Paul Prudence

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ISO/IEC 10646 celebrates grids as encoders of transferable intelligence. It is a paean to the grid's universal interactions which, as intimated by Turing's revolutionary thesis, culminates in the proposition that *that universality* may be used to reconstruct all human knowledge. View the 144 outputs from the series in the link below ↓ ↓ ↓ https://verse.works/series/iso-iec-10646-by-paul-prudence?itemId=9fbab39b-727a-4117-bd1b-3eb6aa2ef97a

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Stratification on @rodeodotclub

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Tess Jaray P.P., 1991

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Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May 'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire. Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)

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Bice Lazzari Sequence of the Sign, 1973

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Jesus Soto Untitled, 1970

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Sean Sullivan Sunspots, 2020

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▕ ▚ Induction Scroll 2 on @rodeodotclub

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'We are looking for “spaces” [that] have somehow escaped notice by the mapmakers...' - Hakim Bey, TAZ ⚡︎ Illustration from The beauty of the heavens : a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe : one hundred and four coloured scenes, illustrating a familiar lecture on astronomy - Charles F Blunt, 1842 👁↓👁 https://archive.org/details/beautyofheavensp00blun/page/n24/mode/thumb

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Jacob Whibley Time Wounds All Wholes (IX) 2024 👁↓👁 https://jacobwhibley.com/works/point-and-duration/

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Dieter Appelt Partitur No. 39, 2018 At the Galerie Thomas Schulte https://www.galeriethomasschulte.com/artists/34-dieter-appelt/works/

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Hair of the dog 🍸

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They are little minds..... https://rodeo.club/post/0xe51B3e7CB63615F74323DDDC9F423c3f3AB83eB3/200

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I don't have this one (yet) but it looks like a good addition to the /the-library Identity Pitches Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel 'In Identity Pitches, artists Stine Janvin and Cory Arcangel have composed conceptual music scores based on the knitting patterns for traditional Norwegian sweaters known as Lusekofte'. https://primaryinformation.org/product/identity-pitches/

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Fuck you No fuck you! I need to remind myself to look at this once a year to give me the little pick-me-up it never fails to give me. Robert Crumb, of course

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Saturday night cocktails. 🍸 🍹 🍷

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