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Reading, Watching, Listening - A Plethora of Resources

Time of Publication: 12:59,  30/11/22

This week, a compiled resource list - miscellania with interconnected threads, for general perusing.

Tools and Resources for AI Art:
The most comprehensive grouping of links I have found - for videos, images, text, you name it - should be here.
https://pharmapsychotic.com/tools.html


A PDF of ‘Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer’ by Wendell Barry:
Good read, sweetly naive, but also right in a lot of ways (and very wrong in others) - you could get through this in one sitting whilst in the bath.
https://classes.matthewjbrown.net/teaching-files/philtech/berry-computer.pdf


Replicunts: The Future of Cyberfeminism - Virtual Futures 1995:
Amazing panel discussion chaired by Sadie Plant, also featuring Liana Borghi, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Francesca da Rimini, and Josephine Starrs. Talking cyberflesh, gender roles, margins and non linearity.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFrGN4zrfc


The Cyberfeminism Index:
Essential resource. Chronological database of cyberfeminist writing. A dream.
https://cyberfeminismindex.com/


Cybernetic Serendipity Archive:
Archive of a 1968 ICA exhibition. Good sounds, pics, and an interesting look back at what we thought we might be able to achieve with computers.
https://cyberneticserendipity.net/



David Bowen’s Plant Drone:
Plant pilots drone, enough said. Same guy that did plant machete arm.
https://www.dwbowen.com/plantdrone



Machine Learning Goetia:
Brief essay with some interesting takes on AI and sentience - diffusion models, memory, magic - good references within, worth a gander.
https://mercurialminutes.substack.com/p/machine-learning-goetia


On the Implications of Outsourcing the Imagination to a Dreaming Machine:
Very pleasant read I found via the previous essay, some interesting comparisons between AI generated images and paintings. Lucidity, biomimicry, and process. Creation vs Curation, well put.
https://medium.com/@voiddenizen/from-minds-eye-to-ai-564e870c5219