Essays and project write-ups spanning generative art, local-first software and privacy engineering, and philosophical reflections on perception and suspicion. Readers get detailed accounts of personal data-vault projects alongside close readings of philosophy and AI-driven art pieces.
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A weekly roundup of noteworthy projects, papers and tools in creative coding, generative art and AI. Each issue explains a few new works in some technical detail, such as speech synthesis models, particle simulations and constraint-based puzzle generation.
A research blog by Helen Bledsoe documenting artistic experiments in creative coding and artificial life applied to music, including essays on musicians' irreplaceability and project notes on Lenia-based visuals driven by flute audio. Readers get detailed, first-person accounts of technical workflows (Max, TouchDesigner, FluCoMa) alongside philosophical reflections on performance and ALife.
An essay-led newsletter examining the role of information in political change, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to modern network theory. Issues pair historical reflection with simulation studies of how networks and epistemic vices can destabilise collective decision-making.
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