I’m making a new sculpture out of copper and light
It has something to do with the concept of Maya in Hindu metaphysics
It’s called self/Self
I’m still finishing it up. Curious how it’ll turn out. I guess we’ll all see on Wednesday next week @blackbrickproject 6-9pm!
I Sitting in A Room (Descent into MS paint, nk002) //
I reversed the last experiment in @florafaunaai - starting with the same image, I began by asking a text node to “Describe the appearance” and then generate an image with the description
I recursively asked this question and produced the resulting image. Like the previous exercise in extracting structure, this also reduced the initial image into a smaller set of dimensions, but this time centered around color and objects.
I Am Sitting In A Room is a 1969 piece by Alvin Lucier during the early days of magnetic tape recording. In the piece Lucier records a phrase to tape, and recursively plays back and re-records the phrase until all that is left is the pure resonant frequencies of his voice.
I Am Sitting In A Room (nk001) //
I used @florafaunaai to recursively ask to “Describe the structural logic of this image, not its appearance” beginning with the image on slide 2, then use the text output to produce an image that represents the answer to the prompt. Over and over and over again.
What you see in the carousel in each image is the sequential step further into abstraction produced by Flora’s auto-selected model. These images are the machine’s understanding of the inner nature of each preceding image, until that structure collapses into its stable endpoint, after which it barely varies from iteration to iteration.
I applied the final “structure” output to the first (real) image from our place in the Catskills to get what you see in pic 1
#ai #experiment #creativetechnology
TRANSLATIONS PT 2 // Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky was a pioneer in orchestral polyrhythms, unusual texture, wide dynamic ranges, and other unique aesthetics that changed classical music and made him a contemporary analog to the pioneers in the jazz world like Coltrane and Parker.
I really like how these web design components translate his style sometimes figuratively (e.g using quick transitions for button presses) and sometimes literally (creating a polyrhythm visualizer)
This is the kind of style that could be applied to a website to give it a more coherent aesthetic feel, and the individual components could spur ideas for interactive segments of apps, learning tools, etc
Lmk who you want to see next!
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In part one, I showed how I directed my Open Claw agent to research David Foster Wallace, generate a markdown file that described DFW’s style based on criteria I gave it, and then generated code snippets to explore how his style might manifest in web design components. Take a look, or comment here if you have questions about the tech setup #ai #openclaw #art
TRANSLATIONS // David Foster Wallace
I set up an AI agent on its own computer with its own accounts to collaborate with me. Now what?
In this video I talk about one project I’ve been doing alongside my Claude code / openclaw setup to research and translate my favorite artists’ styles into interactive web design components.
I love David Foster Wallace, and after a rough few memelord years on the internet, I think he’s ready for some renewed respect. It is, after all, 30 years since Infinite Jest came out, and @hermionehoby wrote a great piece for @newyorkermag expressing her thoughts about DFW.
The components we created capture his style so well. The collaborative process with my AIs felt alien and exciting - a mix of prompting from me about what to look for and how to appreciate the artists I love across media forms, and some brilliance on the part of the AIs to translate those ideas synesthetically into JavaScript and CSS components for the sometimes mundane world of buttons and toggles.
Making the mundane less so - classic DFW 😁
(Music made by me 5 years ago!)
#claude #openclaw #davidfosterwallace #art #ai
