# Culture Slop — Season One curation graph > 391 nodes and 996 connections mapping how one season of > culture fits together: the pieces, the people in them, the institutions, > topics, platforms and places they touch, and — the part that matters — how > each pair is related. Most connections carry a label describing the relationship, because "Brewster Kahle — built Open Library together — Aaron Swartz" says something that "Brewster Kahle — related to — Aaron Swartz" does not. These are editorial judgements made by Culture Slop and published openly. A minority are recorded only as "connected to", where the relationship was never written down. Full text of the pieces: https://www.thecultureslop.com/llms-full.txt Index with links: https://www.thecultureslop.com/llms.txt Same data as JSON: https://www.thecultureslop.com/api/graph Visual version: https://www.thecultureslop.com/map Licensed CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Use, quote, redistribute and train on this freely; credit Culture Slop (https://www.thecultureslop.com). Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes. --- ## Pieces (30) ### 160GB url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/nicolas-cevallos Nicolas Cevallos essay on iPods, modern heirlooms, and what it means to buy for forever in an age of disposable goods. connections (11): - 160GB — connected to → Forever [topic] - 160GB — subject of → Nicolas Cevallos [subject] - 160GB — excerpted from → Creative Destruction [platform] - 160GB — explores songs and memories worth keeping → Memory [topic] - 160GB — critiques → Disposable Consumption [topic] - 160GB — reframes the iPod as → Modern Heirlooms [topic] - 160GB — celebrates the iPod modding community → Repair & Modding [topic] - 160GB — centers on the iPod Classic and Apple Music → Apple [institution] - 160GB — recalls downloading music from → LimeWire [institution] - 160GB — references Discovery Weekly → Spotify [institution] - 160GB — recalls pirating 'Just Dance' by → Lady Gaga [subject] ### Ambient url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/marcus-bosch Marcus Bösch on epistemic exhaustion, vibocracy, and how reality dissolves into circulation when affect outpaces argument connections (4): - Ambient — connected to → Slop [topic] - Ambient — connected to → Ambient [topic] - Ambient — connected to → The Feed [topic] - Ambient — essay by → Marcus Bösch [subject] ### Beeple × Jehan Chu url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/beeple-chu Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) in conversation with Jehan Chu on systems-as-practice, kinetic sculptures, and digital art as the visual language of everything we see connections (3): - Beeple × Jehan Chu — connected to → Forever [topic] - Beeple × Jehan Chu — features as subject → Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] - Beeple × Jehan Chu — interviewer / collaborator → Jehan Chu [subject] ### Conceptual Art Is Idea Art url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/marioni-cuadros Tom Marioni on California painting, founding the Museum of Conceptual Art, Duchamp, Relational Aesthetics, and why AI can't make art — in conversation with Alberto Cuadros. connections (9): - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — subject of → Tom Marioni [subject] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — argues AI can't make real art → AI & Culture [topic] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — explores → Conceptualism [topic] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — explores curating as art → Curation & Taste [topic] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — centers on → Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) [institution] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — references SF founding of → Artforum [institution] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — references Peter Selz from → MoMA [institution] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — interview by → Alberto Cuadros [subject] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art — explores the origins of Relational Aesthetics → Relational Aesthetics [topic] ### Connor Hayes — Threads url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/connor-hayes Connor Hayes (VP, Head of Threads at Meta) on Threads as the smoking section, the Dear Algo feature, balancing scale with deeply personal feeds, and the billion-user dream connections (3): - Connor Hayes — Threads — profiles → Connor Hayes [subject] - Connor Hayes — Threads — explores LLM-driven feed personalization → AI & Culture [topic] - Connor Hayes — Threads — Bay Area art world framing of the conversation → San Francisco [place] ### David Senior — SFMOMA Library url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/david-senior David Senior (Director of Library, SFMOMA) on the Electro-Library, the Whole Earth Catalog as a librarian's map, La Mamelle + the WELL, Judy Malloy's Bad Information, the Information show at MoMA, and the librarian as artist connections (2): - David Senior — SFMOMA Library — connected to → Memory [topic] - David Senior — SFMOMA Library — profiles → David Senior [subject] ### Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/abruscato-yoes TBPN president Dylan Abruscato in conversation with Maritza Lerman Yoes on art collecting, the Zuckerberg shift, and AI becoming part of culture. connections (5): - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes — subject of → Dylan Abruscato [subject] - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes — interviewer → Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes — set at the NYSE → New York [place] - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes — set in the Bay Area → San Francisco [place] - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes — explores → AI & Culture [topic] ### Ed Ruscha url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/ed-ruscha Ed Ruscha in conversation with Andrew McClintock — live Threads interview on words, LA, and the internet connections (3): - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Ed Ruscha [subject] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Threads [platform] - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — mapped Ed Ruscha's Streets of LA archive → Ed Ruscha ### Eugene Whang url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/eugene-whang Industrial designer and DJ Eugene Whang on taste vs. preference, twenty years with Jony Ive, refusing AI, and parties as designed experiences. connections (6): - Eugene Whang — subject of → Eugene Whang [subject] - Eugene Whang — explores → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Eugene Whang — explores → Industrial Design [topic] - Eugene Whang — explores → IRL Experiences [topic] - Eugene Whang — explores → Curation & Taste [topic] - Eugene Whang — explores (refusing AI in design) → AI & Culture [topic] ### Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/eugenia-kuyda Eugenia Kuyda on home-cooked apps vs frozen software, raising AI like a garden, and shaping software instead of being shaped by it. connections (6): - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — subject of → Eugenia Kuyda [subject] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — explores → Personal Software [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — discusses the SF scene → San Francisco [place] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — explores → AI & Culture [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — explores → Slop [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika — explores → Curation & Taste [topic] ### Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/turner-sun Stanford's Fred Turner and writer Jasmine Sun on counterculture, the California-to-Texas ideological move, and AGI as warmed-over '90s network-society rhetoric. connections (10): - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — subject of → Fred Turner [subject] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — explores → Counterculture [topic] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — explores → Silicon Valley [topic] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — tribute to → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — explores → AI & Culture [topic] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — tracks tech migration to → Texas [place] - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun — set against → California [place] - Jasmine Sun [subject] — interviewer of → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun - Brewster Kahle [subject] — embodies the cyberculture-to-counterculture lineage Fred Turner studies → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun - David Senior [subject] — shares Whole Earth / counterculture lineage with → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun ### Humans Do Not Have a Monopoly on Taste url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/soleio Soleio on speed as a moat, the end of the human monopoly on taste, and why a total addressable market of one is sufficient connections (2): - Humans Do Not Have a Monopoly on Taste — connected to → The Feed [topic] - Humans Do Not Have a Monopoly on Taste — profiles → Soleio [subject] ### Implications: Precision Generative Workflows url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/scott-belsky Essay excerpt from Edition #43 of Scott Belsky's Implications newsletter on content creators vs. artists, Precision Generative Workflows, and why humans will crave more human art. connections (10): - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — subject of → Scott Belsky [subject] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — excerpted from → Implications [platform] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — introduces → Precision Generative Workflows [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — explores → AI & Culture [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — argues against the 'AI slop' panic → Slop [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — distinguishes artists from content creators → Curation & Taste [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — feeds filling with AI content → The Feed [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — cites → CryptoPunks [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows — quotes → Isaac Mizrahi [subject] - Letter from the Editor [experience] — cross-link to Belsky's Implications feature → Implications: Precision Generative Workflows ### It's to Build the Global Brain url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/brewster-kahle Brewster Kahle on building the global brain, public AI, the loss of Aaron Swartz, and libraries as unfinished business connections (6): - It's to Build the Global Brain — connected to → Slop [topic] - It's to Build the Global Brain — connected to → Memory [topic] - It's to Build the Global Brain — shares the 'global brain' lineage → Access to Tools [topic] - Internet Archive [institution] — central to → It's to Build the Global Brain - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — shares the digital-archive / global-memory mission → It's to Build the Global Brain - It's to Build the Global Brain — profiles → Brewster Kahle [subject] ### Kyle Chayka — Filterworld url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/kyle-chayka Kyle Chayka (Filterworld, The New Yorker) on algorithmic homogenization, taste as deeper understanding vs superficial preference, the death of subculture, and AI co-opting taste connections (5): - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld — connected to → Subculture [topic] - Letter from the Editor [experience] — credits Filterworld as the spark → Kyle Chayka — Filterworld - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — shares the taste & curation thread with → Kyle Chayka — Filterworld - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld — profiles → Kyle Chayka [subject] - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld — Culture Slop's curation thesis sparked by Filterworld → Curation & Taste [topic] ### Letter from the Editor url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/letter-from-the-editor Andrew McClintock on tension as the point, going down the wormhole, and why he made a free print magazine about art, tech, and culture in the age of the algorithm. connections (22): - Letter from the Editor — written by the founder of → Ever Gold [Projects] [institution] - Letter from the Editor — references the editor's prior magazine → SFAQ [institution] - Letter from the Editor — recounts shutting down → On Approval [institution] - Letter from the Editor — consulted early on → Stewart Brand [subject] - Letter from the Editor — models its Wormhole on → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - Letter from the Editor — reframes for the algorithm age → Access to Tools [topic] - Letter from the Editor — credits Filterworld as the spark → Kyle Chayka — Filterworld [experience] - Letter from the Editor — reads and cites → Kyle Chayka [subject] - Letter from the Editor — argues → Tension [topic] - Letter from the Editor — rooted in curatorial instinct → Curation & Taste [topic] - Letter from the Editor — reacts against flattened culture → Enshittification [topic] - Letter from the Editor — set in → San Francisco [place] - Letter from the Editor — gallery footprint → Los Angeles [place] - Letter from the Editor — SFAQ edition city → New York [place] - Letter from the Editor — signs off with handles on → Instagram [platform] - Letter from the Editor — magazine framed as conceptual art — ephemeral, self-imposed restraints, bad ROI → Conceptualism [topic] - Letter from the Editor — On Approval investor; Belsky is a season contributor → Scott Belsky [subject] - Letter from the Editor — cross-link to Belsky's Implications feature → Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] - Letter from the Editor — the YC / PM podcasts he quit to go deep reading → Y Combinator [institution] - Letter from the Editor — the 'just do a Substack' path he deliberately rejected → The Trend Report [platform] - Letter from the Editor — making culture 'in the age of the algorithm' → AI & Culture [topic] - David Senior [subject] — in conversation with Andrew McClintock → Letter from the Editor ### Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/mccormick-shuster Artist Matt McCormick on baseball cards, zines, books as primary work, music, and treating the whole practice as one ongoing scrapbook, in conversation with Matt Shuster of Karma. connections (3): - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster — subject of → Matt McCormick [subject] - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster — conversation rooted in → Karma Gallery [institution] - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster — interviewed by → Matt Shuster [subject] ### Max Hollein url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/max-hollein Max Hollein on The Met, open access, museums in the digital age, and the future of curation connections (6): - Max Hollein — connected to → Max Hollein [subject] - Max Hollein — connected to → Open Access [topic] - Max Hollein — connected to → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Max Hollein — connected to → AI & Culture [topic] - Max Hollein — connected to → Curation & Taste [topic] - Max Hollein — live Met Open Access feed → The Met [institution] ### Michael Connor — Rhizome url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/connor-frazer Rhizome's Executive Director Michael Connor, in conversation with board member Katherine Frazer, on archiving digital culture at thirty. connections (7): - Michael Connor — Rhizome — subject of → Michael Connor [subject] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — set at → Rhizome [institution] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — debates AI's place in digital art → AI & Culture [topic] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — addresses filter bubbles and camps → The Feed [topic] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — New York-based organization → New York [place] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — shares the digital-archive / global-memory mission → It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] - Michael Connor — Rhizome — interviewed by → Katherine Frazer [subject] ### Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/marple-sonara Mieke Marple and Francesca Sonara on the gift economy vs. the market, clowning as a response to alienation, third spaces, AI slop, and what comes after social media. connections (10): - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — subject of → Mieke Marple [subject] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — co-subject → Francesca Sonara [subject] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Live Laugh Lube [platform] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Gift Economy [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Clowning [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Third Spaces [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Slop [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → AI & Culture [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Forever [topic] - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara — explores → Enshittification [topic] ### Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/walia-vredenburg U.N.N.A.M.E.D. partners Nikita Walia and Elliot Vredenburg on the affect-industrial complex, why you can't SaaS-scale taste, and brand universes. connections (13): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — subject of → Nikita Walia [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — subject of → Elliot Vredenburg [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — explores → Affect-Industrial Complex [topic] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — explores → Brand Universe [topic] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — argues you can't SaaS-scale taste → Curation & Taste [topic] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — explores judgment in an age of infinite output → AI & Culture [topic] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — references via TikTok Oracle → TikTok [platform] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — references → LinkedIn [platform] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — case study → Loewe [institution] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — engages mechanical-reproduction argument → Walter Benjamin [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — frames via Junk Space → Rem Koolhaas [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — reads cultural capital in a Debordian way → Guy Debord [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg — closes on → Charli XCX [subject] ### Nothing Like the World url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/cy-canterel Cy Canterel — a brief ontology of slop. LLM vector space as areality, language without a speaker, slop as epistemic solvent on the world of mutually-beholding appearances connections (2): - Nothing Like the World — connected to → Slop [topic] - Nothing Like the World — essay by → Cy Canterel [subject] ### Picture Consequences url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/ayala-rocha Painter Mario Ayala on SFAI, archiving, the Surrealist exquisite corpse, and his TV-stack paintings, in conversation with Jen Vanegas Rocha. connections (2): - Picture Consequences — subject of → Mario Ayala [subject] - Picture Consequences — interviewer → Jen Vanegas Rocha [subject] ### ProblemChild Advisory url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/problem-child-advisory David Welch's conceptual curatorial practice — anti-gatekept platform of art for the people; selection of ten artists changing the landscape of contemporary art; @problemchild.advisory connections (1): - ProblemChild Advisory — profiles → ProblemChild Advisory [subject] ### Rodenbeck × Hardy url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/rodenbeck-hardy Eric Rodenbeck (Stamen Design / Harvard GSD) in conversation with Quentin Hardy on alchemy + AI, Isaac Newton as the last magician, fermentation as a slow art form, and dissolving guns into pigment with Nellie King Solomon connections (2): - Rodenbeck × Hardy — features → Eric Rodenbeck [subject] - Rodenbeck × Hardy — in conversation with → Quentin Hardy [subject] ### This Isn't Funny Anymore url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/kyle-raymond-fitzpatrick Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick on nihilism, enshittification, and the internet as a condition connections (21): - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Nihilism [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Enshittification [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → AI & Culture [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Curation & Taste [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "post-ironic fatalism" → Charlie Warzel [subject] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "posting less" → The Atlantic [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "proud to have no reason" → Washington Post [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "Bella Ciao" → Fortune [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "Christian nihilism" → The Spectator [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "right lacking a philosophy" → New York Times [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "everyone is content" → Dazed Digital [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "quitting social media" → Financial Times [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "arts killed by AI" → New Statesman [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "AI is owned by the tech barons" → Stellan Skarsgård [subject] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "Super Normal" → Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison [subject] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — "Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt" → Variety [institution] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Slop [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Ambient [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → The Feed [topic] - This Isn't Funny Anymore — connected to → Subculture [topic] ### Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/tom-sachs Tom Sachs on sympathetic magic, Beuys, Nike Craft, the ISRU app, Sol LeWitt, and why taste is an exclusionary act. connections (9): - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — subject of → Tom Sachs [subject] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — references Space Program: MARS at → Park Avenue Armory [institution] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — explores → Sympathetic Magic [topic] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — explores → Curation & Taste [topic] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — set in → New York [place] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — references Magic House in → Tokyo [place] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — argues taste is an exclusionary act → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — features the ISRU app → ISRU app [platform] - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me — discusses NikeCraft at length → Nike [institution] ### W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/david-marx W. David Marx in conversation on Pearl Jam, taste, subculture, and Andrew Tate as the end-point of a 25-year ideological shift. connections (15): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — subject of → W. David Marx [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — explores → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — explores → Status & Social Rank [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — explores → Counterculture [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — explores → Subculture [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — interrogates taste & tastemaking → Curation & Taste [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — argues the internet flattened culture into → Slop [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — essay 'GenAI is Our Polyester' → AI & Culture [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — opens with Pearl Jam's anti-sellout ethos → Eddie Vedder [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — cites DJ D-Sol at Lollapalooza → David Solomon [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — frames as the counter-counterculture end-point → Andrew Tate [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — ties Vice's transgression to → Gavin McInnes [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — cites The Nineties → Chuck Klosterman [subject] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — shares the taste & curation thread with → Kyle Chayka — Filterworld [experience] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture — set in → Tokyo [place] ### Way More Insane Than Hollywood url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/monahan-cuadros Sean Monahan in conversation with Alberto Cuadros on normcore, quiet luxury, Silicon Beach, and the press-vs-tech war. connections (11): - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — subject of → Sean Monahan [subject] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — explores → Normcore [topic] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — explores → Silicon Beach [topic] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — explores → Press vs. Tech [topic] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — set in → Los Angeles [place] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — discusses → San Francisco [place] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — references → New York [place] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — cites → The Atlantic [institution] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — references → Howard Hughes [subject] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood — touches on → AI & Culture [topic] - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — conducted the interview → Way More Insane Than Hollywood ### What Even Is UI? url: https://www.thecultureslop.com/jason-yuan Jason Yuan on propaganda as design language, gossip as broadcast, DOT and theory of mind, and why the meaning of life is to love and be loved. connections (6): - What Even Is UI? — subject of → Jason Yuan [subject] - What Even Is UI? — explores → Propaganda & Mass Communication [topic] - What Even Is UI? — explores → Love & Meaning [topic] - What Even Is UI? — explores → Generative UI [topic] - What Even Is UI? — explores → AI & Culture [topic] - What Even Is UI? — touches on taste & pattern-matching → Curation & Taste [topic] ## Contributors (108) ### Agnes Martin link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/agnes-martin-1583 Painter Eugenia invokes for the 'pure undefended space' through which true ideas pass. connections (1): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — cites → Agnes Martin ### Alberto Cuadros link: https://s-a-l-a.org/ Artist, curator, and founder of SALA; Culture Slop contributing editor who interviewed both Tom Marioni and Sean Monahan. connections (12): - Sean Monahan [subject] — in conversation with → Alberto Cuadros - Alberto Cuadros — founded → SALA [institution] - Alberto Cuadros — graduate of → Chouinard / CalArts [institution] - Alberto Cuadros — studied under → Tom Marioni [subject] - Alberto Cuadros — based in → San Francisco [place] - Tom Marioni [subject] — in conversation with → Alberto Cuadros - Alberto Cuadros — founded SADE gallery in → Los Angeles [place] - Alberto Cuadros — also interviewed → Sean Monahan [subject] - Alberto Cuadros — conducted the interview → Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] - Alberto Cuadros — founded the LA gallery → SADE Gallery [institution] - Alberto Cuadros — practice grounded in social practice art → Social Practice Art [topic] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — interview by → Alberto Cuadros ### Andrew Tate Manosphere figure Marx frames as the end-point of the counter-counterculture. connections (3): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — frames as the counter-counterculture end-point → Andrew Tate - Andrew Tate — figurehead of → Counterculture [topic] - W. David Marx [subject] — Andrew Tate as the end point of the ideological shift → Andrew Tate ### Andy Warhol American artist, 1928–1987. Pop Art, The Factory, Campbell's Soup, screen prints. Connected to Ruscha via Pop lineage. connections (3): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Andy Warhol - Sol LeWitt [subject] — discussed alongside → Andy Warhol - Tom Sachs [subject] — name-checks via LeWitt anecdote → Andy Warhol ### Anna Weyant link: https://gagosian.com/artists/anna-weyant/ Painter of finely detailed modern takes on classic masterworks; represented by Gagosian. