iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The excellent Stochastic Labs is offering summer residencies in the Bay Area for artists investigating AI creative tools, new futures of sound and graphics, and tangible and material interfaces. Apply now! stochasticlabs.org/alternative-...

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Alternative Frontiers

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thinking about CGI and all that stuff, here’s a clip of Anchors Aweigh! from 1945 that is another highpoint in visual effects.

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Tessa Consoli @tessacon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Why the radical right loves #generativeAI and how Midjourney & Co. are shaping the aesthetics of contemporary #digitalfascism. "Technology is not a politically neutral tool. As a nostalgia machine and stereotype amplifier, it lends itself to the creation of right-wing world views."

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens. Participants for 2025–26 receive a monthly artist’s fee of €1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work hyperallergic.com/986076/onass...

hyperallergic.com

Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens

Participants for 2025–26 receive a monthly artist’s fee of €1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

NASA (1965) "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labour"

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Little exploration of noise and audio reactive feedback loops with @touchdesigner.bsky.social

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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 13/01/2025

Sharing our Spring classes at SFPC here! This season we’re expanding the command line not as the opaque workhorse of computing, but as a stage for poetic subversion, where code emerges as art to explore how technologies of control can become instruments of liberation ∗ Apply by Feb 2 at sfpc.study

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.

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Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival Recorded live at Beta Festival ‘24 in Dublin’s Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together Noam Young-Rak Son, Joanna Walsh and Leon Butler to help chart recent shifts at the intersection of art, design and AI. www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979. www.epi.org/productivity...

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CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍ Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/

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Support CAN in 2025

Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge —— with your support!

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Another media arts residency call by New Hand Lab in Portugal: tr.ee/a54cXXY_Dc

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newhandlab | Facebook | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A+E Lab invites applications for early-to-mid career digital artists/collectives with creative souls and innovative minds who embrace digital tools and are always pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo.

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I made a @figma.com portfolio template based on one my students supplied and asked to to emulate for them to build on. Free to download in the Figam community: www.figma.com/community/fi...

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Bold Portfolio | Figma

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J Dakota Powell @jdakotapowell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Another cool Blender tool: "Real-Time #3D #Character Creation With Blender's Clay Pencil... fantastic setup by Daniel Martínez Lara, demonstrating the capabilities of Blender 4.3's updated Grease Pencil with Geometry Nodes support, turning 2D into claymation-style 3D" #b3d 80.lv/articles/rea...

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See Blender 4.3's Custom Clay Pencil In Action

Daniel Martínez Lara plans to release the tool by the end of next week.

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Alan Zucconi @alanzucconi.com · 29/11/2024

If you're looking to learn Game AI, I published a course which covers both theory and practice. 🤖🎮 From Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks, including two coding assignments and eight C#/Unity libraries free for your projects! 📦 Oh, and it's 50% off for Black Friday! 🖤🛒🛍️

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I've posted a free capabilities deck template to the Figma community based on the lovely Hello Muller deck. www.figma.com/community/fi...

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Capabilities Deck 2025 | Figma

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Open call for new media art work at the Mapping festival. www.mappingfestival.com/en/call-for-...

mappingfestival.com

Mapping Festival

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey, We're Open Humanities Press (OHP), an international, open-access, scholar-led, not-for-profit community publisher. www.openhumanitiespress.org Follow us for all things #openaccess #OAbooks #humanities #digitalhumanities #digital #technology #theory #philosophy

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Open Humanities Press

A scholar led open access publishing collective

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Nodes nodes.io is visual programming tool for JS/WebGL that we use internally at variable.io there is public beta but it's way behind current version we have in development.

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Nodes – a new way to create with code | https://nodes.io

Nodes is a new way to create with code.

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Added a line texture to the blob tracking. Super light weight setup. #touchdesigner

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Got some time today to build a super simple tracking setup in Touchdesigner #touchdesigner

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patricio gonzalez vivo @patricio.io · 19/11/2024

Very close to release LYGIA.xyz v1.3. Probably the biggest release yet. A redesigned PBR model, raymarching pipeline, and a set of debugging functions to make your life easier + better support for WGSL and Metal.

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Marco Cortella @mcx83.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚨 Dream job alert! The Giorgia Lupi's #dataviz 📊 team in Pentagram is looking for a mid-level/senior Graphic Designer with #UX #UI skills. drive.google.com/file/d/16Vgz...

Hello Dataviz Friends! We are hiring! 👐

We are looking for a passionate mid-level to senior Graphic Designer with Data Visualization and UX/UI expertise to join my amazing team at @pentagramdesign in our New York office.

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Leon Butler @leonbutler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This looks great. 3 years of midi recording straight from your piano. jamcorder.com

jamcorder.com

Jamcorder | Automatic Piano Recorder

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pepeland-daniel.bsky.social @pepeland-daniel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Another FANART test to fine-tune the ClayPencil tool, to convert Grease Pencil animations into 3D characters in real time. Using a reference, from the one & only @OlovBurman for Nounfest “Golden Goose” Check it out! #Blender #B3D #GreasePencil #stopmotion #2D #2danimation

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