Blind Visionscapes: Making an AI Model with Handmade Datasets at SFPC

I went into Handmade Datasets wanting to build an image-description generator and wound up trying to train a machine to hallucinate blind visionscapes. Handmade Datasets My increasing reliance on AI for my ongoing photography project made me curious to know more. I guest-lectured at the School for Poetic Computation years ago, and I’d been thinking that if I were to… Read more

Nietzsche and His Pain Named Dog, #52essays2017

“I have given a name to my pain and call it “dog.” It is just as faithful, just as obtrusive and shameless, just as entertaining, just as clever as any other dog–and I can scold it and vent my bad mood on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.” -Nietzsche, The Gay Science. I first heard this… Read more