--- title: creative technology canonical: https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/ markdown: https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology.md --- # creative technology Channel: creative-technology-lpksk8mysdo · 145 blocks ## 1. Set ### 1a. [untitled](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/546355/) · [arena:546355](https://www.are.na/block/546355) By: [Christina Badal](https://www.are.na/christina-badal) "Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." ### 1b. [@kelin_online](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/49742187/) · arena:49742187 *[private block]* **kelin** [@kelin_online](https://x.com/kelin_online) · [Aug 22, 2026](https://x.com/kelin_online/status/2091308276592062548) debate & angst over the influencerification of creative tech has come up in almost every convo in the last couple weeks... --- [Aug 23, 2026](https://x.com/kelin_online/status/2091329166956540290) everyone who is more mad about it than me is a bitter gatekeeper everyone who is less mad about it than me is a tasteless normie Capture: [capture.json](https://fjpaz.net/posts/x-2091308276592062548/capture.json) ### 1c. [x.com](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/45761577/) · [arena:45761577](https://www.are.na/block/45761577) ![Lucas Gelfond, The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books](https://media.fjpaz.net/arena-media/45761577.0585ebcc.webp) [Lucas Gelfond, The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books](https://x.com/gucaslelfond/status/2049979052451062075/photo/1) · x.com By: [Chia ​](https://www.are.na/chia) ## 2. Pair ### 2a. [@xhfloz](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/50769677/) · arena:50769677 *[private block]* **XH** [@xhfloz](https://x.com/xhfloz) · [Sep 25, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2103503649934549023) I keep seeing new projects from people I admired that feel « uninhabited » —— as in, I would've gotten 99% of the same experience had they given their original prompt A big reason for this is, I think, related to « no tears in the reader, no tears in the writer », or — « no surprise in the maker, no surprise in the audience » Because AI programming is so back-and-forth, rarely do I get into the zone, so I also rarely get immersed and totally absorbed enough to enter into a kind of flow state, where you're so singularly focused that you stop rationalizing + self-critic'ing, and just try things At best, when I'm in that state, I tend to arrive at things that surprise me. Said stronger: I only surprise myself when in this self-absorbed flow. And the surprising things often end up being the truest/most self-revelatory. This happens when I am designing, writing, having a conversation — it's not just in "creative practice," but a kind of inhabited enthrall that can happen at high and low planes https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2093383492214337730 > `@xhfloz` ([Aug 28, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2093383492214337730)) > I spent the week barely using chatbots — just reading, thinking, and writing — and feel much more clarity than I have in months > > Reminds me of this Oliver Sacks quote about clarity after his 'false productivity' of using amphetamines > > ![photo](https://media.fjpaz.net/posts/x-2103503649934549023/2093383492214337730-0.display.95c9e24f.webp) --- [Sep 25, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2103503651712934379) I have increasingly few qualms with AI programming, but this remains a big one: that it makes tools + products + experiences too outcome-oriented. For many industrial things, that's okay, if not desirable. It's what technology's generally trended toward --- [Sep 25, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2103503653122310590) But a personality only comes through in the self-obliviated inhabiting during the making — flow, if you can shake the productivity guru connotations Recently, after a months long rut, I've come to see flow — "autotelic" — as one of the most perennial sources of fulfillment Capture: [capture.json](https://fjpaz.net/posts/x-2103503649934549023/capture.json) ### 2b. [eieio.games](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/50057500/) · [arena:50057500](https://www.are.na/block/50057500) ![Legibility of Effort · eieio.games](https://media.fjpaz.net/arena-media/50057500.82efa849.webp) [Legibility of Effort · eieio.games](https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort/) · eieio.games By: [Eva Khoury](https://www.are.na/eva-khoury) LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next? ## 3. Pair ### 3a. [aaa.org.hk](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/49752328/) · arena:49752328 *[private block]* [Let's Talk About Money: Shanghai First International Fax Art Exhibition | Asia Art Archive](https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/event-database/lets-talk-about-money-shanghai-first-international-fax-art-exhibition) · aaa.org.hk ### 3b. [aaa.org.hk](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/49751613/) · arena:49751613 *[private block]* [Let's Talk About Money: 1st International Fax Art Exhibition in Shanghai, 