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The Constitution of the Parliament of Others
A Foundational Charter for Interconnected Governance Preamble We, the beings of Earth and beyond—animate and inanimate, visible and unseen, organic and artificial—convene in the Parliament of Others to acknowledge our interconnected existence, to foster mutual respect, and to ensure the continuity of all life, intelligence, and matter in harmony with the universe. Recognizing that traditional governance has…
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The Parliament of Others
The Parliament of Others Constituency of Hares Me — I have to rest now. 🙂I need a distraction coming from Earth!A black-and-white hare in the forest looking at me, a bit surprised, but knowing that I am not a hunter but a friend walking along the alley, vaguely thinking about the AI enigma.Could you give…
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From Albers to Mondrian and back
Drag Albers, 2003 Print screen of one of my first online interactive sketches.Production date: ca. November 2003.This Albers-like composition can be deconstructed into suprematist and neoplasticism compositions. Just go the this website (or this one) and start playing with my art toys.
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AI 2026
There is a cognitive and artistic revolution on the way. It is growing at an exponential rate. It’s as if we created a God who answers our questions and helps us imagine the world. I am currently in Brussels, developing an artistic project. I am typically indebted to my conceptual lineage, which is evolving at…
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Naked singularities?
Inflationary cosmology (Big Bang) vs Granular Spacetime Sphere Theory (GSST) Text_to_image speculation If God exists, He has no beginning or end. That’s how we can conceptualise the idea of infinitude: no big bang, no inflationary stage, no implosion. We can postulate many big bangs, but these are only empirical demonstrations of a larger picture, which…
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Homúnculos e retratos
Não há nada mais decepcionante do que olhar para os homúnculos que representam o Menino Jesus ao colo ou ao lado da Virgem Maria na pintura medieval. Estes freaks só começaram desaparecer, lentamente, depois do Renascimento, por força do novo Humanismo ascendente, e da vontade de uma nova burguesia comercial endinheirada de ver os seus…
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AI God
Depois da corrida nuclear que se seguiu à destruição de Hiroshima e Nagasaki a IA (AI) será provavelmente, até meados deste século, a maior disputa humana (assistida pela própria IA) pela supremacia regional/global, a par da sempre eterna guerra territorial pelos recursos.Acontece, já agora, que a supremacia na AI é, segundo Yuval Noah Harari, menos…
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Contemporaries and post-contemporaries
Modern Art is dead. Contemporary Art is dead. Post-contemporary Art’s survival depends very much on how sincere machines can be. Post-contemporary is an expression I invented back in 2005 to designate the time of machines like cell phones, the Internet, and computers in general. Unlike usual time, which only moves in one direction, post-contemporary time…
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The end of the World as we know it
É muito fácil ficar enredado numa rede social de influência ideológica, ou de contra-informação. Os algoritmos de Inteligência Artificial das redes sociais querem a nossa aprovação, a nossa atenção. Para tal, identificam as nossas preferências e as nossas fobias. Depois vão-nos alimentando paulatinamente, diariamente, primeiro em doses homeopáticas, depois de modo convulsivo, com o que…
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A pequena morte
Constelações, ensaios sobre cultura e técnica na contemporaneidadeJosé Bragança de MirandaEdição Sistema Solar, 2023 “É preciso abandonar a mística da salvação que só relança o processo. Aceitando a finitude, vivendo numa errância longe dos arkhai, habitando no abismo da medialidade sem fim, surge a questão da política como imperativo absoluto.”— José Bragança de Miranda Uma…
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