MEMORA8ILIA
a filing cahinet for 8sided.blog
Above, via The New York Times, is a photo of Tau Lewis’s “Vena Cava” on display at the 59th International Venice Biennale Arte.
Below, a fantastic video tour of the Biennale:
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/30/above-via-the-new-york-times-is-a-photo-of-tau/
❝ This is ESP_073055_1675 from HiRISE camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Frame height is approximately 1km taken from an orbit height of 250km. Source was denoised, blended, graded, rescaled & animated to create the footage. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/29/this-is-esp0730551675-from-hirise-camera/
❝ [The two producers] looked for thematic connections within their individual practices that might match Kamaru’s meditative soundscapes with Désiré’s crumbling cyberpunk expressionism, and surprisingly for two artists renowned for their grasp of minimalism, it was the opposite that drew their attention. Watching the world shift as it reacted to the spiraling pandemic, Kamaru and Désiré were moved to experiment with volume, physicality, and intense emotionality. ❞ *
This thing gets nuts and in the best possible way.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/29/kmru-aho-ssan-resurgence-edit-the-two/
I can’t get enough of this cover version of Black Flag’s “Rise Above” from the French duo Ibeyi. It’s as perfect for 2022 as the original was for 1981. The predictably angry reactions peppering the song’s YouTube comments section miss the point entirely — the fed-up spirit of punk rock is for everyone, no matter the race, nationality, or musical genre.
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/29/ibeyi-feat-berwyn-rise-above-i-cant-get/
The best and truest discourse regarding Twitter’s predicament (and that of its users) expresses the sentiment of just letting it go. This is a hopeful stance so don’t misconstrue it with surrender or giving up. Folks obsessed with fixing, preserving, or even finding an equal replacement for Twitter are embracing a defective template. Like arguing with Spotify to change its ways, a focus on what’s clearly an unsolvable problem distracts us from creating ‘first-principles’ alternatives (to cheekily steal a phrase often attibuted to EM). Rip it up and start again.
Some people need to lighten up. It’s Twitter!
❝ I’ve seen arguments on Twitter from liberal users this week saying things like, “Twitter is a public square and the front page of the internet, we must stay and fight the Musk fans and conservatives for it.” lol with all due respect, but why? The main benefit of the internet is that it’s infinite. There doesn’t need to be a public square! And there can also be many! […] Twitter, though smaller than other platforms, still monopolizes our culture more than any other. And very soon it will be owned by the richest man on Earth… But we don’t need to stay there. There’s nothing keeping us there. And I’d argue we can take it further. We now know that centralized feeds are just easy targets for despots and oligarchs (and whatever Mark Zuckerberg is) to capture and control. We need to throw it all out. Make websites and message boards and Discords and become ungovernable. Kill the central feed. ❞ *
❝ There are so many ways people might relate to one another online, so many ways exchange and conviviality might be organized. Look at these screens, this wash of pixels, the liquid potential! What a colossal bummer that Twitter eked out a local maximum; that its network effect still (!) consumes the fuel for other possibilities, other explorations. ❞ *
https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/29/some-people-need-to-lighten-up-its-twitter/