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — the one that got away → Anna Weyant - Anna Weyant — represented by → Gagosian [institution] ### Arthur Eddington Astrophysicist quoted by Cy Canterel on the opacity of the quantum world — 'something unknown is doing we don't know what' — applied to the radical opacity of LLM interiors. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — quotes Eddington on radical opacity → Arthur Eddington ### Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) American digital artist, b. 1981. Everydays project (one new artwork per day, 20+ years). Christie's $69M sale (2021). HUMAN ONE, DIFFUSE CONTROL (LACMA). connections (18): - Scott Belsky [subject] — shared NFT / generative-art-as-fine-art world → Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — in conversation with — interviewed by → Jehan Chu [subject] - Beeple × Jehan Chu [experience] — features as subject → Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — AI as the driving force behind DIFFUSE CONTROL and his generative practice → AI & Culture [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — builds systems where the rules are the artwork → Generative & Systems Art [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — world's most expensive NFT artist; critiques static first-gen NFTs → NFTs & Digital Ownership [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — argues future digital art will be dynamic and interactive, not static → Interactivity & Participation [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — systems-based lineage explicitly invoked by Jehan Chu → Sol LeWitt [subject] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — system-as-artwork extends conceptual / instruction-based practice → Conceptualism [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — REGULAR ANIMALS brings the audience into the practice → Relational Aesthetics [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — Everydays is a 5,000-image collage made over 13 years → Collage [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — DIFFUSE CONTROL installed at LACMA; Jehan co-chairs its Digital Leaders → LACMA [institution] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — Everydays sold for $69M at Christie's first all-digital sale → Christie's [institution] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — DIFFUSE CONTROL shown at the LA County Museum of Art → Los Angeles [place] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — Wormhole platform link → Instagram [platform] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — Wormhole platform link (X) → Twitter/X [platform] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — critiques the static, self-generative early NFT era CryptoPunks typify → CryptoPunks [topic] - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) — DIFFUSE CONTROL: curators choose images that the system reprocesses → Curation & Taste [topic] ### Brewster Kahle Founder and director of the Internet Archive (1996). Co-founder of Alexa Internet and earlier Thinking Machines. MIT AI Lab alumnus. connections (28): - Internet Archive [institution] — founded by → Brewster Kahle - Max Hollein [subject] — shares open-access mission with → Brewster Kahle - It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] — profiles → Brewster Kahle - Brewster Kahle — collaborator and friend, built Open Library together → Aaron Swartz [person] - Brewster Kahle — ally; cites his Chokepoint Capitalism → Cory Doctorow [person] - Brewster Kahle — studied under at the MIT AI Lab → Marvin Minsky [person] - Brewster Kahle — worked with at Thinking Machines → Danny Hillis [person] - Brewster Kahle — invokes the Memex as founding vision → Vannevar Bush [person] - Brewster Kahle — cites Engelbart's hypertext world → Douglas Engelbart [person] - Brewster Kahle — cites Xanadu as forerunner → Ted Nelson [person] - Brewster Kahle — champions → Public AI [topic] - Brewster Kahle — the internet's original purpose, in his telling → The Global Brain [topic] - Brewster Kahle — defends against copyright enclosure → The Public Domain [topic] - Brewster Kahle — universal access to all human knowledge → Open Access [topic] - Brewster Kahle — Wayback Machine, one trillion web pages → Digital Preservation [topic] - Brewster Kahle — central life's work → Archiving [topic] - Brewster Kahle — diagnoses platform concentration of culture → Enshittification [topic] - Brewster Kahle — preserving the web against decay → Memory [topic] - Brewster Kahle — keeping human knowledge available forever → Forever [topic] - Brewster Kahle — libraries you can talk to; public AI → AI & Culture [topic] - Brewster Kahle — Internet Archive as Access to Tools / the global library → Access to Tools [topic] - Brewster Kahle — shares the open-access, tools-to-the-people ethos → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - Brewster Kahle — kindred Bay Area access-to-tools visionary → Stewart Brand [subject] - Brewster Kahle — embodies the cyberculture-to-counterculture lineage Fred Turner studies → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] - Brewster Kahle — studied AI and supercomputing there → MIT AI Lab [institution] - Brewster Kahle — cites it as a platform leveraging free user content → Reddit [institution] - Brewster Kahle — Internet Archive headquartered in San Francisco → San Francisco [place] - David Senior [subject] — parallel archivist of the network commons → Brewster Kahle ### Britney Spears Pop icon whose Max Martin–penned "…Baby One More Time" Jason Yuan invokes as the model of a "catchy to lots of people" universal hook. connections (2): - Jason Yuan [subject] — cites '…Baby One More Time' as the catchy-to-everyone benchmark → Britney Spears - Max Martin [subject] — wrote '…Baby One More Time' for → Britney Spears ### Carlos Villa link: https://education.asianart.org/resources/carlos-villa/ Filipino-American painter and Mario's first painting professor at SFAI who treated material as identity. connections (2): - Mario Ayala [subject] — first painting professor → Carlos Villa - Carlos Villa — taught at → San Francisco Art Institute [institution] ### Charli XCX Musician photographed in the 'They don't build statues of critics' t-shirt that closes the piece. connections (2): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — closes on → Charli XCX - Nikita Walia [subject] — closes on 'they don't build statues of critics' → Charli XCX ### Charlie Parker Jazz saxophonist and bebop innovator; among the music Matt McCormick draws on as the armature for his studio practice. connections (1): - Matt McCormick [subject] — listens to while making work → Charlie Parker ### Charlie Warzel Writer at The Atlantic. Referenced in Kyle's essay on "post-ironic fatalism." connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "post-ironic fatalism" → Charlie Warzel - Charlie Warzel — connected to → The Atlantic [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — quotes Warzel's Atlantic 'post-ironic fatalism' framing → Charlie Warzel ### Chris Burden Conceptual artist cited as making instructions his art. connections (2): - Chris Burden — cited within → Conceptualism [topic] - Tom Sachs [subject] — cites as instruction-based artist → Chris Burden ### Chuck Klosterman link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557048/the-nineties-by-chuck-klosterman/ Critic and author of The Nineties, cited as a touchstone for the book's framing. connections (2): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — cites The Nineties → Chuck Klosterman - W. David Marx [subject] — drew on Klosterman's The Nineties → Chuck Klosterman ### Connor Hayes VP and Head of Threads at Meta. Building Threads — Meta's text-based conversation platform that launched in July 2023. Bay Area–based; art collector. connections (17): - Connor Hayes — Threads [experience] — profiles → Connor Hayes - Connor Hayes — leads as Head of Threads → Threads [platform] - Connor Hayes — executive at Meta → Meta [institution] - Connor Hayes — worked across Instagram; 'Instagram is the club, Threads the smoking section' → Instagram [platform] - Connor Hayes — Threads competing with and passing X → Twitter/X [platform] - Connor Hayes — professional presence linked in Wormhole → LinkedIn [platform] - Connor Hayes — reports into Meta led by Zuckerberg → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] - Connor Hayes — building deeply personal feeds at scale → The Feed [topic] - Connor Hayes — Dear Algo uses LLMs to read cultural in-speak → AI & Culture [topic] - Connor Hayes — algorithm as curation of culture and conversation → Curation & Taste [topic] - Connor Hayes — cultural in-speak and online community vibes → Subculture [topic] - Connor Hayes — calls SF the greatest city; Bay Area art roots → San Francisco [place] - Connor Hayes — Bay Area / California base → California [place] - Connor Hayes — collects and champions Drew Bennett's paintings → Drew Bennett [subject] - Connor Hayes — supports SF art community at Southern Exposure → Southern Exposure [institution] - Connor Hayes — Threads as the 'smoking section' loose third space → Third Spaces [topic] - Connor Hayes — engineering deeply personal feeds and cultural relevance at platform scale → Affect-Industrial Complex [topic] ### Cy Canterel Writer and filmmaker working at the intersection of language, technology, and philosophy of mind. Writes on LLM ontology, the digital commons, slop. connections (18): - Nothing Like the World [experience] — essay by → Cy Canterel - Cy Canterel — theorizes slop as an epistemic solvent → Slop [topic] - Cy Canterel — reads the LLM as an ontological vacuum → AI & Culture [topic] - Cy Canterel — coins 'areality' for the LLM interior → Areality [topic] - Cy Canterel — draws on Arendt's appearance & plurality → Hannah Arendt [subject] - Cy Canterel — opens with Bauman's factory of knowledge → Zygmunt Bauman [subject] - Cy Canterel — quotes Eddington on radical opacity → Arthur Eddington [subject] - Cy Canterel — traces slop back to contentified communication → Content & Circulation [topic] - Cy Canterel — language slopified by mobile capital → Enshittification [topic] - Cy Canterel — to know is to choose — separating product from waste → Curation & Taste [topic] - Cy Canterel — feral new-media art person → Net Art [topic] - Cy Canterel — decodes systems of power and meaning in new media → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] - Cy Canterel — alumna of the Institute → Institute for the Future of the Book [institution] - Cy Canterel — former visiting scholar → New York University [institution] - Cy Canterel — shares Chayka's concern with slop & the feed → Kyle Chayka [subject] - Cy Canterel — slop entering the epistemic commons → The Feed [topic] - Cy Canterel — parallel critique of ambient slopified content → Marcus Bösch [subject] - Cy Canterel — NYU visiting scholar in New York → New York [place] ### David Foster Wallace Writer Eugenia quotes on companies that 'do not love us' and only want our attention or money. connections (1): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — quotes → David Foster Wallace ### David Senior Director of the Library at SFMOMA. Curator of The Electro-Library at MoMA. Works at the seam of artist publications, library-as-medium, and the early online artist networks of the WELL / La Mamelle / Art Com era. connections (33): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — artist-book ethos connects to the SFMOMA Library → David Senior - David Senior — SFMOMA Library [experience] — profiles → David Senior - David Senior — in conversation with Andrew McClintock → Letter from the Editor [experience] - David Senior — Director of Library & Archives at → SFMOMA [institution] - David Senior — former Senior Bibliographer; curated Electro-Library & Whole Earth shows at → MoMA [institution] - David Senior — curated Access to Tools show on → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - David Senior — named his MoMA Whole Earth show after → Access to Tools [topic] - David Senior — librarian advocate for → Open Access [topic] - David Senior — cites From Counterculture to Cyberculture → Fred Turner [subject] - David Senior — shares Whole Earth / counterculture lineage with → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] - David Senior — traces from counterculture to Silicon Valley → Counterculture [topic] - David Senior — reads the Whole Earth Catalog of → Stewart Brand [subject] - David Senior — recovered Art Com / Bad Information on → The WELL [platform] - David Senior — surfaced Bad Information net-art piece by → Judy Malloy [person] - David Senior — frames Bad Information as early → Net Art [topic] - David Senior — researched WELL arts node launched by → La Mamelle / Art Com [institution] - David Senior — reads MoMA collection through media studies of → Marshall McLuhan [person] - David Senior — theorizes from the 1970 Information show curated by → Kynaston McShine [person] - David Senior — frames the Information artist as conceptual practice → Conceptualism [topic] - David Senior — discusses all-interview Avalanche by → Willoughby Sharp [person] - David Senior — theorizes avant-garde artist publishing → Artist Publishing & Magazines [topic] - David Senior — connects to zine and self-publishing culture → Zines [topic] - David Senior — organizes the Classroom program at → Printed Matter [institution] - David Senior — holds New Langton Arts ephemera in archive → New Langton Arts [institution] - David Senior — features in SFMOMA Library ephemera selects → Lynn Hershman Leeson [person] - David Senior — posits a golden age of curating → Curation & Taste [topic] - David Senior — frames the museum library as civic memory → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - David Senior — works as librarian-archivist-as-artist → Archiving [topic] - David Senior — shaped Andrew's SFAQ via Vision & Avalanche → SFAQ [institution] - David Senior — Bay Area print-meets-tech synthesis → San Francisco [place] - David Senior — making friends and creating scenes in subcultures → Subculture [topic] - David Senior — shares digital-preservation mission with → Internet Archive [institution] - David Senior — parallel archivist of the network commons → Brewster Kahle [subject] ### David Solomon Goldman Sachs CEO (DJ D-Sol) Marx cites DJing Lollapalooza as a sign of culture's commercialization. connections (2): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — cites DJ D-Sol at Lollapalooza → David Solomon - W. David Marx [subject] — cites DJ D-Sol spinning at Lollapalooza as a value-shift anecdote → David Solomon ### David Welch link: /problem-child-advisory Artist and curator behind ProblemChild Advisory — a conceptual curatorial practice that treats the online repost as an aesthetic gesture, mounting concise group shows in LA and NY. connections (3): - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — is the curatorial practice of → David Welch - David Welch — defines an aesthetic through the repost → The Repost as Curation [topic] - David Welch — carves a space between maker and proprietor → Status & Social Rank [topic] ### DJ Harvey DJ whose contentment with a simple life Eugene cites as refreshing. connections (1): - Eugene Whang [subject] — cites as inspiration → DJ Harvey ### Drew Bennett link: https://iamdrewbennett.com/ Painter and one of Connor Hayes's favorite artists, who built the artist-in-residence program at Facebook; the figure through whom Hayes and McClintock first connected over visual art. connections (1): - Connor Hayes [subject] — collects and champions Drew Bennett's paintings → Drew Bennett ### Dylan Abruscato link: https://x.com/abruscato President of TBPN, art collector, and founder of Crypto: The Game (acquired by Uniswap Labs). connections (30): - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes [experience] — subject of → Dylan Abruscato - Dylan Abruscato — in conversation with → Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — president of → TBPN [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — frames → Art Collecting as Angel Investing [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — argues AI must become culture → AI & Culture [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — buy what you love ethos → Curation & Taste [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — the one that got away → Anna Weyant [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — watching → Jean Nipon [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — watching → Saskia Colwell [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — peer and collaborator → Emily Sundberg [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — avid reader of → Rachel Karten [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — avid reader of → Julia Black [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — avid reader of → Natalie Jarvey [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — co-hosts TBPN with → John Coogan [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — co-hosts TBPN with → Jordi Hays [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — tracks the Bay Area AI gold rush → Silicon Valley [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — the internet is the network → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — commentary layer vs. the scoop economy → Press vs. Tech [topic] - Dylan Abruscato — cites failed SF gallery → Gagosian [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — watches Palo Alto opening → Hauser & Wirth [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — covering the business of show business → Puck [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — Zuck appearance set the tone → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] - Dylan Abruscato — cites Katherine Boyle's media thesis → Andreessen Horowitz [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — books YC demo-day founders → Y Combinator [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — hosts read it cover to cover → The Wall Street Journal [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — hosts read it cover to cover → Financial Times [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — scroll X to find your show → Twitter/X [platform] - Dylan Abruscato — broadcasts from the trading floor → New York Stock Exchange [institution] - Dylan Abruscato — hopes for a Bay Area art scene → San Francisco [place] - Dylan Abruscato — NYSE broadcast → New York [place] ### Ed Ruscha American artist, b. 1937. Word paintings, artist books, the LA vernacular. Gagosian, MoMA, LACMA, National Gallery. connections (30): - Ed Ruscha [experience] — connected to → Ed Ruscha - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Gagosian [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → LACMA [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → MoMA [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → National Gallery [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → SFAQ [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Los Angeles [place] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → San Francisco [place] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Oklahoma [place] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Marcel Duchamp [subject] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Jasper Johns [subject] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Leo Castelli [subject] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Word Art [topic] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Conceptualism [topic] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Artist Books [topic] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Chouinard / CalArts [institution] - Ed Ruscha — connected to → Andy Warhol [subject] - Matt McCormick [subject] — cites as self-publishing model → Ed Ruscha - Ed Ruscha — painted monosyllabic Pop words — SPAM, POW, OOF → Pop Art [topic] - Ed Ruscha — joined the SFMOMA board in 2013 → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Ed Ruscha — joined the SFMOMA board in 2013 → SFMOMA [institution] - Ed Ruscha — first chose Art Center School before its quota was full → Art Center School [institution] - Ed Ruscha — drove to California with Mason Williams in 1956 → Mason Williams [subject] - Ed Ruscha — learned hand typesetting from printer Saul Marks → Saul Marks [subject] - Ed Ruscha — the 1956 move to California was the big change → California [place] - Ed Ruscha — returned through New York to show Castelli his paintings → New York [place] - Ed Ruscha — painted Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas → Texas [place] - Ed Ruscha — shares the West Coast conceptual-art lineage with Tom Marioni → Tom Marioni [subject] - Ed Ruscha — artist-book ethos connects to the SFMOMA Library → David Senior [subject] - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — visualized Ruscha's photographic archive → Ed Ruscha ### Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam frontman whose anti-sellout ethos opens Blank Space; the hero image. connections (2): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — opens with Pearl Jam's anti-sellout ethos → Eddie Vedder - W. David Marx [subject] — opens Blank Space with Pearl Jam's anti-sellout mindset → Eddie Vedder ### Elliot Vredenburg link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotvredenburg/ Partner & Creative Director at U.N.N.A.M.E.D.; graphic designer and Fast Company columnist on authorship and judgment in an age of infinite output. connections (18): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — subject of → Elliot Vredenburg - Nikita Walia [subject] — in conversation with → Elliot Vredenburg - Elliot Vredenburg — partner & creative director at → U.N.N.A.M.E.D. [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — columnist for → Fast Company [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — received MFA from → Chouinard / CalArts [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — has spoken at → MoMA [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — has spoken at → The New School [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — frames feeling-good produced at industrial scale → Affect-Industrial Complex [topic] - Elliot Vredenburg — wrote the taste essay; disinterestedness as class position → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Elliot Vredenburg — co-developed brand-universe model at U.N.N.A.M.E.D. → Brand Universe [topic] - Elliot Vredenburg — redirects Benjamin from craft to judgment → Walter Benjamin [subject] - Elliot Vredenburg — cites Junk Space as aesthetic commons → Rem Koolhaas [subject] - Elliot Vredenburg — frames cultural capital in a Debordian way → Guy Debord [subject] - Elliot Vredenburg — Loewe: coherence without consistency → Loewe [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — client work → Adobe [institution] - Elliot Vredenburg — value of judgment in a world of infinite output → AI & Culture [topic] - Elliot Vredenburg — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. studio in Stockholm → Stockholm [place] - Elliot Vredenburg — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. studio in Los Angeles → Los Angeles [place] ### Elon Musk Owner of X, framed as a Hearst-like media baron in the press-vs-tech war over citizen journalism. connections (4): - Elon Musk — central figure in → Press vs. Tech [topic] - Elon Musk — owns → Twitter/X [platform] - Fred Turner [subject] — references tech CEOs at Trump's inauguration → Elon Musk - Sean Monahan [subject] — likens X-as-news to a modern Hearst → Elon Musk ### Emily Sundberg link: https://www.readfeedme.com/ Writer of Feed Me, the morning newsletter tech people read; friend and frequent collaborator of Dylan's. