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Miguel Carvalhais

@carvalhais.org
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Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also active at @cronicaelectronica.org, at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the moral rights to our own work is a pretty important concept underpinning lot of people’s livelihoods and our collective creative future that there are devs out there that see no issue with dismantling that because they prefer slop coding to practicing their profession will turn me into the joker
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming up next Saturday: Matéria Escura Digital / Digital Dark Matter opens at gnration 10 October, 16:00. I will present a new video-installation exploring the opacity that is marbled into advanced visual technologies. www.gnration.pt/event/2026/m...
postcard for the exhibition matéria escura digital by Rosemary Lee with bright green outlined text against a black background.
9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027 at gnration in Braga, Portugal
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These are the charts behind AI narratives. This, as far as I understand, is the end goal.
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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Writer Katherine Rundell on The New Society podcast. A powerful and eloquent statement of why rigorous *thinking* matters in the age of exploitative billionaires pushing AI on all of us. Watch the whole thing. It's definitely worth three minutes of your time. 👏👏👏
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either.
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 30/09/2026
Some download codes for Diogo Alvim’s wonderful “Música para Mysterious Heart”: w5uw-xx42 e85q-j5ec rn76-grrw dw5u-34x4 sp8a-hmaa 6ffs-xmuh uwdc-egav ljqe-33f8 q9rf-cxjn 92lx-cp8e Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum
Cover of Diogo Alvim's CD
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes
black and white image of light going through several square prisms
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andres isaza @aisaza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Recently I presented alongside @carvalhais.org a bit of research about this in @xcoax.org . I explored the history of spatiotemporal video visualizations, speacially those used for media analysis incluiding the work of many others. Have a look!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026
There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026
This album is part of the Textuur Project, a series exploring methods of stripping sounds from their original context and fragmenting them into ever-smaller particles and questioning where representation gives way to abstraction.
Photo of the packaging of the album open on a table top and showing the disc inside
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026
This album was inspired by the poetry of Greta Monach (1928–2018), a pioneering Dutch artist who forged her own path in the fields of computer-generated composition, microtonal singing, and sound poetry.
Photo of the packaging of the Textuur 5 CD on a brown table-top
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026
We're very happy to announce that the new album by Jos Smolders, Textuur 5 [ Automatergon ] is now available to preorder from cronica.bandcamp.com/album/textuu... @earlabs.bsky.social
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Textuur 5 [ Automatergon ], by Jos Smolders
7 track album
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I recently sat down with Andrés Isaza for a studio visit and conversation about the material and conceptual research for my upcoming show Matéria Escura Digital at @gnration The exhibition will run from 9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027. youtube.com/watch?v=BJu2jn-TTRw
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Digital Dark Matter / Matéria Escura Digital
YouTube video by Rosemary Lee
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“To be gripped by another person’s inner life is old equipment built into us. … AI slop feels like betrayal. There is this haunting feeling when you lean toward a face and then find only a mask, with no person behind it.” www.noemamag.com/a-new-kind-o...
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A New Kind Of Creative Poverty | NOEMA
The Simplified Chinese Internet ran on reward and punishment. LLM training feels uncomfortably familiar.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026
> I don’t care about your credentials, I don’t care about your experience. With a couple of words, you gladly announced that you are obliterating them and refusing all forms of free will. Goodbye!
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visiophone @visiophone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Video recap from 30xN AV Live performance at ARCA - Dias Abertos, 2026, at ossocoletivo Video: irinasofiaoliveira _ @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. In an era shaped by climate crisis, war and deepening social inequalities,listening is increasingly called upon to bear witness – to melting glaciers, disappearing species, militarised borders, extractive infrastructures and
cover art of Listening Glossary 
with silvery shimmering background and intricate patterns in a gradient from red to purple
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@carvalhais.org and I have an entry on Algorithmic Listening in Listening Glossary The book is edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and comes out 8 October. You can already preorder it here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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Listening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch
In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 08/09/2026
We're super happy to present the new album by Roel Meelkop, “Antithesis”, now out in Crónica and available as a limited-release CD and as a download (featuring an extra, one-hour long track). Get it now from www.cronicaelectronica.org/253/
Cover of the album “Antithesis” by Roel Meelkop. An abstract, metallic pink composition with typography.
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visiophone @visiophone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some shots from 30xN AV Live performance last June at ARCA2026 - OSSO. . @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 31/08/2026
Still on break, but timely reminder since it's September again (almost)
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 25/08/2026
Reminder: “30×N — VRM1” is now out and available at name your price as a download. This is a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(Cough) newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 21/08/2026
Fantastic movie, a long time favourite of mine 🖤
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨
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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 22/10/2024
I also crafted a little Starter Pack, that needs to get much bigger. A tonne more people ought to be on this list, do tag them here and I'll add. "Writers / Critics / Activists / Devs / Cultural Actors interested in the intersection of videogames & real-life politics & culture." go.bsky.app/RzmV6GM
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
No one interested in education, in humanities, in what constitutes knowledge, in true collective learning in societies and critical (as in critical thinking critical) of LLM AI in those systems and its impact should skip this article by Ishani Ray and @olivia.science Really. It's that important! 1/
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy
Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation tha...
