

This weekend, I’m taking part in Umede Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania. I’ll give a performative lecture titled “Algorithms, Stones & Digital Dark Matter” on how we might conceptualize new perspectives on the opacity in machine learning systems and current visions of artificial intelligence.

This weekend Cassandra Bookshop in Porto hosted the launch of the book Inteligências Entretecidas, which includes my essay “Imitation Aesthetics”. The book documents the workshop series organized by Earthsea Association and is edited by Ana Carvalho, Isabel Carvalho, and Vera Carmo.

Day 1 as a fellow at @akademiesolitude.bsky.social included orientation with the other new fellows and a meeting in the library. Already finding new things to dig into

a captcha arithmetic test just commanded me, "Prove your humanity." and it felt a little bit too representative of the general sentiment currently

We will present the work MYTH, MAGIC, MACHINES from September 27th to November 30th, at Museu Zer0 in the Algarve. The work was originally comissioned by gnration as part of their órbita program that features transdisciplinary works between music, art and technology youtube.com/watch?v=90hlSPMpLa8

This is really the only energy keeping me going these days.

As a former Chicago resident, this makes me so happy.

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

Parabéns ao novo diretor da FBAUP @carvalhais.org Congratulations to the new dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto

Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country needs for batteries, solar panels and wind turbines – but these critical minerals mostly go to waste

Is there a service where I can pay to be surrounded by cute baby animals? Can that be a thing?

The only thing these "AI" are really good for is identifying where people are under-resourced. If people are using them a lot, theyre probably overworked, underpaid, tired/hungry, lacking skills, etc.. the answer is to provide the resources (smaller classes, health insurance, living wage etc).

Neural [book review] Dead & Alive: Reflections on Media / Art - edited by Olle Essvik and Lars Kristensen Rojal Förlag - neural.it/2025/08/edit... #mediaarthistory

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

"I am trying to promote a historical view of the social functions of the state that suggests that we are all dependents of state spending in one form or another. In fact, the more you are subsidized, the less you tend to be aware of it.". www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

@beachhouseband.bsky.social kindly made their discography pretty close to the same length as my train travel from Porto to the Algarve😻🎧

Inspo pic for summer vacay 2025

@carvalhais.org's Art and Computation in good company 😎

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX... Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

I was planning to quit non-art this year and finally become an artist again, but it seems I've failed at that too.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says This will likely be implemented in many countries. www.theguardian.com/... 1/2

Andrea Gibson. Poet. Powerhouse. Beacon of hope. Lover of life and the world. You will be missed forever 13/8/1975-14/7/2025

Today I gave a talk on my work at the V&A in Dundee, Scotland at the International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (xCoAx)

Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social presenting at @xcoax.org 2025, “A Structural Plan for Imitation”

My paper on my piece A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X

What a great pedagogical resource on synthetic media!

Happy 4th of July. 🍦

Lolz just on the verge of WWIII

Happy to announce “Arte, Digital, Academia, Museu Zer0. Vol 2”, edited by Luísa Ribas and myself, and published by Museu Zer0 and i2ADS. Limited print copies are available and there's an open access version at i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/...

I’m with Kierkegaard on this: monotheism is incompatible with ethical life.