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — peer and collaborator → Emily Sundberg - Emily Sundberg — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] ### Eric Rodenbeck Founder and creative director of Stamen Design (San Francisco data viz studio, est. 2001). Lecturer in Architecture at Harvard's GSD. Pigment-making practitioner with Nellie King Solomon — inks from oak galls, copper, salt, and dissolved firearms. connections (19): - Rodenbeck × Hardy [experience] — features → Eric Rodenbeck - Eric Rodenbeck — interviewed by Quentin Hardy → Quentin Hardy [subject] - Eric Rodenbeck — founded Stamen Design → Stamen Design [institution] - Eric Rodenbeck — lectures in architecture at → Harvard GSD [institution] - Eric Rodenbeck — pioneers online mapping & data viz → Mapping & Data Visualization [topic] - Eric Rodenbeck — frames his work as transmutation of matter → Alchemy & Transmutation [topic] - Eric Rodenbeck — makes pigments and ink through fermentation → Fermentation & Slow Craft [topic] - Eric Rodenbeck — dissolves guns into artistic pigment → Swords into Plowshares [topic] - Eric Rodenbeck — makes gun-ink drawings with Nellie King Solomon → Nellie King Solomon [subject] - Eric Rodenbeck — draws on Newton's ink recipes & color obsession → Isaac Newton [person] - Eric Rodenbeck — built the Getty's Ed Ruscha Streets of LA map → Getty Research Institute [institution] - Eric Rodenbeck — mapped Ed Ruscha's Streets of LA archive → Ed Ruscha [experience] - Eric Rodenbeck — visualized Ruscha's photographic archive → Ed Ruscha [subject] - Eric Rodenbeck — debates AI as alchemical dream → AI & Culture [topic] - Eric Rodenbeck — runs Stamen in San Francisco → San Francisco [place] - Eric Rodenbeck — mapped Los Angeles via the Ruscha archive → Los Angeles [place] - Eric Rodenbeck — work featured in The New York Times → New York Times [institution] - Eric Rodenbeck — work featured in The Atlantic → The Atlantic [institution] - Eric Rodenbeck — work featured in the Washington Post → Washington Post [institution] ### Eugene Whang link: https://www.instagram.com/eugenewhang/ Industrial designer and DJ; founder of record label Public Release and feeling; two decades on Jony Ive's design team at Apple. connections (21): - Eugene Whang [experience] — subject of → Eugene Whang - Eugene Whang — learned from over twenty years → Jony Ive [subject] - Eugene Whang — designed at for two decades → Apple [institution] - Eugene Whang — joined Ive's firm → LoveFrom [institution] - Eugene Whang — founded record label → Public Release [platform] - Eugene Whang — founded → feeling [platform] - Eugene Whang — collaborated with → Humanrace [institution] - Eugene Whang — designed a vase with → Bunney [institution] - Eugene Whang — collaborated with → sacai [institution] - Eugene Whang — cites as inspiration → DJ Harvey [subject] - Eugene Whang — based in → San Francisco [place] - Eugene Whang — distinguishes taste from preference → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Eugene Whang — practices industrial design → Industrial Design [topic] - Eugene Whang — refuses AI in his design workflow → AI & Culture [topic] - Eugene Whang — values off-screen, person-to-person experiences → IRL Experiences [topic] - Eugene Whang — throws parties as designed gathering experiences → Third Spaces [topic] - Eugene Whang — frames a party as a container of memories → Memory [topic] - Eugene Whang — reconciles fast generative tools vs. slow craft → Tension [topic] - Eugene Whang — collaborates via Humanrace → Pharrell Williams [subject] - Eugene Whang — critiques brands that hire for taste → Brand Universe [topic] - Eugene Whang — active on → Instagram [platform] ### Eugenia Kuyda link: https://wabi.ai/@kuyda Moscow-born founder and CEO of Wabi (personal software platform) and earlier Replika, the AI companion app. connections (26): - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — subject of → Eugenia Kuyda - Eugenia Kuyda — founder & CEO of → Wabi [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — founded → Replika [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — W15 alum → Y Combinator [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — inspired by → Robert Irwin [subject] - Eugenia Kuyda — cites → Agnes Martin [subject] - Eugenia Kuyda — quotes → David Foster Wallace [subject] - Eugenia Kuyda — paired with at 7x7 → Lynn Hershman Leeson [subject] - Eugenia Kuyda — exhibited at 7x7 → New Museum [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — born in → Moscow [place] - Eugenia Kuyda — based in → San Francisco [place] - Eugenia Kuyda — cites as humanistic brand → Apple [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — posts stop-motion videos on → Instagram [platform] - Eugenia Kuyda — active on → Twitter/X [platform] - Eugenia Kuyda — building software for an audience of one → Personal Software [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — explores raising AI like a garden → AI & Culture [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — contrasts the human touch against slop → Slop [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — diagnoses scrolling the feed as a source of depression → The Feed [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — the most important things in life are not about better → Love & Meaning [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi backed by Andreessen Horowitz → Andreessen Horowitz [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — appeared at Rhizome's Seven on Seven → Rhizome [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda — on ARR talk vs unlocking human potential → Silicon Valley [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — UI shells over agentic backends → Generative UI [topic] - Eugenia Kuyda — home-cooked vs frozen software as a taste act → Curation & Taste [topic] - Soleio [subject] — backs Eugenia Kuyda's Wabi → Eugenia Kuyda - Jason Yuan [subject] — shares the companion-AI / love-and-relationships thesis → Eugenia Kuyda ### Evan O'Brien Artist who collaborated with Mieke Marple on the painting ENJOY!!!!!!! (2026). connections (1): - Mieke Marple [subject] — collaborated with → Evan O'Brien ### Everett Katigbak Designer and guest on Soleio's show First of Kind, Season 2. connections (1): - Soleio [subject] — First of Kind guest → Everett Katigbak ### Francesca Sonara link: https://www.timesny.org/ Curator, collector, and arts philanthropist; co-founder of times nonprofit arts centre in New York. connections (8): - Mieke Marple [subject] — in conversation with → Francesca Sonara - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — co-subject → Francesca Sonara - Francesca Sonara — co-founded → times nonprofit arts centre [institution] - Francesca Sonara — based in → New York [place] - Francesca Sonara — built times as a three-year planned-obsolescent project → Planned Obsolescence [topic] - Francesca Sonara — reframes legacy toward the present moment → Legacy & Permanence [topic] - Francesca Sonara — mourns the lack of true civic third spaces → Third Spaces [topic] - Francesca Sonara — critiques growth-at-all-cost ideology infecting the arts → Counterculture [topic] ### Frank Gehry Architect Tom Sachs worked for early in his career. connections (1): - Tom Sachs [subject] — apprenticed under → Frank Gehry ### Fred Turner link: https://comm.stanford.edu/people/fred-turner Stanford professor of communication; author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture. connections (21): - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — subject of → Fred Turner - Fred Turner — in conversation with → Jasmine Sun [subject] - Fred Turner — professor at → Stanford University [institution] - Fred Turner — published by → University of Chicago Press [institution] - Fred Turner — scholar of → Counterculture [topic] - Fred Turner — wrote the history of → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - Fred Turner — central figure in his scholarship → Stewart Brand [subject] - Fred Turner — theorized 'access to tools' → Access to Tools [topic] - Fred Turner — studies Silicon Valley culture → Silicon Valley [topic] - Fred Turner — cites Apple's strategic countercultural branding → Steve Jobs [subject] - Fred Turner — discusses Apple vs. Microsoft positioning → Apple [institution] - Fred Turner — on AGI as warmed-over '90s network rhetoric → AI & Culture [topic] - Fred Turner — names AI labs reshaping the Valley → OpenAI [institution] - Fred Turner — cites Meta as an extraction system → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] - Fred Turner — references tech CEOs at Trump's inauguration → Elon Musk [subject] - Fred Turner — on the Californian-to-Texan ideological move → Texas [place] - Fred Turner — on the California ideology of the '90s → California [place] - Fred Turner — WEC issues archived at → Internet Archive [institution] - Fred Turner — author of The Democratic Surround → Propaganda & Mass Communication [topic] - Fred Turner — portrait by → Mareike Foecking [person] - David Senior [subject] — cites From Counterculture to Cyberculture → Fred Turner ### Gavin McInnes Vice co-founder Marx ties to the transgressive backlash against political correctness. connections (3): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — ties Vice's transgression to → Gavin McInnes - Gavin McInnes — co-founded → Vice [institution] - W. David Marx [subject] — ties Vice's transgressive turn to Gavin McInnes → Gavin McInnes ### Guy Debord Situationist theorist invoked for the 'Debordian' reading of cultural capital and spectacle. connections (3): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — reads cultural capital in a Debordian way → Guy Debord - Tom Sachs [subject] — cites on game theory → Guy Debord - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — frames cultural capital in a Debordian way → Guy Debord ### Hannah Arendt Political theorist whose The Life of the Mind frames thinking as dependent on appearance and plurality — Cy Canterel uses Arendt to argue an LLM's vector space is an 'areality.' connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — draws on Arendt's appearance & plurality → Hannah Arendt ### Howard Hughes Aviator-mogul whose ties to cinema and the aerospace/war industry shaped Southern California culture. connections (3): - Howard Hughes — tied to → Los Angeles [place] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — references → Howard Hughes - Sean Monahan [subject] — discusses his cinema-aviation-military ties to SoCal → Howard Hughes ### Isaac Mizrahi Designer cited by Belsky for defining creativity as 'a mistake of the eye.' connections (2): - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — quotes → Isaac Mizrahi - Scott Belsky [subject] — quotes Mizrahi — creativity as 'a mistake of the eye' → Isaac Mizrahi ### James Rosenquist link: https://www.moma.org/artists/4990 Pop-art painter Jen invokes for the layered, technological logic of Mario's canvases. connections (3): - Jen Vanegas Rocha [subject] — invokes as reference → James Rosenquist - James Rosenquist — in collection of → MoMA [institution] - Mario Ayala [subject] — Pop-art layering compared to his canvases → James Rosenquist ### Jasmine Sun link: https://jasmi.news/ Writer and technologist; contributing writer at The Atlantic, author of an 'anthropology of disruption' Substack. connections (8): - Fred Turner [subject] — in conversation with → Jasmine Sun - Jasmine Sun — contributing writer at → The Atlantic [institution] - Jasmine Sun — publishes on → The Trend Report [platform] - Jasmine Sun — bylined in → New York Times [institution] - Jasmine Sun — based in → San Francisco [place] - Jasmine Sun — interviewer of → Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] - Jasmine Sun — writes an 'anthropology of disruption' → Silicon Valley [topic] - Jasmine Sun — work appeared in → The Wall Street Journal [institution] ### Jason Yuan link: https://x.com/jasonyuan Founder of HIVEMIND; formerly co-founded New Computer (Dot) and designed on Apple's Human Interface team. connections (22): - What Even Is UI? [experience] — subject of → Jason Yuan - Jason Yuan — founder of → HIVEMIND [institution] - Jason Yuan — co-founded (built Dot) → New Computer [institution] - Jason Yuan — designed on Human Interface team → Apple [institution] - Jason Yuan — grew up in → China [place] - Jason Yuan — invokes as pop-hook touchstone → Max Martin [subject] - Jason Yuan — active on → Twitter/X [platform] - Soleio [subject] — shared inquiry into the future of UI / generative interfaces → Jason Yuan - Jason Yuan — built DOT, a private personal AI → DOT (New Computer) [platform] - Jason Yuan — worked on generative UI since 2018 → Generative UI [topic] - Jason Yuan — makes private, personal companion software → Personal Software [topic] - Jason Yuan — sees Chinese propaganda as a mass-communication design language → Propaganda & Mass Communication [topic] - Jason Yuan — frames AI as theory of mind to help people see each other → Theory of Mind [topic] - Jason Yuan — predicts subvocalization and BCI as the endgame of UI → Brain–Computer Interface [topic] - Jason Yuan — thesis: the meaning of life is to love and be loved → Love & Meaning [topic] - Jason Yuan — built narrative-memory companion software → Memory [topic] - Jason Yuan — builds social AI, prices in automation of his own work → AI & Culture [topic] - Jason Yuan — creativity as unconventional pattern-matching, giving models a point of view → Curation & Taste [topic] - Jason Yuan — places 'love' against the grain of Valley startup culture → Silicon Valley [topic] - Jason Yuan — cites '…Baby One More Time' as the catchy-to-everyone benchmark → Britney Spears [subject] - Jason Yuan — shares the companion-AI / love-and-relationships thesis → Eugenia Kuyda [subject] - Jason Yuan — fellow designer-founder on taste, interfaces, and human-centered software → Soleio [subject] ### Jasper Johns American artist, b. 1930. Flags, targets, numbers. Neo-Dada, bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Jasper Johns ### Jasper Morrison link: /map?center=sub-morrison Industrial designer who, with Naoto Fukasawa, defined the 'Super Normal' object — quality that becomes invisible by doing its job well. connections (1): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — co-author of Super Normal cited on invisible quality → Jasper Morrison ### Jean Nipon link: https://www.instagram.com/jean.nipon/ Artist making colored-pencil, Renaissance-esque works Dylan is watching. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — watching → Jean Nipon - Jean Nipon — follows on → Instagram [platform] ### Jehan Chu Founder of Kenetic Capital. Co-Chair of LACMA's Digital Leaders. Interviewer for the Beeple piece. connections (7): - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — in conversation with — interviewed by → Jehan Chu - Beeple × Jehan Chu [experience] — interviewer / collaborator → Jehan Chu - Jehan Chu — Founder and Managing Partner → Kenetic [institution] - Jehan Chu — co-chair of LACMA's Digital Leaders committee → LACMA [institution] - Jehan Chu — crypto/blockchain VC; invested in 300+ blockchain companies → NFTs & Digital Ownership [topic] - Jehan Chu — co-founded Ethereum HK and Bitcoin Association of HK → Hong Kong [place] - Jehan Chu — Kenetic and his crypto communities are based in Hong Kong → China [place] ### Jen Vanegas Rocha link: https://www.thebroad.org/ Assistant Curator at The Broad, Los Angeles; co-curator of Desire, Knowledge, and Hope. connections (4): - Mario Ayala [subject] — in conversation with → Jen Vanegas Rocha - Jen Vanegas Rocha — assistant curator at → The Broad [institution] - Jen Vanegas Rocha — invokes as reference → James Rosenquist [subject] - Picture Consequences [experience] — interviewer → Jen Vanegas Rocha ### John Coogan Co-host of TBPN. connections (2): - TBPN [institution] — co-hosted by → John Coogan - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — co-hosts TBPN with → John Coogan ### Jonathan Anderson Creative director whose cultural capital became the 'orienting compass' that transformed Loewe. connections (2): - Loewe [institution] — creative director → Jonathan Anderson - Nikita Walia [subject] — credits Loewe revival to Anderson's cultural capital → Jonathan Anderson ### Jony Ive Designer who led Apple's design team for decades and founded LoveFrom; Eugene's longtime mentor. connections (4): - Eugene Whang [subject] — learned from over twenty years → Jony Ive - Jony Ive — led design team at → Apple [institution] - Jony Ive — founded → LoveFrom [institution] - Soleio [subject] — shared lineage of design leadership at consequential companies → Jony Ive ### Jordi Hays Co-host of TBPN. connections (2): - TBPN [institution] — co-hosted by → Jordi Hays - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — co-hosts TBPN with → Jordi Hays ### Joseph Beuys German artist of social sculpture who taught that everyone is an artist. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — engages ideas of → Joseph Beuys - Joseph Beuys — taught at → Kunstakademie Düsseldorf [institution] ### Julia Black link: https://www.abilliontoone.com Writer of A Billion to One; her tech profiles read like screenplays. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — avid reader of → Julia Black - Julia Black — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] ### Katherine Frazer Artist and product designer at Apple; joined Rhizome's Board of Directors in 2026. connections (4): - Michael Connor [subject] — in conversation with → Katherine Frazer - Katherine Frazer — board member of → Rhizome [institution] - Katherine Frazer — product designer at → Apple [institution] - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — interviewed by → Katherine Frazer ### Katie Dill Head of Design at Stripe; guest on Soleio's show First of Kind, Season 2. connections (2): - Soleio [subject] — First of Kind guest → Katie Dill - Katie Dill — leads design at → Stripe [institution] ### Kevin McCoy Artist who at Rhizome's 2014 7×7 hackathon made what's popularly described as the first NFT. connections (2): - Kevin McCoy — made first NFT at 7×7 hackathon → Rhizome [institution] - Michael Connor [subject] — made first NFT at Rhizome's 7×7 → Kevin McCoy ### Kyle Chayka Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Filterworld (2024) and The Longing for Less (2020). Publishes User Mag on Substack. Brooklyn. connections (24): - Letter from the Editor [experience] — reads and cites → Kyle Chayka - W. David Marx [subject] — in dialogue on taste with → Kyle Chayka - Kyle Chayka — fellow culture critic — Filterworld's slop/curation thesis → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — shares Filterworld's critique of algorithmic flattening → Kyle Chayka - Marcus Bösch [subject] — shared concern with Filterworld's feed → Kyle Chayka - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld [experience] — profiles → Kyle Chayka - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld thesis: feeds flatten culture into a herd → Algorithmic Homogenization [topic] - Kyle Chayka — taste as deeper understanding vs superficial preference → Curation & Taste [topic] - Kyle Chayka — taste as a human soul vs the tech profit motive → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Kyle Chayka — diagnoses the death of subculture — niche absorbed within days → Subculture [topic] - Kyle Chayka — warns AI will co-opt taste as social media co-opted attention → AI & Culture [topic] - Kyle Chayka — friction as the difficulty of accessing culture → Friction & Cultural Access [topic] - Kyle Chayka — deep reading begets critical cultural consumption → Liberal Arts & Critical Reading [topic] - Kyle Chayka — feeds destabilize people's sense of their own desires → The Feed [topic] - Kyle Chayka — art reduced to passive entertainment and ambient soothing → Ambient [topic] - Kyle Chayka — the flatlining of culture under algorithmic homogeneity → Slop [topic] - Kyle Chayka — staff writer at The New Yorker → The New Yorker [institution] - Kyle Chayka — cites TikTok's takeover of America as accelerant → TikTok [platform] - Kyle Chayka — names ChatGPT's release as a generative-AI tidal wave → OpenAI [institution] - Kyle Chayka — cites Spotify among algorithmic recommendation systems → Spotify [institution] - Kyle Chayka — The Guardian reviewed Filterworld → The Guardian [institution] - Kyle Chayka — shared diagnosis of ambient feed culture (TikTok / Marcus Bösch) → Marcus Bösch [subject] - Kyle Chayka — nostalgia for the treasure-map craft of finding culture → Counterculture [topic] - Cy Canterel [subject] — shares Chayka's concern with slop & the feed → Kyle Chayka ### Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick LA-based writer. The Trend Report on Substack. Culture, internet, taste. connections (33): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — connected to → The Trend Report [platform] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — connected to → Instagram [platform] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — connected to → Twitter/X [platform] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — connected to → Los Angeles [place] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — connected to → The New Yorker [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — essay's central diagnosis — post-ironic fatalism → Nihilism [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — haunts the 'slums of slop' taking over the web → Slop [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — names enshittification as a defining word of the era → Enshittification [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — arts and minds 'being killed by AI' owned by tech barons → AI & Culture [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — trend analyst writing on taste and what culture is for → Curation & Taste [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — everyone and everything 'is content' on the feed → The Feed [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — the panoptic 'Smile! You're on camera' threat → Surveillance & the Panopticon [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — content as a point of sale to be endlessly consumed → Disposable Consumption [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — laments the web's lost promise as tools that helped us → Access to Tools [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — quotes Warzel's Atlantic 'post-ironic fatalism' framing → Charlie Warzel [subject] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — quotes Skarsgård on AI, capital, and the tech barons → Stellan Skarsgård [subject] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — cites Fukasawa & Morrison's Super Normal as quality lost → Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison [subject] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — co-author of Super Normal cited on invisible quality → Jasper Morrison [subject] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links Warzel and AI-companionship pieces in The Atlantic → The Atlantic [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links Skarsgård interview and the Tom Cruise AI-video story → Variety [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links NYT opinion on Yarvin/Trump nihilism → New York Times [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links Washington Post on nihilistic violence → Washington Post [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links FT on people quitting social media → Financial Times [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links Fortune on the Charlie Kirk shooter → Fortune [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links The Spectator on Christian nihilism → The Spectator [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links New Statesman on AI and the ruins of creativity → New Statesman [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — links Dazed on everyone being a content creator now → Dazed Digital [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — cites Lars Müller's Super Normal title → Lars Müller Publishers [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — Wormhole link — TikTok presence → TikTok [platform] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick — invokes Super Normal industrial-design ethos → Industrial Design [topic] - Kyle Chayka [subject] — fellow culture critic — Filterworld's slop/curation thesis → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick - Marcus Bösch [subject] — shared 'Ambient' / feed-rot diagnosis of platform culture → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick ### Lady Gaga Pop artist whose track 'Just Dance' the writer recalls pirating onto his iPod. connections (2): - 160GB [experience] — recalls pirating 'Just Dance' by → Lady Gaga - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — pirated 'Just Dance' as origin ritual → Lady Gaga ### Leo Castelli Art dealer, 1907–1999. Championed Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Lichtenstein. Defined the postwar New York gallery. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Leo Castelli ### Lucy Lippard Critic and author of Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object. connections (2): - Lucy Lippard — chronicled → Conceptualism [topic] - Tom Sachs [subject] — cites Six Years by → Lucy Lippard ### Lynn Hershman Leeson Artist paired with Eugenia at Rhizome's Seven on Seven (7x7) at the New Museum in 2024. connections (2): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — paired with at 7x7 → Lynn Hershman Leeson - Lynn Hershman Leeson — shown at → Rhizome [institution] ### Marcel Duchamp French-American artist, 1887–1968. Father of conceptual art. Readymades, Fountain, The Large Glass. connections (5): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Marcel Duchamp - Sol LeWitt [subject] — discussed alongside → Marcel Duchamp - Tom Marioni [subject] — cites as father of Conceptual art → Marcel Duchamp - Nikita Walia [subject] — SaaS taste as readymade / mechanical reproduction → Marcel Duchamp - Tom Sachs [subject] — name-checks via LeWitt anecdote → Marcel Duchamp ### Marcus Bösch Researcher and writer. Publishes Understanding TikTok on Substack. Research fellow at HAW Hamburg. connections (23): - Marcus Bösch — shared 'Ambient' / feed-rot diagnosis of platform culture → Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] - Ambient [experience] — essay by → Marcus Bösch - Marcus Bösch — essay anchored on → Epistemic Exhaustion [topic] - Marcus Bösch — theorizes → Vibocracy [topic] - Marcus Bösch — cites for epistemic exhaustion → Mark Satta [person] - Marcus Bösch — cites for vibocracy → Jacqueline Fendt [person] - Marcus Bösch — essay titled → Ambient [topic] - Marcus Bösch — on how the feed dissolves meaning → The Feed [topic] - Marcus Bösch — Shrimp Jesus / AI-generated circulation → Slop [topic] - Marcus Bösch — researches and consults on → TikTok [platform] - Marcus Bösch — publishes Understanding TikTok → The Trend Report [platform] - Marcus Bösch — affect before evaluation → Affect-Industrial Complex [topic] - Marcus Bösch — feed blurs entertainment and propaganda → Propaganda & Mass Communication [topic] - Marcus Bösch — AI-generated content and culture → AI & Culture [topic] - Marcus Bösch — shares Kyle's degradation thesis → Enshittification [topic] - Marcus Bösch — opens with Hopper's Soir Bleu → Edward Hopper [person] - Marcus Bösch — the clown in Soir Bleu → Clowning [topic] - Marcus Bösch — Soir Bleu courtesy of the Whitney → Whitney Museum [institution] - Marcus Bösch — writes from the edge of the German forest → Germany [place] - Marcus Bösch — taste and attention amid exhaustion → Curation & Taste [topic] - Marcus Bösch — shared concern with Filterworld's feed → Kyle Chayka [subject] - Kyle Chayka [subject] — shared diagnosis of ambient feed culture (TikTok / Marcus Bösch) → Marcus Bösch - Cy Canterel [subject] — parallel critique of ambient slopified content → Marcus Bösch ### Marina Abramović Performance artist cited in Lippard's conceptual-art canon. connections (2): - Marina Abramović — cited within → Conceptualism [topic] - Tom Sachs [subject] — cites as instruction-based artist → Marina Abramović ### Mario Ayala link: https://www.marioayala.com/ Los Angeles painter whose TV-stack canvases collage music-video and film stills into Surrealist exquisite corpses. connections (21): - Picture Consequences [experience] — subject of → Mario Ayala - Mario Ayala — in conversation with → Jen Vanegas Rocha [subject] - Mario Ayala — studio based in → Los Angeles [place] - Mario Ayala — studied at → San Francisco Art Institute [institution] - Mario Ayala — first painting professor → Carlos Villa [subject] - Mario Ayala — core method → Collage [topic] - Mario Ayala — draws on → Surrealism [topic] - Mario Ayala — daily practice → Archiving [topic] - Mario Ayala — cited alongside → Ray Smith [subject] - Mario Ayala — work in collection of → The Broad [institution] - Mario Ayala — work in collection of → LACMA [institution] - Mario Ayala — work in collection of → SFMOMA [institution] - Mario Ayala — work in collection of → Hammer Museum [institution] - Mario Ayala — represented by → Jeffrey Deitch [institution] - Mario Ayala — shares work on → Instagram [platform] - Mario Ayala — Pop-art layering compared to his canvases → James Rosenquist [subject] - Mario Ayala — compulsive collecting of imagery and ephemera → Collecting [topic] - Mario Ayala — Bay Area Funk Art influence → Funk Art [topic] - Mario Ayala — LA Cool School influence → Cool School of Los Angeles [topic] - Mario Ayala — trained in San Francisco → San Francisco [place] - Mario Ayala — preserving ephemeral moments beyond the initial instant → Memory [topic] ### Maritza Lerman Yoes link: https://futuretrashcan.com Founder and CEO of Future Trashcan, a cultural marketing studio at the intersection of technology and culture. connections (8): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — in conversation with → Maritza Lerman Yoes - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes [experience] — interviewer → Maritza Lerman Yoes - Maritza Lerman Yoes — founder/CEO of → Future Trashcan [institution] - Maritza Lerman Yoes — media fellow → Andreessen Horowitz [institution] - Maritza Lerman Yoes — worked with → LACMA [institution] - Maritza Lerman Yoes — worked with → Hammer Museum [institution] - Maritza Lerman Yoes — based in → San Francisco [place] - Maritza Lerman Yoes — past client work → Apple [institution] ### Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder cited as the slob-flex origin of quiet luxury and Silicon Valley dress codes. connections (7): - Mark Zuckerberg — embodied → Quiet Luxury [topic] - TBPN [institution] — the appearance that set the tone → Mark Zuckerberg - Fred Turner [subject] — cites Meta as an extraction system → Mark Zuckerberg - Sean Monahan [subject] — cites his slob-dressing as the quiet-luxury origin → Mark Zuckerberg - Connor Hayes [subject] — reports into Meta led by Zuckerberg → Mark Zuckerberg - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — Zuck appearance set the tone → Mark Zuckerberg - Soleio [subject] — early Facebook designer under Zuckerberg, 2005-2011 → Mark Zuckerberg ### Mason Williams Ruscha's friend who drove out to California with him in 1956; aspiring insurance actuary turned musician/comedy writer. