Severin Matusek

So, if the Internet has effectively become cable TV, what is the new information frontier?

If AI is able to suddenly pump slop into our environment it’s only because we already turned on the faucets ourselves.

We're now living in a system where attention dynamics are the operating system for resource allocation, political decisions, and identity formation.

Despite its gravitational pull, the story behind decentralization and the rise of crypto was just one island in the new internet archipelago.

Susan Leigh Star, a sociologist and theorist of infrastructure and networks, wrote in her 1999 influential paper, “The Ethnography of Infrastructure”:

“Study a city and neglect its sewers and power supplies (as many have), and you miss essential aspects of distributional justice and planning power. Study an information system and neglect its... See more

Spawning is different. Instead of lifting fragments, you train a model on an artist’s entire body of work and generate new material in their style. Clear lineage, but fuzzy origins. Sampling dealt in citation. Spawning touches the DNA. This distinction matters because spawning raises the stakes in ways that sampling never did. When your work trains... See more

Weekly Talks: every Wednesday we host a call to talk about what’s happening inside our community. We listen to music NFTs before the start of the hour and in the second half of the hour we are joined by an artist to talk about their creative journey. Artists who have joined us already include Adria Kain, Erick the Architect, Haleek Maul, Iman... See more