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  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 31 July 2020

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! Rebel Wisdom’s Sensemaking Series is looking at the problem of truth in the digital age. Great series including notorious Jordan Hall. How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic Robert Scoble outlines the 2020 Technology menu: everything will… Read more

  • Petervan Ride July 2020

    Here is my music selection for July 2020. Most are July 2020 releases, here and there an oldie. Best enjoyed when played in shuffle mode. Read more

  • Pause with Josie – Episode 6

    This is episode-6 of the calm conversation with Josie Gibson from The Catalyst Network, inspired by Robert Poynton’s book “Pause – You are not a To-Do list“. The approach is simple: we both read chapter-6 of the book and highlight three sentences, and mark the words that resonate most. These sentences and words are the triggers for a very… Read more

  • One Morning in August: Story generated by AI-as-a-Service

    The AI GPT-2 Model generated the following story, just based on the input “One morning in August,”: One morning in August, 1991, two brothers were gunned down in the Jezeville Mansion on Jarvis Street in Detroit. This is one of several incidents where teenage boys were shot and left to die of self-inflicted injuries. Eight… Read more

  • Petervan Expo Vernissage Video Timecapsule

      As promised, here is the TimeCapsule video for the virtual opening vernissage of my first solo exhibition. Subtitles are available in NL/UK With contributions by my cousin Joost Vander Auwera (Senior Curator – Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium, Brussels), Chris Vanbeveren (my Art Painting coach – Academy for Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium),… Read more

  • Vernissage – Joost Vander Auwera

    Petervan, in de wereld Peter Vander Auwera, heeft  na een rijke en gevarieerde carrière in de bedrijfswereld zijn blikveld omgegooid na de openbaring van intense schoonheid in een tentoonstelling van Dries Van Noten, één van de sterktehouders van de Belgische modescène. Ik ben zijn neef, zelfs met ouders die broers en zusters  van elkaar waren,… Read more