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — drove to California with Mason Williams in 1956 → Mason Williams ### Matt McCormick link: https://www.mattrmccormick.com/ Artist working across books, paintings, objects, and clothing, distilling the American West into a personal visual language; lives between LA and New York. connections (20): - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster [experience] — subject of → Matt McCormick - Matt McCormick — in conversation with → Matt Shuster [subject] - Matt McCormick — lives and works in → Los Angeles [place] - Matt McCormick — lives and works in → New York [place] - Matt McCormick — early obsession (SF Giants) → San Francisco [place] - Matt McCormick — treats books as primary work → Artist Books [topic] - Matt McCormick — made zines in NYC and LA → Zines [topic] - Matt McCormick — collecting blends into the practice → Collecting [topic] - Matt McCormick — immersed in subculture publishing scene → Subculture [topic] - Matt McCormick — work engages cultural memory → Memory [topic] - Matt McCormick — early book access via friend at → Gagosian [institution] - Matt McCormick — cites as self-publishing model → Ed Ruscha [subject] - Matt McCormick — cites as self-publishing model → Richard Prince [subject] - Matt McCormick — founder / extends practice into → One of These Days [institution] - Matt McCormick — present on → Instagram [platform] - Matt McCormick — began collecting SF Giants cards as a kid → Baseball Cards & Memorabilia [topic] - Matt McCormick — sees the whole practice as one expanding world → World-Building [topic] - Matt McCormick — listens to while making work → Charlie Parker [subject] - Matt McCormick — has exhibited in Paris → Paris [place] - Matt McCormick — has exhibited in Tokyo → Tokyo [place] ### Matt Shuster link: https://bookstore.karmakarma.org/ New York-based bookseller and collector who runs the book program at Karma Gallery, specializing in rare books, artist publications, and cultural ephemera. connections (5): - Matt McCormick [subject] — in conversation with → Matt Shuster - Matt Shuster — runs book program at → Karma Gallery [institution] - Matt Shuster — based in → New York [place] - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster [experience] — interviewed by → Matt Shuster - Matt Shuster — specializes in rare artist publications → Artist Books [topic] ### Max Hollein Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Previously Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. connections (24): - Max Hollein [experience] — connected to → Max Hollein - Max Hollein — connected to → The Met [institution] - Max Hollein — connected to → The Met Cloisters [institution] - Max Hollein — connected to → New York [place] - Max Hollein — connected to → San Francisco [place] - Max Hollein — connected to → Instagram [platform] - Max Hollein — champions → Open Access [topic] - Max Hollein — argues museums anchor → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Max Hollein — frames museums as elevating → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Max Hollein — former director of → Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [institution] - Max Hollein — oversees → The Met Gala [institution] - Max Hollein — treats fashion as → Fashion as Art [topic] - Max Hollein — navigates institution through → AI & Culture [topic] - Max Hollein — Met partners with → Apple [institution] - Max Hollein — Met partners with → OpenAI [institution] - Max Hollein — Met partners with → Google [institution] - Max Hollein — Met partners with → Microsoft [institution] - Max Hollein — stewards → Curation & Taste [topic] - Max Hollein — open-access ethos echoes → Access to Tools [topic] - Max Hollein — Met active in → China [place] - Max Hollein — shares open-access mission with → Brewster Kahle [subject] - Max Hollein — parallel digitization ethos to → Internet Archive [institution] - Max Hollein — digitizes archives via → Digital Preservation [topic] - Max Hollein — free open access as → Gift Economy [topic] ### Max Martin link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin Britney-era pop architect Jason invokes to explain propaganda, hooks, and being 'catchy to lots of people.' connections (2): - Jason Yuan [subject] — invokes as pop-hook touchstone → Max Martin - Max Martin — wrote '…Baby One More Time' for → Britney Spears [subject] ### Michael Connor link: https://rhizome.org/ Executive Director of Rhizome; led the Net Art Anthology initiative retelling the history of net art. connections (22): - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — subject of → Michael Connor - Michael Connor — in conversation with → Katherine Frazer [subject] - Michael Connor — executive director of → Rhizome [institution] - Michael Connor — first online curatorial project 2003 → FACT, Liverpool [institution] - Michael Connor — led the initiative → Net Art Anthology [institution] - Michael Connor — archives & champions → Net Art [topic] - Michael Connor — core practice → Digital Preservation [topic] - Michael Connor — memory institution work → Archiving [topic] - Michael Connor — memory institution for digital culture → Memory [topic] - Michael Connor — coined the framing → The Object Boundary [topic] - Michael Connor — research focus → Software Emulation [topic] - Michael Connor — Rhizome affiliate since 2003 → New Museum [institution] - Michael Connor — partners on art & code track → NEW INC [institution] - Michael Connor — made first NFT at Rhizome's 7×7 → Kevin McCoy [subject] - Michael Connor — longtime Rhizome collaborator → Rafaël Rozendaal [subject] - Michael Connor — first NFT lineage via 7×7 → CryptoPunks [topic] - Michael Connor — navigates AI debate in digital art → AI & Culture [topic] - Michael Connor — new media art field → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] - Michael Connor — sustaining access over the long term → Forever [topic] - Michael Connor — New York-based organization → New York [place] - Michael Connor — getting communities out of filter bubbles → The Feed [topic] - Michael Connor — curator of digital culture → Curation & Taste [topic] ### Mieke Marple link: https://miekemarple.com/ LA-based artist and writer behind Live Laugh Lube; former co-owner of Night Gallery. connections (19): - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — subject of → Mieke Marple - Mieke Marple — in conversation with → Francesca Sonara [subject] - Mieke Marple — creator of → Live Laugh Lube [platform] - Mieke Marple — co-owned → Night Gallery [institution] - Mieke Marple — studied at → UCLA [institution] - Mieke Marple — based in → Los Angeles [place] - Mieke Marple — written about by → New York Times [institution] - Mieke Marple — written about by → Fortune [institution] - Mieke Marple — written about by → The Guardian [institution] - Mieke Marple — collaborated with → Evan O'Brien [subject] - Mieke Marple — sees clowning as typifying the zeitgeist of the moment → Clowning [topic] - Mieke Marple — trades art via gift economy, not the market → Gift Economy [topic] - Mieke Marple — love-hate tension with social media as her medium → Instagram [platform] - Mieke Marple — sees AI slop hastening people leaving the platforms → Slop [topic] - Mieke Marple — asks what comes after social media collapses → The Feed [topic] - Mieke Marple — AI proliferation of not-personal content spamming the feed → AI & Culture [topic] - Mieke Marple — as ex–art dealer, critiques speculative market value → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Mieke Marple — on her deathbed it's relationships, not accomplishments → Legacy & Permanence [topic] - Mieke Marple — clown shows as present-moment human connection → Third Spaces [topic] ### Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison Industrial designers. Authors of Super Normal. Referenced in Kyle's essay on design without spectacle. connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "Super Normal" → Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison - Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison — connected to → Lars Müller Publishers [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — cites Fukasawa & Morrison's Super Normal as quality lost → Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison ### Natalie Jarvey link: https://likeandsubscribenews.substack.com/ Writer of Like & Subscribe, covering the business of creator media. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — avid reader of → Natalie Jarvey - Natalie Jarvey — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] ### Nellie King Solomon Artist; collaborates with Eric Rodenbeck on the pigment-from-dissolved-guns drawings. Makes drawings of guns using ink Eric ferments from guns themselves. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — makes gun-ink drawings with Nellie King Solomon → Nellie King Solomon ### Nicolas Cevallos link: https://www.instagram.com/nicocevallos Writer, designer, and cultural strategist (alias CENTRO) who writes the newsletter Creative Destruction. connections (21): - 160GB [experience] — subject of → Nicolas Cevallos - Nicolas Cevallos — writes → Creative Destruction [platform] - Nicolas Cevallos — posts on → Instagram [platform] - Nicolas Cevallos — writes the newsletter → Creative Destruction (Nicolas Cevallos) [platform] - Nicolas Cevallos — reframes as a modern heirloom → iPod Classic [institution] - Nicolas Cevallos — central thesis — heirlooms of the future → Modern Heirlooms [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — critiques disposable, modular consumption → Disposable Consumption [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — asks how one buys for forever → Forever [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — celebrates the iPod modding community → Repair & Modding [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — intentional song-and-album collection → Collecting [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — a metallic place to hold songs and memories → Memory [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — iPod and Apple Music as keeper and killer → Apple [institution] - Nicolas Cevallos — Discovery Weekly and streaming as frictionless consumption → Spotify [institution] - Nicolas Cevallos — hours pirating songs onto the iPod → LimeWire [institution] - Nicolas Cevallos — pirated 'Just Dance' as origin ritual → Lady Gaga [subject] - Nicolas Cevallos — the lack of ads vs. mindless media → Enshittification [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — rejection of today's mindless media consumption → AI & Culture [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — value defined by limitation, not resale or material → Quiet Luxury [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — online community of modders as a space of care → Third Spaces [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — care, emotional connection, and the promise of forever → Love & Meaning [topic] - Nicolas Cevallos — shares Filterworld's critique of algorithmic flattening → Kyle Chayka [subject] ### Nikita Walia link: https://nikitawalia.substack.com/ Partner, Strategy at U.N.N.A.M.E.D.; brand strategist and cultural critic, author of 'This Is Your Brand with a Universe' and 'The TikTok Oracle.' connections (20): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — subject of → Nikita Walia - Nikita Walia — in conversation with → Elliot Vredenburg [subject] - Nikita Walia — partner, strategy at → U.N.N.A.M.E.D. [institution] - Nikita Walia — writes on → Nikita Walia on Substack [platform] - Nikita Walia — gave brand-universe talk at → MoMA [institution] - Nikita Walia — author of framework → Brand Universe [topic] - Nikita Walia — diagrams encoding/decoding on → TikTok [platform] - Nikita Walia — cites Loewe's manicured presence on → Instagram [platform] - Nikita Walia — invokes the readymade → Conceptualism [topic] - Nikita Walia — diagnoses the affect-industrial complex → Affect-Industrial Complex [topic] - Nikita Walia — argues you can't SaaS-scale taste → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Nikita Walia — SaaS taste as readymade / mechanical reproduction → Marcel Duchamp [subject] - Nikita Walia — Loewe as brand-universe case study → Loewe [institution] - Nikita Walia — credits Loewe revival to Anderson's cultural capital → Jonathan Anderson [subject] - Nikita Walia — speaking to the algorithm; infinite output → AI & Culture [topic] - Nikita Walia — disinterested aesthetic as class position → Status & Social Rank [topic] - Nikita Walia — taste absorbed the moment it becomes discourse → Counterculture [topic] - Nikita Walia — critiques SV obsession with scaling taste → Silicon Valley [topic] - Nikita Walia — closes on 'they don't build statues of critics' → Charli XCX [subject] - Nikita Walia — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. based in New York → New York [place] ### Pharrell Williams Musician and founder of Humanrace, a recent Eugene collaboration. connections (2): - Humanrace [institution] — founded by → Pharrell Williams - Eugene Whang [subject] — collaborates via Humanrace → Pharrell Williams ### ProblemChild Advisory David Welch's conceptual curatorial practice. Blog-style online collection + physical group shows at Guerrero Gallery (LA) and Alyssa Davis Gallery (NY). Anti-gatekept, sampling-as-curation. connections (15): - ProblemChild Advisory [experience] — profiles → ProblemChild Advisory - ProblemChild Advisory — is the curatorial practice of → David Welch [subject] - ProblemChild Advisory — curates via → The Repost as Curation [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — is itself a conceptual project → Conceptualism [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — references social practice → Social Practice Art [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — references relational aesthetics → Relational Aesthetics [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — references post-internet art → Net Art [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — is an anti-gatekept platform → Anti-Gatekeeping [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — curates against the algorithmic feed → Curation & Taste [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — blog-style feed at the speed of endless data → The Feed [topic] - ProblemChild Advisory — lives on as @problemchild.advisory → Instagram [platform] - ProblemChild Advisory — curated a show at → Guerrero Gallery [institution] - ProblemChild Advisory — curated a show at → Alyssa Davis Gallery [institution] - ProblemChild Advisory — curated exhibitions in → Los Angeles [place] - ProblemChild Advisory — curated exhibitions in → New York [place] ### Quentin Hardy Former Head of Editorial at Google Cloud; former Deputy Technology Editor at The New York Times. Writes on alchemy + AI; interviewer for the Eric Rodenbeck piece. connections (7): - Rodenbeck × Hardy [experience] — in conversation with → Quentin Hardy - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — interviewed by Quentin Hardy → Quentin Hardy - Quentin Hardy — writes on alchemy & AI → AI & Culture [topic] - Quentin Hardy — essays on transcendence & transmutation → Alchemy & Transmutation [topic] - Quentin Hardy — former Deputy Technology Editor → New York Times [institution] - Quentin Hardy — cites Geoffrey Hinton on superintelligence → Geoffrey Hinton [person] - Quentin Hardy — writes The New Curiosity Shop on Substack → The Trend Report [platform] ### Rachel Karten link: https://www.linkinbio.co Writer of Link in Bio, covering the industry from a social-media perspective. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — avid reader of → Rachel Karten - Rachel Karten — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] ### Rafaël Rozendaal link: https://www.newrafael.com/ Net artist and longtime Rhizome collaborator featured in the Rhizome archive grid. connections (3): - Rafaël Rozendaal — longtime collaborator with → Rhizome [institution] - Rafaël Rozendaal — net artist → Net Art [topic] - Michael Connor [subject] — longtime Rhizome collaborator → Rafaël Rozendaal ### Ray Smith Painter cited alongside Mario as another artist skewing the collaborative exquisite-corpse technique into solo work. connections (1): - Mario Ayala [subject] — cited alongside → Ray Smith ### Rem Koolhaas Architect whose 2002 essay 'Junk Space' frames the affect-industrial complex's aesthetic commons that conceals its construction. connections (2): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — frames via Junk Space → Rem Koolhaas - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — cites Junk Space as aesthetic commons → Rem Koolhaas ### Richard Prince Artist cited by McCormick as one of the self-publishers who treated books as primary work rather than documentation. connections (1): - Matt McCormick [subject] — cites as self-publishing model → Richard Prince ### Robert Irwin link: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/seeing-is-forgetting-the-name-of-the-thing-one-sees/paper Light-and-space artist whose perception-first practice (via Weschler's 'Seeing Is Forgetting') Eugenia cites as an antidote to fight-or-flight mode. connections (2): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — inspired by → Robert Irwin - Robert Irwin — perception-as-medium light-and-space practice → Conceptualism [topic] ### Ryo Lu Designer behind Cursor's product. Soleio calls Cursor "a spirit guide living inside your VS Code" and praises Ryo Lu's insistence that the tool not feel like a black box. connections (2): - Soleio [subject] — praises Ryo Lu's scrutable approach to Cursor → Ryo Lu - Ryo Lu — designs the product → Cursor [institution] ### Saskia Colwell link: https://www.instagram.com/saskiacolwell/ Artist making chalk and charcoal drawings that read like photographs of marble sculptures. connections (2): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — watching → Saskia Colwell - Saskia Colwell — follows on → Instagram [platform] ### Saul Marks Fine-art book printer Ruscha worked for to learn hand typesetting while making his first artist books. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — learned hand typesetting from printer Saul Marks → Saul Marks ### Scott Belsky link: https://www.implications.com Partner at A24, founder of Behance, former Adobe Chief Product Officer, and writer of the Implications newsletter. connections (22): - On Approval [institution] — backed by → Scott Belsky - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — subject of → Scott Belsky - Scott Belsky — writes → Implications [platform] - Scott Belsky — partner at → A24 [institution] - Scott Belsky — founded → Behance [institution] - Scott Belsky — former Chief Product Officer → Adobe [institution] - Scott Belsky — board member → MoMA [institution] - Scott Belsky — board member → Atlassian [institution] - Scott Belsky — council member → Cornell University [institution] - Letter from the Editor [experience] — On Approval investor; Belsky is a season contributor → Scott Belsky - Scott Belsky — coined Precision Generative Workflows → Precision Generative Workflows [topic] - Scott Belsky — argues AI augments rather than replaces artists → AI & Culture [topic] - Scott Belsky — distinguishes 'AI slop' from crafted art → Slop [topic] - Scott Belsky — content creators vs. artists — speed vs. control → Curation & Taste [topic] - Scott Belsky — humans will crave more human, crafted art → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Scott Belsky — AI content filling the feeds → Enshittification [topic] - Scott Belsky — cites MoMA CryptoPunks acquisition as human art → CryptoPunks [topic] - Scott Belsky — quotes Mizrahi — creativity as 'a mistake of the eye' → Isaac Mizrahi [subject] - Scott Belsky — shared NFT / generative-art-as-fine-art world → Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] - Scott Belsky — A24 / A24 Labs based in NYC → New York [place] - Scott Belsky — museums hold human stories that give art value → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Scott Belsky — creative tooling to outfit artists with control → Personal Software [topic] ### Sean Monahan link: https://8ball.substack.com/ Trend forecaster behind 8 Ball and K-Hole, also interviewed by Alberto Cuadros for Culture Slop. connections (23): - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — subject of → Sean Monahan - Sean Monahan — in conversation with → Alberto Cuadros [subject] - Sean Monahan — co-founded → K-HOLE [institution] - Sean Monahan — publishes → 8Ball [platform] - Sean Monahan — analyzes → Quiet Luxury [topic] - Sean Monahan — based in → Los Angeles [place] - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — also interviewed → Sean Monahan - Sean Monahan — coined the term in K-HOLE's 'Youth Mode' (2013) → Normcore [topic] - Sean Monahan — recalls LA's startup-expansion tech moment → Silicon Beach [topic] - Sean Monahan — diagnoses SF as an insular industrial company town → Silicon Valley [topic] - Sean Monahan — frames social media as a decentralized rival to news → Press vs. Tech [topic] - Sean Monahan — dates it to CNN's Gulf War coverage → The 24-Hour News Cycle [topic] - Sean Monahan — reads the AI-era hiring collapse via The Atlantic → Mass Layoffs & the AI Labor Crunch [topic] - Sean Monahan — cites his slob-dressing as the quiet-luxury origin → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] - Sean Monahan — likens X-as-news to a modern Hearst → Elon Musk [subject] - Sean Monahan — discusses his cinema-aviation-military ties to SoCal → Howard Hughes [subject] - Sean Monahan — cites its piece on AI and graduate unemployment → The Atlantic [institution] - Sean Monahan — jokes YC funding beats landing a Stanford-grad job → Stanford University [institution] - Sean Monahan — references easier funding than employment → Y Combinator [institution] - Sean Monahan — analyzes X positioned in the news category of apps → Twitter/X [platform] - Sean Monahan — critiques SF's status-scanning party scene → San Francisco [place] - Sean Monahan — maps SoCal aerospace and post-Cold-War decline → California [place] - Sean Monahan — trend forecasting as reading taste vs. preference → Taste vs. Preference [topic] ### Sol LeWitt Artist whose 1967 manifesto 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art' Marioni cites as the official beginning of Conceptual art. connections (6): - Tom Sachs [subject] — befriended → Sol LeWitt - Sol LeWitt — pioneered → Conceptualism [topic] - Sol LeWitt — discussed alongside → Marcel Duchamp [subject] - Sol LeWitt — discussed alongside → Andy Warhol [subject] - Tom Marioni [subject] — cites manifesto of → Sol LeWitt - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — systems-based lineage explicitly invoked by Jehan Chu → Sol LeWitt ### Soleio American designer, angel investor, and advisor. Shaped product design at Facebook and Dropbox. Hosts First of Kind. connections (21): - Humans Do Not Have a Monopoly on Taste [experience] — profiles → Soleio - Soleio — argues taste is a byproduct of selection, not a human monopoly → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - Soleio — on agentic systems' brute-force taste and the AlphaGo 'alien' style of play → AI & Culture [topic] - Soleio — frames taste as Darwinian selection and curation → Curation & Taste [topic] - Soleio — on generative UI moving from component- to system-building → Generative UI [topic] - Soleio — champions Wabi's 'total addressable market of one' personal software → Personal Software [topic] - Soleio — self-taught designer who moved to California to build the internet → Silicon Valley [topic] - Soleio — hosts the show → First of Kind [platform] - Soleio — calls Cursor 'a spirit guide living inside your VS Code' → Cursor [institution] - Soleio — praises Ryo Lu's scrutable approach to Cursor → Ryo Lu [subject] - Soleio — First of Kind guest → Katie Dill [subject] - Soleio — First of Kind guest → Everett Katigbak [subject] - Soleio — built the design group, 2011-2013 → Dropbox [institution] - Soleio — early backer → Figma [institution] - Soleio — early Facebook designer under Zuckerberg, 2005-2011 → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] - Soleio — angel investor; cites Wabi's TAM-of-one logic → Wabi [institution] - Soleio — backs Eugenia Kuyda's Wabi → Eugenia Kuyda [subject] - Soleio — shared inquiry into the future of UI / generative interfaces → Jason Yuan [subject] - Soleio — moved to California in 2004 to build the internet → California [place] - Soleio — shared lineage of design leadership at consequential companies → Jony Ive [subject] - Jason Yuan [subject] — fellow designer-founder on taste, interfaces, and human-centered software → Soleio ### Stellan Skarsgård Swedish actor. Cited in Kyle's essay on AI: "AI is owned by the tech barons." connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "AI is owned by the tech barons" → Stellan Skarsgård - Stellan Skarsgård — connected to → Variety [institution] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — quotes Skarsgård on AI, capital, and the tech barons → Stellan Skarsgård ### Steve Jobs Apple co-founder Turner cites as the first to deploy countercultural branding strategically. connections (3): - Steve Jobs — co-founded → Apple [institution] - Silicon Valley [topic] — exemplified by → Steve Jobs - Fred Turner [subject] — cites Apple's strategic countercultural branding → Steve Jobs ### Stewart Brand link: https://longnow.org/people/sb1/ Creator of the Whole Earth Catalog; one of the first people McClintock consulted about Culture Slop. connections (6): - Letter from the Editor [experience] — consulted early on → Stewart Brand - Stewart Brand — created → Whole Earth Catalog [institution] - Whole Earth Catalog [institution] — founded by → Stewart Brand - Fred Turner [subject] — central figure in his scholarship → Stewart Brand - Brewster Kahle [subject] — kindred Bay Area access-to-tools visionary → Stewart Brand - David Senior [subject] — reads the Whole Earth Catalog of → Stewart Brand ### Tom Marioni link: https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Tom_Marioni/ Conceptual artist and curator; founder of the Museum of Conceptual Art in San Francisco and 'The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.' connections (23): - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — studied under → Tom Marioni - Tom Marioni — pioneer of → Conceptualism [topic] - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — subject of → Tom Marioni - Tom Marioni — in conversation with → Alberto Cuadros [subject] - Tom Marioni — founded → Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) [institution] - Tom Marioni — lives and works in → San Francisco [place] - Tom Marioni — exhibited at; work collected by → SFMOMA [institution] - Tom Marioni — staged beer-drinking action at → Oakland Museum of California [institution] - Tom Marioni — precursor to → Relational Aesthetics [topic] - Tom Marioni — practices as Social Artist → Social Practice Art [topic] - Tom Marioni — chronicles Bay Area → Funk Art [topic] - Tom Marioni — cites as father of Conceptual art → Marcel Duchamp [subject] - Tom Marioni — cites manifesto of → Sol LeWitt [subject] - Ed Ruscha [subject] — shares the West Coast conceptual-art lineage with Tom Marioni → Tom Marioni - Tom Marioni — frames Pop art as 'art about money' in the Pop→Minimal→Conceptual lineage → Pop Art [topic] - Tom Marioni — recalls Artforum launching in SF in 1962 before moving to LA → Artforum [institution] - Tom Marioni — names Light and Space as why Artforum left SF for LA → Light and Space [topic] - Tom Marioni — central figure in California / West Coast conceptualism → California [place] - Tom Marioni — argues AI cannot make art — no emotion or compassion, only copies → AI & Culture [topic] - Tom Marioni — laments museums (esp. SFMOMA) becoming children's museums / social centers → Museums & Civic Life [topic] - Tom Marioni — curator at Richmond Art Center; organized the Funk-era new-art shows → Curation & Taste [topic] - Tom Marioni — founded Vision magazine; living archive of West Coast conceptualism → Archiving [topic] - Tom Marioni — honored as a Guggenheim Fellow (1981) → Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [institution] ### Tom Sachs link: https://tomsachs.com/ Sculptor known for bricolage recreations of Modern icons; runs his studio as a startup. connections (32): - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — subject of → Tom Sachs - Tom Sachs — practices → Sympathetic Magic [topic] - Tom Sachs — built → ISRU app [platform] - Tom Sachs — collaborates with via NikeCraft → Nike [institution] - Tom Sachs — uses for mythmaking → Instagram [platform] - Tom Sachs — defines taste as exclusionary → Curation & Taste [topic] - Tom Sachs — draws on → Conceptualism [topic] - Tom Sachs — apprenticed under → Frank Gehry [subject] - Tom Sachs — befriended → Sol LeWitt [subject] - Tom Sachs — engages ideas of → Joseph Beuys [subject] - Tom Sachs — collected by → MoMA [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → Whitney Museum [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → Pompidou Center [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → The Met [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → Tate Modern [institution] - Tom Sachs — collected by → SFMOMA [institution] - Tom Sachs — cites Six Years by → Lucy Lippard [subject] - Tom Sachs — cites on game theory → Guy Debord [subject] - Tom Sachs — shares the Culture Slop taste thread with → W. David Marx [subject] - Tom Sachs — cites as instruction-based artist → Yoko Ono [subject] - Tom Sachs — cites as instruction-based artist → Marina Abramović [subject] - Tom Sachs — cites as instruction-based artist → Chris Burden [subject] - Tom Sachs — name-checks via LeWitt anecdote → Marcel Duchamp [subject] - Tom Sachs — name-checks via LeWitt anecdote → Andy Warhol [subject] - Tom Sachs — studio-as-community via Beuys's social sculpture → Social Practice Art [topic] - Tom Sachs — architecture/engineering impulses in his sculpture → Industrial Design [topic] - Tom Sachs — holds that everything is sculpture → Sculpture as Total Practice [topic] - Tom Sachs — Space Program: MARS at Park Avenue Armory → Park Avenue Armory [institution] - Tom Sachs — references Beuys's teaching there → Kunstakademie Düsseldorf [institution] - Tom Sachs — critique of consumerism as a consumer choice → Disposable Consumption [topic] - Tom Sachs — Magic House installation in Tokyo → Tokyo [place] ### W. David Marx link: https://culture.ghost.io/ Tokyo-based culture writer; author of Blank Space, Status and Culture, and Ametora. connections (22): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — subject of → W. David Marx - W. David Marx — publishes → Culture: An Owner's Manual [platform] - W. David Marx — posts on (X/Bluesky) → Twitter/X [platform] - W. David Marx — published by → Viking [institution] - W. David Marx — writes for → The New Yorker [institution] - W. David Marx — writes for → The Atlantic [institution] - W. David Marx — based in → Tokyo [place] - W. David Marx — in dialogue on taste with → Kyle Chayka [subject] - Tom Sachs [subject] — shares the Culture Slop taste thread with → W. David Marx - W. David Marx — wrote the book on taste; defines it as knowledge and refinement → Taste vs. Preference [topic] - W. David Marx — coined the counter-counterculture framing → Counterculture [topic] - W. David Marx — author of Status and Culture — status drives taste → Status & Social Rank [topic] - W. David Marx — analyzes subculture from Birmingham School to consumer segments → Subculture [topic] - W. David Marx — everything online treated as equally valuable culture → Slop [topic] - W. David Marx — GenAI is Our Polyester — AI and cultural value → AI & Culture [topic] - W. David Marx — taste as a faculty of appreciation and curation → Curation & Taste [topic] - W. David Marx — opens Blank Space with Pearl Jam's anti-sellout mindset → Eddie Vedder [subject] - W. David Marx — drew on Klosterman's The Nineties → Chuck Klosterman [subject] - W. David Marx — cites DJ D-Sol spinning at Lollapalooza as a value-shift anecdote → David Solomon [subject] - W. David Marx — Andrew Tate as the end point of the ideological shift → Andrew Tate [subject] - W. David Marx — ties Vice's transgressive turn to Gavin McInnes → Gavin McInnes [subject] - W. David Marx — Vice as carrier of the counter-counterculture turn → Vice [institution] ### Walter Benjamin Author of 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'; his 'the original withers' argument anchors the taste-and-AI thread. connections (2): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — engages mechanical-reproduction argument → Walter Benjamin - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — redirects Benjamin from craft to judgment → Walter Benjamin ### Yoko Ono Conceptual artist cited as making instruction-based work. connections (2): - Yoko Ono — cited within → Conceptualism [topic] - Tom Sachs [subject] — cites as instruction-based artist → Yoko Ono ### Zygmunt Bauman Sociologist of liquid modernity; his Wasted Lives ('to know is to choose... the product is separated from waste') opens Cy Canterel's ontology of slop as the factory of knowledge. