As 'Agentic AI' becomes the new buzzword, I fondly remember mid 2010s 'bot' wave. Especially loved bot-band @mpf.bsky.social's Petita Tatata + my Petita DumDum Techa. Every day Tatata generates, recites & posts beautiful abstract poetry & my bot improvises music over it. Every day a new surprise :)

As I turn half a century old, I'm v happy to share a new touchdesigner tutorial. Recreating one of my old works Webcam Piano. Motion detection with frame differencing, MIDI, POPs, Python, GLSL and more. Also shout out to David Rokeby!👋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHf...

Navier-Stokes equations (that model fluid behavior) are Turing complete. Ie for any given Turing machine (computation) a stationary fluid flow can be constructed such that tracking the trajectory of a particle in the flow encodes the execution of the computation... (1/2) (Vid except from WAVES 2014)

We sail through endless skies Stars shine like eyes The black night sighs … Light of the night The Earth, a purple blaze Of sapphire haze In orbit always … And so, we pass on by … As we travel the universe RIP #OzzyOsbourne Planet Caravan, 1970 Video: Reincarnation, 2009

A selection of work in 5 minutes (upto 2024) 1/2 (Music by @machinefabriek.bsky.social , original composition for my 2014/2015 WAVES piece)

Just remembered the beautiful crazy project 'A Strange Loop' we made with @presstube.bsky.social on @fxhash.bsky.social :) www.fxhash.xyz/project/a-st... (SOUND ON :)

SUPERRADIANCE performance Tech check ⁦‪@JacobsPillow‬⁩ for the opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre ❤️ @katiepeyton.bsky.social

Friends, those of you who frequented certain corners of the web twenty yrs ago might remember I was quite active sharing demos & tutorials. After a break, I'm getting back into it! Will probably mostly be touchdesigner, comfyui, AI etc. More soon! www.patreon.com/memoakten

Left: 2017; Right: 2025 learningtosee.ai #LearningToSee

I used to believe consciousness evolved to support life, now I question if life evolved to embody consciousness.

LA friends, tomorrow night is the premier and reception for Superradiance, a collaboration with @memoakten.bsky.social at Ctrl Gallery, curated by Paul Young and @neilmendoza.bsky.social. Come celebrate with us! RSVP: partiful.com/e/2jZF62afWi...

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social  at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

Excited to be performing a SUPERRADIANCE performance lecture tomorrow with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at SPECTRA STUDIO www.instagram.com/spectra__stu...

I Stand Up Unfurl [as fungi] Loft into the sky [as forests] Bring life back to air Bring life back to earth _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Life, Laughs, Green. Unfurls deep memory I am the fungal air vents that throw my spores to meet the winds _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

The past blows into the present I am the soil thousands of miles away Replenished Life, Laughs, Green. Unfurls deep memory _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the sand ancient memories of life I am the wind that swirls the desert dust into the living sky Swarms Scatters across my body Atmospheric rivers bloom red plumes of mineral dust An offering from the distant past _ @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the diatoms, that once drifted in an ancient sea now a desert, in the Holocene depths of the Sahara: the cratered sand floor of a paleo lake a reservoir of dust, between paleo shores _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the reefs that sing summoning wanderers I am the larva of coral and fish drifting in the open ocean. I follow the music of a thriving reef calling me to my new home _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the 🌊 that caress yr skin As my body warms I thrash+tear deeper deeper into the seabed deeper into myself deeper into my past My fury casts into the sky ancient memories frm the deep biosedmnts Calcified remnants of ancient life @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the waves spuming with life I am the spirit in your breath I am the air-sea boundary The frisky interface Dynamic, Volcanic, Galvanic I breathe You breathe We breathe _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

From oceans above, to oceans below My lungs My heart [How do I care for you?] I am the moon that gently pulls on your skin I am the flowering tides My currents pulse like arteries My veins bloom blue-green _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the trees lofting microbes to the sky I seed my breath with life Cast a spell [Pseudomona syringae] to summon atmospheric rivers back from the living air; I call back the rain From oceans above to oceans below _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the forest rivers streaming water from the soil into the sky Here in the sky water has a secret name: A microbe so perfectly shaped, it nucleates ice directly from vapor _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Soil Stands Up I am the soil that stands up, unfurls, [as fungi] lofts into the sky [as forests] I am the forest feeding on the sun. I breathe You breathe We breathe How do I care for you? _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I am the soil [I am alive] I am the rootless plants [bryophytes] that retain water I am the wet sediment that becomes mud I am the worms that wriggle I am the cracks that grow into rivers veins across the skin of the earth [my skin] _ @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

We are the alchemists the earth shapers the architects We are the lichen the fungi the microbes the chemolithotrophs metabolizing rock into soil _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

We have burrowed into the heart of the Earth Drilled into the clockwork of the planet From the atoms forged in the stars I create the minerals of life _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Two miles beneath my feet Life eats Rock Draws energy from Metal In these sunless tunnels our ground is their sky _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

What if we shed our skin? Vibrate in collective effervescence Superradiance _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

[How do I care for you?] I stand before you today, nourished by ancient oceans Warmed by ancient starlight My body, a site of journeys and transits, portals and interfaces A chimera _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I feel like I’m missing something but what am I missing I am in superposition My body is an animal alive in the present But my mind is trapped in the future+the past I dance to a pulse inside me that did not begin w me _ SUPERRADIANCE @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Dance is one of our earliest biotechnologies We dance to connect to each other We dance to connect back to the living earth Extend our bodies bynd our skin into the living environment We dance to remember who we are _ SUPERRADIANCE @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Forged in the dying hearts of stars exploding into supernova billions of yrs ago billions of light yrs away spewed across galaxies to come together—for a very brief moment in time—to momentarily become me and you _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

And to me, it feels like I am a single unitary entity, with clear boundaries, that I call my skin. But intellectually, I know that I am in fact a network, a network of cells and organisms A chimera _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

Trillions of incredibly complex, intelligent little machines, work together, to keep me alive, so that I can keep them alive And somehow, through their interactions, I emerge _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

I stand before you today, A collection, of trillions of cells — more than half of which are not even genetically human, But other microorganisms _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

'Superradiance' by @memoakten.bsky.social  & @katiepeyton.bsky.social   Installation view at Hope Alkazar, Xtopia Immersive, Istanbul https://superradiance.net Music in this excerpt (Chapter 2) by @machinefabriek.bsky.social

Hello to my new followers 👋 Remember 👇 Peace and love🫶 Happy holidays y'all.

'Superradiance' by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social Installation view at Hope Alkazar, Xtopia Immersive, Istanbul superradiance.net Music in this excerpt (Chapter 1) by me :)

"Superradiance: Chapter 1 | EMBODIED SIMULATION" Collaboration with @katiepeyton.bsky.social At Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. superradiance.net