Episode_04 Machine Aesthetics & SF Capital

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• 00:00:28

  Hello and welcome everyone. Thank you for your patience. This is the fifth episode of the virtual symposium Recursive Colonialism, Artificial Intelligence and Speculative Computation. We are the Critical Computation Bureau, a collective of researchers, artists and writers working at the intersection of technology…

• 00:14:22

  Such a system of algorithmic composition based on chance, rule-based or AI systems which learn and create their own rules, may themselves integrate an internal automated critic as a sorting and selection tool. AI research on music has two sometimes combined tendencies, the symbolic outputting of score information…

• 00:22:18

  Rhythm is a thought-ware that interfaces between the wet and the hard. The more brilliant the Black Atlantean Future Rhythm Machine is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, is a xeno-intelligence, against…

• 00:33:20

  To increase the network power of his mind, Doro snatches bodies and minds by breeding and mating with creatures that he holds as captive to train them to receive his master pattern. Doro, however, cannot fully control the capacity of his surrogate colonies to become active carriers of his code. Most of his enslaved…

• 00:44:44

  Chris sees in him the young man who had recently disappeared but Andre Logan King walking slowly. Chris is addressing him directly, calling him by his name and is immediately drawn to click on his phone camera that activates a flashlight exercising the frozen gaze of the vulnerable old-caring young body. Andre starts…

• 00:58:00

  It's anti-monopolistic because every time the pattern is received the pattern can also change and the condition of the pattern of the rules can also change. So there is a dynamic process of the pattern that changes and there is this kind of absolute materiality that stands out of everything else. But actually…

• 01:18:59

  have the capacity to be unknown okay uh which is also an interesting panel on alienation but i could talk about it later uh it's uh it's it enters the pattern of of the everyday enters the pattern of imagination the synthesis of imagination the collective imagination have to become a thinking process have to become…

• 01:42:35

  Don't forget that you're going to have a very interesting panel tomorrow going on as well. Episode 06, Sound of Futurities and Automation is going to be on and it really is a kind of a bit of an awkward time for some of us. It's quite late, but we think it's unmissable. So enjoy the Code 9 DJ set. Thank you very much…