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Humane Ingenuity 35: Bounded and Boundless
The Fleet Library at the Rhode Island School of Design has digitized their collection of books created by artists. It is an exhibit of the infinite malleability of the creative technology we call the...
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Humane Ingenuity 36: 15% Faster
In a wonderful new article, film and television scholar Jason Mittell provides an extremely creative, occasionally bizarre, frequently hilarious, and ultimately rather helpful “inventory of...
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Humane Ingenuity 37: Data and the Humanities
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. These essential words...
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Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification
Sixty years ago, illustrator Arthur Radebaugh drew scenes from the future — that is, our present — including, quite presciently, remote education and work, self-driving cars, and an “electronic home...
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Humane Ingenuity 39: A Circle of Keytars
(Alice Baber, Noble Numbers, 1964-1965, acrylic on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum.) The Leventhal Map & Education Center has a new tool called Moviemaps that allows you to pair an...
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Humane Ingenuity 40: In Sight
I’m back from a summer hiatus — perhaps not into the carefree fall I (and you) had hoped for. But with students streaming once again into my library, the beginning of this academic year still has that...
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Humane Ingenuity 41: Zen and the Art of Winemaking
Here are sixteen “sketches of a 3D printer by Leonardo da Vinci,” as envisioned by AI using those words as a prompt: By Rivers Have Wings and John David Pressman, using a CLIP-guided diffusion....
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Humane Ingenuity 42: Not So NFT
(Noah Kalina, Lumberland / 20180716) Noah Kalina is a gifted photographer who has a commercial practice and also works as an artist. He is probably best known for his Everyday project, in which he has...
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Humane Ingenuity 43: Your Own Personal Paul McCartney
Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for...
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Humane Ingenuity 44: Bookwork and Cloud Labs
(Sara Gothard, Library of Babel, 2017, in the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library, part of their recently digitized art collection.) We have become familiar with how technology, media,...
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