E.A.T. Experiments in Art and Technology: Open Ended  →

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

With two engineering degrees and a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness, I'm all about doing technology and social science and humanities simultaneously. Heisenberg once noted that the most important discoveries in human history occur at the intersection between two different avenues of thought. It's a mystery that it seems difficult today to be a polymath, as the world seems to prefer specialists over individuals with range and general interests.
E.A.T. is a big interest of mine. It/They worked diligently to enact collaborations between artists and scientists in order to eradicate the binary opposition. This is the second catalog I've managed to get my mitts on. I got lucky at my local bookseller while taking a visiting friend to check out ths shop.

Reality Was Whatever Happened  →

Octavia Butler AI And Other Possible Worlds.

Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy is a compelling meditation on the existential human fear of depending on other species to survive; Beth Coleman's Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds relays questions of kinship, community, survival, and transformation through generative processes of image production, serialization, and fabrication. Contributors engage with questions of black computing, indigenous AI, relational temporalities, and the hummmm of digital repetition, while Coleman’s conversation about the process and reality of contemporary AI-driven artistic practice frames the broader ethical and aesthetic stakes of OBAI.

"Inside ILM | To be a Generalist" highlights the multifaceted proficiency of Industrial Light & Magic's generalists in disciplines such as modeling, lighting, texturing, FX, and more, offering insight into the unique aspects of the team.

Geoff Boeing's study "Urban Spatial Order: Street Network Orientation, Configuration, and Entropy," published in Applied Network Science, investigates the configuration of street networks across 100 global cities using OpenStreetMap data, revealing significant variation in grid orientation, connectivity, and the spatial efficiency of urban layouts, with a notable contrast between gridded North American cities and more organic European ones.

The mean center of the United States population, calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau using national census results, represents a point of balance on an imaginary flat surface where each person in the 50 states and the District of Columbia is equally weighted, and has moved steadily westward and slightly southward since 1790.

The episode from "On the Media" discusses the trajectory of science fiction in China, charting its progress from a genre once critiqued as "spiritual pollution" towards achieving significant recognition and popularity. This narrative unfolds within the broader context of cultural and societal changes in China, reflecting shifts in attitudes towards speculative fiction and its role in exploring futuristic and technological themes. The examination includes a focus on notable works and authors, such as "The Three Body Problem," which have played a pivotal role in propelling Chinese science fiction into the global literary spotlight. Through this lens, the episode contributes to the understanding of the dynamic landscape of science fiction in China, highlighting its evolution and the factors driving its current prominence and acclaim.