Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #143

The very best

Fantastic talk by "deep voice" Christian Mio Loclair about his art practice based on AI and neural networks. Just 2 weeks ago his team won the The 2020 BCS AI Award for his work “Helin”

In the late fall of 2019, Jenny Reardon, Bonnie Honig, and Warren Sack met twice for a trialogue to discuss questions like these: what are the prevailing trends in science, biotech, and software engineering? 

About (failed) attempts to predict human behavior like the weather: this quantification misses social needs and political demands

An update from futurist Gerd Leonhard and some of his penny-drop moments, understanding and embracing the fact that there is no such thing as a ‘going back to normal’.

This collection of nine scenes catalogues views of the life of the fatberg from the perspective of the fictional RMT (Residue Management Task Force).

Today marks a huge milestone in Inrupt’s journey to deliver on my vision for a vibrant web of shared benefit and opportunity. I’m thrilled that the first enterprise-ready version of a Solid Server…

Data and Society

An open window becomes an invitation to look inside—but who is watching? In the digital world, our private lives are being shared with others, and it's…

It has been a long time since I’ve posted and there is so much to discuss. The continued industrialisation of the technology stack, the automation of radicalisaton online, the impacts of physical…

Creating and plotting their own version of a Political Compass, Disnovation.org sees how closely they map Donald Trump, King Kong and Paris Hilton. 

Ubiquitous social networks gave rise to new types of practices, new forms of expression, and new means for collective organization of protest and discord. From 1 year ago, already!

Zeitgeist

In 2017, then-Governor Scott Walker and President Trump announced a historic deal with Foxconn to bring manufacturing jobs to Wisconsin. But none of the jobs, buildings, or promises have been fulfilled—and look like they never will. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza investigates two years of what happened behind the scenes at Foxconn in Wisconsin.

From the author of TIMN (Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks). Highly recommended

Innovation

Over the last couple of weeks it’s become unavoidably clear that we have lived, and are living, through significant change. Nearly all our assumptions about “how stuff works” are shifting, and while…

When was the last time that you had a good idea go bad? Professional success today is much more about the learning than the knowing.

Core team, program team and governance board of the Guild of Future Architects.

Future of work

Video conference has become the new business travel, thanks to Covid-19, and we’re going to do more of it even after the virus.

Useful Fiction works at the intersection of strategic foresight, technology discovery, and narrative.

Venkatesh Rao talks about an idea he calls fifth-generation management. 1/ Fifth-generation management is an emerging style of management we don’t know much about because it doesn’t actually exist yet. But it is guaranteed to emerge post-Covid because historically, big sharp disruptions have reliably triggered discontinuous changes in management culture, and it is already clear that this one is doing that.

Internet Culture

FinTech

Stripe has led a $12 million Series A round in Manila-based online payment platform PayMongo, the startup announced today. PayMongo, which offers an online payments API for businesses in the Philippines, was the first Filipino-owned financial tech startup to take part in Y Combinator’s accelerator program. Y Combinator and Global Founders Capital, another previous investor, […]

About trust as a currency. Very interesting

Amazing conference lead by Amber Case and with participation of Douglas Rushkoff and many others.

MoneyLab is an international network of artists, hackers, designers, economists and activists who explore forms of financial democratization.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.

Waymo (Google self-driving) has done it. Their newly released detailed safety report shows 6 million miles with no at-fault accidents, a record far surpassing human performance. It's a new level of transparency, and a sign that they should and must deploy soon. The self-drive story of the year.

When OpenAI released GPT-3 in July, it marked the first time a general-purpose AI saw the light of the day. In an overview of the history of knowledge technologies that preceded it, I wrote: Creating a generalisable tool for actually answering the question you wanted answering was hard.

Digital Ethics

On social media, people had some concerns about the Ring Always Home Cam. To put it mildly.

