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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The transformer architecture is feed-forward. The only feedback loop in an LLM is via autoregressive inference, and that's a single, discrete, low-bandwidth bottleneck*. If you believe that's enough for an LLM to be 'conscious', then you must also believe either:

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I've been using @readwise.bsky.social for quite a few years now, to collect my highlights across books, articles etc. I just saw they introduced a "chat with your highlights" LLM, so I asked "what's up highlights? how's it going?" And gosh I love this so much 😂

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Very happy to share that Whitney Museum of American Art has launched 'The Thinking Ocean' — the first work in our #Cosmosapience series, with @katiehofstadter.bsky.social Experience it here: whitney.org/exhibitions/...

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Very moved by this incredibly thoughtful nuance-filled review of SUPERRADIANCE @grayarea.org w @katiehofstadter.bsky.social Especially as it’s by OG new media artist Scott @snibbe.com! Even his critique is the most beautiful I’ve ever received 😅. So grateful 🙏 www.roborantreview.com/reviews/supe...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Beautiful piece saw performed live last night by @memoakten.bsky.social and @katiehofstadter.bsky.social . I suggest using your largest screen at home and volume way up to drift between poetic inquiry into computing and the mathematical awe of our natural world whitney.org/exhibitions/...

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Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean

The Thinking Ocean by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter is part of the artists’ series Cosmosapience, and simulates a dynamic body of water, fluctuating between the physics of fluids and the logic of co...

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Bay area friends! @katiehofstadter.bsky.social & I are very happy to share that SUPERRADIANCE is coming to you thx to @grayarea.org Opening tomorrow, + on Friday a spoken word performance + premiere of a brand new piece 'The Thinking Ocean' (more on that soon :) grayarea.org/exhibitions/...

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Happy to be back at NeurIPS! With @katiehofstadter.bsky.social (My first NeurIPS was 10 yrs ago, with two posters and a ‘live demo’! Feels like centuries ago!)

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Happy to drop a new touchdesigner tutorial & project. POP particles wiggling around leaving trails; constrained inside animated Mesh; custom atttributes; normals; ray casting; proximity; controlling size & color with age using TOP & CHOP lookups; +more www.patreon.com/posts/touchd...

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/11/2025

I'm in the verse today talking about reverse engineering the kinect 15 years ago, alongside @theowatson.bsky.social, @memoakten.bsky.social , and @adafruit.com! Thanks for covering this @geoffreybunting.bsky.social! Lots of fun memories.

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

London friends! @katiehofstadter.bsky.social & I (aka Superradiance Lab :) are very happy to be showing (excerpts from) SUPERRADIANCE at Outernet with Gazelli Art House during frieze weekend. Every hour on the hour till 11pm. Tomorrow (Monday) is the last day I believe!

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

As 'Agentic AI' becomes the new buzzword, I fondly remember mid 2010s 'bot' wave. Especially loved bot-band @mpf.bsky.social's Petita Tatata + my Petita DumDum Techa. Every day Tatata generates, recites & posts beautiful abstract poetry & my bot improvises music over it. Every day a new surprise :)

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

As I turn half a century old, I'm v happy to share a new touchdesigner tutorial. Recreating one of my old works Webcam Piano. Motion detection with frame differencing, MIDI, POPs, Python, GLSL and more. Also shout out to David Rokeby!👋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHf...

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Navier-Stokes equations (that model fluid behavior) are Turing complete. Ie for any given Turing machine (computation) a stationary fluid flow can be constructed such that tracking the trajectory of a particle in the flow encodes the execution of the computation... (1/2) (Vid except from WAVES 2014)

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We sail through endless skies Stars shine like eyes The black night sighs … Light of the night The Earth, a purple blaze Of sapphire haze In orbit always … And so, we pass on by … As we travel the universe RIP #OzzyOsbourne Planet Caravan, 1970 Video: Reincarnation, 2009

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A selection of work in 5 minutes (upto 2024) 1/2 (Music by @machinefabriek.bsky.social , original composition for my 2014/2015 WAVES piece)

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just remembered the beautiful crazy project 'A Strange Loop' we made with @presstube.bsky.social on @fxhash.bsky.social :) www.fxhash.xyz/project/a-st... (SOUND ON :)

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

SUPERRADIANCE performance Tech check ⁦‪@JacobsPillow‬⁩ for the opening of the new Doris Duke Theatre ❤️ @katiepeyton.bsky.social

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Friends, those of you who frequented certain corners of the web twenty yrs ago might remember I was quite active sharing demos & tutorials. After a break, I'm getting back into it! Will probably mostly be touchdesigner, comfyui, AI etc. More soon! www.patreon.com/memoakten

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Artist working with Code, Data and AI; Curious Philomath

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Left: 2017; Right: 2025 learningtosee.ai #LearningToSee

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I used to believe consciousness evolved to support life, now I question if life evolved to embody consciousness.

