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New post -- 🎲 Rolling with it: On generativity, ritual-technics, and the genAI ick
On generative systems and how working with rituals, recipes, and protocols has helped me feel into the ethics and values that influence and motivate this work.
(Shameless Oasis clickbait title only partly intended. All errors and em dashes proudly my own.)
#genAI #generativesystems #ethics #AICreativity #creativity #authenticity #AILiteracy #rituals #technics #chance
📝 New blog post: How I Read AI Images — in which I share a method for interpreting AI images based in the material mechanisms of their generation. Think Kittler, Parikka, and Cubitt.
This is a summary of a long-gestating piece of research, which I hope can be shared soon. But in the interim, I wanted a version that I can share with a wider audience.
Let me know what you think!
https://clockworkpenguin.substack.com/p/how-i-read-ai-images
New Slop Stack post — A Little Slop Music: The AI experiment that turned my ick to 11 (now you can try it too!)
In which I reflect on the ickiness of working with AI music generators. Thoughts on creativity, authenticity, contested histories, paratexts, storytelling, and all that jazz. No, really; there's jazz in there too.
Expressions of Interest:
Join us for the Re/Framing Field Lab in Brisbane/online (July 4) - a hands-on co-lab exploring generative AI, critical media practice & creative research.
From discussion to co-creation: pitch, partner & prototype at the messy intersections of theory, practice & speculative design.
New blog post: Why can’t you just THINK?!
Thinking, imagining, ideation — that’s not the problem for some of us.
The problem is sorting. Starting. Sustaining.
Blanket demonisation of genAI tools doesn't help — especially when we're using them as cognitive companions, not slop-spawners.
Here are three low-stakes ways to try AI as a thinking partner, plus some offline model recs.
https://clockworkpenguin.net/2025/05/20/why-cant-you-just-think/
