New York-based artist Ian Cheng has been creating live simulations since 2012. He explores the human mind and “an agent’s ability to deal with an ever-changing environment” by combining AI, video game technologies, and cognitive science. _...Read More_

"On an overcast day, the light in the European Sculpture Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is bright enough to make every visitor look like they’re carved from marble. "

>"Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer"

>"Good sex education will be more important than ever. But it too faces challenges."

>"Evolution is extraordinarily creative in the wake of a cataclysm. How does life keep steadily ticking over in between?"

"For as long as I can remember, I’ve been terrified of space. Looking up at the moon in the night sky sends a shiver down my spine, and those videos that compare the scale of celestial bodies? They’re like horror movies to me. Admittedly, _...Read More_

>"The advances of science are resurrecting the religious imagination. Human history will end when men become gods — or dust. The alternative is an ecology of existence."

>"Sci-fi enables us to think about science and religion as mutually supportive elements of what it means to be human."

"The metaverse is cumming, with the help of new sex tech."

Digital art is exciting! It conquers a future-forward so non-defined, yet currently definitive for progress sub-space, the virtual. Our experience in virtual space is still _...Read More_

This is like saying “Why haven’t any literary authors set their books in the Midwest”

Already a week in, CTM 2022 Contact asks how we might establish positively transformative modes of contact with other realities beyond our own, be it between people with different ways of life, in different parts of the world, between _...Read More_

>"In her book The Disordered Cosmos, Black queer scientist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that physics can be more universal."

"Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has crafted a trance-like tale of a woman haunted by strange sounds in Colombia"

"Researchers used 3-D scanning and A.I. to identify artists from tiny samples of their paintings."