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  • Mario Klingemann’s neural network art

    Mario Klingemann’s neural network art

    Artist Mario Klingemann’s groundbreaking piece of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generates a never-ending real-time stream of original art. I found this mesmerizing video, where the artist explains how it works:   “If you hear somebody play the piano, would you ever say “the piano is the artist”? No. Same thing here: just because it is a… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 4 Feb 2019

    Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 4 Feb 2019

      Edition-135 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! A brain-frying review (long read) by Evgeny Morozov of Shoshana Zuboff’s new book on “surveillance capitalism”. Take the time to read and let it sink in. It will be worth your time:… Read more

  • Big data and surveillance in cities: convenience vs tracking

    Big data and surveillance in cities: convenience vs tracking

    Sidewalk Labs is Google’s / Alphabet Inc.’s urban innovation organisation. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions, and tackle issues such as cost of living, efficient transportation and energy usage (Wikipedia). Looking at their website, it’s full of ambitious goals: reimagining cities to improve quality of life, people-centered design, street safety, affordable housing,… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 28 Jan 2019

    Petervan’s Delicacies – Week 28 Jan 2019

    Edition-134 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About power and responsibility in creating alternate synthetic minds. A philosophical take by Susan Schneider: https://www.edge.org/conversation/susan_schneider-the-future-of-the-mind About the wrestle of business leaders to stay honest with themselves or to give in to greed… Read more

  • The currency of humanity (Joi Ito’s Practice of Change)

    As mentioned in my announcement post, I have joined The Futures Agency as a curator on the topic of Digital Ethics. Together with Futurist and Author Gerd Leonhard, I am curating a weekly newsletter (Subscribe HERE), and some regular posts and podcasts on the topic. I will start re-sharing some of these posts on this… Read more

  • Petervan Update – Jan 2019

    Petervan Update – Jan 2019

    An overview on what happened the last couple of months, some new insights, some updated plans. The Artschool Project Artschool started again in Sep 2018, and begin Jan 2019 we already had our mid-year review: time flies. I had a good production during Q4 of 2018. Check out my art page on my blog. At… Read more