Ted Gioia: Slop is all about wastefulness! Let’s put this in context: In the current moment, there’s no money for serious artists—in filmmaking, fiction, painting, music, whatever. But there’s an endless supply of dollars to create Slop technology. In fact, no artistic movement in human history has soaked up more cash than Slop. This seems […]
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A talking mouth chanting algorithmically generated prayers. Given they’re nonsense to begin with, why not?
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Bryan Boyer built an epaper display that shows movies at 24 frames per hour (instead than 24 frames/sec). He has called it Very Slow Movie Player (VSMP): it slows a movie down so that it can be experienced differently, so that its frames can be seen as paintings.
VSMP is an object that contains a Raspberry Pi computer, custom software, and a reflective ePaper display (similar to a Kindle), all housed inside a 3D printed case. Every 2.5 minutes a frame from the film stored on the computer’s memory card is extracted, converted to black and white using a dithering algorithm, and then communicated to the reflective ePaper display. […]
Films are vain creatures that typically demand a dark room, full attention, and eager eyeballs ready to accept light beamed from the screen or projector to your visual cortex. VSMP inverts all of that. It is impossible to “watch” in a traditional way because it’s too slow. In a staring contest with VSMP you will always lose. It can be noticed, glanced-at, or even inspected, but not watched.
Inspired by the project, Jon Bell built Slow In Translation: Lost in Translation, stretched out over the entire year as a webpage background.
Il bot che genera farfalle
@mothgenerator è un bot di Twitter che genera sia le farfalle che i loro corrispettivi nomi in latino: This bot tweets make-believe moths of all shapes, sizes, textures and iridescent colors. It’s programmed to generate variations in several anatomical structures of real moths, including antennas, wing shapes and wing markings. Another program, which splices and […]
Chiamami Adele
Wipawe Sirikolkarn ha analizzato i messaggi che si è scambiato per quattro anni durante una relazione a distanza – il risultato sono delle visualizzazioni molto minimaliste che raccontano la nascita (e la fine) di una relazione.
Sunspring: il cortometraggio scritto da un algoritmo
C’è Richard di Silicon Valley (Thomas Middleditch), è ambientato in un futuro non meglio definito, è un po’ bizzarro, confuso, e l’autore è un AI, “Benjamin“. Si può guardarlo su Arstechnica, che scrive: Benjamin is an LSTM recurrent neural network, a type of AI that is often used for text recognition. To train Benjamin, Goodwin fed […]