Fujimura Institute

To honor Osamu, my scientist father, by an artist son @iamfujimura. Portrait by Bruce Herman.

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

My advice to artists working to pay rent. @iamculturecare

[Erica Anderson ✨ @ericaofanderson]

Zigzag. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

#FujiFarm contributed in a small way to this good news.

[Fujimura Institute @FujimuraInst]

This book by @iamfujimura starts with a reflection of his scientist father who valued beauty and cultivated such a value in his son. Worth a read for a scientist.

[Embers International @EmbersInternat1]

Celebrating our co-founder’s birthday month!

https://t.co/8SB87cVRi1

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

This fear will never be realized - how can I say this so definitely?

Pattern matching algorithms (misnamed as “A.I.”) can only repeat, rearrange and the scale what is most popular. In other words, if the LLM algorithm can produce a novel, it will do it millions of times once something gains a bit of attention. That will saturate the market and no one would want to read it at all (other than machine reading machines..which is another topic). There is no supply and demand - only supply and more supply.

See what already happened to over-saturation of NFT’s and early videos of simulated videos. While the latter can fool the eye, we are already beyond saturation. NFT was a fad, and only lasted while it was novel and cool. While there will be enduring digital media and pattern matching expressions (including certain NFT like tokens), it’s not because of machines taking over, but it is the ability of a few to create unique, particular and scarce expressions that uses the patterns to generate something new, that cannot be scaled, connect new ideas to another (which pattern matching does very well) and something that creates a more beautiful embedded story for the future.

Now the danger of all of this is not that art will be replaced, but that participation in evil deed will also be made possible at a larger scale. What is ugly can also be multiplied. This is a battle of a sanctified imagination verses destructive imagination. For that, we need Dante, Van Gogh and Tolkiens for sure.

[IAMCULTURECARE @iamculturecare]

#CultureCare is to manifest our power of belief in our making.

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

Nihonga Halloween. 🎃

[JSBachMusic @JSBachMusic]

"The Goldberg Variations are not about virtuosity; they are about illumination". Glenn Gould.
#Bach #Gould

[Erica Anderson ✨ @ericaofanderson]

Light Beams. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

Imagine receiving a Christmas card from Edward Hopper!

[Erica Anderson ✨ @ericaofanderson]

Empty. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

[Gramophone @GramophoneMag]

Chopin’s two sets of Études invested the didactic keyboard study with unparalleled artistry and musical substance. Jed Distler considers a selection of the finest recordings from the past 90 years... https://t.co/xBTu6IHiAa

[Makoto Fujimura @iamfujimura]

One of my favorite Pollock. If you are saying “my kid can do that”. Try it. It’s harder than you think … to create an autumnal rhythm with drips.

[Erica Anderson ✨ @ericaofanderson]

Take Wing. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Sunflowers were planted after Chernobyl and Fukushima to help absorb radioactive pollution

After the nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, sunflowers were tested as a natural way to absorb radioactive material from contaminated environments

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Jobs: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics: Associate/Full Professor (Tenured) in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: Description: The… dlvr.​it/TVjzGM

[Geri Seiberling @geriwithetc]

I cannot believe my eyeballs. Perhaps if one is skilled with chopsticks at age 3, this is possible by the time one is an adult?

[JSBachMusic @JSBachMusic]

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Un da sie den Lobgesang gesprochen hatten from the Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1736-46): a brief accompanied recitative for Evangelist, Christ, strings and continuo, following the Last Supper and leading toward Gethsemane. The disciples leave for the Mount of Olives after singing the Lobgesang, the hymn of praise. Jesus then foretells their coming abandonment: “This night you will all fall away because of me.” He quotes Zechariah: “I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.” Bach gives Christ’s words the characteristic halo of sustained strings, while the Evangelist’s narration is more lightly accompanied. The music moves from B minor toward E major: darkness and tension give way to light when Christ announces, “But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.” Only 13 bars long, this recitative is a crucial transition: the Last Supper is over, the disciples will scatter, and the road to Gethsemane begins. Yet within its darkness, Bach has already placed the promise of resurrection.
https://t.co/WRDjrbBdHd
#Bach #BWV244 #ClassicalMusic #JSBach

[Erica Anderson ✨ @ericaofanderson]

Set Aflame. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj