February 7ths
2/7/1998
Book: Slaves of the Machine by Greg Rawlins. Enjoyable about the evolution of computers. I believe that this evolution will eventually bring us to a place where computers will actually evolve on their own if we let them. I like the idea that computers “learn” as humans do. It makes sense that software should be intuitive and smaller in scale, rather than having a huge program that does everything. It’s better to have lots of smaller programs that compute by consensus.
[2/7/2025: This essentially describes the evolution of computing and networking over the past quarter century to where we are with AI. It’s always been the wish. Wishes that involve technology usually will go off the rails because they evolve too quickly with no friction and obviously compromises democracy].
The Slaves riff/seed:
2/7/2010
The studio is largely a state of mind, especially from the standpoint of art emanating from ideas. My most productive period was when I lived in a small studio apartment, as everything was at arms length and not out of my state of mind. Studios are only relevant to the equation if the space itself or tools within it are required to reach the artists’ creative goals. In music sometimes the studio equipment (the board, mics, unique instruments, effects, and sometimes the room itself) is elemental to the sound of the music.
2/7/2017
An Ellsworth Kelly, courtyard, Art Institute: Unparalleled as successfully minimal with the purest of intentions. I recall him saying in a lecture that this shape was inspired by the capsule window on the Apollo 11 mission.
2/7/2010
The studio is largely a state of mind, especially from the standpoint of art emanating from ideas. My most productive period was when I lived in a small studio apartment, as everything was at arms length and not out of my state of mind. Studios are only relevant to the equation if the space itself or tools within it are required to reach the artists’ creative goals. In music sometimes the studio equipment (the board, mics, unique instruments, effects, and sometimes the room itself) is elemental to the sound of the music.
2/7/2024
2/7/2025
2/7/2048, Friday
(Anthony Townes Diary)
Managed to get back to going to Club Xene with Ox. The combination of my memories starting to come back and memory erasure treatments have helped to re-frame them, and takes the sting out of them.
Worked in studio on a piece tentatively titled "Marsterra", playing with the idea of Mars terraforming and embedding "land art" within it.
Ideas: "Artificial Trees" as an abstract idea done as 1980s-era neo-geo and serpentine rock. (Serpentine has a long history of use as an architectural stone); Self-driving sculpture.
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