Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #132

The very best

New and improved culture map by Simon Wardley, adding anchors for "WE" and "ME". I would love to see Simon adding the  morally right or wrong options.

About the unintended consequences of user-centered design. By Alexis Lloyd

About ritual and rites de passage. Poetic reflection by White Owl aka Fiona Tribe.

About the uneasy conjunction of the normal and abnormal that daily life so often produces; a kind of spatial whistling in the dark. Don't forget to read the epilogue. By Irit Rogoff.

About Douglas Rushkoff hammering once more - but gracefully - the nails of algorithms, AI, and surveillance capitalism.

A simple grid from Dungeons & Dragons has become a way to categorize people, food, fonts, Shia LaBeouf acting roles, and everything else. ​

Data and Society

In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants. What if we aren’t being accelerated into a cyberpunk future so much as thrown into some fantastical premodern past?.

Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about "anomalies."

Future of work

About modelling now happening in networks, communities, and teams. Great post by Harold Jarche

The way forward is to cooperate and collaborate through Strategic Doing. It starts by building safe spaces for deep and focused conversations, not developing a plan or a curriculum.

Internet Culture

Jakub Stachurski

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Distilling the wide-reaching effects of modern technology into an arresting artwork is not easy, as a new exhibition shows

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Guest post by James Curcio, an excerpt from MASKS: Bowie & Artists of Artifice (Intellect Books)

Weird (Cyber)Space

Computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to make a new class of living robotics that challenge the boundary between digital and biological.

"Bubbles of nothing," extra dimensional holes, could cause the universe to consume itself from inside out, according to a group of phycisists.

Art related

The artist, who has splashed joyous spring colours over our anxieties, is on a roll, sequestered in France

A new augmented-reality project sees artist KAWS' cult-favorite "Companions" appear in cities around the world.

Friends from Academy

I need my visions. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, I need my music, new worlds. I need my songs. And I need space. Lots of space. By Wim Vie.

A succession of connected ideas, a path of reasoning, as in You've interrupted my train of thought; now what was I saying? By Wim Vie

Petervan first encounter with an analogue MOOG synthesizer. Edited by Wim Vie

Impressions of a short beach walk at Los Molinos, Chile, place close to Valdivia. By Valérie Blondeel

Aesthetics

Join Hernán Diáz Alonso [SCI-Arc Director/founding principal of HDA-X] for an inside glimpse into his latest book "The Surreal Visions of Hernán Diáz Alonso"...

From a university campus in Omaha, to the lobby of the world’s tallest building in Dubai, SOM engineers have worked with artists to help execute visionary creative works.

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Several days ago we learned of the passing of the milliner and hairdresser Katsuyo Kamo. He was one of the most creative and sought after collaborators, working with Undercover, Junya Watanabe, Anrealage in Japan, and Europeans like Haider Ackermann, Chanel, and Fendi. His incredibly headpieces were especially indispensable to the image-making at Undercover, whose designer Jun Takahashi counted Kamo as a friend.

Music/Sound

Croatian architect Nikola Baic is collaborating with the Adriatic sea to make mellifluous music. In 2005, he designed a 230-foot morse orgulje (or sea organ)

Klaus Schulze - Big Moog - Crops Spin - videomix:Patrick Baele

For real nerds

"The Prayer" is currently singing at a museum in Paris.

Other

Knightscope Autonomous Security Robot meets Tesla Model 3 in Summon Mode! See, nothing to fear, Elon. :-)

The Queen of England wears a "green screen" dress for a historic speech on Sunday and people on the internet waste no time making some royal memes out of it.