This weekend we have double dose of "30xN" . Friday 14th: Space Festival (Caminha) at 22h30 Saturday 15th: Periphera2025 (Trafaria) at 21h . Come check us out at one of these event (or both :) ) . @carvalhais.org & @ptudela.bsky.social: computers, sound; Rodrigo Carvalho: computer, lights, visuals.

Tonight we perform at Space Festival in Caminha. Our new release, “30×N — LRJ1”, with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @cronicaelectronica.org

Winter is approaching over here and with it comes our yearly Winter promotion! If you order any physical until December 31st we will ship it along with a free surprise gift from our catalogue! Browse and choose from cronica.bandcamp.com/merch

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new release with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social

Happy to announce the release of the new album by Durán Vázquez + Kloob, “Vinum Sabbati: In the Dawn of Science Fiction” available as a limited-release CD or download. This is a reflection on the symbolic power to express sorrow and terrible feelings, a music of fear. www.cronicaelectronica.org/243/

The call for X is out! Check xcoax.org and submit your works. #computation #communication #aesthetics #X #xcoax #torino #2026

AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU. Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI. #digitalGovernance #AIEthics pads.c3w.at/form/#/2/for...

Winter is approaching over here and with it comes our yearly Winter promotion! If you order any physical until December 31st we will ship it along with a free surprise gift from our catalogue! Browse and choose from cronica.bandcamp.com/merch

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new release with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @earlabs.bsky.social

I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away

I read somewhere that it should actually be called Simulated Intelligence. It makes immediately clear what it actually is.

Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new video and release is available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social

The wonderful video by @visiophone.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds...

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.

#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot. 📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025 More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Coming soon, “30xN — LRJ1”, the second release in this series, with a new piece by @c, a video by Visiophone and remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders. Out next Tuesday, November 4. @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @gezimvisoka.bsky.social @earlabs.bsky.social

Strap yourselves in for a horror story for our times: A highly critical piece of the conditions and terms used to dress up #GAI as risk-free. Tldr: an onslaught of marketing elevates technical terminology to ‘responsible’ associations.

Our piece VVV (Zero) is currently showing at Museu Zer0, in Tavira at-c.org/installation... @ptudela.bsky.social

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

The origin of the phrase is this article by @arn.is collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world..." Powerful words here! Also it's insane to me that I have been quoted in this article for my title "infrastructure of meaninglessness" by @cwarzel.bsky.social 🙏

Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My First Months in Cyberspace. “It was a miracle and it changed my life. All of our lives.” [gyford.com]

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.

Don’t forget to submit a paper by Dec 5 for our Music and Media conference at UCD: “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

We missed you! (And you don't have to say it back.) xCoAx is back, and the whole team is very excited to see you in Torino, 8-10 July 2026. The call for X is now open, with all the info at xcoax.org See you there! #xcoax #torino #computation #communication #aesthetics #x

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.

We're happy to announce the new album by Emiter, a work that explores how cities are submerged in feedback, impulses, discharges, and harmonies of noise. “Electromagnetism of the City” is now available as a limited release CD, stream or download. www.cronicaelectronica.org/241/

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Clip from last Saturday's AV Performance 30xN at Museu Zer0, a new digital art museum at Santa Catarina Fonte Bispo/Tavira, Portugal _ @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound Rodrigo Carvalho: computer, lights, visuals

Glimpses from last Saturday's AV Performance 30xN at Museu Zer0 _ @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound Rodrigo Carvalho: computer, lights, visuals

A glimpse at next Saturday’s 30xN AV Performance @carvalhais.org @cronicaelectronica.org @ptudela.bsky.social

If you are in Algarve/South Portugal come watch us next Saturday: _ @c + Visiophone: 30×N (AV Performance) Museu Zer0 | September 27th Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Tavira, Portugal) - @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org: computers, sound Rodrigo Carvalho: computer, lights, visuals

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Abstract submission: November 17, 2025. More: 🔗 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as: 1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing (Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 3/n

3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc. (Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 5/n

In recent weeks, a number of people have mentioned returning to this article of mine from 2021. Here's a gift link.

Se agradece que RDL se haga eco, a modo de homenaje, del fallecimiento del artista sonoro (y amigo) #JavierPiñango. Pérdida irreparable para la escena musical española. Siempre le agradeceré que me programara en el patio de la Casa Encendida por aquella maravilla llamada Experimentaclub (2008).

A quick reminder about our catalogue being removed from streaming services. www.cronicaelectronica.org/streaming/

Super happy to announce that “INvolution” by [MONRHEA] and @poemproducer.bsky.social is now available to download or stream! Get it from www.cronicaelectronica.org/240/

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We're proud to announce the release of David Lee Myers's latest album in Crónica, “Terrenus”, an exploration in purely electronic sound, now available as a limited-release CD or download. Get it from www.cronicaelectronica.org/239/

I have an experimental music release with the Kenyan producer Monrhea, who is also a livecoder on @cronicaelectronica.org join us for listening ssesion next Monday! www.cronicaelectronica.org/240/

Some download codes for this gem, Matilde Meireles’s “Loop. And Again.” There are still a few CDs in stock. dpr2-e5e9 7fzw-hp8a xw2e-vrb7 qjm9-gd4v ffrz-3l58 mdlu-hj22 gjpv-vgwh 3b7r-63l5 waww-g4qr p9je-uqgd More on this at www.cronicaelectronica.org/223/ Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum