creative technology
"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."
kelin@kelin_onlinekelin@kelin_onlineeveryone who is less mad about it than me is a tasteless normie
XH@xhflozA 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
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Reminds me of this Oliver Sacks quote about clarity after his 'false productivity' of using amphetamines
XH@xhflozFor many industrial things, that's okay, if not desirable. It's what technology's generally trended toward
XH@xhflozRecently, after a months long rut, I've come to see flow — "autotelic" — as one of the most perennial sources of fulfillment
Legibility of Effort · eieio.games
Legibility of Effort · eieio.games
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
Let's Talk About Money: Shanghai First International Fax Art Exhibition | Asia Art Archive
Underground Exhibition Space, Huashan Art Vocational School, Shanghai, China | 上海華山美術職業學校地下展廳
15 – 25 Mar 1996
Initiated by Hank Bull, then director of Western Front, an artist-run space in Vancouver, the exhibition involved a group of artists in Shanghai. It is the first international exhibition to show work by artists from abroad along with Chinese artists' works, which arrived to the show via fax. Frank Bull took charge of promoting the exhibition through the website of his art centre, while local artists operated the venue and fax machine which received the artists' works.
展覽由卜漢克發起，他當時是位於溫哥華的藝術家運營空間──Western Front藝術中心的總監。來自上海的多位藝術家參加了展覽，這是首個將中國與外國藝術家作品共同展出的國際性展覽，作品通過傳真傳送。卜漢克負責通過藝術中心的網絡宣傳展覽，本地藝術家則負責管理展覽場地和通過機器接收作品。
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
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
This is one of the works exhibited at 'Shanghai First International Fax Art Exhibition'.
這是《上海首屆國際傳真藝術展》的其中一件作品。
15 – 25 Mar 1996
XH@xhflozWhere 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
sophie@netcapgirl
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
XH@xhfloz> `@xhfloz` (Sep 26, 2026)
rappel into various technopsychosis/dystopias & manage to return w/ teachings & warnings, reported in a blend of Vice doc + Huxley's Doors of Perception
zach lieberman@zachliebermancoding 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
Kyle McDonald@kcimc
i tried opus 5.5. for 15 years my bio has said "artist working with code". today i changed it to "artist".
zach lieberman@zachlieberman
all text in nyc
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NYC’s Urban Textscape
NYC’s Urban Textscape
My Creative Research Process | max-bittker
My Creative Research Process | max-bittker
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…
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