After two millions years it still makes evolutionary sense for working groups of creative people to cluster in real life around a piano or a drafting table or a monitor on a movie set. Software sends us to isolated laptops, with intermediation run through glass screens. Software can eat the soul of good work if the team isn’t careful, with participants fiddling with settings as much as they may be working on bringing new ideas to life.
Read MoreOur AIs, Ourselves (An Essay by and for Humans)
What does it matter if I skip a single, socially lubricating word when I’m talking to a massive, barely competent LLM housed in the cloud? I might be saying words, but nobody’s ears are really listening to what I’m saying. If we’re being honest about this, who cares?, especially considering that I’m only speaking to a digital assistant. Read on, because I believe it means a lot, and I’ll explain why.
Read MoreVISUALIZING DATA
Art visualizes the world without turning to measurements.
Read MoreAGENCY: The second of two essays about Virtual Reality
No doubt it's cool to dive safely with sharks in a shark cage simply by wearing VR goggles, but after a few of these video translocations, a viewer has to wonder, “What else can it do? Can it tell me a story?”
Read MoreAGENCY: The first of two essays about Virtual Reality
Creative producers and artists are starting to explore how this immersive technology might present artistic expressions in compelling ways.
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