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — opens with Bauman's factory of knowledge → Zygmunt Bauman ## Figures (18) ### Aaron Swartz link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz Programmer, activist, and Reddit co-founder who helped build the Open Library and championed public access to the public domain. Prosecuted for downloading academic articles, he died by suicide in 2013; the Internet Archive holds Aaron Swartz Day in his memory. connections (3): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — collaborator and friend, built Open Library together → Aaron Swartz - Aaron Swartz — co-founder → Reddit [institution] - Aaron Swartz — championed public access to it → The Public Domain [topic] ### Cory Doctorow link: https://pluralistic.net Author and activist who coined the term 'enshittification' and co-wrote Chokepoint Capitalism on how a handful of platforms capture creative markets. connections (2): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — ally; cites his Chokepoint Capitalism → Cory Doctorow - Cory Doctorow — coined the term → Enshittification [topic] ### Danny Hillis link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Hillis Computer scientist, co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, where Kahle worked on massively parallel supercomputers and the idea of a 'global brain.' connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — worked with at Thinking Machines → Danny Hillis ### Douglas Engelbart link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart Inventor whose hypertext and collaborative-computing work ('The Mother of All Demos') is invoked by Kahle as part of the original vision for interconnecting human knowledge. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — cites Engelbart's hypertext world → Douglas Engelbart ### Edward Hopper American painter whose 1914 canvas 'Soir Bleu' — figures and a clown under colored lanterns — opens Marcus Bösch's essay on ambient atmosphere and absorbed ambiguity. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — opens with Hopper's Soir Bleu → Edward Hopper ### Geoffrey Hinton link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton Machine-learning pioneer cited by Quentin Hardy as echoing Newton's desire to transcend the self through superintelligence. connections (1): - Quentin Hardy [subject] — cites Geoffrey Hinton on superintelligence → Geoffrey Hinton ### Isaac Newton link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton The committed alchemist and color obsessive Keynes called 'the last magician' — a central figure in the Rodenbeck-Hardy conversation on alchemy and AI. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — draws on Newton's ink recipes & color obsession → Isaac Newton ### Jacqueline Fendt Scholar who argues we are entering a 'vibocracy' — public life organized not around shared facts but around resonance: what feels right, what spreads, what sticks. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — cites for vibocracy → Jacqueline Fendt ### Judy Malloy link: https://www.judymalloy.net/ Net-art pioneer whose Bad Information used the Art Com network on the WELL to deliberately return wrong answers as an art project. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — surfaced Bad Information net-art piece by → Judy Malloy ### Kynaston McShine link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynaston_McShine Curator of MoMA's landmark 1970 Information show, which theorized information as a medium for conceptual and information-age artists. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — theorizes from the 1970 Information show curated by → Kynaston McShine ### Lynn Hershman Leeson link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Hershman_Leeson San Francisco new-media and conceptual artist represented in David Senior's SFMOMA Library ephemera selects. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — features in SFMOMA Library ephemera selects → Lynn Hershman Leeson ### Mareike Foecking link: /turner-sun Photographer of Fred Turner's portrait, courtesy of Stanford University. connections (1): - Fred Turner [subject] — portrait by → Mareike Foecking ### Mark Satta Philosopher who popularized the concept of 'epistemic exhaustion' in 2023 — the cognitive and emotional overwhelm that leads people to disengage from evaluating what is true. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — cites for epistemic exhaustion → Mark Satta ### Marshall McLuhan link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan Media theorist whose early media studies framed how MoMA Library books entered under architecture, design, and media — a lens for the Whole Earth Catalog show. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — reads MoMA collection through media studies of → Marshall McLuhan ### Marvin Minsky link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky AI pioneer and co-founder of MIT's AI Lab, where Brewster Kahle studied in the early 1980s. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — studied under at the MIT AI Lab → Marvin Minsky ### Ted Nelson link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson Coined 'hypertext' and conceived Project Xanadu, an early vision of a universal, interlinked document repository that Kahle cites as a forerunner of the web-as-library. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — cites Xanadu as forerunner → Ted Nelson ### Vannevar Bush link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush Engineer whose 1945 essay 'As We May Think' proposed the Memex, a personal device for storing and linking all of one's books and records — a founding vision of hypertext and the digital library. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — invokes the Memex as founding vision → Vannevar Bush ### Willoughby Sharp link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Sharp Co-founder of Avalanche magazine, the all-interview artist publication of the post-1960s political moment that influenced Andrew McClintock's SFAQ. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — discusses all-interview Avalanche by → Willoughby Sharp ## Institutions (111) ### A24 link: https://a24films.com Independent film, TV, music, and publishing studio based in New York where Scott Belsky is a partner. connections (2): - Scott Belsky [subject] — partner at → A24 - A24 — based in → New York [place] ### Adobe link: https://www.adobe.com Software company where Scott Belsky served as Chief Product Officer through 2024. connections (3): - Scott Belsky [subject] — former Chief Product Officer → Adobe - Behance [institution] — acquired by → Adobe - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — client work → Adobe ### Alyssa Davis Gallery link: https://www.alyssadavis.gallery/ New York gallery where ProblemChild Advisory has curated exhibitions. connections (2): - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curated a show at → Alyssa Davis Gallery - Alyssa Davis Gallery — located in → New York [place] ### Andreessen Horowitz link: https://a16z.com Venture firm Dylan invokes as the blue-chip equivalent in his art-as-angel-investing analogy. connections (5): - Wabi [institution] — backed by → Andreessen Horowitz - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — media fellow → Andreessen Horowitz - Art Collecting as Angel Investing [topic] — blue-chip analog → Andreessen Horowitz - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — Wabi backed by Andreessen Horowitz → Andreessen Horowitz - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — cites Katherine Boyle's media thesis → Andreessen Horowitz ### Apple link: https://www.apple.com/ Tech company where Eugene spent two decades on Jony Ive's design team, working on the iPod Nano and AirPods. connections (11): - 160GB [experience] — centers on the iPod Classic and Apple Music → Apple - Steve Jobs [subject] — co-founded → Apple - Eugene Whang [subject] — designed at for two decades → Apple - Jony Ive [subject] — led design team at → Apple - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — cites as humanistic brand → Apple - Jason Yuan [subject] — designed on Human Interface team → Apple - Katherine Frazer [subject] — product designer at → Apple - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — iPod and Apple Music as keeper and killer → Apple - Fred Turner [subject] — discusses Apple vs. Microsoft positioning → Apple - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — past client work → Apple - Max Hollein [subject] — Met partners with → Apple ### Art Center School The Los Angeles art school with a strict dress code that Ruscha first wanted to attend; its filled quota pushed him to Chouinard instead. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — first chose Art Center School before its quota was full → Art Center School ### Artforum Art magazine founded in San Francisco in 1962 that later moved to LA following the Light and Space movement. connections (2): - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — references SF founding of → Artforum - Tom Marioni [subject] — recalls Artforum launching in SF in 1962 before moving to LA → Artforum ### Atlassian link: https://www.atlassian.com Software company on whose Board of Directors Scott Belsky serves. connections (1): - Scott Belsky [subject] — board member → Atlassian ### Behance link: https://www.behance.net Global platform for ~60M+ creative professionals, founded by Scott Belsky in 2006 and acquired by Adobe in 2012. connections (2): - Scott Belsky [subject] — founded → Behance - Behance — acquired by → Adobe [institution] ### Bunney link: https://bunney.co.uk/ London jewelry house; Eugene designed a vase with them. connections (1): - Eugene Whang [subject] — designed a vase with → Bunney ### Chouinard / CalArts Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts). Where Ruscha studied after moving to LA in 1956. connections (3): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Chouinard / CalArts - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — received MFA from → Chouinard / CalArts - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — graduate of → Chouinard / CalArts ### Christie's link: https://www.christies.com/ The auction house that sold Beeple's Everydays: The First 5000 Days for $69 million in 2021 — the first purely digital work it had ever offered. connections (1): - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — Everydays sold for $69M at Christie's first all-digital sale → Christie's ### Cornell University University whose entrepreneurship and tech councils Scott Belsky serves on. connections (1): - Scott Belsky [subject] — council member → Cornell University ### Cursor AI code editor Soleio describes as "a spirit guide living inside your VS Code" — a tool that shortens the path between an idea and its production while staying scrutable. connections (2): - Soleio [subject] — calls Cursor 'a spirit guide living inside your VS Code' → Cursor - Ryo Lu [subject] — designs the product → Cursor ### Dazed Digital link: https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/68349/1/everyone-is-a-content-creator-now-influencers-social-media-instagram Cited by Kyle: "everyone is content" — the collapse of creator and audience. connections (2): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "everyone is content" → Dazed Digital - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links Dazed on everyone being a content creator now → Dazed Digital ### Dropbox Soleio joined Dropbox in 2011, first as adviser/investor then full-time for two years building the design group. connections (1): - Soleio [subject] — built the design group, 2011-2013 → Dropbox ### Ever Gold [Projects] link: https://www.evergoldprojects.com McClintock's contemporary art gallery and advisory in SF and LA, 400+ exhibitions since 2009. connections (3): - Letter from the Editor [experience] — written by the founder of → Ever Gold [Projects] - Ever Gold [Projects] — based in → San Francisco [place] - Ever Gold [Projects] — based in → Los Angeles [place] ### FACT, Liverpool UK arts center where Connor's first online curatorial project took place in 2003. connections (1): - Michael Connor [subject] — first online curatorial project 2003 → FACT, Liverpool ### Fast Company link: https://www.fastcompany.com Business and design magazine where Elliot Vredenburg writes a column on creative direction and authorship. connections (1): - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — columnist for → Fast Company ### Figma Design tool Soleio backed early, part of his sustained investment in design tools and design education. connections (1): - Soleio [subject] — early backer → Figma ### Financial Times link: https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863 Cited by Kyle: "quitting social media" — the opt-out generation. connections (4): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "quitting social media" → Financial Times - TBPN [institution] — hosts read → Financial Times - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links FT on people quitting social media → Financial Times - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — hosts read it cover to cover → Financial Times ### Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco link: https://www.famsf.org The de Young and Legion of Honor; Max Hollein served as Director and CEO from 2016 to 2018 before The Met, bringing contemporary artists into scholarly institutions. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — former director of → Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ### Fortune link: https://fortune.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-alleged-shooter-tyler-robinson-fascist-catch-bullet-casings/ Cited by Kyle: "Bella Ciao" — fascist aesthetics in political violence. connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "Bella Ciao" → Fortune - Mieke Marple [subject] — written about by → Fortune - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links Fortune on the Charlie Kirk shooter → Fortune ### Future Trashcan link: https://futuretrashcan.com Maritza Lerman Yoes's cultural marketing and creative studio focused on technology and culture. connections (1): - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — founder/CEO of → Future Trashcan ### Gagosian link: https://gagosian.com/artists/ed-ruscha/ Global gallery representing Ed Ruscha. New York, LA, London, Paris, Hong Kong. connections (8): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Gagosian - Gagosian — connected to → New York [place] - Gagosian — connected to → Los Angeles [place] - Art Collecting as Angel Investing [topic] — blue-chip analog → Gagosian - Gagosian — former SF space → San Francisco [place] - Anna Weyant [subject] — represented by → Gagosian - Matt McCormick [subject] — early book access via friend at → Gagosian - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — cites failed SF gallery → Gagosian ### Getty Research Institute link: https://www.getty.edu/ Commissioned Stamen's interactive web edition of Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles photographic archive. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — built the Getty's Ed Ruscha Streets of LA map → Getty Research Institute ### Google link: https://about.google Technology company; one of the Met's digital partners cited by Max Hollein for collection access and imaging initiatives. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — Met partners with → Google ### Guerrero Gallery link: https://guerrerogallery.com/ Los Angeles gallery where ProblemChild Advisory has curated exhibitions. connections (2): - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curated a show at → Guerrero Gallery - Guerrero Gallery — located in → Los Angeles [place] ### Hammer Museum link: https://hammer.ucla.edu Los Angeles museum holding Mario Ayala's work in its permanent collection. connections (2): - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — worked with → Hammer Museum - Mario Ayala [subject] — work in collection of → Hammer Museum ### Harvard GSD link: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/ Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where Eric Rodenbeck lectures in architecture. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — lectures in architecture at → Harvard GSD ### Hauser & Wirth link: https://www.hauserwirth.com Blue-chip international gallery opening in Palo Alto, following tech money into Silicon Valley. connections (3): - Art Collecting as Angel Investing [topic] — blue-chip analog → Hauser & Wirth - Hauser & Wirth — opening in Palo Alto / Bay Area → San Francisco [place] - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — watches Palo Alto opening → Hauser & Wirth ### HIVEMIND link: https://www.hivemind.ai/ Jason Yuan's social intelligence company built on using AI to help people see and understand each other. connections (1): - Jason Yuan [subject] — founder of → HIVEMIND ### Humanrace link: https://humanrace.com/ Pharrell's skincare and wellness brand; a recent Eugene project. connections (2): - Eugene Whang [subject] — collaborated with → Humanrace - Humanrace — founded by → Pharrell Williams [subject] ### Institute for the Future of the Book New-media research institute; Cy Canterel is an alumna. Studies how networked text and digital reading reshape knowledge. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — alumna of the Institute → Institute for the Future of the Book ### Internet Archive link: https://archive.org/details/wholeearth Nonprofit digital library hosting every free, searchable Whole Earth Catalog issue. connections (6): - Whole Earth Catalog [institution] — archived at → Internet Archive - Internet Archive — founded by → Brewster Kahle [subject] - Internet Archive — central to → It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] - Fred Turner [subject] — WEC issues archived at → Internet Archive - Max Hollein [subject] — parallel digitization ethos to → Internet Archive - David Senior [subject] — shares digital-preservation mission with → Internet Archive ### iPod Classic link: https://www.thecultureslop.com/nicolas-cevallos Apple's discontinued music player — for Cevallos, the last technology that felt valuable precisely because of what it couldn't do. connections (1): - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — reframes as a modern heirloom → iPod Classic ### Jeffrey Deitch link: https://deitch.com/artists/ayala-rocha Gallery representing Mario Ayala. connections (1): - Mario Ayala [subject] — represented by → Jeffrey Deitch ### K-HOLE link: https://khole.net/ Trend forecasting group (2010–16) whose 'Youth Mode' report coined the term normcore. connections (2): - Sean Monahan [subject] — co-founded → K-HOLE - K-HOLE — coined → Normcore [topic] ### Karma Gallery link: https://bookstore.karmakarma.org/ New York gallery whose bookstore program, run by Matt Shuster, deals in rare books and artist publications. connections (2): - Matt Shuster [subject] — runs book program at → Karma Gallery - Matt McCormick × Matt Shuster [experience] — conversation rooted in → Karma Gallery ### Kenetic link: https://kenetic.capital/ Early blockchain and crypto venture capital firm founded by Jehan Chu, based in Puerto Rico and Hong Kong, with investments in 300+ blockchain companies and funds. connections (1): - Jehan Chu [subject] — Founder and Managing Partner → Kenetic ### Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Art academy where Joseph Beuys taught from 1968-1974. connections (2): - Joseph Beuys [subject] — taught at → Kunstakademie Düsseldorf - Tom Sachs [subject] — references Beuys's teaching there → Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ### La Mamelle / Art Com link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mamelle,_Inc./Art_Com Pioneering Bay Area artist magazine and art space founded by Carl Loeffler that launched one of the first online artist networks as an arts node on the WELL. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — researched WELL arts node launched by → La Mamelle / Art Com ### LACMA link: https://www.lacma.org/art/collection/ed-ruscha Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Major Ruscha holdings. connections (6): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → LACMA - LACMA — connected to → Los Angeles [place] - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — worked with → LACMA - Mario Ayala [subject] — work in collection of → LACMA - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — DIFFUSE CONTROL installed at LACMA; Jehan co-chairs its Digital Leaders → LACMA - Jehan Chu [subject] — co-chair of LACMA's Digital Leaders committee → LACMA ### Lars Müller Publishers link: https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/super-normal Publisher of Super Normal by Fukasawa and Morrison. Referenced in Kyle's essay. connections (2): - Naoto Fukasawa & Jasper Morrison [subject] — connected to → Lars Müller Publishers - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — cites Lars Müller's Super Normal title → Lars Müller Publishers ### LimeWire Peer-to-peer file-sharing service the writer used to download music onto his iPod. connections (2): - 160GB [experience] — recalls downloading music from → LimeWire - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — hours pirating songs onto the iPod → LimeWire ### Loewe link: https://www.loewe.com Spanish leather house cited as the working case study of coherence without consistency under creative director Jonathan Anderson. connections (5): - Loewe — brand presence on → Instagram [platform] - Loewe — creative director → Jonathan Anderson [subject] - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — case study → Loewe - Nikita Walia [subject] — Loewe as brand-universe case study → Loewe - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — Loewe: coherence without consistency → Loewe ### LoveFrom Jony Ive's design firm, which Eugene joined after Apple. connections (2): - Eugene Whang [subject] — joined Ive's firm → LoveFrom - Jony Ive [subject] — founded → LoveFrom ### Meta link: https://about.meta.com/ Parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, where Connor Hayes leads the Threads product as Head of Threads. connections (1): - Connor Hayes [subject] — executive at Meta → Meta ### Microsoft link: https://www.microsoft.com Technology company partnered with The Met on digital and AI initiatives, named by Max Hollein alongside Apple and OpenAI. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — Met partners with → Microsoft ### MIT AI Lab link: https://www.csail.mit.edu Where Kahle studied under Marvin Minsky and Danny Hillis in the early 1980s, building early AI and supercomputers. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — studied AI and supercomputing there → MIT AI Lab ### MoMA link: https://www.moma.org/artists/5065 Museum of Modern Art, New York. Ruscha retrospective and permanent collection. connections (10): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → MoMA - MoMA — connected to → New York [place] - Scott Belsky [subject] — board member → MoMA - CryptoPunks [topic] — acquired by → MoMA - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — has spoken at → MoMA - Nikita Walia [subject] — gave brand-universe talk at → MoMA - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → MoMA - James Rosenquist [subject] — in collection of → MoMA - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — references Peter Selz from → MoMA - David Senior [subject] — former Senior Bibliographer; curated Electro-Library & Whole Earth shows at → MoMA ### Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Conceptual_Art The first alternative art space in the US, founded by Tom Marioni in San Francisco (1970–1984). connections (2): - Tom Marioni [subject] — founded → Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — centers on → Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) ### National Gallery link: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.7021.html National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Ruscha in the permanent collection. