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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's not a "new direction" at all.

Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I do wish designers would learn about the history of HCI because there are dozens if not hundreds of versions of this since at least the mid 1990s :( goes back at least to Wellner's digital desk of 1993

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed: www.redsharknews.com/vimeo-declin...

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, they ruined the site, made search impossible in the EU, and have dramatically raised prices. Only thing I have found comparable are peertube instances, but I haven't found one that has the same community. I'm so frustrated that vimeo completely destroyed the community that helped build it.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's quite a resonance with the OG blue marble photograph, especially the cloud formation coming off the east coast of southern Africa.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy 43rd anniversary of "boy i'm glad we didn't have a nuclear war" day to all who celebrate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_n…

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing like trying to get complex PCBs finished and ready to send off a couple of weeks before your art installation opens.

EMITTERE, a PCB for controlling WS2813 light strips, playback of audio from SD cards, and reading signals from a magnetometer, among other things

AETHERWAVES, a module for controlling an SI4732 radio chip

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I never do these things, but I *loved* 3-Demon as a child. Those sound affects and vector-ish graphics were incredible on the Compaq portable (with green phosphors!) that I used to play on. You can play the game on archive.org: archive.org/details/3-De...

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3-Demon

The object of 3-Demon is to descend through the various mazes without being eaten by the ghouls. The measure of your success is the number of points you accumulate before all of your lives are devoure...

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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3-Demon

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It pains my heart every time I see my friends or acquaintances or people I know in my field post screenshots of search engine AI results.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This board (and its pair) are wide enough on their own, which is why I started with them...but oof one cornwr was 4-5mm lower than the others which has meant quite a workout tonight. Plus, I should sharpen my irons :)

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a lot of rough sawn lumber to deal with for this project, but luckily the stargazing "chair" building is super simple...some edge laminations (because we don't easily have wide enough boards here in Europe), just a few saw cuts and one mortise to chop for each chair. Onward!

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's nice to be making shavings again, but remind me why I don't have a thickness planer and jointer again? (Right, I hate the noise, they're expensive, this method gives me a workout, a mega workout, and I want to keep all my appendages.)

Cherry board that is almost planed clean of rough sawmill cuts, some wooden planes, and some shavings at the end.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh wow, I definitely look forward to this, as someone who is fascinated by this history, especially those uncomfortable aspects--like Parsons' practice--that are all too often left out of the discussion. (I say this as I went to Caltech and didn't learn about Parsons until decades after graduating.)

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TFW you learn that on the PCB you just got back that you actually chose to use a pin that needed to do PWM that does not actually do PWM, and that you did the most rookie of rookie mistakes of swapping RX and TX in your UART. That was a lot of money wasted...oops.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love that my urgent overnight order for parts went from Warsaw to Amsterdam to Hong Kong to Brussels to... Let's see if it makes it to its destination of Amsterdam tomorrow!

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think in an age of slop and hallucinations it's incumbent upon us to "show our work", create link trails, and rebuild something of an edifice of shared reality. "Yes, I did this, with these people, at this time, and these are facts."

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've had links in my CV, well, ever since I started having a CV. These links go to my articles (because if it has a DOI or URL, there's no reason to not link to it), my artworks (which go to my website), and awards (to prove to people I'm not making it up).

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And so the boards are now all stickered and I wait a few days, clean up the rough faces and edges, laminate some boards together for width, and get to what will actually be the easy part, making the chairs themselves.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Got myself a lot of wood :) American cherry and a bit of ash.

Japanese-style saw on Japanese-style sawhorses while cutting the boards down to length

Stickered boards after being cut to length

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Indeed. I should put "artist" in quotes as well. Creating an Indigenous "artist" out of thin air who supposedly works on Indigenous futures cheapens the work of the hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands, of other artists who do this work already.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt. I looked all over the website to see if there were any mentions of working with Aboriginal groups when creating this artist, or any acknowledgment of the complexity at work. I didn't see anything. I would love to be corrected if wrong.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah. It is. I wonder how it ever got started, how it got funded, and how Ars decided it was something they wanted to include on their program.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There are even more problems with the other "artists", but from my perspective this is the most egregious example.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(If it's not clear: TEKS "created" a set of 10 AI "artists", of different races, including an Aboriginal one, parroting their voices and their "artworks", creating "Indigenous futures" as they call them. Yes, you read that right.)

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wonder why a European--Norwegian--media art organization thinks it's okay, in the year of our deities 2026, to cosplay as an Aboriginal artist through some kind of "edgy" "AI artist" project: www.artafter.ai/yirrkala-dhunba

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well, at least that explains the flashing and also makes you feel better that you actually *do* know how to make a simple LED circuit that doesn't flash. Whew.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is one of the most beautiful and inspiring places I've ever been. It's one of the few things that I very much miss from the US: www.archpaper.com/2026/08/haystack-…

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The sun from just a bit ago in Amsterdam, just through my camera phone. Given that some of those sunspots are likely larger than the earth, it does make my own personal frustrations at the moment seem rather small in comparison.

Sun with some sunspots through my white-light solar filter telescope

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is *exactly* what my pails of paper slurry would look like in the papermaking studio, except this is material for making heat shield tiles.

A bucket of material for making heat shields that looks *exactly* like what a pail of paper slurry would look like in a papermaking studio.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Everything from the use of "fibers" and mixing different types of fibers together, to suspending those fibers in water, to slicing the fibers up in something that looks a lot like a Hollander, to pressing the water out in a hydraulic press like I've used in a papermaking studio. Wild: youtu.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Looks like MIT Press is promoting an essay I wrote almost 20 years ago...and that needed an addendum in 2019 because I, uh, had made a major change in my life. I don't talk much publicly about my sister Robin--which will change someday--but this gives you some insight into her life and impact.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here's a first: getting AI-fueled author spam to join a "CBC radio" program for a book I wrote in *2016*. Try harder AI...you expect me to believe someone wants to interview me on my specialized academic book from *10* years ago?!? That's funny :)

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And the issue is that the funding opportunities are not increasing while the educational system (art academies, etc) continues to graduate more people, who are also extremely talented. So the competition goes up every year and the chances decrease. I've seen this happen in my 6 years here already.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This incredible music video that enacts microtonality and conlangs, simultaneously, is one of many reasons I remain supremely happy the internet exists: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnuMjXeHrY

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This was just from my phone camera as there was no time for me to learn how to safely mount a better camera to the scope.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Expect more sun photos as I use this telescope more and while I continue to lust after an H-alpha scope.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very glad I was able to get a special affordable white-light solar telescope just in time for the solar eclipse yesterday. Even if not total, the change in light quality and temperature were impressive to behold.

Partial solar eclipse at maximum, Amsterdam

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I found these graphic novels indispensable in getting up to speed with critical theory when I was in grad school, as someone who didn't have humanities knowledge: microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I hear you...the market for anything "creative" is very rough indeed if you aren't one of those types of people you allude to. I've seen opportunities dry up over the past few years quite dramatically. In solidarity.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thanks sharing, yes, that's a better petition indeed, I had not found that link before.

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Adriana Knouf, PhD @zeitkunst.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That's what I understand. But it may not obviate the need for registration in each EU member state, so it's still worthwhile to voice objections to the rules.

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