NickKauf
@nickkauf
XR Cities, Music, UrbanTech, CivicTech, Experiential/immersive media. NYC + Maine. Charitable Mechanic. Founding fellow, Temporary Institute
Tomorrow: closing roundtable of Alexey Yurenev's AI Photography / Film installation Seeing Against Seeing ft. a conversation between the artist and fragrance artist / MIT lecturer / realnose.ai chief science officer Andreas Mershin. 19 bishop allen dr #Cambridge #MA Instagram: @temporaryinstitute
Left: Erin Brockovich data center map Right: SAGE air defense radar map (influenced early development of computer to computer networks)
Every day, invisible systems make decisions about our cities, our data, and our lives, without us ever seeing how. If we can't see them, how can we trust them?
We will be creating live AR scenarios for the streetcorner next to SVA from the ideas in the workshop
Here at #Makeshift26 where were hosting a workshop plenary: Surface Tensions: Threatcasting the Augmented City
A gallery with two projected videos on opposite walls and a book on an iron pedestal with a light in the middle of the room. The exhibit is Seeing Against Seeing by Alexey Yurenev, opening friday may 15 @ 6pm @ 19 bishop allen dr Cambridge MA. Free
#Boston #Cambridge Seeing Against Seeing Alexey Yurenev May 15 – June 5, 2026 Opening + Artist Talk: May 15, 6PM Roundtable with Andreas Mershin: June 5 7PM
Maybe a delve into Notch the crewtor of minecraft getting positively addicted to factorio-- a (satirical?) game about strip-mining a planet
I did feel at times like it lingered too much on cringe clips of elon / altman when there were other stories to tell. More of cybernetics history from an east asian perspective to be told. And more gutting examples of AI slavery tropes like the claude whip or elons robots.
Finally got to see @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social tonight in NYC. Very glad to see a treatment of AI that acknowledges how badly it actually functions first of all, and the logic or lack there of for its use. I do want to see what @kevinbaker.bsky.social has to say about it from a "killchain" pov
Instantly sold out-- despite being non transferrable seems like some bot or agent activity
Here's a real treat for Scientists, Artists, or Artist-Scientists: We ran into Tjasa Ferme at SXSW, whose work with Transforma Theatre, an NYC based non-profit, aims to pioneer a new form of theatrical expression.