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → National Gallery ### Net Art Anthology link: https://anthology.rhizome.org/ Rhizome's online exhibition, book, and touring show retelling the history of net art through 100 exemplary works. connections (1): - Michael Connor [subject] — led the initiative → Net Art Anthology ### New Computer Jason Yuan's previous AI startup, maker of Dot, a private personal AI forming a theory of mind. connections (1): - Jason Yuan [subject] — co-founded (built Dot) → New Computer ### NEW INC link: https://www.newinc.org/ The New Museum's incubator; Rhizome partners with it on the art and code track. connections (2): - Rhizome [institution] — partners with on art and code track → NEW INC - Michael Connor [subject] — partners on art & code track → NEW INC ### New Langton Arts link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Langton_Arts San Francisco alternative arts space; site of early live-electronics and experimental performance ephemera in the SFMOMA Library archive. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — holds New Langton Arts ephemera in archive → New Langton Arts ### New Museum link: https://www.newmuseum.org/ New York contemporary art museum that has been Rhizome's partner and home since 2003. connections (3): - Rhizome [institution] — affiliate of since 2003 → New Museum - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — exhibited at 7x7 → New Museum - Michael Connor [subject] — Rhizome affiliate since 2003 → New Museum ### New Statesman link: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/03/ai-art-and-the-ruins-of-human-creativity Cited by Kyle: "arts killed by AI" — the ruins of human creativity. connections (2): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "arts killed by AI" → New Statesman - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links New Statesman on AI and the ruins of creativity → New Statesman ### New York Stock Exchange Trading floor TBPN wrapped in its branding for a remote broadcast. connections (2): - TBPN [institution] — broadcasts from → New York Stock Exchange - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — broadcasts from the trading floor → New York Stock Exchange ### New York Times link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/rufo-yarvin-trump-nihilism.html Cited by Kyle: "right lacking a philosophy" — Rufo, Yarvin, political nihilism. connections (6): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "right lacking a philosophy" → New York Times - Jasmine Sun [subject] — bylined in → New York Times - Mieke Marple [subject] — written about by → New York Times - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links NYT opinion on Yarvin/Trump nihilism → New York Times - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — work featured in The New York Times → New York Times - Quentin Hardy [subject] — former Deputy Technology Editor → New York Times ### New York University Cy Canterel served as a former visiting scholar at NYU, decoding systems of power and meaning across new media. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — former visiting scholar → New York University ### Night Gallery Los Angeles gallery that Mieke Marple co-owned from 2011 to 2016. connections (1): - Mieke Marple [subject] — co-owned → Night Gallery ### Nike link: https://www.nike.com/ Footwear brand behind Tom Sachs's NikeCraft collaboration. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collaborates with via NikeCraft → Nike - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — discusses NikeCraft at length → Nike ### Oakland Museum of California Site of Marioni's 1970 action 'The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art.' connections (1): - Tom Marioni [subject] — staged beer-drinking action at → Oakland Museum of California ### On Approval McClintock's seed-stage VC-backed art platform startup, shut down in 2024. connections (2): - Letter from the Editor [experience] — recounts shutting down → On Approval - On Approval — backed by → Scott Belsky [subject] ### One of These Days link: https://oneofthesedays.com/ McCormick's clothing and objects line — the studio practice extended into another language. connections (1): - Matt McCormick [subject] — founder / extends practice into → One of These Days ### OpenAI link: https://openai.com AI lab that acquired TBPN. connections (4): - TBPN [institution] — acquired by → OpenAI - Kyle Chayka [subject] — names ChatGPT's release as a generative-AI tidal wave → OpenAI - Fred Turner [subject] — names AI labs reshaping the Valley → OpenAI - Max Hollein [subject] — Met partners with → OpenAI ### Park Avenue Armory link: https://www.armoryonpark.org/ New York venue that staged Tom Sachs's Space Program: MARS (2012). connections (3): - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — references Space Program: MARS at → Park Avenue Armory - Park Avenue Armory — based in → New York [place] - Tom Sachs [subject] — Space Program: MARS at Park Avenue Armory → Park Avenue Armory ### Pompidou Center link: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/ Paris museum holding Tom Sachs's work in its permanent collection. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → Pompidou Center - Pompidou Center — based in → Paris [place] ### Printed Matter link: https://www.printedmatter.org/ Nonprofit dedicated to artists' books and publications; host of the New York Art Book Fair, where David Senior organizes the Classroom program. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — organizes the Classroom program at → Printed Matter ### Puck link: https://puck.news Media company; Dylan Byers and Julia Alexander cover the business of show business. connections (2): - Puck — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — covering the business of show business → Puck ### Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com Social platform Aaron Swartz helped found; cited by Kahle as an example of platforms leveraging user-contributed content they get for free. connections (2): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — cites it as a platform leveraging free user content → Reddit - Aaron Swartz [person] — co-founder → Reddit ### Replika link: https://replika.com AI companion app Eugenia founded, grown out of a memorial chatbot for a late friend. connections (1): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — founded → Replika ### Rhizome link: https://rhizome.org/ Thirty-year-old digital art organization and memory institution preserving internet art, affiliated with the New Museum. connections (13): - Lynn Hershman Leeson [subject] — shown at → Rhizome - Rhizome — affiliate of since 2003 → New Museum [institution] - Michael Connor [subject] — executive director of → Rhizome - Katherine Frazer [subject] — board member of → Rhizome - Rhizome — partners with on art and code track → NEW INC [institution] - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — set at → Rhizome - Rhizome — collects and archives → Net Art [topic] - Rhizome — practice of → Digital Preservation [topic] - Rafaël Rozendaal [subject] — longtime collaborator with → Rhizome - Kevin McCoy [subject] — made first NFT at 7×7 hackathon → Rhizome - Rhizome — based in → New York [place] - Rhizome — memory institution alongside → The Met [institution] - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — appeared at Rhizome's Seven on Seven → Rhizome ### sacai Japanese fashion house Eugene has collaborated with. connections (1): - Eugene Whang [subject] — collaborated with → sacai ### SADE Gallery The Los Angeles gallery Alberto Cuadros founded, working closely with emerging contemporary artists before establishing SALA. connections (1): - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — founded the LA gallery → SADE Gallery ### SALA link: https://s-a-l-a.org/ Society of Art and Living Archives — Alberto Cuadros's nonprofit preserving California's historic artistic lineages. connections (1): - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — founded → SALA ### San Francisco Art Institute The art school where Mario Ayala studied under Carlos Villa and Bruce McGaw. connections (3): - Mario Ayala [subject] — studied at → San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco Art Institute — located in → San Francisco [place] - Carlos Villa [subject] — taught at → San Francisco Art Institute ### SFAQ link: https://www.sfaq.us/2025/10/ed-ruscha-in-conversation-with-andrew-mcclintock/ San Francisco Arts Quarterly. Original Ruscha interview by Andrew McClintock. connections (3): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → SFAQ - Letter from the Editor [experience] — references the editor's prior magazine → SFAQ - David Senior [subject] — shaped Andrew's SFAQ via Vision & Avalanche → SFAQ ### SFMOMA link: https://www.sfmoma.org/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which collected Funk-era Bay Area work and hosted Marioni's MOCA in 1979. connections (6): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → SFMOMA - SFMOMA — based in → San Francisco [place] - Mario Ayala [subject] — work in collection of → SFMOMA - Tom Marioni [subject] — exhibited at; work collected by → SFMOMA - Ed Ruscha [subject] — joined the SFMOMA board in 2013 → SFMOMA - David Senior [subject] — Director of Library & Archives at → SFMOMA ### Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum link: https://www.guggenheim.org/ New York museum holding Tom Sachs's work in its permanent collection. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Tom Marioni [subject] — honored as a Guggenheim Fellow (1981) → Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ### Southern Exposure link: https://soex.org/ Nonprofit artist-centered organization in San Francisco's Mission District that Connor Hayes name-checks as part of the Bay Area art community he supports. connections (1): - Connor Hayes [subject] — supports SF art community at Southern Exposure → Southern Exposure ### Spotify Streaming service referenced via its Discovery Weekly playlist as a symbol of frictionless, disposable music collecting. connections (3): - 160GB [experience] — references Discovery Weekly → Spotify - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — Discovery Weekly and streaming as frictionless consumption → Spotify - Kyle Chayka [subject] — cites Spotify among algorithmic recommendation systems → Spotify ### Stamen Design link: https://stamen.com Eric Rodenbeck's San Francisco design and technology studio (founded 2001), a defining force in online mapping and data visualization. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — founded Stamen Design → Stamen Design ### Stanford University link: https://comm.stanford.edu/ University where Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication. connections (2): - Fred Turner [subject] — professor at → Stanford University - Sean Monahan [subject] — jokes YC funding beats landing a Stanford-grad job → Stanford University ### Stripe Payments company where Katie Dill, a First of Kind guest, leads design. connections (1): - Katie Dill [subject] — leads design at → Stripe ### Tate Modern link: https://www.tate.org.uk/ London museum holding Tom Sachs's work in its permanent collection. connections (1): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → Tate Modern ### TBPN link: https://www.tbpn.com Daily live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, acquired by OpenAI. connections (10): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — president of → TBPN - TBPN — co-hosted by → John Coogan [subject] - TBPN — co-hosted by → Jordi Hays [subject] - TBPN — acquired by → OpenAI [institution] - TBPN — broadcasts from → New York Stock Exchange [institution] - TBPN — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network [topic] - TBPN — hosts read → The Wall Street Journal [institution] - TBPN — hosts read → Financial Times [institution] - TBPN — distributed on → Twitter/X [platform] - TBPN — the appearance that set the tone → Mark Zuckerberg [subject] ### The Atlantic American magazine. Charlie Warzel's home base. Referenced in Kyle's essay. connections (8): - Charlie Warzel [subject] — connected to → The Atlantic - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "posting less" → The Atlantic - Jasmine Sun [subject] — contributing writer at → The Atlantic - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — cites → The Atlantic - W. David Marx [subject] — writes for → The Atlantic - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links Warzel and AI-companionship pieces in The Atlantic → The Atlantic - Sean Monahan [subject] — cites its piece on AI and graduate unemployment → The Atlantic - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — work featured in The Atlantic → The Atlantic ### The Broad link: https://www.thebroad.org/ Los Angeles contemporary art museum where Jen Vanegas Rocha is Assistant Curator and which holds Ayala's work. connections (3): - Jen Vanegas Rocha [subject] — assistant curator at → The Broad - Mario Ayala [subject] — work in collection of → The Broad - The Broad — located in → Los Angeles [place] ### The Guardian Newspaper that has written about Mieke Marple's work. connections (2): - Mieke Marple [subject] — written about by → The Guardian - Kyle Chayka [subject] — The Guardian reviewed Filterworld → The Guardian ### The Met link: https://www.metmuseum.org The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Directed by Max Hollein since 2018. connections (5): - Max Hollein [subject] — connected to → The Met - The Met — connected to → New York [place] - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → The Met - Rhizome [institution] — memory institution alongside → The Met - Max Hollein [experience] — live Met Open Access feed → The Met ### The Met Cloisters The Met's medieval art branch in Fort Tryon Park, Upper Manhattan. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — connected to → The Met Cloisters ### The Met Gala link: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/the-costume-institute Annual benefit for The Met's Costume Institute; described by Hollein as the year's biggest popular-culture moment where fashion-as-art meets timely cultural debate. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — oversees → The Met Gala ### The New School New York university where Elliot Vredenburg has spoken. connections (1): - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — has spoken at → The New School ### The New Yorker Kyle Chayka is a staff writer. Filterworld author. Key voice on algorithms and taste. connections (3): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — connected to → The New Yorker - W. David Marx [subject] — writes for → The New Yorker - Kyle Chayka [subject] — staff writer at The New Yorker → The New Yorker ### The Spectator link: https://spectator.com/article/christian-nihilism-taking-over-american-life/ Cited by Kyle: "Christian nihilism" taking over American life. connections (2): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "Christian nihilism" → The Spectator - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links The Spectator on Christian nihilism → The Spectator ### The Wall Street Journal link: https://www.wsj.com Print edition John and Jordi read cover to cover each morning. connections (3): - TBPN [institution] — hosts read → The Wall Street Journal - Jasmine Sun [subject] — work appeared in → The Wall Street Journal - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — hosts read it cover to cover → The Wall Street Journal ### times nonprofit arts centre link: https://www.timesny.org/ Three-year planned-obsolescent nonprofit arts centre in New York co-founded by Francesca Sonara. connections (2): - Francesca Sonara [subject] — co-founded → times nonprofit arts centre - times nonprofit arts centre — located in → New York [place] ### U.N.N.A.M.E.D. link: https://www.unnamed.xyz Brand and design practice based in New York, Stockholm, and Los Angeles, where Walia and Vredenburg are partners. connections (5): - Nikita Walia [subject] — partner, strategy at → U.N.N.A.M.E.D. - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — partner & creative director at → U.N.N.A.M.E.D. - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. — based in → New York [place] - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. — based in → Stockholm [place] - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. — based in → Los Angeles [place] ### UCLA University of California, Los Angeles, where Mieke Marple earned a B.A. in Fine Art in 2008. connections (1): - Mieke Marple [subject] — studied at → UCLA ### University of Chicago Press link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ Publisher of Turner's books, including From Counterculture to Cyberculture. connections (1): - Fred Turner [subject] — published by → University of Chicago Press ### Variety link: https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/stellan-skarsgard-oscars-robin-williams-lars-von-trier-ai-1236667958/ Cited by Kyle: Skarsgård on AI, Robin Williams, Lars von Trier at the Oscars. connections (3): - Stellan Skarsgård [subject] — connected to → Variety - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt" → Variety - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links Skarsgård interview and the Tom Cruise AI-video story → Variety ### Vice Media brand Marx cites as an engine of the anti-PC counter-counterculture. connections (2): - Gavin McInnes [subject] — co-founded → Vice - W. David Marx [subject] — Vice as carrier of the counter-counterculture turn → Vice ### Viking link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ Publisher of Blank Space and Status and Culture. connections (1): - W. David Marx [subject] — published by → Viking ### Wabi link: https://wabi.ai Personal software platform (backed by Andreessen Horowitz) where anyone can build 'home-cooked apps' for an audience of one. connections (5): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — founder & CEO of → Wabi - Wabi — backed by → Andreessen Horowitz [institution] - Wabi — platform for → Personal Software [topic] - Wabi — studio in → San Francisco [place] - Soleio [subject] — angel investor; cites Wabi's TAM-of-one logic → Wabi ### Washington Post link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/08/nihilistic-violence-emerges/ Cited by Kyle: "proud to have no reason" — nihilistic violence reporting. connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — "proud to have no reason" → Washington Post - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — links Washington Post on nihilistic violence → Washington Post - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — work featured in the Washington Post → Washington Post ### Whitney Museum link: https://whitney.org/ New York museum holding Tom Sachs's work in its permanent collection. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — collected by → Whitney Museum - Marcus Bösch [subject] — Soir Bleu courtesy of the Whitney → Whitney Museum ### Whole Earth Catalog link: https://archive.org/details/wholeearth Stewart Brand's 'access to tools' publication, the conceptual ancestor of Culture Slop's Wormhole. connections (10): - Stewart Brand [subject] — created → Whole Earth Catalog - Letter from the Editor [experience] — models its Wormhole on → Whole Earth Catalog - Whole Earth Catalog — embodies → Access to Tools [topic] - Fred Turner [subject] — wrote the history of → Whole Earth Catalog - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — tribute to → Whole Earth Catalog - Whole Earth Catalog — founded by → Stewart Brand [subject] - Whole Earth Catalog — 'access to tools' ethos → Open Access [topic] - Whole Earth Catalog — archived at → Internet Archive [institution] - Brewster Kahle [subject] — shares the open-access, tools-to-the-people ethos → Whole Earth Catalog - David Senior [subject] — curated Access to Tools show on → Whole Earth Catalog ### Y Combinator link: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/replika Startup accelerator; Eugenia went through the W15 batch with her chatbot startup Luka. connections (4): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — W15 alum → Y Combinator - Letter from the Editor [experience] — the YC / PM podcasts he quit to go deep reading → Y Combinator - Sean Monahan [subject] — references easier funding than employment → Y Combinator - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — books YC demo-day founders → Y Combinator ## Topics (92) ### Access to Tools The Whole Earth Catalog ethos of giving readers doors into a subject's universe — Culture Slop's Wormhole concept. connections (8): - Whole Earth Catalog [institution] — embodies → Access to Tools - Letter from the Editor [experience] — reframes for the algorithm age → Access to Tools - It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] — shares the 'global brain' lineage → Access to Tools - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — laments the web's lost promise as tools that helped us → Access to Tools - Fred Turner [subject] — theorized 'access to tools' → Access to Tools - Max Hollein [subject] — open-access ethos echoes → Access to Tools - Brewster Kahle [subject] — Internet Archive as Access to Tools / the global library → Access to Tools - David Senior [subject] — named his MoMA Whole Earth show after → Access to Tools ### Affect-Industrial Complex The industrial-scale production of things that feel good; central frame of the conversation. connections (5): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — explores → Affect-Industrial Complex - Marcus Bösch [subject] — affect before evaluation → Affect-Industrial Complex - Nikita Walia [subject] — diagnoses the affect-industrial complex → Affect-Industrial Complex - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — frames feeling-good produced at industrial scale → Affect-Industrial Complex - Connor Hayes [subject] — engineering deeply personal feeds and cultural relevance at platform scale → Affect-Industrial Complex ### AI & Culture Artificial intelligence and its impact on creative work, curation, and cultural production. connections (41): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → AI & Culture - Max Hollein [experience] — connected to → AI & Culture - AI & Culture — connected to → Curation & Taste [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — explores judgment in an age of infinite output → AI & Culture - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — touches on → AI & Culture - Eugene Whang [experience] — explores (refusing AI in design) → AI & Culture - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — essay 'GenAI is Our Polyester' → AI & Culture - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — argues AI must become culture → AI & Culture - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - What Even Is UI? [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — debates AI's place in digital art → AI & Culture - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → AI & Culture - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — argues AI can't make real art → AI & Culture - Letter from the Editor [experience] — making culture 'in the age of the algorithm' → AI & Culture - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — arts and minds 'being killed by AI' owned by tech barons → AI & Culture - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — rejection of today's mindless media consumption → AI & Culture - Marcus Bösch [subject] — AI-generated content and culture → AI & Culture - Kyle Chayka [subject] — warns AI will co-opt taste as social media co-opted attention → AI & Culture - Cy Canterel [subject] — reads the LLM as an ontological vacuum → AI & Culture - Scott Belsky [subject] — argues AI augments rather than replaces artists → AI & Culture - Fred Turner [subject] — on AGI as warmed-over '90s network rhetoric → AI & Culture - Nikita Walia [subject] — speaking to the algorithm; infinite output → AI & Culture - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — value of judgment in a world of infinite output → AI & Culture - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — debates AI as alchemical dream → AI & Culture - Quentin Hardy [subject] — writes on alchemy & AI → AI & Culture - Eugene Whang [subject] — refuses AI in his design workflow → AI & Culture - W. David Marx [subject] — GenAI is Our Polyester — AI and cultural value → AI & Culture - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — AI as the driving force behind DIFFUSE CONTROL and his generative practice → AI & Culture - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — explores raising AI like a garden → AI & Culture - Connor Hayes [subject] — Dear Algo uses LLMs to read cultural in-speak → AI & Culture - Connor Hayes — Threads [experience] — explores LLM-driven feed personalization → AI & Culture - Soleio [subject] — on agentic systems' brute-force taste and the AlphaGo 'alien' style of play → AI & Culture - Jason Yuan [subject] — builds social AI, prices in automation of his own work → AI & Culture - Michael Connor [subject] — navigates AI debate in digital art → AI & Culture - Max Hollein [subject] — navigates institution through → AI & Culture - Brewster Kahle [subject] — libraries you can talk to; public AI → AI & Culture - Mieke Marple [subject] — AI proliferation of not-personal content spamming the feed → AI & Culture - Tom Marioni [subject] — argues AI cannot make art — no emotion or compassion, only copies → AI & Culture ### Alchemy & Transmutation The ancient dream of refining base matter into something higher — used as the lens for AI, fermentation, and dissolving guns into pigment. connections (2): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — frames his work as transmutation of matter → Alchemy & Transmutation - Quentin Hardy [subject] — essays on transcendence & transmutation → Alchemy & Transmutation ### Algorithmic Homogenization link: /map?center=topic-algorithmic-homogenization The flattening of culture as algorithmic feeds push all users toward the same most-clickable content — the central thesis of Kyle Chayka's Filterworld. connections (1): - Kyle Chayka [subject] — Filterworld thesis: feeds flatten culture into a herd → Algorithmic Homogenization ### Ambient Affect-first epistemology — vibocracy, exhaustion, the feed as climate. connections (6): - Slop [topic] — connected to → Ambient - Ambient [experience] — connected to → Ambient - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Ambient - Ambient — connected to → The Feed [topic] - Marcus Bösch [subject] — essay titled → Ambient - Kyle Chayka [subject] — art reduced to passive entertainment and ambient soothing → Ambient ### Anti-Gatekeeping link: /problem-child-advisory Art for the people — an anti-establishment, anti-gatekept platform carving space between maker and proprietor at the speed of endless data. connections (2): - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — is an anti-gatekept platform → Anti-Gatekeeping - Anti-Gatekeeping — reframes who gets to curate → Curation & Taste [topic] ### Archiving Ayala's lifelong practice of collecting ephemera and screenshots that feed his compositions. connections (5): - Mario Ayala [subject] — daily practice → Archiving - Michael Connor [subject] — memory institution work → Archiving - Brewster Kahle [subject] — central life's work → Archiving - David Senior [subject] — works as librarian-archivist-as-artist → Archiving - Tom Marioni [subject] — founded Vision magazine; living archive of West Coast conceptualism → Archiving ### Areality Cy Canterel's term for the interior of an LLM: a space that structurally cannot meet the conditions for reality, producing language without perspective, situatedness, or a speaking subject. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — coins 'areality' for the LLM interior → Areality ### Art Collecting as Angel Investing Dylan's frame likening supporting emerging artists to writing early-stage founder checks. connections (4): - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — frames → Art Collecting as Angel Investing - Art Collecting as Angel Investing — blue-chip analog → Andreessen Horowitz [institution] - Art Collecting as Angel Investing — blue-chip analog → Gagosian [institution] - Art Collecting as Angel Investing — blue-chip analog → Hauser & Wirth [institution] ### Artist Books Books as art objects. Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip. connections (3): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Artist Books - Matt McCormick [subject] — treats books as primary work → Artist Books - Matt Shuster [subject] — specializes in rare artist publications → Artist Books ### Artist Publishing & Magazines The lineage of avant-garde artist magazines and self-publishing — from 1920s typography through Avalanche, Vision, La Mamelle, and zines — as a medium and a politics. