• "In making this list, Sterling privileges the visible objects of New Aesthetics over the invisible and algorithmic ones. New Aesthetics is not simply an aesthetic fetish of the texture of these images, but an inquiry into the objects that make them. It’s an attempt to imagine the inner lives of the native objects of the 21st century and to visualize how they imagine us." I'm never quite convinced by the Creators Project, and their introduction to this feels a bit woolly, but the interviews are all very good. This quotation, from Greg Borenstein, is excellent.
    (tags: newaesthetic computervision machines design )

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  • Blaine | 8 Apr 2012

    I totally don’t buy that. One of the main points of Sterling’s essay, and my long-standing annoyance with the NA, is that these machines *don’t* imagine us.

    You know as well as anyone that Markov “bots” are trivial software, barely 50 lines of code in the medium-complex case. There’s no intelligence there, there’s no imagination.

    The “life” of markov bots comes from us, and by looking at the machines, NA completely misses the point.