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 01/08/2026
New essay out, "As peças que não se encontram" (the pieces that can't be found), commissioned by Óscar Silva and André Barata for the book “As Peças Que — Ensaios Sobre”, part of a project inspired on Henri Lefebvre's book. The book is published by www.terceirapessoa.pt
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 26/07/2026
Love this new metaphor for AI. It’s basically a katamari. 😅 (Read the full thread)
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Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City
Alt: Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/07/2026
Listen sequentially, choose the order or mix freely any of the 8 parts in the piece!
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/07/2026
We have a new piece out, commissioned by Fernando José Pereira and published by Umbigo, “AZL2 (Several Species of)”. This is part of an ongoing series of performances and (audio and video) compositions created with @visiophone.bsky.social . umbigo.space/post-digital... @ptudela.bsky.social
Screenshot from https://umbigo.space//post-digital/soundscape__c-ebj9rt-6a60b32703b4190eba8bd8f1 with the header SOUNDSCAPE | @C, Essay by @c and a photo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais sitting on a stage with backlight
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 21/07/2026
Video by @visiophone.bsky.social is at archive.org/details/30xN...
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30×N — VRM1 : Visiophone (Rodrigo Carvalho, video), @c (Miguel Carvalhais & Pedro Tudela, music) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
30×N — VRM1 is the fourth in a series of releases originating from 30×N, an audiovisual performance by @c + Visiophone. The performance 30×N is based...
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 21/07/2026
Out now: “30×N — VRM1”, a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social
Cover of the release VRM1
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 20/07/2026
Coming tomorrow, “30×N — VRM1”, new release in the series, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. Stay tuned! www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Can we start adding declarations of “no AI use” to published articles. I would want to know if what I am reading is slop, in part or in whole. Just saw a new paper cite me in odd ways that make no sense, unless some LLM use. But how can I distinguish sloppiness & misunderstanding from AI slop?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/07/2026
"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
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AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/07/2026
The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.” [resonantcomputing.org]
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Penney Esq. FBPE. Easygoing, but I mind more as I get older @iidomind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New blog post: What to Expect When You Are Expecting Recursive Self Improvement mark-riedl.medium.com/what-to-expe...
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What to Expect When You Are Expecting Recursive Self Improvement
There is a new buzzword that is taking the world of AI by storm: Recursive Self Improvement (RSI). See for example, this blog post from…
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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A reminder that the annual proposal window of mediastudies.presss, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, will close on July 31, 2026. mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 06/07/2026
Jérôme Noetinger is back to Crónica, this time with Christian Malfray, aka Les Persécutions de Strasbourg, with the wonderful “Instantanés Détériorés” now available to download or stream from www.cronicaelectronica.org/251/
Cover of the album “Instantanés Détériorés” by Jérôme Noetinger and Les Persécutions de Strasbourg
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 30/06/2026
Thanks! Used mqbr-vddd
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 29/06/2026
come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 28/06/2026
Here are a few download codes for Simon Whetham‘s great album “Successive Actions”, now sold out as a CD. Download from cronica.bandcamp.com/yum with the codes: jcnw-5zne 7sdq-7tvu m449-576p fesu-b59n 574x-xugj bmcs-vpfk 5rjc-gr59 8vbc-3lnt tbv4-cm57 tabq-wg25 Enjoy!
Cover of Simon Whetham’s album “Successive Actions”
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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a fantastic opportunity: a Fulbright fellowship with the Center for Digital Narrative (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) at the University of Bergen in Norway. Apps due by September 15!
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Digital Culture
The scholar will take part in the teaching and research activities of the Digital Culture program and the Digital Culture and Electronic Literature research groups in the Department of Linguistic, Lit...
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xCoAx @xcoax.org · 23/06/2026
Indeed. xcoax.org#registration #xcoax2026 #torino
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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 23/06/2026
It's new release day! Marla Hlady and Christof Migone’s “On And On And Off” is now available as a limited-release CD or download from www.cronicaelectronica.org/250/ @christofmigone.bsky.social
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Crónica: Marla Hlady & Christof Migone: On And On And Off
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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 21/06/2026
Last Friday I was invited to talk at the Breaking the Code conference in Porto. My talk, “Searching the Unpredictable, Coding the Break: Art, Computation, the Rift” was illustrated with some works from recent years such as these videos with @visiophone.bsky.social (whom I also thank for the photos).
Miguel Carvalhais talking on a conference in front of an LCD screen displaying a video of a live performance with Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo Carvalho
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