Cognitive Infrastructures: contemplations concerning our relationship with synthetic intelligence and our role in its development and evolution.

Particularly pertinent to the Antikythera Studio theme Cognitive Infrastructures, concerning the speculation What does intelligence look like? please visit the link below first: http://www.jwaringrago.blog/what-does-intelligence-look-like/ Please see further images of the installation above, including videos with audio: http://www.jwaringrago.blog/portfolio-2 Further selected work follows below, consisting of imagery of original paintings and the physical works regenerated in the […]

What does intelligence look like?

This post is informed by the Antikythera Studio webinar and the Cognitive Infrastructures theme. The Antikythera Studio will be at Central St Martins this Summer, where the MA Visual Arts, Fine Art Digital course, from which I graduated in 2019, is now based. MIND MIRROR – step back and breathe in the atmosphere of your own […]

Poem a Day

As a start to the day, I love to receive these poems, courtesy of the Poetry Foundation, and this one, along with so many others I have received, is beautiful: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/157534/christos This led me to prompt the ever-so-popular AI bot (see below dotted line at the end of this post) which always gives me a […]

A Point of Reference – Emily Dickinson

Also a botanist! – I still have my herbarium and must not forget to show some visuals of it on this blog. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinson

Song (Breathe)

Song (Breathe), a small painting (oil on aluminium 25 x 25 cm) is concluded: Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, […]

A Painting Completed with Reflection and Research in Parallel

Oil on aluminium, approx 125 x 125 cm Gallery of some detail;   On reflection, a line of thought arising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek Further refs: https://www.google.com/search?q=absurdity&rlz=1CCTTSD_enGB720GB720&oq=absurdity&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/episteme-techne/ https://www.google.com/search?q=emporium+def&rlz=1CCTTSD_enGB720GB720&oq=emporium+def&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges    

A Sequence of Seeking Out

Of circadian rhythm: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-a-wheatfield-with-cypresses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_Field_with_Cypresses https://iwp.uiowa.edu/whitmanweb/en/writings/song-of-myself/section-21 https://whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/student_projects/brian/pagetwo.html https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1871/poems/15 https://www.vincentvangogh.org/starry-night.jsp (the above reference contains no mention of the poetic Whitman connection!)