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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art." Our July talk at the University of Glasgow mthvn.substack.com/p/art-before...
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Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art
Talk at University of Glasgow, July 6, 2026
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures" was published by @versobooks.bsky.social on August 25: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc.... And, our lecture "Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art" is now on Substack. It builds on the book: mthvn.substack.com/p/art-before...
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The Hard Question of Art
Art doesn’t change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art—...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language. Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion! @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social @robert-booth.bsky.social
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great point @begus.bsky.social. As @robert-booth.bsky.social writes about puzzling Joycean lingo now uttered by agential AI, "Latent Spacecraft" (with @ninabegus.bsky.social) researched both "Finnegans Wake" as a written-out latent space and artificial neural networks as babbling engines
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The term “latent space realism” is inspired by the concept of “wave function realism,” which has been used in quantum mechanics to address the question whether the configuration space of Schrödinger's wave function amounts to something physically real
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans," with the brilliant @ninabegus.bsky.social, @begus.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini, is still major for us. An artificial neural network's vector space becomes navigable. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce's novel, gets read as a latent space
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words @words.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
just got it honestly thank you looking forward to reading
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words @words.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
just ordered it
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures" was published by @versobooks.bsky.social on August 25: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc.... And, our lecture "Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art" is now on Substack. It builds on the book: mthvn.substack.com/p/art-before...
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The Hard Question of Art
Art doesn’t change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art—...
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Armen Nalbandian @armennalbandian.com · 10/09/2026
ISHI is now available in digital via bandcamp and in a lovely limited edition of 500 glass-mastered CDs in a 4-panel digipak designed with brilliance and care by @metahaven.bsky.social . Screen-printed on the CD is a story by @jingyiteo.bsky.social armennalbandian.bandcamp.com/album/ishi
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ISHI, by Armen Nalbandian and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto
5 track album
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A new book series just dropped!
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art." Our July talk at the University of Glasgow mthvn.substack.com/p/art-before...
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Art Before Collapse? Poetry, Physics, and Art
Talk at University of Glasgow, July 6, 2026
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We will be launching our new book, "The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures" at @sanserriffe.bsky.social in Amsterdam, on Friday September 11, 7–9 PM, with Hend Samir, Antonio Vega Macotela, and Emilia Tapprest. Please be invited! (cc @versobooks.bsky.social)
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When a paper becomes a piece of art. We’re exhibiting our Latent Spacecraft GAN models with @metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social at the Hidden Layers exhibition. Come see the artworks at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley. The opening reception is today, 9/3, and we run until 10/3.
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Armen Nalbandian @armennalbandian.com · 10/08/2026
‘Rekishi,’ the single from our upcoming album ‘ISHI’ is now streaming on all platforms, except spotify of course cover design by @metahaven.bsky.social pre-order ‘ISHI’ in digital + CD on bandcamp: www.bandcamp.armennalbandian/ISHI
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Armen Nalbandian @armennalbandian.com · 12/06/2026
something very special coming soon with Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, @jingyiteo.bsky.social and @metahaven.bsky.social 🧡
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Pre-order @versobooks.bsky.social: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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The Hard Question of Art
Art doesn’t change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art—...
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our new book, The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures, is available for pre-order at @versobooks.bsky.social: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This fabulous book, The Hard Question of Art by @metahaven.bsky.social is available for preorder! Coming out in August. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775582...
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Latent Spacecraft in Warsaw's MOMA with the fabulous @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Upcoming: "Latent Space Realism," our talk at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on May 15 artmuseum.pl/en/events/la...
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
with @begus.bsky.social and @metahaven.bsky.social “I hope that our research encourages academics to build their own models and to collaborate more with humanists and artists. Humanistic insights should be at the forefront of AI development,” Nina said. ls.berkeley.edu/news/what%E2...
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What’s really happening inside AI’s black box? Berkeley researchers have answers
Scientists have traditionally treated the internal mathematical layers of artificial intelligence — often described as AI’s “black boxes” — as too abstract and complex for humans to fully interpret. B...
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Harvard's magazine reporting on our paper 'Latent Spacecraft' with @metahaven.bsky.social and @begus.bsky.social gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...
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What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI
As AI becomes ever more interwoven in daily life, new research from Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, and Gašper Beguš, PhD '18, is beginning to map out machine learning’ "latent space," the hidden mathematical ar...
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Very few artworks have the actual model running in real time and generating outputs on the go. Below is a GAN model trained on Finnegans Wake audio, FinneGAN. Explore the latent spaces with Latent Spacecraft: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org @metahaven.bsky.social @begus.bsky.social
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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans" (DOI 10.1162/ANTI.5KP1) creates a craft to explore the interior space of a GAN. By @ninabegus.bsky.social @metahaven.bsky.social & @begus.bsky.social Interface(s) by @metahaven.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini - latentspacecraft.antikythera.org
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
- AI has a physical interior space. - By exploring language’s uncharted cognitive terrain both in humans and machines, we bring attention to the interiority of speech in brains and in computational models.
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
pre-speech edge, further into entropic interiority. Generated outputs portray limits of intelligibility and make the model’s interior layers a site for interpretative exploration. - Language is a final linearizing layer over a richer prelinguistic space.
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
AI is creating a new kind of space, the latent space. We pair art and internal interpretability techniques to explore philosophical implications of these new spaces. FinneGAN generates speech, based on the text of the novel, and pushes the language of Finnegans Wake toward the
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