Expressing ideas with, without, through, or as technological mediation isn’t the issue. The trouble begins with what we expect that mediation to deliver. The moment we try to instrumentalise the whole field—writing, sharing, signalling, transmitting—we quietly become the instrument. We become the relay. The medium. A carrier for systems and incentives that were never ours […]
Beauty is a trap you walk into willingly. You know you’re being played—by bone structure, by light, by the chemical theatre of your own brain—but you don’t care. You lean in. We all do. It’s the oldest con in the book and the only one we want to keep running. Cross-cultural psychology has been here […]
Norman Wilkinson (1878–1971) was a painter who approached war with the instincts of an artist and the clarity of a strategist. Confronted with the silent threat of submarines beneath the waves, he turned not to invisibility, but to bewilderment. His invention of dazzle camouflage transformed warships into bold, fragmented spectacles—each a kinetic canvas of broken […]
Mnemosyne, the Titaness of Memory, stands as one of the most profound figures in Greek mythology, embodying the living thread of memory that weaves the past into the present and propels it into the future. She is the daughter of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), representing a primordial force whose power shapes not only individual […]
Under some definition of artificial intelligence, generative complexity is remarkable and for at least two primary reasons. First: to use these interfaces to inordinately high-dimensional information systems is always and already to concede some marginal threshold of control. You just never know what the model outputs will be and this represents both the technology’s strength […]
Art is not an externality. Abstractive visualisation is significant for gaining intuitions regarding many relational and topological spaces, networked systems, causal flows and (even, for elaborating) assertions of causality, intent and purpose in mind and/or nature. It is not a matter of art OR science, which as a logical relationship approximates and resolves to some […]
Signification supersedes the semantics it claims as its own. The accuracy of a representation is subordinate to the act of representing. This is also how compression functions in cultural systems: it abbreviates by cross-reference, by the innvocation of possibility. The methods of system self-replication become more important than the discrete snapshots and timeslices with which […]
In the realm of artistic creation, the emergence of artificially intelligent generative technologies heralds a paradigm shift, one that both augments and, paradoxically, dilutes the essence of human creativity. As we stand on the cusp of this technological revolution, it becomes imperative to question the role and significance of authorial intent in the face of […]
An inexorably rapid turn to generative art indicates a complementary toolkit for creative designers. If it is a technology that doesn’t already exist, I look forward to being able to create, curate and refine design artefacts on the fly with human voice control alone.
Generative art: simulation or self-simulation?
Does generative AI art limit or unleash our creative potential as artists, as human beings? If you consider our relationship to the visual data of the historical corpus of human creativity, the ability to automate creativity does not remove a discerning aesthetic choice from the this process. If nothing else, the sheer volume and diversity […]
Generative AI is changing the world but it doesn’t really take much imagination to understand the transformative cultural shift invoked by this new technology is really only the revisitation of what has come before. Creativity in the visual arts has almost exclusively been a process defined by the endless revisitation and recursively self-propagating evolution of […]
Daedelus Kite 