Dear reader
Friday was my birthday. To celebrate we visited an island an hour away from Athens. It was similar to how we celebrated Uno’s birthday ten days earlier: beach, taverna food, and limited computer time.
My highlight was waking up.
»Happy birthday.«
»Thank you, Uno.«
»I can be your birthday teacher.«
With care
Kristoffer
Wayside flowers
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Field notes
1.
»At some point I think we’ll fully realize that what’s happening in the natural world is more computationally efficient, inventive, and resilient than anything we could create from silicon.«
— Claire L. Evans in From silicon to slime
2.
Re•mediate Issue 0: a new online magazine focusing on computer-assisted writing. My favourite contribution is Autumn Fourkiller’s Binary Dreams.
3.
Laurel Schwulst: Ultralight Lecture. Someone should publish this as a book.
4.
Poetic Web Calendar highlights: Sunday Sites (Today, 11/8), Visualizing Sound (Thursday, 15/8), Have you seen princes? (Thursday, 15/8), and Communal Computing Workshop (Sunday, 18/11).
Collections
Exactly one year ago I hosted the first Naive Yearly. I wrote about the day in the foreword to the digital documentation published with Meg Miller and Are.na. It remains one of my proudest days. Next month we gather at a Renaissance castle for the second edition.
Last email was sent to 3388 inboxes. Logo by Dreams™. Photograph by Ana Šantl. And you can reach me at kristoffer@naiveweekly.com.