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Miguel Carvalhais
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Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also running @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
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visiophone.bsky.social
This weekend we have double dose of "30xN"
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Friday 14th: Space Festival (Caminha) at 22h30
Saturday 15th: Periphera2025 (Trafaria) at 21h
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Come check us out at one of these event (or both :) )
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@carvalhais.org & @ptudela.bsky.social: computers, sound;
Rodrigo Carvalho: computer, lights, visuals.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
carvalhais.org
Tonight we perform at Space Festival in Caminha. Our new release, “30×N — LRJ1”, with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @cronicaelectronica.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Winter is approaching over here and with it comes our yearly Winter promotion! If you order any physical until December 31st we will ship it along with a free surprise gift from our catalogue! Browse and choose from cronica.bandcamp.com/merch
Promo card for the Winter promotion of Crónica
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new release with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Happy to announce the release of the new album by Durán Vázquez + Kloob, “Vinum Sabbati: In the Dawn of Science Fiction” available as a limited-release CD or download. This is a reflection on the symbolic power to express sorrow and terrible feelings, a music of fear. www.cronicaelectronica.org/243/
Cover of the CD Vinum Sabbati, By Durán Vázquez + Kloob
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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xcoax.org
The call for X is out!
Check xcoax.org
and submit your works.

#computation #communication #aesthetics #X
#xcoax #torino #2026
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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j2bryson.bsky.social
AI is already superhuman. So are libraries, cars, and calculators. Not a reason to abandon the strong history of science-led digital policy in the EU.

Please sign if you have a PhD in or near AI.

#digitalGovernance #AIEthics

pads.c3w.at/form/#/2/for...
CryptPad
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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Winter is approaching over here and with it comes our yearly Winter promotion! If you order any physical until December 31st we will ship it along with a free surprise gift from our catalogue! Browse and choose from cronica.bandcamp.com/merch
Ad for Crónica's Winter promotion of 2025 stating that any order of a physical release through December 31 will get a free gift.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new release with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @earlabs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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tcparker.bsky.social
I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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serenaindescai.bsky.social
I read somewhere that it should actually be called Simulated Intelligence. It makes immediately clear what it actually is.
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Reminder: “30×N — LRJ1”, a new video and release is available on www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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cronicaelectronica.org
The wonderful video by @visiophone.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds...
30×N — LRJ1
YouTube video by Crónica
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
carvalhais.org
If you haven't had the chance to experience the performance, the second release in this series stemming from it is now available! It's been wonderful to develop this with @ptudela.bsky.social and @visiophone.bsky.social and to get fantastic remixes by @earlabs.bsky.social and Joana de Sá.
cronicaelectronica.org Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 10d
New release in the 30xN series by @c and Visiophone, with a new track and video, 30xN — LRJ1, and goes remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders! Now available to download or stream www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @earlabs.bsky.social
Cover for 30xN — LRJ1, a typographic composition in shades of orange
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
#CfP: Submit your abstract for a special issue on “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”, which seeks interdisciplinary contributions on the cultural, ethical & social legacies of Joseph Weizenbaum’s chatbot.

📅 Submission deadline: 17 Nov 2025

More: buff.ly/A8ejM8C
sharepic: "Call for papers"
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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felipepepe.bsky.social
So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)
The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
crpgbook.wordpress.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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stonefeathers.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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cronicaelectronica.org
Coming soon, “30xN — LRJ1”, the second release in this series, with a new piece by @c, a video by Visiophone and remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders. Out next Tuesday, November 4. @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @gezimvisoka.bsky.social @earlabs.bsky.social
Cover for 30xN — LRJ1
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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mariannhardey.com
Strap yourselves in for a horror story for our times: A highly critical piece of the conditions and terms used to dress up #GAI as risk-free.

Tldr: an onslaught of marketing elevates technical terminology to ‘responsible’ associations.
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Our piece VVV (Zero) is currently showing at Museu Zer0, in Tavira at-c.org/installation... @ptudela.bsky.social
View of the installation VVV (Zero). The piece is comprised of four loudspeakers, amplifiers, software, media player, sound and electrical cables, steel cables, steel structure, LED lamps, glasses, mirrors. All is presented in a white gallery.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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andrewhinton.bsky.social
The origin of the phrase is this article by @arn.is

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...
collectivefutures.blog
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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arn.is
"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world..."

Powerful words here!

Also it's insane to me that I have been quoted in this article for my title "infrastructure of meaninglessness" by @cwarzel.bsky.social 🙏
This Is Just the Internet Now
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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kottke.org
Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My First Months in Cyberspace. “It was a miracle and it changed my life. All of our lives.” [gyford.com]
My first months in cyberspace
Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.
www.gyford.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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machineagency.bsky.social
I’m giving a guest talk at FAMU in Prague:

Wednesday Oct. 22, 5 pm
Smetanovo nábř. 2, Praha 1

Algorithmic Processes in Image Production

The talk will center on my recent book, Algorithm, Image Art (2024), as well as drawing on artistic practice.
October 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM