computation
Hot Air Factory – Clouds are heavier than you think
An experiment by oio, the Hot Air Factory visualizes the energy consumption of AI. As the internal computer heats up, it releases warm air—the stronger the wind, the harder the thinking.
SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biological process
A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You – Material realities of (AI) computation
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You explores the energy consumption of AI through the medium of heat. The self-referencing system is prompted and the resulting heat from the computation slowly melts and erodes the candle in the physical world.
Liberate the Machines! – Joost Rekveld
Joost Rekveld’s Dialogues With Machines explores his evolving relationship with technology while making film #59—reviving analogue computing, rethinking machine learning, and embracing a non-controlling human-machine dialogue.
Bootstrapping Computing – Alexander D. Obenauer
Bootstrapping Computing is a short, technical book for curious, non-technical people, exploring how we built modern computing out of simpler parts.
Reservoirs of Venice – Physical Neural Network (Water Computer)
Reservoirs of Venice is an installation that explores the city as a medium for information processing, using its physical systems to model and predict environmental changes.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.
Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
Introduction to Sketching with Code
Torn between pop science and dense textbooks, Kynd writes an engaging 8-chapter (12k words) introductory guide for curious (code) beginners—sharing his understanding and ideas to spark curiosity and exploration.
Brain Processing Unit – Artificial brain tissue APIs
Brain Processing Unit explores the adaptation of artificial brain tissues alongside custom electronics to stimulate, analyze data, and develop the necessary APIs, networks, and other interface technologies required for these operations.
Hyper & Cosmic – A book where typography transcends Its linguistic roots
Hypertype takes emotion and sentiment analysis data as it’s main content. This content is given form through the organisation of typographic signs, letters and symbols. The work (and the book) attempts to draw our attention to the topic of what ha...
Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable currents in the persistence of chaos
Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the bo...
Portraits – Shinseungback Kimyonghun
A series of "Portrait" works by Seoul based artistic duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun. Their latest project Analytic Portrait, pictured here and featured (last) in the series of works that explore the representation (and computation) of human face thr...
re-frame
re-frame is a generative artwork that is using the copyright-free, CC0-licensed collection data of the Finnish National Gallery in its implementation. It has been selected into one of the shortlisted artworks of Combine24, a generative art competi...
G80 – (un)Equitable variables
G80 is an interactive installation which proposes a contemporary interpretation of Buckminster Fuller's "World Game". Visitors interact with a matrix of sliders, each corresponding to a variable of one of 80 human conditions selected by the artist...
Interspecies Future: A Primer
Interspecies Future: A Primer draws on recent advancements in planetary computation and machine learning, new discoveries in non-human intelligence, as well as post-human theory and Indigenous knowledge.
Data Bugs – When Interaction Design meets Explainable AI
Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI.
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design
A book visually examining the twentieth-century emergence of new methods for representation, simulation, and manufacturing linked to computers, and reflecting on their contemporary repercussions across creative fields.
Personal Computers – Filip Kostic
In Personal Computers, Los Angeles based artist Filip Kostic compiles found images collected over the past 9 years that trace the history of custom computer building and modification.
Organic Matrix – Mixing data for AI flesh
LOW·AI BOX is an AI machine art that includes a transparent machine structure, an AI system, a sensor system, and an IoT system.
Machine Readable Me – Zara Rahman
Machine Readable Me considers how and why data that is gathered about us is increasingly limiting what we can and can’t do in our lives and, crucially, what the alternatives are.
Perfect Behaviours –A collective exhibition on the algorithmic rewriting of human behaviours
Serena Cangiano reviews "Perfect Behaviours - life redesigned by the algorithm" curated by Giorgio Olivero and on show in Turin, Italy's OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni.
Sun Thinking – First exhibition on the Solar Protocol network
Sun Thinking is an online group show that brings together artists and writers to explore some of the themes and questions central to the Solar Protocol.
Elisava and IAM Open a Pioneering Master Program on Design for Responsible AI
Elisava has partnered with the creative research lab IAM to launch a new Master in Design for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, a part-time and low residency programme that brings together designers, strategists, trend researchers, futurists, n...
Call for Researchers to join Antikythera
Applications are now open for Antikythera’s Studio, which will host 15-18 international, interdisciplinary Studio Researchers from February to June 2023. The program is free and includes a housing provision and a monthly stipend of 4000 USD (or eq...
MAN-NAHĀTA – The land of many hills
In their continued effort to seek out an equilibrium between man-made and nature, MAN-NAHĀTA is the latest project by OXMAN (previously Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab). The project is a top-down master planning braved by bottom-up-desi...
Floating Codes – The (spatial) topology of an artificial neural network
'Floating Codes' is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks – the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems or artificial intelligence. The exh...
