Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology
Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art
Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
Posted inTechnology
Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score
"Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology
Fiat ars, pereat mundus
Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all?
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Today, typewriters are for art
Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."
Posted inAutomobiles History Living
Deep influence of the asphalt below us
Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
Posted inHistory Living Technology
“Creativity is just deviance put to good use”
Maybe everything is slipping to boring sameness?
Posted inLiving Technology
Typewriting as a way of life
Enjoyable movie and a perfectly reasonable underground insurgency!
Posted inTechnology
Between artist and GPT
Avital Meshi says, “I don’t want to use it, I want to be it.” “It” is generative AI.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Why I’m Quitting Substack
Substack has evolved, as a business characterized by "network effects." That's (mostly) why I'm no longer there.