December 20ths (Virtual Immortality)

12/20/1997

Interesting interview with Harvard intelligence researcher Howard Gardner. He says that it’s time that prevents us from being adept at many things. If we had forever, then we could develop these areas.... 

[12/20/2024: AI will provide a “virtual immortality” (VI). Machine learning is essentially “fixing mistakes”.] This “VI” can also be seen as an extension of imagination, where machines are “imagining” and we will have essentially taken the magic and mystery out of it.]

12/20/2010   

Article on salon.com: “How America will collapse (by 2025)”. Judging by the rancor in Washington I could see how we could make this prediction.

12/20/2012

The eve of the end of the world by the Mayan calendar. It is a reminder that singular events...

12/20/2019

Warhol show at Art Institute. It’s interesting to watch the crowds react. You can tell the people that perhaps it is their first time seeing Warhols on a wall. I’m always amazed at the work ethic and the sheer size of some of the pieces. Loved seeing Tunafish Disaster live—all of the silks in fact.

It just feels right to take photos of TVs showing Warhol videos because it’s a new technology (my camera) capturing what Warhol was using as new technology. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/20/2023

A new Dynaxiom that came to me on a walk the other day is, “If you’re going to make art, it might as well be arty”. I dictated it into an email and was transcribed it as “BRD” instead of “be arty”. This gave me the idea of making some text art that would just be the letters BRD.