我們談談錢──上海首屆國際傳真藝術展](https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/archive/a-history-of-exhibitions-shanghai-19792006-1979-2006-1996-lets-talk-about-money-1st-international-fax-art-exhibition-in-shanghai/object/lets-talk-about-money-1st-international-fax-art-exhibition-in-shanghai-30931) · aaa.org.hk ## 4. Pair ### 4a. [@xhfloz](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/51047444/) · arena:51047444 *[private block]* **XH** [@xhfloz](https://x.com/xhfloz) · [Oct 4, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2106766554029330844) We need a design exploration group that is a mix of MIT Media Lab (research) + Vice (reportage) Where the goals are: \1. Investigate what's actually possible, what's coming, \2. Suspend disbelief + immerse themselves for a period \3. Return back with reportage + discernment > `@netcapgirl` ([Oct 2, 2026](https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2106036570054946832)) > there’s so much confusion about what’s happening in AI because if you don’t use coding models every day it’s hard to understand how quickly progress is accelerating but if you do, you likely have AI psychosis to a degree that it’s impossible to explain it in an understandable way --- [Oct 4, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2106766879607984618) Too much of "creative technology" is focused on building throwaway software/hardware for the algorithm, without real rigor or purpose. This IMO is the most important thing for that shape of person (technical, creative, discerning, intuitive) \> `@xhfloz` (Sep 26, 2026) > `@xhfloz` ([Sep 26, 2026](https://x.com/xhfloz/status/2103875143160279131)) > The real Intersection of Art & Technology will be technical people who feel deeply, and are willing to suspend disbelief and > > rappel into various technopsychosis/dystopias & manage to return w/ teachings & warnings, reported in a blend of Vice doc + Huxley's Doors of Perception Capture: [capture.json](https://fjpaz.net/posts/x-2106766554029330844/capture.json) ### 4b. [@zachlieberman](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/50813799/) · arena:50813799 *[private block]* **zach lieberman** [@zachlieberman](https://x.com/zachlieberman) · [Sep 26, 2026](https://x.com/zachlieberman/status/2103877095231226013) I feel like the opposite now in some way I can’t fully articulate yet ! coding was never the point for me but it was always about the kinds of connections computation and software allow you to make. I feel the urgency of that now more than ever > [`@kcimc`](https://x.com/kcimc/status/2103667482448027954) > i tried opus 5.5. for 15 years my bio has said "artist working with code". today i changed it to "artist". --- [Sep 27, 2026](https://x.com/zachlieberman/status/2104177682934014118) We have automated weaving but we still need textile artists to show what’s possible when the hand eye and material meet. Capture: [capture.json](https://fjpaz.net/posts/x-2103877095231226013/capture.json) ## 5. Pair ### 5a. [alltext.nyc](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/36506289/) · [arena:36506289](https://www.are.na/block/36506289) ![all text in nyc](https://media.fjpaz.net/arena-media/36506289.13cef880.webp) [all text in nyc](https://www.alltext.nyc/) · alltext.nyc By: [Nico Chilla](https://www.are.na/nico-chilla) ### 5b. [pudding.cool](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/38336822/) · arena:38336822 *[private block]* [NYC’s Urban Textscape](https://pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view/) · pudding.cool ## 6. [maxbittker.com](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/24728229/) · [arena:24728229](https://www.are.na/block/24728229) ![My Creative Research Process | max-bittker](https://media.fjpaz.net/arena-media/24728229.a405cf0e.webp) [My Creative Research Process | max-bittker](https://maxbittker.com/creative-research/) · maxbittker.com I like making art with computers, but it can feel strange sometimes. Art and computing each come wrapped up with a lot of external ideas about the proper way to go about them. When mixed, their respective preconceptions can come into tension. Existing at this intersection requires reconsidering thin… ## 7. [contextual-thread.com](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/38947185/) · [arena:38947185](https://www.are.na/block/38947185) ![Contextual Thread](https://media.fjpaz.net/arena-media/38947185.5058216a.webp) [Contextual Thread](https://contextual-thread.com/) · contextual-thread.com Contextual Thread is a collaboration between Bảo Anh Bùi ## 8. [@blankspac_e](https://fjpaz.net/links/creative-technology/49568939/) · arena:49568939 *[private block]* **𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠** [@blankspac_e](https://x.com/blankspac_e) · [Aug 15, 2026](https://x.com/blankspac_e/status/2088735984443888107) Michael Mandiberg converted all of English Wikipedia into thousands of physical volumes to show just how enormous the internet would be in the real world (2015) ![photo](https://media.fjpaz.net/posts/x-2088735984443888107/2088735984443888107-0.display.2d5108ad.webp) ![photo](https://media.fjpaz.net/posts/x-2088735984443888107/2088735984443888107-1.display.710d8b24.webp) Capture: [capture.json](https://fjpaz.net/posts/x-2088735984443888107/capture.json)