Latent space exploration with Damien Roach aka patten

04/19/23 • 66 min

We caught up with Damien Roach, aka patten, aka 555-5555, to discuss the need for new language to navigate the abstract implications of machine learning for our understanding of art, and the limitations of the modernist approach. We also eventually get around to discussing his beautiful new record "Mirage FM" created in part with Riffusion, a text-to-audio model.

Follow Damien: https://twitter.com/patttten / https://www.instagram.com/patttten

Buy "Mirage FM": https://patttten.bandcamp.com/album/mirage-fm

Follow Damien: https://twitter.com/patttten / https://www.instagram.com/patttten

Buy "Mirage FM": https://patttten.bandcamp.com/album/mirage-fm

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Runway have been on an absolute tear of late offering new AI tools for their creative production suite, so we invited CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela to join us to discuss their approach, and how the mental models of artists and greater society may change in accordance with the shifts happening.

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A joy to invite Venkatesh Rao to take us down a number of his bunny trails, focussing initially on his great piece The Permaweird, the latest in his Great Weirding series. We discuss the tendency to call "crisis!", a generally ambient sense of weirdness, and how the latest developments in AI suggest that isn't slowing down anytime soon

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