Matthias Ring
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Algorithms & apparatuses, magic & meanness. Even when you’ve figured out the mechanism, the tricks still work.
Curated link list of digital tools for creative coding and generative design. The spectrum ranges from experimental open-source projects and custom scripts to essential utilities that shape digital and analog workflows — continuously expanding creative boundaries. www.slanted.de/news/digital...
January 1976, Mallorca: A 14-meter fin #whale washes ashore at Colònia de Sant Pere. What follows: bureaucratic wrangling, chainsaws, explosives, and sticky ash on wardrobes. "The monster vanished, leaving only a black mark on the ground." en: riowang.studiolum.com/2025/12/sea-...
Inspired by an anti-Nazi leaflet created by Cahun / Moore, i make a adaptation of their theme. Text versions are based on last stanza of Heine's poem “Die Loreley.” However, instead the siren song, it is hollow political rhetoric (→ slop) that could also cause a catastrophe in our time—potentially.
Inspired by an old classic book from Simon Lovell about the secret craft of cheats and hustlers …
In this fictional trailer, Roger Penrose invites his students to share first steps: sketches, models, fragile experiments. “Prospective Naiveté” resists rigid knowledge and avoids the trap of professionalism, trusting mistakes, setbacks and detours as a productive misunderstanding. #AI
« On continue à jouer – mais personne ne sait pourquoi ça a commencé. » found in a mock archive - #ai
1976, a group of young architecture students gathered in Jericho, Oxford. They were invited to build the impossible. They held models that could not exist, in front of buildings that could not lie. What they built was not a house, but a question in the shape of a home. found in a mock archive - #ai
As a skilled children's book illustrator, your task is to create a hand-drawn tutorial for making animal shadow puppets. The position of your hand should correspond directly to the shape of the shadow, making it look as if it were lit from below.
We grow by creating things through trial and error. AI-coding tools skip this process: Trae, Cursor, Windsurf, Bolt, Lovable, GitHub, ChatGPT, Claude, Cognition AI, Poolside AI, Replit, Tabnine, Diffblue. Fake film poster inspired by Jason Santa Maria's thoughts. jasonsantamaria.com/blog/large-l...
Four monologues about how easy it is to become relics. (This is what the end of MAGA looks like.)
The Monument to the Third Term. (This is what the end of MAGA looks like.)
80,000 people in Hamburg, February 1, 2025 – stabil (German for 'standing strong together') against fascism! United against the alliance between conservatives and the far-right AfD in the German Bundestag. ✊ #NoToFascism #Hamburg
Spirit Photography and #AI -- Spirit photography from the late 19th century onwards aimed to show the materialisation of apparitions as "proof" of contact with spirits. This was key for photographers and mediums to justify their work, often under scrutiny due to frequent accusations of fraud.
In response, Domestic Data Streamers generated a description, which prompted an old photograph of a mother and a daughter on a balcony in Barcelona. But it was not until Carmen saw a blurry, glitch version of this scene that she could really recognise what was before her as triggering the memory.
The flaws in AI become a signature (or can be enforced by AI). "Disconnected Shadows: Fragments of an Unmoored Self"
Anti-Nazi leaflets of Cahun and Moore caught my attention. I made a new collage on this theme in our time. PDF: www.jerseyheritage.org/media/PDF-He... I believe the waves will take Both sailor and boat below. And with his mighty roaring, The MAGA man caused this woe. #Collage #USElection2024
DON'T-- After reading @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social article in The Guardian, I put together three digital cut-out collages using some of her text ideas. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...