Jake Kobrin - Interfacial Magick
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07/30/22 • 113 min
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Proficient in both digital & traditional media, Jake is one of the few formally trained visionary artists. I was his guest on ep.10 of The Quarantine Sessions, a podcast he began hosting at the onset of the pandemic. Nowadays he sporadically casts pods as solo spells, wherein he discusses his study & practice of Magick.
Alongside a curated pantheon of experts and professionals Jake also facilitates Online workshops & in-person retreats that focus on the intersection of art, mindfulness, & the western esoteric tradition.
We talk about his recent ventures into co-creating w/ Midjourney, where text-prompted spells generate AI-art. We relate the process to divinatory practices, & consider that perhaps egregorial entities are the mind’s own AI agencies.
We also touch upon his rarely discussed experience w/ hook suspension.
Though it’s not his main avenue of expression, Jake also plays music, & I included one of his piano compositions in the intro to showcase the scope of his multivalent talent.
Find/follow Jake: IG: @.kobrin. www.jakekobrin.com
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NEWish From The Ungoogleable:
My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels
Buy my book The He & The She Of It
The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com
IG: void_denizen
YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen
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All music by Ungoogleably Yours, except the "Leibnitz" piano piece by J.Kobrin Outro "Tragic Magic" by Void Denizen (spotify)
(( headphones recommended for optimal immersion and enjoyment ))
Proficient in both digital & traditional media, Jake is one of the few formally trained visionary artists. I was his guest on ep.10 of The Quarantine Sessions, a podcast he began hosting at the onset of the pandemic. Nowadays he sporadically casts pods as solo spells, wherein he discusses his study & practice of Magick.
Alongside a curated pantheon of experts and professionals Jake also facilitates Online workshops & in-person retreats that focus on the intersection of art, mindfulness, & the western esoteric tradition.
We talk about his recent ventures into co-creating w/ Midjourney, where text-prompted spells generate AI-art. We relate the process to divinatory practices, & consider that perhaps egregorial entities are the mind’s own AI agencies.
We also touch upon his rarely discussed experience w/ hook suspension.
Though it’s not his main avenue of expression, Jake also plays music, & I included one of his piano compositions in the intro to showcase the scope of his multivalent talent.
Find/follow Jake: IG: @.kobrin. www.jakekobrin.com
Extended shownotes (art, links, resources, etc)
NEWish From The Ungoogleable:
My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels
Buy my book The He & The She Of It
The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com
IG: void_denizen
YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen
WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE:
-Subscribe
-Share
-Rate (*****)
-Review
-patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen)
-donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected])
All music by Ungoogleably Yours, except the "Leibnitz" piano piece by J.Kobrin Outro "Tragic Magic" by Void Denizen (spotify)
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Dave Green’s simple line drawings come across as iconographic glyphs. These drawings are recreations, upon waking, of drawings he created in a lucid dream state.
Lately he has been experimenting with giving his pen & paper to other people in his dreams to see what they create.
His art has been featured in BBC Science Focus and DreamTime magazine. He has lectured about his work at the Tate Modern & is the subject of an upcoming documentary by the World Science Festival.
We talk about dream practices, artful means of building bridges between worlds, & creating one’s own custom, divinatory lexicon through which to smuggle objects across the borders of waking & dream.
Watch Dave's 20min illustrative demonstration of his lucid art practice: https://youtu.be/9SDXyn11Zcs
Find/follow Dave: IG: @davegreen5000 www.dave-green.co.uk
NEWish From The Ungoogleable:
My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels
Buy my book The He & The She Of It
The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com
IG: void_denizen
YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen
WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE:
-Subscribe
-Share
-Rate (*****)
-Review
-patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen)
-donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected])
All music by Ungoogleably Yours
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JF Martel - Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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“Art is the only truly effective means we have of engaging, in a communal context, the psyche on its own terms,” writes jF Martel, the co-host of the Weird Studies podcast and the author of the brilliant book “Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice”, in which he distills a clear, working definition of art, in relation to its antithesis, artifice.
Treating the episode as a book report, we use the philosophy put forth in its pages as a springboard to examine the implications of ai-generated images, and the potential consequences of outsourcing one’s intuitive sensibilities to a dreaming machine.
Correction: Titanic was 1911, not whatever year I proposed
Find/follow JF: Twitter: @JF_Martel www.reclaimingart.com podcast: www.weirdstudies.com
Extended shownotes (art, links, resources)
NEWish From The Ungoogleable:
My latest essay: Dreamtime Screentime: Pareidolic Deities & Dead Channels
Buy my book The He & The She Of It
The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo: www.theungoogleable.com
IG: void_denizen
YT, Twitter, TikTok, etc: https://Linktr.ee/void_denizen
WAYS TO SUPPORT SELF PORTRAITS AS OTHER PEOPLE:
-Subscribe
-Share
-Rate (*****)
-Review
-patreonize us (http://www.patreon.com/voiddenizen)
-donate: Venmo (@voiddenizen) or paypal ([email protected])
All music by Ungoogleably Yours, except the Leonard Cohen karaoke backing track, ripped from YT. Outro "Eclipse (Halfway)" by Void Denizen (spotify)
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