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Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also with @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author: Art and Computation (V2_), Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
Reminder: there's a new release in the 30xN series by @c and Visiophone, with a new track and video and guest by Síria and Matilde Meireles! Now available to download or stream from www.cronicaelectronica.org/247/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
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Photo of DRIFT, the temporary structure on River Lagan, with several people sitting in the sun and shade, listening in contemplation
“Four Tales” expands on the work composed as part of DRIFT, a collaborative project centred on a modular, site-specific floating pavilion and public space in Belfast. DRIFT was commissioned by Belfast City Council as part of the Belfast 2024 cultural programme.
Cover of Matilde Meireles’s album “Four Tales” featuring typography over an abstract background.
Out now, Matilde Meireles’s new album! In “Four Tales”, sound and architecture unite in a conversation that expands senses and entangles our rhythms with all other pulses that surround us. A city aware of itself. www.cronicaelectronica.org/248/
Twenty twenty X, if you're nasty.
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LLMs get a bad rap but they remind us that computers are best not as pragmatic tools, but as agents of chaos
«To collect photographs is to collect the world,» Susan Sontag once wrote. Where photography appropriated the world, generative AI exploits what has already been appropriated. To generate synthetic images is to let the world disappear behind the dominant patterns derived from already existing images
New and recent things for today's Bandcamp Friday: @c + Visiophone’s “30xN — LRJ2” with remixes by Síria and Matilde Meireles. cronica.bandcamp.com/album/30xn-l... @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org
New and recent things for today's Bandcamp Friday: Machinefabriek’s “Spelonk”. Selling quickly, but there are still some copies available. cronica.bandcamp.com/album/spelonk @machinefabriek.bsky.social
Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)
Poster for Matilde Meireles’s “Four Tales” created by Rachel O’Grady (OGU Architects)
The limited-release CD edition of this album includes a poster created by Rachel O’Grady (OGU Architects). Order your copy while supplies last! www.cronicaelectronica.org/248/
Less than a week to the release of “Four Tales”, a new album by Matilde Meireles. Video by Matilde with additional footage by Joe Laverty (ropes and stills from recording process). www.cronicaelectronica.org/248/
before you kneel down and place the slop pail under your LLM today, take a minute to remember what you're supporting:
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...
Reminder: there's a new release in the 30xN series by @c and Visiophone, with a new track and video and guest by Síria and Matilde Meireles! Now available to download or stream from www.cronicaelectronica.org/247/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
A new video by @visiophone.bsky.social is now available as a part of this new release. archive.org/details/30xN...
Cover for the EP 30xN LRJ2 by @c + Visiophone
Happy to announce a new release in the 30xN series by @c and Visiophone, with a new track and video, 30xN — LRJ2, and guest remixes by Síria and Matilde Meireles! Now available to download or stream from www.cronicaelectronica.org/247/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social
Can you believe it's our 14th edition?
Join us at #xcoax2026 in #torino !
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REMINDER
trying to stay calm and do work in a fascist world is itself a radical action
a world that wants to destroy independent knowledge, universities, education, still contains people who want to gently think and teach without dehumanisation and destruction
And from today onwards, it will be available as a free download from the Crónica Archive www.cronicaelectronica.org/archive/
Another twentieth anniversary in our catalogue, and another addition to the Crónica Archive, with Gintas K’s first release in Crónica, “Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound” www.cronicaelectronica.org/024/ @gintask.bsky.social
This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky
www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
Must-watch from end to end... really poetic. Thanks @scannerdot.com !
This should go without saying, but we say it nevertheless.
Come to Torino this July!
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Sidenote - Mounk is also succumbing here to the industrial model of academic production, in which it doesn't matter what's going on in anybody's head, as long as papers get published.
The real danger here is collusion with university admins who think the same...
Nope.
On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world!
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Thank you all for your submissions!
Break a leg on the reviewing process.
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Vincenzo Galatro, Ema Di Petrillo & Alfonso J. López Rivero, “Productive Friction: Revaluing Interaction and Critical Thinking in Digital Media” proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...
Ricardo Melo, Inês Silva, Joana Couto & Diana Liebetrau, “Provoking value reflection through play and speculative design” proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...
