Very pleased to finally be able to share with you my latest piece 'The Closed World'.

Commissioned for the Ada Symposium 2024, I took a standard refractor telescope and modified it to look upon a fictitious, machine-generated cosmos.

https://julianoliver.com/projects/the-closed-world/

All that is Air Melts into Air ... @tegabrain and @samlavigne [..] #sabotage reveals a system functioning exactly as it is meant to ..

👉🏻 https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/spatial-computing/592129/all-that-is-air-melts-into-air/

New essay "All that is Air Melts into Air" is out in eflux architecture. Written with @samlavigne, we consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management.

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/spatial-computing/592129/all-that-is-air-melts-into-air/

And the final endorsement for Systems Ultra is in, from
@tegabrain (w/bonus background sheerleg). Tega’s brilliant work on systems has been such a lodestar for this whole //thing//, so just imagine a string of happy/delighted/navigation-related emojis here 🧭✨ (2 months to go!)

Job alert: Job alert: Tenure track job at NYU Tisch photo - https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/Employment

I wrote about web scraping for political/artistic purposes for the first issue of the journal Critical AI: https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-10734046/382464/Scrapism-A-Manifesto

@mel_hogan congrats!

Cold Call – Time Theft as Avoided Emissions / @tegabrain and @sam_lavigne@twitter.piriklub.eu

→ https://www.creativeapplications.net/member-submissions/cold-call-time-theft-as-avoided-emissions/

An unconventional carbon offsetting scheme that draws on strategies of worker sabotage and applies them in the context of high emission companies in the fossil fuel industry.

Creative Technologist, Programmer at Antimodular Research / Montreal, Canada #Jobs

→ https://www.creativeapplications.net/jobs-featured/creative-technologist-programmer-at-antimodular-research/

Studio of the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, seek to hire an experienced Programmer / Deadline 22 Sept 2023.

Recently had the pleasure of chatting to @mel_hogan on the Data Fix podcast about how ecological imaginaries are shaped by language and computational technologies, and the unique role that art can play in revealing, questioning and subverting these ways of thinking... https://www.thedatafix.net/episodes/020

@DrPinkeee this zine by the great Anne Pasek: https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/Data%20Center%20Fights_digital.pdf

I've been working on a tool to help people explore ffmpeg filters in the browser. You can now use a simple node-based editor to compose complex filtergraphs. User testers wanted!

https://ffmpeg.lav.io

@l03s: "Could computing be less like a 24/7 supermarket thing and be more seasonal — like you would go to an orchard to pick fruit once a year, you could go to this space where one special computational task is happening which would be dormant the rest of the time?" :unwanted_ok: http://solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/devalk.html

As someone who donated to Just Stop Oil to offset my last flight home, this is right up my street.
@tegabrain
Offset https://offset.labr.io/