Escheresque study day on the (ab)uses of AI. A collegial gathering where serious questioning of stylistic and epistemic conventions in a field born 68 years ago inspired inventive projections. Non-Euclidean flights of thought, with lines converging in one direction and diverging in another.

All sorts of wildlife.

Unsorted itinerant collection featuring titles on birds, philosophy of technology, mathematics, poetry, cultural studies and fiction.

Sometimes life is like playing chess against AI. You know it is not intelligent design and yet you can’t win most of the time.

Two pleasant surprises. I still purchase printed books because I like to have them as random indices in my dwellings. Situated reminders of something I’ll never finish.

Just discovered this game by Zach Gage. A combination of poker and chess. Playing losing hands against Stockfish is not as bad as it sounds. Incentivises tactical play over dialogic computation with the usual suspects. Although, sometimes it feels like proving uninteresting theorems. I am good at it

Mood.

Mood.

“Any physical system whose dynamics in phase space is dominated by a substantial number of locally stable states to which it is attracted can therefore be regarded as a general content addressable memory (…) Memories from the distant past are no longer stable.” J Hopfield

Piranesi's map of fragments. What brings the disparate together if not a hermeneutics of analogy? To bridge regions across topologies, to reframe what appears to be broken as the art of collecting fragments.

In a sense my work follows this thread of restorative media art in seeking to repurpose fragments of ecoacoustic residuals by listening to their relations with machines.

Thanks to the multidisciplinary effort of organisers, collaborators, living and non-living entities, as well as the support from the Australian Research Council, Automation Culture conference is taking off this year with stellar keynotes and talks. automationcultures.com

The universe as library and the agitation of the baroque are fitting literary metaphors for metamodern information anxieties. Leibniz and his cabinet were together a sort of transformer. Legal-bureucratic skeuomorphisms.