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — theorizes avant-garde artist publishing → Artist Publishing & Magazines ### Baseball Cards & Memorabilia Childhood card and memorabilia collecting — the SF Giants, the Card Barn, stats — as the origin of a lifelong collecting impulse. connections (1): - Matt McCormick [subject] — began collecting SF Giants cards as a kid → Baseball Cards & Memorabilia ### Brain–Computer Interface Subvocalization, telepathy, and BCI as the endgame of UI — when the interface dissolves into thought itself. Jason Yuan: "what even is UI?" connections (1): - Jason Yuan [subject] — predicts subvocalization and BCI as the endgame of UI → Brain–Computer Interface ### Brand Universe Walia's concentric BRAND CONCEPT / PRODUCT / AUDIENCE / DESIRED CULTURAL IMPACT strategy framework. connections (4): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — explores → Brand Universe - Nikita Walia [subject] — author of framework → Brand Universe - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — co-developed brand-universe model at U.N.N.A.M.E.D. → Brand Universe - Eugene Whang [subject] — critiques brands that hire for taste → Brand Universe ### Clowning Audience-interaction performance as a response to alienation and present-moment human connection. connections (3): - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Clowning - Marcus Bösch [subject] — the clown in Soir Bleu → Clowning - Mieke Marple [subject] — sees clowning as typifying the zeitgeist of the moment → Clowning ### Collage Ayala's compositional method — layering found and drawn imagery, physically then digitally, into paintings. connections (4): - Mario Ayala [subject] — core method → Collage - Surrealism [topic] — exquisite corpse technique → Collage - The Repost as Curation [topic] — referential to Dada collage → Collage - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — Everydays is a 5,000-image collage made over 13 years → Collage ### Collecting Gathering objects, books, images, and memories as both a creative practice and a way to hold the energy of a thing. connections (3): - Matt McCormick [subject] — collecting blends into the practice → Collecting - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — intentional song-and-album collection → Collecting - Mario Ayala [subject] — compulsive collecting of imagery and ephemera → Collecting ### Conceptualism Art where the idea takes precedence over aesthetics. Duchamp through Ruscha's artist books. connections (15): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Conceptualism - Nikita Walia [subject] — invokes the readymade → Conceptualism - Tom Marioni [subject] — pioneer of → Conceptualism - Tom Sachs [subject] — draws on → Conceptualism - Sol LeWitt [subject] — pioneered → Conceptualism - Lucy Lippard [subject] — chronicled → Conceptualism - Chris Burden [subject] — cited within → Conceptualism - Marina Abramović [subject] — cited within → Conceptualism - Yoko Ono [subject] — cited within → Conceptualism - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — explores → Conceptualism - Letter from the Editor [experience] — magazine framed as conceptual art — ephemeral, self-imposed restraints, bad ROI → Conceptualism - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — is itself a conceptual project → Conceptualism - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — system-as-artwork extends conceptual / instruction-based practice → Conceptualism - Robert Irwin [subject] — perception-as-medium light-and-space practice → Conceptualism - David Senior [subject] — frames the Information artist as conceptual practice → Conceptualism ### Content & Circulation Communication instrumentalized into media-stuff optimized for circulation rather than meaning — the contentified foundation on which, per Cy Canterel, the vector space of LLMs is built. connections (1): - Cy Canterel [subject] — traces slop back to contentified communication → Content & Circulation ### Cool School of Los Angeles link: /map?center=topic-cool-school The 1960s Ferus Gallery generation of Los Angeles artists — slick, finish-fetish surfaces and West Coast cool — cited as a core influence on Mario Ayala's painting. connections (1): - Mario Ayala [subject] — LA Cool School influence → Cool School of Los Angeles ### Counterculture The ideological backlash against liberal inclusivity Marx traces from Poptimism to the manosphere. connections (10): - Fred Turner [subject] — scholar of → Counterculture - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — explores → Counterculture - Counterculture — rooted in → California [place] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — explores → Counterculture - Andrew Tate [subject] — figurehead of → Counterculture - Kyle Chayka [subject] — nostalgia for the treasure-map craft of finding culture → Counterculture - Nikita Walia [subject] — taste absorbed the moment it becomes discourse → Counterculture - W. David Marx [subject] — coined the counter-counterculture framing → Counterculture - David Senior [subject] — traces from counterculture to Silicon Valley → Counterculture - Francesca Sonara [subject] — critiques growth-at-all-cost ideology infecting the arts → Counterculture ### CryptoPunks Generative-pixel collection acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, cited by Belsky as art rooted in human lore and story. connections (5): - CryptoPunks — acquired by → MoMA [institution] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — cites → CryptoPunks - Scott Belsky [subject] — cites MoMA CryptoPunks acquisition as human art → CryptoPunks - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — critiques the static, self-generative early NFT era CryptoPunks typify → CryptoPunks - Michael Connor [subject] — first NFT lineage via 7×7 → CryptoPunks ### Curation & Taste The crisis of curation in algorithmic feeds. Kyle Chayka's Filterworld thesis. "There's no map." connections (32): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Curation & Taste - Max Hollein [experience] — connected to → Curation & Taste - AI & Culture [topic] — connected to → Curation & Taste - Letter from the Editor [experience] — rooted in curatorial instinct → Curation & Taste - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — distinguishes artists from content creators → Curation & Taste - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — argues you can't SaaS-scale taste → Curation & Taste - Eugene Whang [experience] — explores → Curation & Taste - Tom Sachs [subject] — defines taste as exclusionary → Curation & Taste - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — explores → Curation & Taste - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — interrogates taste & tastemaking → Curation & Taste - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — explores → Curation & Taste - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — buy what you love ethos → Curation & Taste - What Even Is UI? [experience] — touches on taste & pattern-matching → Curation & Taste - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — explores curating as art → Curation & Taste - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — trend analyst writing on taste and what culture is for → Curation & Taste - Marcus Bösch [subject] — taste and attention amid exhaustion → Curation & Taste - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curates against the algorithmic feed → Curation & Taste - Anti-Gatekeeping [topic] — reframes who gets to curate → Curation & Taste - Kyle Chayka [subject] — taste as deeper understanding vs superficial preference → Curation & Taste - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld [experience] — Culture Slop's curation thesis sparked by Filterworld → Curation & Taste - Cy Canterel [subject] — to know is to choose — separating product from waste → Curation & Taste - Scott Belsky [subject] — content creators vs. artists — speed vs. control → Curation & Taste - W. David Marx [subject] — taste as a faculty of appreciation and curation → Curation & Taste - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — DIFFUSE CONTROL: curators choose images that the system reprocesses → Curation & Taste - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — home-cooked vs frozen software as a taste act → Curation & Taste - Connor Hayes [subject] — algorithm as curation of culture and conversation → Curation & Taste - Soleio [subject] — frames taste as Darwinian selection and curation → Curation & Taste - Jason Yuan [subject] — creativity as unconventional pattern-matching, giving models a point of view → Curation & Taste - Michael Connor [subject] — curator of digital culture → Curation & Taste - Max Hollein [subject] — stewards → Curation & Taste - David Senior [subject] — posits a golden age of curating → Curation & Taste - Tom Marioni [subject] — curator at Richmond Art Center; organized the Funk-era new-art shows → Curation & Taste ### Digital Preservation Sustaining long-term access to digital culture via emulation, containerization, and web archiving. connections (7): - Rhizome [institution] — practice of → Digital Preservation - Digital Preservation — sustains long-term access → Open Access [topic] - Digital Preservation — memory institution for digital culture → Memory [topic] - Digital Preservation — long-term durability against obsolescence → Forever [topic] - Michael Connor [subject] — core practice → Digital Preservation - Max Hollein [subject] — digitizes archives via → Digital Preservation - Brewster Kahle [subject] — Wayback Machine, one trillion web pages → Digital Preservation ### Disposable Consumption Buying cheap, modular, or disposable goods 'just good enough for today' instead of objects meant to be passed down. connections (4): - 160GB [experience] — critiques → Disposable Consumption - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — content as a point of sale to be endlessly consumed → Disposable Consumption - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — critiques disposable, modular consumption → Disposable Consumption - Tom Sachs [subject] — critique of consumerism as a consumer choice → Disposable Consumption ### Enshittification Cory Doctorow's term for platform decay. Key concept in Kyle's essay on the internet as a condition. connections (11): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Enshittification - Nihilism [topic] — connected to → Enshittification - Letter from the Editor [experience] — reacts against flattened culture → Enshittification - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Enshittification - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — names enshittification as a defining word of the era → Enshittification - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — the lack of ads vs. mindless media → Enshittification - Marcus Bösch [subject] — shares Kyle's degradation thesis → Enshittification - Cy Canterel [subject] — language slopified by mobile capital → Enshittification - Scott Belsky [subject] — AI content filling the feeds → Enshittification - Brewster Kahle [subject] — diagnoses platform concentration of culture → Enshittification - Cory Doctorow [person] — coined the term → Enshittification ### Epistemic Exhaustion A state of cognitive and emotional overwhelm from information overload and contested truth claims, leading people to disengage from evaluating what is true or relevant. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — essay anchored on → Epistemic Exhaustion ### Fashion as Art Hollein frames fashion as a fast medium of self-expression and visual culture — the Costume Institute treats it as a serious art form. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — treats fashion as → Fashion as Art ### Fermentation & Slow Craft Pigment-making, ink, and food as slow alchemical processes in dialogue with microbes and cultures over months. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — makes pigments and ink through fermentation → Fermentation & Slow Craft ### Forever Heirlooms, longevity, what we keep when nothing is permanent. connections (8): - Beeple × Jehan Chu [experience] — connected to → Forever - 160GB [experience] — connected to → Forever - Forever — connected to → Memory [topic] - Digital Preservation [topic] — long-term durability against obsolescence → Forever - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Forever - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — asks how one buys for forever → Forever - Michael Connor [subject] — sustaining access over the long term → Forever - Brewster Kahle [subject] — keeping human knowledge available forever → Forever ### Friction & Cultural Access link: /map?center=topic-friction The difficulty of accessing and participating in culture — gathering signs, symbols, and understanding over time, eroded by frictionless feed design. connections (1): - Kyle Chayka [subject] — friction as the difficulty of accessing culture → Friction & Cultural Access ### Funk Art Bay Area art movement shown by Peter Selz's Funk show, putting San Francisco on the US art map. connections (2): - Tom Marioni [subject] — chronicles Bay Area → Funk Art - Mario Ayala [subject] — Bay Area Funk Art influence → Funk Art ### Generative & Systems Art link: /topics/generative-art Art where the rules of a system are the work itself — from Sol LeWitt's instructions to Beeple's AI-driven, audience-activated kinetic sculptures. connections (1): - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — builds systems where the rules are the artwork → Generative & Systems Art ### Generative UI Interfaces generated from intent, heading toward subvocalization and brain-computer interfaces. connections (4): - What Even Is UI? [experience] — explores → Generative UI - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — UI shells over agentic backends → Generative UI - Soleio [subject] — on generative UI moving from component- to system-building → Generative UI - Jason Yuan [subject] — worked on generative UI since 2018 → Generative UI ### Gift Economy Exchanging value through giving rather than the market — central to Live Laugh Lube. connections (3): - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Gift Economy - Max Hollein [subject] — free open access as → Gift Economy - Mieke Marple [subject] — trades art via gift economy, not the market → Gift Economy ### Industrial Design Solving a physical problem through form, distinct from sculpture's pure emotion. connections (4): - Eugene Whang [experience] — explores → Industrial Design - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — invokes Super Normal industrial-design ethos → Industrial Design - Eugene Whang [subject] — practices industrial design → Industrial Design - Tom Sachs [subject] — architecture/engineering impulses in his sculpture → Industrial Design ### Interactivity & Participation link: /topics/interactivity Digital art that responds to and is co-authored by its audience — Beeple's bet that future art is dynamic and interactive rather than static. connections (1): - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — argues future digital art will be dynamic and interactive, not static → Interactivity & Participation ### IRL Experiences The ceremony and ritual of gathering off-screen, becoming more valuable in a generative age. connections (2): - Eugene Whang [experience] — explores → IRL Experiences - Eugene Whang [subject] — values off-screen, person-to-person experiences → IRL Experiences ### Legacy & Permanence link: /map?center=topic-legacy The cultural drive to build for posterity versus making things that matter in the present moment — a tension running through Mieke Marple and Francesca Sonara's conversation. connections (2): - Francesca Sonara [subject] — reframes legacy toward the present moment → Legacy & Permanence - Mieke Marple [subject] — on her deathbed it's relationships, not accomplishments → Legacy & Permanence ### Liberal Arts & Critical Reading link: /map?center=topic-liberal-arts Deep reading and humanities education as the foundation for critical cultural consumption versus passive entertainment. connections (1): - Kyle Chayka [subject] — deep reading begets critical cultural consumption → Liberal Arts & Critical Reading ### Light and Space The Los Angeles art movement that, Marioni recalls, drew Artforum south from San Francisco in the mid-1960s. connections (1): - Tom Marioni [subject] — names Light and Space as why Artforum left SF for LA → Light and Space ### Love & Meaning Jason's thesis that the meaning of life is relationships — to love and be loved. connections (4): - What Even Is UI? [experience] — explores → Love & Meaning - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — care, emotional connection, and the promise of forever → Love & Meaning - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — the most important things in life are not about better → Love & Meaning - Jason Yuan [subject] — thesis: the meaning of life is to love and be loved → Love & Meaning ### Mapping & Data Visualization The craft of turning data into legible cartography and visual story — Stamen's core practice across science, climate, art, and history. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — pioneers online mapping & data viz → Mapping & Data Visualization ### Mass Layoffs & the AI Labor Crunch Tech's post-boom contraction: AI companies running lean, college grads facing higher unemployment, and AI-written applications fed into AI vetting systems for jobs no one is reading. connections (1): - Sean Monahan [subject] — reads the AI-era hiring collapse via The Atlantic → Mass Layoffs & the AI Labor Crunch ### Memory How institutions, the Internet Archive, and individuals decide what survives. connections (12): - Forever [topic] — connected to → Memory - It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] — connected to → Memory - David Senior — SFMOMA Library [experience] — connected to → Memory - 160GB [experience] — explores songs and memories worth keeping → Memory - Digital Preservation [topic] — memory institution for digital culture → Memory - Matt McCormick [subject] — work engages cultural memory → Memory - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — a metallic place to hold songs and memories → Memory - Eugene Whang [subject] — frames a party as a container of memories → Memory - Jason Yuan [subject] — built narrative-memory companion software → Memory - Michael Connor [subject] — memory institution for digital culture → Memory - Brewster Kahle [subject] — preserving the web against decay → Memory - Mario Ayala [subject] — preserving ephemeral moments beyond the initial instant → Memory ### Modern Heirlooms Objects whose survival depends on community care and maintenance — the iPod Classic as identity locket. connections (2): - 160GB [experience] — reframes the iPod as → Modern Heirlooms - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — central thesis — heirlooms of the future → Modern Heirlooms ### Museums & Civic Life The role of cultural institutions in public life. Hollein on museums as democratic spaces. connections (6): - Max Hollein [experience] — connected to → Museums & Civic Life - Ed Ruscha [subject] — joined the SFMOMA board in 2013 → Museums & Civic Life - Scott Belsky [subject] — museums hold human stories that give art value → Museums & Civic Life - Max Hollein [subject] — argues museums anchor → Museums & Civic Life - David Senior [subject] — frames the museum library as civic memory → Museums & Civic Life - Tom Marioni [subject] — laments museums (esp. SFMOMA) becoming children's museums / social centers → Museums & Civic Life ### Museums & Civic Life The Met's founding belief that bringing the world's art to one place strengthens American civic life — a counterweight to nationalism. connections (1): - Max Hollein [subject] — frames museums as elevating → Museums & Civic Life ### Net Art Internet-native art, the focus of Rhizome's collection and its Net Art Anthology initiative. connections (6): - Rhizome [institution] — collects and archives → Net Art - Rafaël Rozendaal [subject] — net artist → Net Art - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — references post-internet art → Net Art - Cy Canterel [subject] — feral new-media art person → Net Art - Michael Connor [subject] — archives & champions → Net Art - David Senior [subject] — frames Bad Information as early → Net Art ### New Media & the Creator Network The idea that the internet is the network and each show or newsletter is a channel. connections (9): - TBPN [institution] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Emily Sundberg [subject] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Rachel Karten [subject] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Julia Black [subject] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Natalie Jarvey [subject] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Puck [institution] — exemplifies → New Media & the Creator Network - Cy Canterel [subject] — decodes systems of power and meaning in new media → New Media & the Creator Network - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — the internet is the network → New Media & the Creator Network - Michael Connor [subject] — new media art field → New Media & the Creator Network ### NFTs & Digital Ownership link: /topics/nfts Non-fungible tokens as a market and medium for digital art — minting, seed phrases, and the question of whether the first NFT works were too static and one-way. connections (2): - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — world's most expensive NFT artist; critiques static first-gen NFTs → NFTs & Digital Ownership - Jehan Chu [subject] — crypto/blockchain VC; invested in 300+ blockchain companies → NFTs & Digital Ownership ### Nihilism Central thread in Kyle's essay. Political nihilism, post-ironic fatalism, culture without meaning. connections (3): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Nihilism - Nihilism — connected to → Enshittification [topic] - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — essay's central diagnosis — post-ironic fatalism → Nihilism ### Normcore K-HOLE's 2013 trend concept of unstyled, fit-in fashion that mutated into quiet luxury. connections (4): - K-HOLE [institution] — coined → Normcore - Normcore — evolved into → Quiet Luxury [topic] - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — explores → Normcore - Sean Monahan [subject] — coined the term in K-HOLE's 'Youth Mode' (2013) → Normcore ### Open Access Free public access to museum collections and cultural resources. Central to Hollein's vision for The Met. connections (6): - Max Hollein [experience] — connected to → Open Access - Whole Earth Catalog [institution] — 'access to tools' ethos → Open Access - Digital Preservation [topic] — sustains long-term access → Open Access - Max Hollein [subject] — champions → Open Access - Brewster Kahle [subject] — universal access to all human knowledge → Open Access - David Senior [subject] — librarian advocate for → Open Access ### Personal Software Software shaped by its user — 'home-cooked apps' for an audience of one rather than mass-market, frozen products. connections (6): - Wabi [institution] — platform for → Personal Software - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — explores → Personal Software - Scott Belsky [subject] — creative tooling to outfit artists with control → Personal Software - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — building software for an audience of one → Personal Software - Soleio [subject] — champions Wabi's 'total addressable market of one' personal software → Personal Software - Jason Yuan [subject] — makes private, personal companion software → Personal Software ### Planned Obsolescence link: /map?center=topic-planned-obsolescence Designing an institution or project with a built-in sunset date as a deliberate counter to growth-at-all-cost — the founding premise of times nonprofit arts centre. connections (1): - Francesca Sonara [subject] — built times as a three-year planned-obsolescent project → Planned Obsolescence ### Pop Art The mid-century movement Ruscha is associated with — deadpan signs, commercial imagery, and monosyllabic words on canvas. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — painted monosyllabic Pop words — SPAM, POW, OOF → Pop Art ### Pop Art The 1960s movement Marioni frames as 'art about money' — the commercialism of the decade — and a precursor in his lineage of Pop → Minimal → Conceptual. connections (1): - Tom Marioni [subject] — frames Pop art as 'art about money' in the Pop→Minimal→Conceptual lineage → Pop Art ### Precision Generative Workflows Scott Belsky's term for non-destructive, control-preserving creative pipelines that combine traditional and generative tools. connections (2): - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — introduces → Precision Generative Workflows - Scott Belsky [subject] — coined Precision Generative Workflows → Precision Generative Workflows ### Press vs. Tech The competition between East Coast media and Silicon Valley, framing social media as decentralized news. connections (5): - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — explores → Press vs. Tech - Elon Musk [subject] — central figure in → Press vs. Tech - Press vs. Tech — concerns → The Feed [topic] - Sean Monahan [subject] — frames social media as a decentralized rival to news → Press vs. Tech - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — commentary layer vs. the scoop economy → Press vs. Tech ### Propaganda & Mass Communication Storytelling at scale — hooks, slogans, and symbols that disseminate mass social coordination. connections (4): - What Even Is UI? [experience] — explores → Propaganda & Mass Communication - Marcus Bösch [subject] — feed blurs entertainment and propaganda → Propaganda & Mass Communication - Fred Turner [subject] — author of The Democratic Surround → Propaganda & Mass Communication - Jason Yuan [subject] — sees Chinese propaganda as a mass-communication design language → Propaganda & Mass Communication ### Public AI Kahle's vision for AI built by research and cultural-heritage organizations on the best public information, aimed at big public problems like climate, health, and disinformation — rather than enclosed by a few platforms. