Author: PGR
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the parts of the shadows that didn’t exactly reflect the numbers became problems
Many people loved the installment of Dorothy Gambrell’s Cat & Girl webcomic in which Gambrell confronted her feelings about being one of a few thousand early webcomics people listed as having had their work used as training material for generative models. I loved it too. I haven’t been following C&G since the start, but for…
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Swans
Intense. More like some sort of art ritual than a gig, in a way; the first “piece” was almost half an hour long, partly improvised, big slow dynamics, old man Gira controlling the vibe by waving and shaking his arms around above his head, while the band cranks the volume and intensity up and down.…
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the Torment Nexus and the death of satire
If you can look at the technological paradigm of which you consider yourself to be a celebrant, and tell yourself it feels like Douglas Adams, you should be running for the exits (having taken care to take your towel with you, naturally).
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fyra år i Malmö
I rolled into this town four years ago today. This is a rather less notable or triumphant anniversary than that of Cory Doctorow’s establishment of Pluralistic, which was four years ago yesterday—but I dare say he too ends up saying to people “you know, the week when the Covid pandemic really became a thing?”, or…
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15FEB24 / workshopping
Uptown Malmö, early morning, kicking off the latest foresight cycle with the Media Evolution crew, because this is Sweden, and coffee counters the darkness. Futures of music, anyone?