Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Chord Machine AKT-0.1 by Akuto Studio
youtube.comImagine this machine, taking shape starting around 1250, being wound up like a clockwork toy, and being allowed to run for 700 years, and you get what we currently living generations recognize as our modernity. In terms of a technological metaphor, the machine was shifting steadily from one equilibrium point to another in a surprisingly controlled... See more
Venkatesh Rao • The Modernity Machine
It has been a minute since we shared some @lovehulten synth joy. This is The Singer, a machine made of two Mother-32s, a Strymon Magneto and 3x toy sewing machines from the 70s. (Malika)
Commissioned by @seanmahanart
instagram.comIn industrial capitalism human beings created profit by working the machines. In posthuman capitalism the machines create profit by farming the human beings.
The Great Subduction
‘Jazz Popcorn Robot’ (2021) by Moritz Simon Geist @moritzsimongeist
“No audience, no player, no composition: this popcorn controlled robotic drumset is the most hygenic and the random performance I ever built. All sounds are triggered by popcorn, sensed by piezo elements, converted to MIDI, transfered to a robotic... See more
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The machine, as Picabia put it in one of his titles (plate 28), was La Fille Née Sans Mère, 1916–17, the Daughter Born without a Mother – a modern counterpart to the myth of the Virgin Birth, in which Christ, the son, was born without a father.