Reading Berys Gauts essay «The Philosophy of Creativity" (2010) while listening to Gangstagrass — a music collective that combines, well, blugrass with rap... Wondering whether this music is an example of combinatorial creativity or transformational creativity (ref. Boden) or something else entirely.
Did they discover this musical mashup, or did them bring it into existence from nothing?
More and more I find myself in disagreement with the emphasis on the *product* of creati…
What does money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864
Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against
This month, the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW) 2025 brought together performing artists, technologists, educators, and students from around the world.
A joint initiative of GÉANT and Internet2, NPAPW25 explored what happens when creativity meets advanced networks.
From history of network-enabled performances to MVTP uses cases, and the distributed concert linking New York & Miami, it was a success.
🔗 Read the full recap by Domenico Vicinanza:
It's been a while since I last posted to my "Thinking out loud" series on #FineArtsPedagogy. Right now, I've been delving into the nature of creativity, which brings together both my work at The Norwegian Film School and the emerging work at MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity.
I have been troubled by understandings of creativity that emphasize product and …
If Tim Cook had any shred of creativity or fun they’d ship a 50th Anniversary Apple II Ultimate this or next year.
Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated "commercially safe" images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/adobe-firefly-foundry-ai-caa-wme-1236692649/…
Fire TV: Amazon sperrt künftig Piraterie-Apps
Auf Fire-TV-Geräten per Sideloading installierte Piraterie-Apps werden anhand einer Blacklist der Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment unbenutzbar gemacht.
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Helping to judge high school #chemistry projects today! Groups carried out metathesis reactions to create the best nontoxic nail polish. They presented marketing materials for mock companies in addition to explaining the scientific basis. Enjoyed the creativity.
The kids are all right! ⚗️ 🧪 💅
I used to work in an industry that was very interesting to me, and involved a lot of creativity, but as time went on and the company I was at changed I felt I no longer fit there, doing the sort of work they were pursuing with the people who ran things, so I found a way out.
That "way out" caused me a lot of pain and heartache, and set me back financially for a decade, but I'm still glad I got out because I cannot imagine what life would have been for me if I just stayed.…
It’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/why-trillions-dollars-risk-no-guarantee-ai-reward
Jackery is making solar power actually beautiful. At CES, they unveiled solar roof tiles, a home battery system, and even a Solar Gazebo with 2 kW of panels that generates 10 kWh daily.
The gazebo runs $12-15K and pairs with battery storage for backup power. It's not utility-scale, but it's the kind of creative design that could make clean energy irresistible to everyday consumers.
The link leads to a video. Generally speaking I prefer to read rather than watch - but this is an exception
"While the early web promised connection and creativity, today’s internet is increasingly fragmented, paywalled, and dominated by a few powerful platforms.
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free”
Call for Participation Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, March 28, 2026
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The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI
Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-reid-hoffman/
Simply not compatible with their optimisation function
This loop explains well why commercial algorithms are incompatible with creativity.
"According to this employee, Spotify leadership didn’t see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, “the vast majority of music listeners, they’re not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day.”
Simply providing a soundtrack to your d…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- New Music New York
Against a backdrop of financial crisis and disinvestment in New York City, New Music was born. Writer Richard King explores the conditions for creativity in New York in the 1970s.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pfv4
AI does one thing for me: it reminds me why I prize creativity, why I try to make new things (or just my own, sometimes feeble, replicas of existing stuff), and how important this sort of work is to society and to our individual sanity.
The Application of Imagination: Where Thought Becomes Matter
Imagination without application remains a private theater, brilliant perhaps, but ultimately sterile. The history of human achievement suggests that genius resides not in the capacity to imagine alone, but in the peculiar ability to transform mental constructs into material reality. This transformation requires something more demanding than pure creativity: it requires the discipline to translate vision into…
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Well this is just a crazy wordle day. I start off with just typing the 1st 5 letter word that pops into my head, which when I looked at I had to wonder what I was thinking (obviously not). Then I get into 2 letter hell, but my 4th guess is the answer.
I'm just taking the win 🙂
Bot also wondered what I was thinking. It said: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity."
The more I delve into my research on #ArtsPedagogy and creativity, the more I am convinced of the accuracy of the quote in the screenshot here: in order to understand creativity, we have to realize it’s first and foremost a process. The so-called standard definition of creativity relies on judging it by whether or not the output / result is novel, valuable, and (according to Margaret Boden)…
I'm passing this survey about names for the co-op to some friends... and every time they face a non-English sounding name... they all say this same phrase (with small variations):
> It doesn't sound **international** enough / at all.
Honestly... I find it quite sad. I know ultimately it doesn't matter what I think personally, we still need a good & catchy name (it's not in our hands to make people think differently)...
Anyway, I believe UK & American #imperialism have fucked our brains and removed so much creativity & freedom from our minds...
Note: this issue is disconnected from the specific names of our survey. I've seen it too with names of very successful projects (but unknown to the people I was talking to); for example with "Kubernetes".
#naming #branding
We don't decorate much for halloween, but I appreciate other people's creativity.
Moody Urbanity - Old & New VI 🔆
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📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Crip Culture
Celebrates disability arts, culture and creativity...
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5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 2
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…
This one ended up being quite long… In my continuing #ThinkingOutLoud series during my #ArtsPedagogy research semester, I return to #creativity and work though some more takes on it befo…
5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 1
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…
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