I'm bridging this account to bsky as a trial run ... we'll see how it goes. I really don't want to manage two accounts, nor do I really want to participate on bsky, but it looks like that's where many of my instagram art friends are going... so ...
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am i going to need to make a bluesky account to keep up with friends leaving meta but not coming here? ... i really don't want to.
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Video of my new installation, Imaginary Volumes, see previous post for details.
On now at the Blackwood Gallery in Mississauga until March 5.
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I’m excited to have a new commissioned installation open now at The Blackwood Gallery as part of the exhibition The Art Gallery Problem. From the curator:
Imaginary Volumes is a newly commissioned work for The Art Gallery Problem exhibition. It uses artist-written software and consumer tech to simulate the "art gallery problem," a well-known math problem that asks: what is the minimum number of guards or surveillance cameras necessary to observe an entire gallery?
A series of human-scale sculptures serve as proxies for museum guards, outfitted with screens that mimic a surveillant gaze and depict renderings of the gallery.
Rather than replicating surveillance technologies, however, Nish-Lapidus inflects his work with flaws and hubris, informed by histories and limitations of computer-aided design.
Imaginary Volumes is on view now until March 5, 2025 as part of The Art Gallery Problem, curated by Fraser McCallum.
The exhibition runs until March 5. If you’re in the Toronto area check it out!
(video in next post)
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if we follow adorno's advice and "read the state of the cultural spirit off of the sundial of human technology" at this moment things are looking very very dire indeed.
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after switching to linux (nixos) a few months ago my laptop has become something of a pet/hobby to configure, refine, troubleshoot, etc. finally, now, it feels like it's mostly working well and how i want it and if feels great.
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"When work is organized as a sequence of separately executable steps, the control over the work moves to the organizer, the boss or manager."
Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology p16 (1990)
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"... So at the risk of exposing myself to ridicule, let me be crystal clear today: If we are stuck with Stallman’s perhaps artificial binary, the truly progressive position would obviously be the second option, free beer! One must insist on this. ... A sense of liberty is paramount within any healthy society. But the left has always understood freedom through the prism of justice, hence not freedom for freedom’s sake, but rather free social services, free public commons, free health care, free education, and, above all, freedom from the tyranny of private property. Or as Golumbia explains in plain terms: “The roots of open source do not emerge from Marx. Instead, they are more in line with anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard and David Friedman.”"
From Alex R Galloway's review of David Golumbia's Cyberlibertarianism.
https://www.boundary2.org/2024/12/alexander-r-galloway-the-uses-of-disorder-a-review-of-david-golumbias-cyberlibertarianism/
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pro tip of the day:
if you accidentally create a dir named "~" DO NOT try to delete it by typing "rm -rf ~"
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In 1976 Joseph Weizenbaum wrote in the introduction to Computer Power and Human Reason that computers came along just in time to save western capitalism from collapsing under its own complexity. Computation became popular and took its current form in order to maintain and intensify mid-century capitalism.
So-called "AI" is the same project continuing today. As globalized capitalism faces a number of intractable crises a new "advancement" in computing is trying desperately to rescue the system from all the problems of its own making.
All of the ideals, technologies, and fantasies of society that form the foundation of so-called "AI" are the same ones that founded western capitalism--eugenics, extraction, colonialism, disenfranchisement, and exploitation.
It will fail, not just because it accelerates all these problems faster than it could possible "solve" them, but also because it just plain doesn't work. It will never, and can never, address the problems of globalized capitalism because it's purpose is to find a way to continue and intensify capitalism and the structures of power that currently exist.
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"I cannot tell why the spokesmen I have cited want the developments they forecast to become true. Some of them have told me that they work on them for the morally bankrupt reason that "If we don't do it, someone else will." They fear that evil people will develop superintelligent machines and use them to oppress mankind, and that the only defense against these enemy machines will be superintelligent machines controlled by us, that is, by well-intentioned people. Others reveal that they have abdicated their autonomy by appealing to the "principle" of technological inevitability. But, finally, all I can say with assurance is that these people are not stupid. All the rest is mystery."
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"As we ourselves have also observed, the reification of complex systems that have no authors, about which we know only that they were somehow given us by science and that they speak with its authority, permits no questions of truth or justice to be asked."
Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason p252 (1976)
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i know this is obvious and whatever, but it continues to astound me (not surprise me) that so-called “conservatives” cry “but think of the children” when it comes to bodily autonomy, or safe drug sites, etc but never want to “think of the children” when it’s about guns, or poverty, or access to food … …
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economics is one of the most detrimental pseudo-sciences of the 20th and 21st centuries so far. it incentivizes massive waste, reductive and singular thinking, and a transactional worldview. it is inextricably tied to colonial-capitalism.
not everything is a transaction. not everything needs to be "worth it."
externalities are not external.
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a few years ago i got a good deal on a dremel kit that included a rotary tool, angle tool, and the saw-max. unfortunately the saw-max has been discontinued, and i just found out that blades also no longer exist... which means that the tool is trash when i run out of blades. that's totally ridiculous and really frustrating and disappointing.
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you can't use "ai" in a radical or subversive way because all use of it is already controlled an constrained by it's creators and owners. any and all use of it directly contributes to its environmental abuse, labour abuse, and normalization.
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say you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp ….
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what kind of foam do you feel like today?
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i want to start a hardcore band again
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLw_cEaKjKI
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