Paolo b.

ca' foscari / second stratum / megamachines

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

@RolandMTG DnT ✨

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

@georainbolt Ricerche di S/Confine (eds. Elisabetta Modena and Federica Villa: https://t.co/VSLaOznWz7

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Finally had the chance to write about the geoguessing phenomenon and people like @georainbolt.bsky.social who directly challenge, to the point of paroxysm, machines' ability to recognize places

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Some notes on the need for the "cultural reintegration" of spatial data in digital art history (Digitalia, Italian) https://t.co/jPRktZQSOy

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Support for the Venice housing rights association, and secondarily great flyer with strong ergodic / institutional gothic House of Leaves vibes

[a @bottomofmybag]

Brian Eno

[Francesco Pacini @DonChecco]

When we were young and upper class: Montecarlo, sometime in the mid 90s. @GvtMonaco @betrayal

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

Gemini 3 Pro wrote an entire web operating system

welcome to the future of software

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

my essay on contingency and cartography through the lens of Pietro Ruffo’s art, written for the catalogue of Il tempo della scrittura – on view in Modena until next February (https://t.co/JuwqcicSq7)

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Luc Steels at Ca' Foscari @venicedph in a few hours to talk about AI and synthetic art in exhibition contexts https://t.co/1CW9lz8ETh

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

I don’t always like art hung on walls, nor think it must be protest or reassurance. Yet freedom of expression – often socially induced – is palpable, and the art system should be the first to self‑critique https://t.co/2tCGUwVxq2

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

An idea for future research, and to challenge the stereotype that academics aren’t into sports: early computational systems in Serie A

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Magazén – International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities is now Q1 in SCOPUS for Literature & Literary Theory and has been ranked Classe A by ANVUR in Art History & Museology. More details in the intro of issue 6.1: https://t.co/ACn6yl0psp @venicedph

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

Opening this week in Modena, Il tempo della scrittura (Galleria BPER, curated by Stefania De Vincentis): visual writing and knowledge from Renaissance works to Sabrina Mezzaqui and Pietro Ruffo. I contribute with a short essay on Ruffo, cartography and counter-Enlightenment

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

for those working on #digitalhumanities: the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH – @venicedph) shares regular updates on research, events, and activities with a fresh newsletter: https://t.co/h9gCi1N9PJ

[luca guadagnino's spotify @lucaguadagnin0]

Luca Guadagnino skipped "Okra" by Tyler, The Creator

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

irl beau is afraid theater scene

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts

Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding(!)

Yes, the whole prompt was the one above.

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

how badly have the post-work consensus and the 'demand full automation' slogan of the past decade aged

[Benjamin Bratton @bratton]

We will be hosting an exhibition of Antikythera's work and some additional surprises in Venice next month. Hope to see you.

The Monolith features work by Antikythera, Peter Galison, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Metahaven, Gaspar Begus, Stewart Smith, Robert Pietrusko, Alexander Mordvintsev, Xiu Xiu.

The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
@ Venice Biennale 2025
A Collateral Event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition

📍 Palazzo Diedo
Presented by Antikythera, MIT Architecture, and Berggruen Arts & Culture

Opening Reception
May 9, 7–10PM
No RSVP required

Symposium & Journal Launch
May 10, 10AM–3:30PM
Featuring:
Benjamin Bratton, Nicholas de Monchaux, Nicolay Boyadjiev, Gašper & Nina Beguš, Lukáš Likavčan, Philip Maughan, Thomas Moynihan, Chen Qiufan, Winnie Street, Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden & Vinca Kruk), and Blaise Agüera y Arcas
No RSVP required

A two-floor exhibition and day-long symposium exploring how climate, cosmology, and computation shape planetary futures.

🏛️ The Next Earth
📍 Palazzo Diedo, Berggruen Arts & Culture
🗓️ 10.05 – 23.11.2025

[Paolo b. @betrayal]

My latest book (in Italian) on early locative media creative practices, titled "Estetiche della geolocalizzazione. Pratiche artistiche e media locativi", is now available in open access through Sapienza Università Editrice https://t.co/Yaper5v2Ks