Thoughts on Arnold Hoogerwerf

Leestip: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:13:26 +0000

Zeer interessant artikel van Ted Chiang in The New Yorker. Boordevol interessante quotes. Een selectie:

Art is notoriously hard to define, and so are the differences between good art and bad art. But let me offer a generalization: art is something that results from making a lot of choices. […] If an A.I. generates a ten-thousand-word story based on your prompt, it has to fill in for all of the choices that you are not making. There are various ways it can do this. One is to take an average of the choices that other writers have made, as represented by text found on the Internet; that average is equivalent to the least interesting choices possible, which is why A.I.-generated text is often really bland. Another is to instruct the program to engage in style mimicry, emulating the choices made by a specific writer, which produces a highly derivative story. In neither case is it creating interesting art.

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:51:34 +0000

Proud of all my students who graduated in the last few weeks! And happy to be the owner of this beautiful and limited edition book by one of them (a side project of a bigger project including a short documentary on bicultural identity).

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:00:47 +0000

The more convincingly lifelike AI-generated text, images, audio, and now video become, the more I am drawn to tactile, analog, lo-fi, and more human forms of expression.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:48:12 +0000

My sound walk mens maakt landschap maakt mens has been added to the catalogue of the excellent walk • listen • create platform.

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:23:25 +0000

Can ActivityPub save the internet? (David Pierce, The Verge, yesterday)

I’m hopeful, and would answer yes! Owning your own domain name should be the norm:

“But the advice you’ll hear from most people in this space is this: own your own domain. Don’t be john@/mastodon.social or anna@/facebook.com. Have a space that is yours, that belongs to you, a username and identity that can’t disappear just because a company goes out of business or sells to a megalomaniac.”

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:02:58 +0000

Momenteel werk ik aan een interactieve geluidswandeling /-fietstocht, als vervolg op de tentoonstelling mens maakt landschap maakt mens in Museum IJsselstein.

En goed nieuws! Onze gelijknamige videoinstallatie zal nog tot eind januari 2023 te zien zijn, nu als onderdeel van de nieuwe tentoonstelling Vensters.

Beide projecten zijn gebaseerd op diverse gesprekken die we met deelnemende kunstenaars en historici hadden over de menselijke omgang met cultuurlandschap in verleden, heden en toekomst. Met bijdragen van Niels Stomps, Wumen Ghua, Esther Polak, Ivar van Bekkum en historicus Arjan van ’t Riet. Binnenkort meer!

Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:15:35 +0000

On behalf of everyone at my shared workspace 7zes7vijf, I wish you all a merry Christmas and very happy new year!

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:05:07 +0000

Total lockdown vs. herd immunity

Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:03:06 +0000

So, yesterday was quite a surreal day over here in the Netherlands. It was the first, sunny day of ‘the ‘Covid19’ lockdown, the Dutch way’. Instead of a total lockdown like China, Italy and now Spain and France, the Netherlands are opting for a controlled spreading of the Corona virus throughout the population.
By taking less stringent measures, society will be less disrupted, but a lot of healthy, less vulnerable people (possibly up to 60% of the population) will get sick with mild symptoms of Corona over the next coming months.
— Lees op arnoldhoogerwerf.micro.blog/2020/03/17/total-lockdown-vs.html

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:07:28 +0000

My soon-to-be-former workspace is available for rent per june 1 2019. Spread the word!

https://deplaatsmaker.nl/huuraanbod/locaties/vlampijpateliers/35

Shell Shock sound installation at Eye Amsterdam

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:55:41 +0000

I made a commissioned sound installation for the Shell Shock programme in Eye Filmmuseum! You’re welcome to experience it until 22 May 2019. It’s free, since the installation is at the entrance of Eye, but I highly encourage you to also visit one of the great talks, films and other events as part of Shell Shock, or the parallel exhibition A Tale of Hidden Histories.

More info can be found on the project page.

Moving Image Course at HKU

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:41:52 +0000

This week I started a new Moving Image course at the HKU Brede Basisopleiding (University of the Arts Utrecht). Here you can see the students creating a Light Modulator. It’s so nice to see young students getting enthusiastic by an art excercise developed almost 80 years ago at Moholy-Nagy’s New Bauhaus.

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:20:03 +0000

Looking back at a successful workshop with students from the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance!

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 07:44:21 +0000

I love the new hingeless strandbeest UMINAMI by Theo Jansen.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:07:56 +0000

Slow motion in slow motion, through AI. Seems bad news for high speed camera manufacturers.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:04:35 +0000

From now on, I will use this in my classes on continuity editing ?

Essence of the Indian soap opera. pic.twitter.com/7Fq1oJkSll

— Mr. Drinks On Me (@Mr_DrinksOnMe) June 11, 2018