A new era of robots reading financial statements and machines monitoring earnings calls means analysts no longer need to sweat a company’s every last word. For corporate leaders, it’s quite the opposite.

Masks/Defence/Hiding

COVID-19 has reminded us of the importance of the home while favouring in-depth changes in our ways of inhabiting it.

The immersiveness of virtual reality fuels a fantasy of richer data collection

A pilgrimage is healing because it encourages you to savour the moment, says Catherine Fairweather

Post Capitalism

Technology is both a core constituent and modifier of these infrastructures of everyday life, and the paradigms they sit within. As technologies change, so our mental models are shifting planes…

Weird (Cyber)Space

A Swarm of Cyborg Cockroaches That Lives in Your House

Online events and meetings done well

John Willshire

Remix Boogie-Woogie (Dance, Descend, Repeat) available from seditionart.com Music Credits: PHONEME Music | Gwerz de l'Ame juste| composed by Jean-Jacques BIR...

Americana has never looked as eerie as at the annual Cajun crawfish festival: video art by a Québécois filmmaking trio > Just another day in America...

Art related

Boris Vervoordt presents 'Le spiaggie d'Orfeo' by Ida Barbarigo, featured at Frieze Masters Online Viewing Room 2020.

Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull presents a recorded Twitch live stream showing the entire process of making a woodblock print, from blank block ri...

Among the lesser known artist who will appear in the new series by Waldemar Januszczak, is Thomas Wilfred. He started his light machine 100 years ago...

listed on the national register of historic places, the rothko chapel is defined by its fourteen monumental mark rothko canvases.

Masterpiece: Nighthawks places British art historian, BBC presenter and BAFTA nominated broadcaster, Dr James Fox inside the virtual 3D representation of Edw...

Friends from Academy

#machinelearning #deeplearning #computervision #neuralnetworks #ai Experimenting on a little Planet @ Academie Gent. Using an insta360 one. By co-student Frank Poncelet who will be my guest at the upcoming Pirate TV "Art-Tribe" edition

Blindness - Koen Vos @ FF&P - Koen Vos is one of my teachers at the Art Academy in Ghent. This video is about his latest exhibition

Aesthetics

Originally a futuristic and dystopian science-fiction genre from the 1980s, Cyberpunk has reemerged as a total lifestyle aesthetic for Gen Zers in China.

Video fashion show Women S/S 2021

Watch the #BALMAINSS21 Show live from Paris during #PFW. 30.09.2020 8PM CET/ 2PM EST/ 11AM PST

Music video by Nine Inch Nails performing Closer. (C) 1989 Interscope Records. Parental advise recommended. Not for sensitive souls. From more than 20 years ago

Shostakovich’s surreal and brilliant first opera tells the story of a man who wakes one morning to find that his nose has gone missing Find out more at http:...

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Music/Sound

Artificial intelligence is being used to create new songs seemingly performed by Frank Sinatra and other dead stars. ‘Deepfakes’ are cute tricks – but they could change pop for ever

She went platinum by plugging Bach into 20th century machines, and was soon working with Stanley Kubrick. But prejudice around her gender transition pushed Wendy Carlos out of sight

As he releases a collection of work that has appeared in films, the English musician talked about making functional art, his most ubiquitous composition and why he dislikes wearing headphones on the street.

Various Artists - From Brussels With Love Les Disques du Crepuscule 2CD/Double Vinyl/Cassette Released 6 November 2020 A deluxe 40th anniversary | From Brussels With Love - A deluxe 40th anniversary 2CD hardback edition of the famed sampler cassette first in November 1980, with contributions from Brian Eno, John Foxx and A Certain Ratio among others

John Sanborn goes heavy on Prince.

For real nerds

Tone Transfer lets you transform everyday sounds into musical instruments. Record and upload audio directly into the browser and hear our machine learning mo...

Other

Fantastic storytelling (in Dutch) about the fabric of humanity, based on a hand-drawn map. Via @marksstorm