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  • Traveling without moving – Genres

    This post is the last post of a series of essays bundled under “Traveling without moving”. The intro of that series can be found here. In hindsight, this whole series was a slow reflection, maturation, and catalyst for something that will emerge in September as “The Scaffold” The idea of a new “genre” has been… Read more

  • Inspiration: Berlinde De Bruyckere

    I was one of the twenty lucky ones to be invited to an exclusive studio visit of Belgian and internationally renowned top-artist Berlinde De Bruyckere.  She represented Belgium in the 55th Venice Biennale. The studio visit was organized by the Flemish Art Magazine HART. Still from MO.CO interview video, Berlinde preparing with grace “to Zurbaran”,… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 19 Aug 2022

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About an alternative to Bentham’s panopticon: a distributed, polyvalent, multi-modal network of synthetic intelligences. By Stephanie Sherman About how reality and media consumption increasingly resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game. By Jon Askonas About the… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – July 2022

    Petervan’s Ride July 2022 > starting the fourth year of Rides > Only 33 songs this month, summer vacation I guess > mostly new releases > play in shuffle mode for more surprise Read more

  • Parallel Grooves

    Picture generated by DALL-E It all started with Vankatesh Rao’s “Future Tables” post last week, with the subtitle “We don’t want future visions, we want future tables”. Venkat introduced the concept of “temporal potential groove”. I added the following comment to his post: “I enjoyed this one very much. You have written so much about… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 20 July 2022

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the vulgarity of tech leaders and those who enable them. By Scott Galloway Why the brain is not like a computer, the mind is not like a computer program, and consciousness is not computation. By Joe Antognini… Read more