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I’ve been reading Rachel O’Dwyer’s Tokens. Not really because it’s apropos of anything I was studying, but because it was the most recently-added book on my ereader on the 2nd January when I needed something to read, and then on the 3rd January I found a physical copy in a charity shop and embarrassingly in […]
8.1.2025 19:05email from Nathan (Item 26, Recently,)This email has been a tough one to write, not because there’s a dearth of content to discuss, nor because the content itself is necessarily particularly difficult, but because of the feeling of convergence of many threads of content I’d like to talk about. Each subject I’ve put together notes on seems to bleed into […]
8.1.2025 19:03email from Nathan (Item 25, On writing and reading)Our trust in the new, generated content might be altered by the seemingly legitimate context within which it rests.
11.12.2024 16:31ShapeshifterI’m building an app for EHFM, if you’re interested in app development and/or online community radio then I could use some beta testers to help locate issues on different devices. You can get releases and log issues on Github. Managed to catch a chunk of the work at Sonica 2024 on its very last day […]
10.11.2024 12:40email from Nathan (Item 24, Recently,)[…] can and does include conversations with AI; I’d reference here my previous piece about writing like a chatbot and the tendency of AI-generated text to end up as mostly just intellectually numbing repetition […]
10.11.2024 11:45Comment on email from Nathan (Item 19) by email from Nathan (Item 23, On the creation of consensus) – Nathan SmithThese are some notes triggered both by the past two weeks I spent in the US, one of the most fascinating and disturbing political arenas in the world, and by the insipid vacuum of a 13-hour journey back to Glasgow. I’ve no real interest in discussing the actual politics here as there’s precious little I […]
10.11.2024 11:45email from Nathan (Item 23, On the creation of consensus)Stating the obvious, it’s a minute since I sent anything. Only three days after my last message back in May, Rishi Sunak announced a general election in the UK, an event that most of us expected wouldn’t happen til around October or November. For the rest of May I scrambled to finish both what I […]
10.11.2024 11:19email from Nathan (Item 22, I’m here)An audience watches a screen displaying a sequence of live security camera feeds from several rooms, including the space in which the audience is located. Two AI models converse with each other to manipulate the visible environments: one model generates imagery prompted by the other, which is paradoxically generating descriptions of the imagery produced by […]
5.8.2024 16:24It is not what is in it but it is what it is inUsing AI frame interpolation to inject synthetic content between the frames of authentic media, Swimming Through Synthesis is a literal expression of the process by which synthetic media manipulates trust by interweaving through an authentic context.
17.7.2024 22:08Swimming Through SynthesisOur trust in the new, generated content might be altered by the seemingly legitimate context within which it rests.
17.7.2024 21:55Small AlterationsA semi-improvised audiovisual performance: a performer reads a series of statements, ranging from factual to nonsensical, while frequently being interrupted by an artificial intelligence model displayed on a wearable device on their wrist. The AI attempts to assert its opinion on the veracity of each statement, challenging and altering the results of the performance through […]
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