Viktor Bedö

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Write. Design. Play. Strange tools for cities. Visiting Professor at #CriticalMediaLab Basel. Centre of Urban and Community Research Goldsmiths #CUCR

Amateure #mushroomforaging books written by #ChatGPT... Some time ago I foraged eadible plants in London. Fellow foragers I ran into pointed me towards 🍄 and I picked them. After two people and two apps gave me four different identification, I chose not to eat them.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI

Sample of books scored 100% on AI detection test as experts warn they contain dangerous advice

The Guardian
Berlin based #accelerator program for startups tackling #foodwaste up and down the supply chain: https://berlin.impacthub.net/program/impact-accelerator/
Join ImpAct Accelerator! - Impact Hub Berlin

Are you a passionate impact entrepreneur tackling the challenge of food waste? Are you ready to take your startup to the next level by joining a partnership-focused acceleration programme? Then apply to join the ImpAct Accelerator and receive the expert support you need to scale your business!

Impact Hub Berlin
Proud of Ozan, my mentee at IXDM Master Experimental Design Basel, who just graduated! Great work about challenging exclusion in arts institutions through spatial interventions. 💥 Big congrats to him and all graduates!
#NowPlayThis Festival is on right now featuring our #InvisiblePlayground game Love At First Sight next Sunday: https://nowplaythis.net/game/street-games-tour/
#90Street Games Tour:Heartstrings, Love at First Sight & Semaphoria

On the final day of this year's festival, we go on an old-school street games tour celebrating loving encounters in the public spaces around Somerset House. Participants will be guided through the following games: Heartstrings, a new game by Bez Shahriari Love at First Sight by Invisible

Now Play This
Cat Royale, day seven: "It was time to break out the big guns: [...] the robot deployed a piece of string."
https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/catroyale/
#blasttheory #canAImakecatshappy
Welcome to Cat Royale | Blast Theory

From 22nd March - 2nd April 2023, three cats will enter a utopia created by the Blast Theory artists.

Blast Theory
Mesmerising analysis of bodily and material friction initiated by tapping 'order' on your food delivery app. By 2050+ in Volume Magazine issue 59. https://archis.org/publications/volume-59-futures-implied/ #friction
Volume #59 Futures Implied - Archis

When brought into the city, no technology is a neutral enabler, a mere decoration, or even a marketplace of supply & demand. Urban technologies are built upon spoken and unspoken assumptions about urban life, each with peculiar implications for social relations and the natural ecosystem. It is time for the discipline of media architecture to get under its own skin, and address the implied futures of new technologies.

Archis
On second attempt I passed the test for becoming a Food Saver for the Foodsharing community in Basel. It was brilliant to study the governance and operational structure of this organisation:
https://foodsharing.de/?page=fairteiler&bid=233&sub=ft&id=321
#FoodRescue
Lebensmittel teilen statt wegwerfen – foodsharing

Auf foodsharing.de kannst du deine Lebensmittel vor dem Verfall an soziale Einrichtungen oder andere Personen abgeben