KODA

I just fell through a Trapdoor, and I must say I won’t be coming back for a long time. A “Sketchbook for a group of programmers, graphic designers, psychologists, writers” — quite simply, this one of the most astounding groups of projects I have seen in a long time. There’s kiwi, “the wiki for sketching,” an editable (unfortunately shockwave driven) world of imagery in the style of MS-Paint… NodeBox, a fascinating bit of image generation on OSX using Python…

But by far most intriguing to me is Replica, a scarcely explained collection of full articles pertaining to art, design, computers, machine learning, consciousness, philosophy — the good stuff. And boy, is it good. I am amazed by “On artificial creativity”, where computer-generated art, words, artificial intelligence, and the internet meet. This is very interesting stuff, both artistically and conceptually. To me this seems to be the closest thing I’ve seen to a synthesis of modern philosophy, technology, art, and psychology. I am so impressed and inspired.

Oh, why are there such incredible people here on the internet?