Artist and Machine Intelligence researcher K Allado-McDowell discusses the history of immersive media design in the 20th century. Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/Eu3ygZh8pY8?si=mt0mPB8sQ6QBdnuE How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Neural Media — […]

Artist and Machine Intelligence researcher K Allado-McDowell explains how neural networks embed information, and how they can be used to produce images with thought-provoking implications for our own intelligence. Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/Eu3ygZh8pY8?si=mt0mPB8sQ6QBdnuE How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating

How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Neural Media — their term for an emerging set of creative forms that use artificial neural networks inspired by the connective design of the human brain.

Actor and Afrofuturist Ahmed Best shares a story from his life about the power of vulnerability and collective storytelling. From Ahmed Best’s Long Now Talk: Feel the Future: Ahmed Best | Feel The Future | Long Now Talks Over the past quarter-century, Best – first as an actor, musician, and performer, and later as an

Actor and Afrofuturist Ahmed Best answers a question from Stanford d.school Futurist-in-Residence Lisa Kay Solomon on his vision for 02050. From Ahmed Best’s Long Now Talk: Feel the Future: Ahmed Best | Feel The Future | Long Now Talks Over the past quarter-century, Best – first as an actor, musician, and performer, and later as

Over the past quarter-century, Best — first as an actor, musician, and performer, and later as an Afrofuturist scholar and lecturer — has worked to answer that question. Drawing on his experiences as a cast member on the award-winning percussion performance Stomp, as Jar-Jar Binks, the ground-breaking first major CGI character actor in Star Wars:

Philosopher of Science and Technology Benjamin Bratton considers the implications of the first direct images of a black hole in the context of our planetary regime of sensing technology and cognition. From Benjamin Bratton’s Long Now Talk: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: Benjamin Bratton | A Philosophy of Planetary Computation | Long Now Talks We