Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #124

How is technology changing the way we see? The artist James Bridle reimagines John Berger’s Ways of Seeing for the digital age, focusing on machines and the environment.

Stephen Wolfram shares his memories of mathematical physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum. Also a detailed discussion of his work and big discovery of a universal constant for functions approaching chaos via period doubling. If you like math.

With competition heating up in the AI chip market, ARK was invited to present on the state of AI hardware at CogX 2019. The summary is here.

The great Simon Wardley about several cultures needing to co-exist in companies. Very well done.

"Much of the timely criticism of AI has rightly focused on ways in which it can go wrong: it can create or replicate bias; it can make mistakes; it can be put to evil ends. Alongside those worries belongs another one: what happens when AI gets it right, becoming an oracle to which we cannot but help return and to whom we therefore become bonded."

About the management of surveillance and privacy in contemporary time and space. Imagining a ‘New Weapon’ by subverting the mechanisms of surveillance.

Taeyoon Choi @tchoi8 talk at Eyeo 2017 about 1) Poetic Computation and 2) learning, unlearning and teaching

Nicholas Rougeux works include data visualization, web design, and inspirational fractal posters. Amazing work with lots of attention to detail.

It’s 2017 and computer graphics have conquered the Uncanny Valley, that strange place where things are almost real... but not quite. What happen next. From 2017 but still very relevant.

About vanished worlds that continue to live on through faded memories.

Turner Prize-winning artist Laure Prouvost invites us to experience her aquatic French Pavilion installation Deep See Blue Surrounding You at the 58th Venice Biennale. Crafted in collaboration with the show’s curator Martha Kirszenbaum, the Pavilion is an aqueous subterranean habitat where visitors are challenged on their notions of identity.

About "A ghostlike military fantasy world of boundless fluidity, in which the space of the city becomes as navigable as an ocean.” The physical walking-through-walls is a strong metaphor for radical innovation