"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...
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
All with the help of ChatGPT and Otter.AI, of course. This allowed for a style, language and embedded history that matched (with attributions) the interviewees.
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/
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-...
@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.
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...
