10:49AM, partially clear skies, tendency to haze, intermittent sun
the messy negotiation of creek, marsh, and beavers: the detritus of last years growth at the cusp of spring, meltwater and decay (to jump/wade/slip on path to new geographical heights)

10:04AM, overcast
at edge of marsh-filled indentations on the hill-ridge: the complexity of growth (seemingly) inverted downwards (an anchor in the concept of home)

10:02AM, mostly clear skies, sun not yet over ridge
receding winter on a lake commonplace in daydreams, brimming with melt-water (submerged fingers ache)

the ongoing meditations on site as a read/write dialogue continue

re: the encroachment of automation-fever upon the "arts": imho meaning is derived not from the creation itself, but through the nurturing of its context through sustained practice

these mornings I venture out into landscapes, to read [impressions/data/forms] and write [etch/order/shape] study after study

(over coffee) realising that my inate sense of the worlds sculptural plasticity stems from my mother: as she carves & sculpts wood/timber, revealing and guiding form, so have I been taught that within everything there lies a multitude of resonant, potential forms that speak.

I remember about a decade or so ago ranting to a friend about how our future would be haunted by our dead relatives and friends spamming us incessantly (thus proving that any sufficiently advanced technology will try and part you from your cash):

patents.google.com/patent/US125...

Some glimpses of our work Argomorphs at ‘Liquid Chimeras’, our first European solo show at MEET Digital Culture Centre in Milano, curated by Eleonora Brizi

excited to be soon setting up our upcoming show at the MEET centre in Milan, always nice to be able to do so in person (never a given with the global world we live in, sadly)

will the way of making sense of the current status quo be the snaring, sacrificing, and reading the entrails of one of these lobster-themed bots?

dead internet theory endgame? (also, yes, atrociously wasteful ... and no-one has managed to give me any clear idea of what these agents have actually produced of measurable value, aside from some neat fuel for schadenfreude)

I am continuously delighted by how scaling certain computational processes inevitably causes all kinds of organic quirks

Been positively pleased with the "set-and-forget" nature of Bambu, they (whilst problematic in terms of openness) are really quite good at the streamlined, focus on "the print not the config" experience. That said, for hacking or tuning, Prusa might be the better long-term bet, but ymmv.

Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behaviour. The swarms of the crabs tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments we demonstrate that swarms of so...

arxiv.org/abs/1204.1749 what I want to know is how do I create the adapters that let my old PC utilise crabby computation?

turns out Apple had it right all along when they introduced a mouse with a single button.. right place, just too early.

the sky was the colour of a moody skybox

(I really do mean "essay" in a quoted sense, it's more a rambling connecting the dots that may-or-may-not make sense)

Making doesn't occur in a vacuum. Every process happens within a blizzard of context which can prove equally difficult to communicate as to navigate.

Therefore, I decided to try something different, and have updated the entropic.contagion with a braindump "essay":

feileacan.net/entropic.con...

More about the work can be found here: feileacan.net/entropic.con...

Very grateful to everyone who came, and supported last night’s debut of ‘entropic.contagion’, my first solo work in over eight years!

A special thanks to NXT Museum & Prosus for inviting me to participate in this residency, Robert M. Thomas for composing an amazing soundtrack.

tonight: the early-onset heat death of culture?

A little teaser from the making of my new solo work, ‘entropic.contagion’, debuting at NXT Museum in Amsterdam on Friday as part of their AI residency program.

Sound by the amazing composer Robert M. Thomas

👀

a haruspicy of bad luck brian

body horror for jpgs (or, how I learned to love memetic mutations)

We have an unnerving ability to optimise for a minimum energy expenditure. Constantly exposing a constantly adapting system (the mind) to these new forms of (potentially) energy-saving platforms does seem obvious in light of that, but rife with un-expected consequences too.

Today's fascinating word: 'echoborg'.

src: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoborg

The quiet satisfaction of a working prototype still actually executing and running (without crashing) many months later.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Having just read 'The Peripheral' and the Jackpot therein, this is especially chilling: www.theguardian.com/environment/...