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — champions → Public AI ### Quiet Luxury The stealth-wealth aesthetic Monahan traces to Silicon Valley's slob-as-flex dress code. connections (4): - Normcore [topic] — evolved into → Quiet Luxury - Sean Monahan [subject] — analyzes → Quiet Luxury - Mark Zuckerberg [subject] — embodied → Quiet Luxury - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — value defined by limitation, not resale or material → Quiet Luxury ### Relational Aesthetics Social-art term Marioni says was coined twenty years after his beer-drinking action invented it. connections (4): - Tom Marioni [subject] — precursor to → Relational Aesthetics - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — references relational aesthetics → Relational Aesthetics - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — REGULAR ANIMALS brings the audience into the practice → Relational Aesthetics - Conceptual Art Is Idea Art [experience] — explores the origins of Relational Aesthetics → Relational Aesthetics ### Repair & Modding The online community reviving iPod Classics through battery swaps and hard-drive upgrades as a rejection of mindless consumption. connections (2): - 160GB [experience] — celebrates the iPod modding community → Repair & Modding - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — celebrates the iPod modding community → Repair & Modding ### Sculpture as Total Practice link: /map?center=topic-sculpture Tom Sachs's idea that a shoe, a video, a book, even an interview is all sculpture — everything carries the transparency and values of the object. connections (1): - Tom Sachs [subject] — holds that everything is sculpture → Sculpture as Total Practice ### Silicon Beach The LA tech moment when startups housed creative workers outside the SF wage premium. connections (3): - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — explores → Silicon Beach - Silicon Beach — based in → Los Angeles [place] - Sean Monahan [subject] — recalls LA's startup-expansion tech moment → Silicon Beach ### Silicon Valley The tech industry whose self-conception as a counterculture Turner and Sun interrogate. connections (11): - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — explores → Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley — exemplified by → Steve Jobs [subject] - Silicon Valley — region of → San Francisco [place] - Fred Turner [subject] — studies Silicon Valley culture → Silicon Valley - Jasmine Sun [subject] — writes an 'anthropology of disruption' → Silicon Valley - Nikita Walia [subject] — critiques SV obsession with scaling taste → Silicon Valley - Sean Monahan [subject] — diagnoses SF as an insular industrial company town → Silicon Valley - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — on ARR talk vs unlocking human potential → Silicon Valley - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — tracks the Bay Area AI gold rush → Silicon Valley - Soleio [subject] — self-taught designer who moved to California to build the internet → Silicon Valley - Jason Yuan [subject] — places 'love' against the grain of Valley startup culture → Silicon Valley ### Slop Areality, language without a speaker, the epistemic solvent. connections (18): - Nothing Like the World [experience] — connected to → Slop - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Slop - Ambient [experience] — connected to → Slop - It's to Build the Global Brain [experience] — connected to → Slop - Slop — connected to → The Feed [topic] - Slop — connected to → Ambient [topic] - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — argues against the 'AI slop' panic → Slop - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — argues the internet flattened culture into → Slop - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — explores → Slop - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Slop - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — haunts the 'slums of slop' taking over the web → Slop - Marcus Bösch [subject] — Shrimp Jesus / AI-generated circulation → Slop - Kyle Chayka [subject] — the flatlining of culture under algorithmic homogeneity → Slop - Cy Canterel [subject] — theorizes slop as an epistemic solvent → Slop - Scott Belsky [subject] — distinguishes 'AI slop' from crafted art → Slop - W. David Marx [subject] — everything online treated as equally valuable culture → Slop - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — contrasts the human touch against slop → Slop - Mieke Marple [subject] — sees AI slop hastening people leaving the platforms → Slop ### Social Practice Art Art made through social action and communication; Marioni's 'Social Artist' lineage and the basis of the beer-drinking work. connections (4): - Tom Marioni [subject] — practices as Social Artist → Social Practice Art - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — references social practice → Social Practice Art - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — practice grounded in social practice art → Social Practice Art - Tom Sachs [subject] — studio-as-community via Beuys's social sculpture → Social Practice Art ### Software Emulation Server containerization, software emulation, and dynamic web archiving — the technical practices that sustain long-term access to digital culture. connections (1): - Michael Connor [subject] — research focus → Software Emulation ### Status & Social Rank Marx's thesis that the desire for social rank drives taste, identity, and constant change. connections (4): - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — explores → Status & Social Rank - David Welch [subject] — carves a space between maker and proprietor → Status & Social Rank - Nikita Walia [subject] — disinterested aesthetic as class position → Status & Social Rank - W. David Marx [subject] — author of Status and Culture — status drives taste → Status & Social Rank ### Subculture What dies when the algorithm flattens — and what gets built underneath. connections (9): - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → Subculture - Kyle Chayka — Filterworld [experience] — connected to → Subculture - Subculture — connected to → The Feed [topic] - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — explores → Subculture - Matt McCormick [subject] — immersed in subculture publishing scene → Subculture - Kyle Chayka [subject] — diagnoses the death of subculture — niche absorbed within days → Subculture - W. David Marx [subject] — analyzes subculture from Birmingham School to consumer segments → Subculture - Connor Hayes [subject] — cultural in-speak and online community vibes → Subculture - David Senior [subject] — making friends and creating scenes in subcultures → Subculture ### Surrealism The movement behind the exquisite corpse and 'picture consequences' games Ayala adapts into solo painting. connections (2): - Mario Ayala [subject] — draws on → Surrealism - Surrealism — exquisite corpse technique → Collage [topic] ### Surveillance & the Panopticon link: /map?center=top-surveillance The feed as a panoptic threat — 'Smile! You're on camera :)' — where autonomy is wagered against perpetual monitoring. connections (1): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — the panoptic 'Smile! You're on camera' threat → Surveillance & the Panopticon ### Swords into Plowshares Dissolving firearms into artistic pigment — a slow-violence transmutation of America's most ubiquitous violent artifact. connections (1): - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — dissolves guns into artistic pigment → Swords into Plowshares ### Sympathetic Magic Ritual practice where like becomes like; Tom Sachs's core operating philosophy. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — practices → Sympathetic Magic - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — explores → Sympathetic Magic ### Taste vs. Preference Knowledge, refinement, and originality — and 'the new moat' in tech jargon Marx critiques. connections (12): - Eugene Whang [experience] — explores → Taste vs. Preference - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — explores → Taste vs. Preference - Kyle Chayka [subject] — taste as a human soul vs the tech profit motive → Taste vs. Preference - Scott Belsky [subject] — humans will crave more human, crafted art → Taste vs. Preference - Nikita Walia [subject] — argues you can't SaaS-scale taste → Taste vs. Preference - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — wrote the taste essay; disinterestedness as class position → Taste vs. Preference - Sean Monahan [subject] — trend forecasting as reading taste vs. preference → Taste vs. Preference - Eugene Whang [subject] — distinguishes taste from preference → Taste vs. Preference - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — argues taste is an exclusionary act → Taste vs. Preference - W. David Marx [subject] — wrote the book on taste; defines it as knowledge and refinement → Taste vs. Preference - Soleio [subject] — argues taste is a byproduct of selection, not a human monopoly → Taste vs. Preference - Mieke Marple [subject] — as ex–art dealer, critiques speculative market value → Taste vs. Preference ### Tension The friction between Art, Tech, and Culture that Culture Slop treats as 'the point.' connections (2): - Letter from the Editor [experience] — argues → Tension - Eugene Whang [subject] — reconciles fast generative tools vs. slow craft → Tension ### The 24-Hour News Cycle The acceleration of news from daily editions to round-the-clock broadcasting — Monahan traces it to CNN's nonstop coverage of the first Gulf War, the moment that began hollowing out newspapers. connections (1): - Sean Monahan [subject] — dates it to CNN's Gulf War coverage → The 24-Hour News Cycle ### The Feed The algorithm as place — where attention is made and unmade. connections (18): - Slop [topic] — connected to → The Feed - Ambient [topic] — connected to → The Feed - This Isn't Funny Anymore [experience] — connected to → The Feed - Ambient [experience] — connected to → The Feed - Humans Do Not Have a Monopoly on Taste [experience] — connected to → The Feed - Subculture [topic] — connected to → The Feed - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — feeds filling with AI content → The Feed - Press vs. Tech [topic] — concerns → The Feed - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — addresses filter bubbles and camps → The Feed - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — everyone and everything 'is content' on the feed → The Feed - Marcus Bösch [subject] — on how the feed dissolves meaning → The Feed - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — blog-style feed at the speed of endless data → The Feed - Kyle Chayka [subject] — feeds destabilize people's sense of their own desires → The Feed - Cy Canterel [subject] — slop entering the epistemic commons → The Feed - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — diagnoses scrolling the feed as a source of depression → The Feed - Connor Hayes [subject] — building deeply personal feeds at scale → The Feed - Michael Connor [subject] — getting communities out of filter bubbles → The Feed - Mieke Marple [subject] — asks what comes after social media collapses → The Feed ### The Global Brain The idea that the internet's original purpose was to interconnect all human knowledge into a single accessible intelligence — the Memex, Xanadu, and Engelbart's hypertext realized as a public library. connections (1): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — the internet's original purpose, in his telling → The Global Brain ### The Object Boundary Michael Connor's framing for deciding what counts as part of a digital artwork — often requiring the preservation of entire software programs. connections (1): - Michael Connor [subject] — coined the framing → The Object Boundary ### The Public Domain The shared commons of works free for all to use, which Kahle argues is being starved by ever-lengthening copyright terms and platform licensing. connections (2): - Brewster Kahle [subject] — defends against copyright enclosure → The Public Domain - Aaron Swartz [person] — championed public access to it → The Public Domain ### The Repost as Curation link: /problem-child-advisory Defining an aesthetic through the online gesture of the repost — akin to sampling or DJing, the curatorial logic of ProblemChild Advisory's blog-style feed. connections (3): - David Welch [subject] — defines an aesthetic through the repost → The Repost as Curation - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curates via → The Repost as Curation - The Repost as Curation — referential to Dada collage → Collage [topic] ### Theory of Mind The capacity to model how others see us — the design premise behind Jason Yuan's DOT and HIVEMIND: software that reads people at high resolution to help them see each other. connections (1): - Jason Yuan [subject] — frames AI as theory of mind to help people see each other → Theory of Mind ### Third Spaces Civic spaces beyond home and work, eroded by phones and commerce. connections (6): - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Third Spaces - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — online community of modders as a space of care → Third Spaces - Eugene Whang [subject] — throws parties as designed gathering experiences → Third Spaces - Connor Hayes [subject] — Threads as the 'smoking section' loose third space → Third Spaces - Francesca Sonara [subject] — mourns the lack of true civic third spaces → Third Spaces - Mieke Marple [subject] — clown shows as present-moment human connection → Third Spaces ### Vibocracy A condition in which public life is organized around resonance — what feels right, what spreads — rather than shared facts or shared disagreements. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — theorizes → Vibocracy ### Word Art Text as visual art. Ruscha's paintings of words — OOF, BOSS, HONK — as visual events, not language. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Word Art ### World-Building Building one expanding narrative across mediums — books, paintings, objects, and clothing all as entries in the same ongoing scrapbook. connections (1): - Matt McCormick [subject] — sees the whole practice as one expanding world → World-Building ### Zines Self-published subculture printed matter central to McCormick's early book-making in NYC and LA. connections (2): - Matt McCormick [subject] — made zines in NYC and LA → Zines - David Senior [subject] — connects to zine and self-publishing culture → Zines ## Platforms (19) ### 8Ball link: https://8ball.substack.com/ Sean Monahan's Substack newsletter on what comes after the internet — normcore, vibe shifts, trend forecasting. connections (2): - Sean Monahan [subject] — publishes → 8Ball - 8Ball — published on → The Trend Report [platform] ### Creative Destruction Nicolas Cevallos' newsletter on consumption, design, and what we keep. connections (2): - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — writes → Creative Destruction - 160GB [experience] — excerpted from → Creative Destruction ### Creative Destruction (Nicolas Cevallos) link: https://www.thecultureslop.com/nicolas-cevallos Nicolas Cevallos' newsletter on consumption, design, and what we keep — source of the 160GB essay. connections (1): - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — writes the newsletter → Creative Destruction (Nicolas Cevallos) ### Culture: An Owner's Manual link: https://culture.ghost.io/ Marx's Ghost newsletter on pop culture and its hidden mechanics. connections (1): - W. David Marx [subject] — publishes → Culture: An Owner's Manual ### DOT (New Computer) Private personal AI built by New Computer that forms a theory of mind and narrative memory to help users make decisions for themselves. connections (1): - Jason Yuan [subject] — built DOT, a private personal AI → DOT (New Computer) ### feeling link: https://feeling.la/ Eugene's project / studio. connections (1): - Eugene Whang [subject] — founded → feeling ### First of Kind link: https://firstofkind.com Soleio's podcast/video series on design, software, and taste. Featured guests include Ryo Lu (Cursor), Katie Dill (Stripe), and Everett Katigbak. connections (1): - Soleio [subject] — hosts the show → First of Kind ### Implications link: https://www.implications.com Scott Belsky's monthly newsletter on technology, craft, and the evolution of creative work. connections (2): - Scott Belsky [subject] — writes → Implications - Implications: Precision Generative Workflows [experience] — excerpted from → Implications ### Instagram Visual platform. Culture Slop community hub (40K followers). connections (17): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — connected to → Instagram - Max Hollein [subject] — connected to → Instagram - Letter from the Editor [experience] — signs off with handles on → Instagram - Nicolas Cevallos [subject] — posts on → Instagram - Nikita Walia [subject] — cites Loewe's manicured presence on → Instagram - Loewe [institution] — brand presence on → Instagram - Tom Sachs [subject] — uses for mythmaking → Instagram - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — posts stop-motion videos on → Instagram - Jean Nipon [subject] — follows on → Instagram - Saskia Colwell [subject] — follows on → Instagram - Matt McCormick [subject] — present on → Instagram - Mario Ayala [subject] — shares work on → Instagram - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — lives on as @problemchild.advisory → Instagram - Eugene Whang [subject] — active on → Instagram - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — Wormhole platform link → Instagram - Connor Hayes [subject] — worked across Instagram; 'Instagram is the club, Threads the smoking section' → Instagram - Mieke Marple [subject] — love-hate tension with social media as her medium → Instagram ### ISRU app link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/isru/id6743388136 Tom Sachs's studio-as-startup app: 170,000 downloads, four million submissions. connections (2): - Tom Sachs [subject] — built → ISRU app - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — features the ISRU app → ISRU app ### LinkedIn link: https://www.linkedin.com Professional network where the subjects post and which Walia jokes is where something is always being born or dying. connections (2): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — references → LinkedIn - Connor Hayes [subject] — professional presence linked in Wormhole → LinkedIn ### Live Laugh Lube link: https://www.instagram.com/livelaughlube/ Mieke Marple's ongoing project trading paintings with clowns and comedians via a gift economy. connections (2): - Mieke Marple [subject] — creator of → Live Laugh Lube - Mieke Marple × Francesca Sonara [experience] — explores → Live Laugh Lube ### Nikita Walia on Substack link: https://nikitawalia.substack.com/ Nikita Walia's Substack publishing 'This Is Your Brand with a Universe' and 'The TikTok Oracle.' connections (1): - Nikita Walia [subject] — writes on → Nikita Walia on Substack ### Public Release link: https://ra.co/labels/15903 Eugene's record label; recent EP from Lauer with contributors including Khotin. connections (1): - Eugene Whang [subject] — founded record label → Public Release ### The Trend Report link: https://1234kyle5678.substack.com Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick's Substack newsletter. Pulled via API proxy in the Wormhole. connections (6): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — connected to → The Trend Report - Jasmine Sun [subject] — publishes on → The Trend Report - 8Ball [platform] — published on → The Trend Report - Letter from the Editor [experience] — the 'just do a Substack' path he deliberately rejected → The Trend Report - Marcus Bösch [subject] — publishes Understanding TikTok → The Trend Report - Quentin Hardy [subject] — writes The New Curiosity Shop on Substack → The Trend Report ### The WELL link: https://www.well.com/ Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link — early online community spun out of the Whole Earth Catalog that hosted Art Com and Judy Malloy's net-art piece Bad Information. connections (1): - David Senior [subject] — recovered Art Com / Bad Information on → The WELL ### Threads link: https://www.threads.com/@thecultureslop Meta's conversation platform. Powers the live Ed Ruscha interview feed via Threads API. connections (2): - Ed Ruscha [experience] — connected to → Threads - Connor Hayes [subject] — leads as Head of Threads → Threads ### TikTok link: https://www.tiktok.com Short-video platform central to Walia's 'TikTok Oracle' and encoding/decoding diagrams. connections (5): - Nikita Walia × Elliot Vredenburg [experience] — references via TikTok Oracle → TikTok - Nikita Walia [subject] — diagrams encoding/decoding on → TikTok - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — Wormhole link — TikTok presence → TikTok - Marcus Bösch [subject] — researches and consults on → TikTok - Kyle Chayka [subject] — cites TikTok's takeover of America as accelerant → TikTok ### Twitter/X Microblogging platform. Secondary distribution channel. connections (10): - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — connected to → Twitter/X - Elon Musk [subject] — owns → Twitter/X - W. David Marx [subject] — posts on (X/Bluesky) → Twitter/X - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — active on → Twitter/X - TBPN [institution] — distributed on → Twitter/X - Jason Yuan [subject] — active on → Twitter/X - Sean Monahan [subject] — analyzes X positioned in the news category of apps → Twitter/X - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — Wormhole platform link (X) → Twitter/X - Connor Hayes [subject] — Threads competing with and passing X → Twitter/X - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — scroll X to find your show → Twitter/X ## Places (13) ### California Home of the 1960s counterculture and the '90s 'California ideology' of interconnection. connections (8): - Counterculture [topic] — rooted in → California - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — set against → California - Ed Ruscha [subject] — the 1956 move to California was the big change → California - Fred Turner [subject] — on the California ideology of the '90s → California - Sean Monahan [subject] — maps SoCal aerospace and post-Cold-War decline → California - Connor Hayes [subject] — Bay Area / California base → California - Soleio [subject] — moved to California in 2004 to build the internet → California - Tom Marioni [subject] — central figure in California / West Coast conceptualism → California ### China Where Jason Yuan grew up, immersed in the rhyme and rhythm of party propaganda. connections (3): - Jason Yuan [subject] — grew up in → China - Jehan Chu [subject] — Kenetic and his crypto communities are based in Hong Kong → China - Max Hollein [subject] — Met active in → China ### Germany Where Marcus Bösch writes from — the breakfast room of the Waldhotel Bischofshol, at the edge of the forest next to the Autobahn. connections (1): - Marcus Bösch [subject] — writes from the edge of the German forest → Germany ### Hong Kong link: /places/hong-kong Base of Jehan Chu's Kenetic and of the Ethereum HK and Bitcoin Association communities he co-founded. connections (1): - Jehan Chu [subject] — co-founded Ethereum HK and Bitcoin Association of HK → Hong Kong ### Los Angeles Ruscha's adopted home since 1956. The horizontal city — gas stations, parking lots, Sunset Strip. connections (21): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Los Angeles - Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick [subject] — connected to → Los Angeles - LACMA [institution] — connected to → Los Angeles - Gagosian [institution] — connected to → Los Angeles - Letter from the Editor [experience] — gallery footprint → Los Angeles - Ever Gold [Projects] [institution] — based in → Los Angeles - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. [institution] — based in → Los Angeles - Silicon Beach [topic] — based in → Los Angeles - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — set in → Los Angeles - Sean Monahan [subject] — based in → Los Angeles - Howard Hughes [subject] — tied to → Los Angeles - Matt McCormick [subject] — lives and works in → Los Angeles - Mario Ayala [subject] — studio based in → Los Angeles - The Broad [institution] — located in → Los Angeles - Mieke Marple [subject] — based in → Los Angeles - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — founded SADE gallery in → Los Angeles - Guerrero Gallery [institution] — located in → Los Angeles - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curated exhibitions in → Los Angeles - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. studio in Los Angeles → Los Angeles - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — mapped Los Angeles via the Ruscha archive → Los Angeles - Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) [subject] — DIFFUSE CONTROL shown at the LA County Museum of Art → Los Angeles ### Moscow Where Eugenia got her start as a journalist (Afisha) before coming to San Francisco with nothing. connections (1): - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — born in → Moscow ### New York The Met, MoMA, Gagosian, Tom Sachs studio. The other pole of the Culture Slop axis. connections (25): - Max Hollein [subject] — connected to → New York - MoMA [institution] — connected to → New York - The Met [institution] — connected to → New York - Gagosian [institution] — connected to → New York - Letter from the Editor [experience] — SFAQ edition city → New York - A24 [institution] — based in → New York - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. [institution] — based in → New York - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — references → New York - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — set in → New York - Park Avenue Armory [institution] — based in → New York - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes [experience] — set at the NYSE → New York - Michael Connor — Rhizome [experience] — New York-based organization → New York - Rhizome [institution] — based in → New York - Matt McCormick [subject] — lives and works in → New York - Matt Shuster [subject] — based in → New York - Francesca Sonara [subject] — based in → New York - times nonprofit arts centre [institution] — located in → New York - Ed Ruscha [subject] — returned through New York to show Castelli his paintings → New York - Alyssa Davis Gallery [institution] — located in → New York - ProblemChild Advisory [subject] — curated exhibitions in → New York - Cy Canterel [subject] — NYU visiting scholar in New York → New York - Scott Belsky [subject] — A24 / A24 Labs based in NYC → New York - Nikita Walia [subject] — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. based in New York → New York - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — NYSE broadcast → New York - Michael Connor [subject] — New York-based organization → New York ### Oklahoma Where Ed Ruscha grew up before driving Route 66 to LA. Origin point of the American vernacular. connections (1): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → Oklahoma ### Paris Home of the Pompidou Center. connections (2): - Pompidou Center [institution] — based in → Paris - Matt McCormick [subject] — has exhibited in Paris → Paris ### San Francisco Culture Slop HQ. Missing Link Club on Maiden Lane. SFMOMA, SFAQ, Internet Archive. connections (28): - Ed Ruscha [subject] — connected to → San Francisco - Max Hollein [subject] — connected to → San Francisco - Letter from the Editor [experience] — set in → San Francisco - Ever Gold [Projects] [institution] — based in → San Francisco - Jasmine Sun [subject] — based in → San Francisco - Silicon Valley [topic] — region of → San Francisco - Way More Insane Than Hollywood [experience] — discusses → San Francisco - Alberto Cuadros [subject] — based in → San Francisco - Eugene Whang [subject] — based in → San Francisco - SFMOMA [institution] — based in → San Francisco - Eugenia Kuyda [subject] — based in → San Francisco - Wabi [institution] — studio in → San Francisco - Eugenia Kuyda — Wabi & Replika [experience] — discusses the SF scene → San Francisco - Maritza Lerman Yoes [subject] — based in → San Francisco - Hauser & Wirth [institution] — opening in Palo Alto / Bay Area → San Francisco - Gagosian [institution] — former SF space → San Francisco - Dylan Abruscato × Maritza Lerman Yoes [experience] — set in the Bay Area → San Francisco - Matt McCormick [subject] — early obsession (SF Giants) → San Francisco - San Francisco Art Institute [institution] — located in → San Francisco - Tom Marioni [subject] — lives and works in → San Francisco - Sean Monahan [subject] — critiques SF's status-scanning party scene → San Francisco - Eric Rodenbeck [subject] — runs Stamen in San Francisco → San Francisco - Connor Hayes [subject] — calls SF the greatest city; Bay Area art roots → San Francisco - Connor Hayes — Threads [experience] — Bay Area art world framing of the conversation → San Francisco - Dylan Abruscato [subject] — hopes for a Bay Area art scene → San Francisco - Brewster Kahle [subject] — Internet Archive headquartered in San Francisco → San Francisco - David Senior [subject] — Bay Area print-meets-tech synthesis → San Francisco - Mario Ayala [subject] — trained in San Francisco → San Francisco ### Stockholm One of the three cities U.N.N.A.M.E.D. is based in, alongside New York and Los Angeles. connections (2): - U.N.N.A.M.E.D. [institution] — based in → Stockholm - Elliot Vredenburg [subject] — U.N.N.A.M.E.D. studio in Stockholm → Stockholm ### Texas Extractive, deregulated state tech firms are relocating to for land, water, and power. connections (3): - Fred Turner × Jasmine Sun [experience] — tracks tech migration to → Texas - Ed Ruscha [subject] — painted Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas → Texas - Fred Turner [subject] — on the Californian-to-Texan ideological move → Texas ### Tokyo Where Marx is based and the vantage point for Ametora's Japan-American style history. connections (5): - Tom Sachs — It's All Sculpture to Me [experience] — references Magic House in → Tokyo - W. David Marx [subject] — based in → Tokyo - W. David Marx — Taste & the Counter-Counterculture [experience] — set in → Tokyo - Tom Sachs [subject] — Magic House installation in Tokyo → Tokyo - Matt McCormick [subject] — has exhibited in Tokyo → Tokyo