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- What if an economic diagram can treat economic units as permeable membranes instead of enclosed boxes? What if it portrays the economy as a more interdependent, rhizomatic web of connections? What if a line can be used not as a border, but more as an entanglement like that of a cat playing with yarns?
from Show me Love
also love the format of this website - a “rhizomatic hypertext-essay”
the hyperlinks act as portals - The need for artists and technologists to be in dialogue has perhaps never been so urgent. Or, perhaps, it is simply always urgent.
from Image
- to create an AR application that would make the book into an interface. The performative reading is a way of simultaneously talking about and demonstrating new media. It was also a way of exploring the breaking points of tools: spreadsheets used as an index, rather than for data management; Unity (a gaming software) used to make a book into a digit... See more
from Spike Art Magazine by Tina Rivers Ryan
AR as a portal - connecting physical + digital worlds
building worlds with tech tools rather than letting tech tools build us (subverting platforms, regaining control, giving them a new purpose that benefits our needs more)
- We stand united against the commodification of our digital future, advocating instead for an ecosystem that is imbued with our collective cultural values, desires, and identities.
from Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint by Austin Robey
- There are all sorts of different entry points into this space. Again, it’s a matter of the intended function or behavior, versus ways we can subvert that towards some other call to action. And if those invitations come from glitches or breaking points, that’s even better.
from Spike Art Magazine by Tina Rivers Ryan
Portals can be glitches / accidents
- I love this mix of drama where life is lost, erosion is sad, mass extinction is terrifying; there's a creative beauty in this process of death and rebirth where the present becomes the compost of the future.
from «Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell by Anthony Van Den Bossche
- Embrace the Symbiotic Dance Between Culture + Technology
"Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship." — Brenda Laurelfrom Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint by Austin Robey
- As calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI nudges creativity towards the uniquely human - the emotional, the ethical, the culturally resonant. It’s not a duel at dawn with paintbrushes or pianos but a partnership, with AI as the trusty sidekick, expanding the canvas of human expression.
For creatives, it’s import... See morefrom Video
- The hefty tome of cross-references, which readers can navigate via one of the thematic paths outlined by sixteen notable cyberfeminists, or by using the entries like hyperlinks, has become an indispensable resource for historicizing the putting into practice of contemporary technology criticism.
from Spike Art Magazine by Tina Rivers Ryan
Indexing / hyperlinking as pathways and portals