Archive / Connections
Network
Follow a thought.
Enter through a post. Follow a reply, a project or an idea into another part of the work.
87 selected posts · 2020–2025 · Connections by topic and project are editorial. Read the collected threads →
Find a thought
16 postsEditorial topic: Medium
2/ Pick a format Use creative constraint to make it easier to produce consistently and be consistently recognized. @visualizevalue assets are black and white vector depictions of high-leverage ideas. To go back to the fi…
Explore connections →what began as black and white compositions explaining value mechanics evolved into blockchain projects using those same mechanics as their medium. pieces about consensus, immutability, and network effects became pieces p…
Explore connections →with the final auction now up and running for Latent ( I'll write up a few disparate/post-rational thoughts on the collection to try and cover the bits missed in the more polished write-ups, share a few dots that connect…
Explore connections →the first and most obvious is the concept of latent space as an all consuming conceptual rabbit hole the root of this idea/execution is to make obvious the massive overlap between mechanical photography and images genera…
Explore connections →one of the biggest reflections, in the same way you leave your house with a camera and don't know what you'll end up having the opportunity to photograph - the neural network as a medium can function like this but with a…
Explore connections →first one, "prompting the environment" is to do with the broad assumption that working with a neural network to generate images is about describing exactly what you want it to do, which is how I interfaced with it origin…
Explore connections →the final 80 pieces in the collection are derived from around 8,000 outputs, 1% or so making the cut there are also dozens of visually disparate pieces born from the same prompt - an inversion of the assumption I started…
Explore connections →and in hindsight, a prompt is really describing the parameters of a dream, tapping into a subconscious mind much vaster than my own the best way to describe the process is something like "exporting frames" from a dream,…
Explore connections →one point I don't think I mentioned anywhere else, is that I tried to explain the concept to an LLM in parallel, then set some parameters for naming the works, then let it go to work 80% or so of the works it got first t…
Explore connections →there were multiple instances in conversations that I had in person that felt like a genuine epiphany had occurred when making this comparison the visual treatment of the digital piece (white on black) is a choice made t…
Explore connections →@visualizevalue and the work following that, attempts to involve the network itself in shaping the artwork latent nods back with both its edition size (80 checks) and persistent composition (outputs loosely conform to th…
Explore connections →@visualizevalue @martin_klipp @CirrusGallery as true to the process as physically possible without having a physical negative as input, printed on Silver Gelatin via a chemical process traditionally used in black and whi…
Explore connections →