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Chatting about SUPERRADIANCE with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at 'Creative Machine' exhibition, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing, Nov 2024 superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Excited to be performing a SUPERRADIANCE performance lecture tomorrow with @katiepeyton.bsky.social at SPECTRA STUDIO www.instagram.com/spectra__stu...

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I Stand Up Unfurl [as fungi] Loft into the sky [as forests] Bring life back to air Bring life back to earth _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Life, Laughs, Green. Unfurls deep memory I am the fungal air vents that throw my spores to meet the winds _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The past blows into the present I am the soil thousands of miles away Replenished Life, Laughs, Green. Unfurls deep memory _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I am the sand ancient memories of life I am the wind that swirls the desert dust into the living sky Swarms Scatters across my body Atmospheric rivers bloom red plumes of mineral dust An offering from the distant past _ @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am the diatoms, that once drifted in an ancient sea now a desert, in the Holocene depths of the Sahara: the cratered sand floor of a paleo lake a reservoir of dust, between paleo shores _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I am the reefs that sing summoning wanderers I am the larva of coral and fish drifting in the open ocean. I follow the music of a thriving reef calling me to my new home _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I am the 🌊 that caress yr skin As my body warms I thrash+tear deeper deeper into the seabed deeper into myself deeper into my past My fury casts into the sky ancient memories frm the deep biosedmnts Calcified remnants of ancient life @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I am the waves spuming with life I am the spirit in your breath I am the air-sea boundary The frisky interface Dynamic, Volcanic, Galvanic I breathe You breathe We breathe _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

From oceans above, to oceans below My lungs My heart [How do I care for you?] I am the moon that gently pulls on your skin I am the flowering tides My currents pulse like arteries My veins bloom blue-green _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I am the trees lofting microbes to the sky I seed my breath with life Cast a spell [Pseudomona syringae] to summon atmospheric rivers back from the living air; I call back the rain From oceans above to oceans below _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I am the forest rivers streaming water from the soil into the sky Here in the sky water has a secret name: A microbe so perfectly shaped, it nucleates ice directly from vapor _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Soil Stands Up I am the soil that stands up, unfurls, [as fungi] lofts into the sky [as forests] I am the forest feeding on the sun. I breathe You breathe We breathe How do I care for you? _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I am the soil [I am alive] I am the rootless plants [bryophytes] that retain water I am the wet sediment that becomes mud I am the worms that wriggle I am the cracks that grow into rivers veins across the skin of the earth [my skin] _ @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We are the alchemists the earth shapers the architects We are the lichen the fungi the microbes the chemolithotrophs metabolizing rock into soil _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

We have burrowed into the heart of the Earth Drilled into the clockwork of the planet From the atoms forged in the stars I create the minerals of life _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Two miles beneath my feet Life eats Rock Draws energy from Metal In these sunless tunnels our ground is their sky _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

What if we shed our skin? Vibrate in collective effervescence Superradiance _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

[How do I care for you?] I stand before you today, nourished by ancient oceans Warmed by ancient starlight My body, a site of journeys and transits, portals and interfaces A chimera _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I feel like I’m missing something but what am I missing I am in superposition My body is an animal alive in the present But my mind is trapped in the future+the past I dance to a pulse inside me that did not begin w me _ SUPERRADIANCE @memoakten.bsky.social @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Dance is one of our earliest biotechnologies We dance to connect to each other We dance to connect back to the living earth Extend our bodies bynd our skin into the living environment We dance to remember who we are _ SUPERRADIANCE @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Katie Hofstadter @katiehofstadter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Forged in the dying hearts of stars exploding into supernova billions of yrs ago billions of light yrs away spewed across galaxies to come together—for a very brief moment in time—to momentarily become me and you _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

And to me, it feels like I am a single unitary entity, with clear boundaries, that I call my skin. But intellectually, I know that I am in fact a network, a network of cells and organisms A chimera _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Katie Hofstadter @katiehofstadter.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Trillions of incredibly complex, intelligent little machines, work together, to keep me alive, so that I can keep them alive And somehow, through their interactions, I emerge _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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Memo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I stand before you today, A collection, of trillions of cells — more than half of which are not even genetically human, But other microorganisms _ SUPERRADIANCE by @memoakten.bsky.social & @katiepeyton.bsky.social superradiance.net

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