Ava@LivingMediArcLab

Co-creation through urban play & iterative prototyping w/ situated media & networked urban displays| interact. participate & engage in social & spatial context

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

A reminder - you can access the full MAB20 proceedings on https://t.co/5bWg9WBHUD

[Media Architecture Biennale @MABiennale]

The #MAB20 #Proceedings are finally available on the
@TheOfficialACM Digital Library!
You can access the full #papers and late-breaking works below:
https://t.co/667trrMgvN

#FuturesImplied #mediaarchitecture #publicspace #architecture #urbandesign #mediaart #ACM

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

This is crazy. They figured out how to create threads that have touchscreen LEDs in them and have started weaving them directly into clothes. Now any piece of clothing can be a touchscreen display.

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

@TheBartlettUCL @bar

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

Today is the last day #Bartlettautumnshow 2026. We had so many fascinating conversations with show visitors at the 'Architectural Comuptation' projects display. Missed the show? The exhibition book will be out in December 2026.
https://t.co/XW4KYizMDe @MAVhugs @MoritzBehrens

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

Today is the last day #Bartlettautumnshow 2026. We had so many fascinating conversations with show visitors at the 'Architectural Comuptation' projects display. Missed the show? The exhibition book will be out in December 2026.
https://t.co/XW4KYizMDe @MAVhugs @MoritzBehrens

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

just published: A
cartography of human experience across
physical and digitally mediated
environments: a scoping review | research topic 'Re-Imagining Mediated Human Building Interaction and Sensory Environments: Volume II': https://t.co/TxlleJq517

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

@MAVhugs ..

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

LMAO Friedrich Merz has never been this epicly roasted before he is not used to this 😭🤣😂

via Snicklink

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

Yann LeCun was right the entire time. And generative AI might be a dead end.

For the last three years, the entire industry has been obsessed with building bigger LLMs. Trillions of parameters. Billions in compute.

The theory was simple: if you make the model big enough, it will eventually understand how the world works.

Yann LeCun said that was stupid.

He argued that generative AI is fundamentally inefficient.

When an AI predicts the next word, or generates the next pixel, it wastes massive amounts of compute on surface-level details.

It memorizes patterns instead of learning the actual physics of reality.

He proposed a different path: JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture).

Instead of forcing the AI to paint the world pixel by pixel, JEPA forces it to predict abstract concepts. It predicts what happens next in a compressed "thought space."

But for years, JEPA had a fatal flaw.

It suffered from "representation collapse."

Because the AI was allowed to simplify reality, it would cheat. It would simplify everything so much that a dog, a car, and a human all looked identical.

It learned nothing.

To fix it, engineers had to use insanely complex hacks, frozen encoders, and massive compute overheads.

Until today.

Researchers just dropped a paper called "LeWorldModel" (LeWM).

They completely solved the collapse problem.

They replaced the complex engineering hacks with a single, elegant mathematical regularizer.

It forces the AI's internal "thoughts" into a perfect Gaussian distribution.

The AI can no longer cheat. It is forced to understand the physical structure of reality to make its predictions.

The results completely rewrite the economics of AI.

LeWM didn't need a massive, centralized supercomputer.

It has just 15 million parameters.

It trains on a single, standard GPU in a few hours.

Yet it plans 48x faster than massive foundation world models. It intrinsically understands physics. It instantly detects impossible events.

We spent billions trying to force massive server farms to memorize the internet.

Now, a tiny model running locally on a single graphics card is actually learning how the real world works.

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

new article just published: Beyond the Looking Glass: multimodal LLM depth-sensing ... https://t.co/BP1GzIkQ4h

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

published! the first article in the Research Topic: Re-Imagining Mediated Human Building Interaction and Sensory Environments: Volume II https://t.co/3QGtEgW39g

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

published! the first article in the Research Topic: Re-Imagining Mediated Human Building Interaction and Sensory Environments: Volume II https://t.co/3QGtEgW39g

[The Nationalist GB @TheNatGB]

Meanwhile, in London.. an AI humanoid was seen walking the streets and was surrounding by intrigued school kids.

Spooky.

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

It is that time of the year! #winterlight2026 https://t.co/RyxDBbkNyp

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

After twelve years of work, the world’s most beautiful subway station has been inaugurated in Rome: Colosseo, an underground archaeological museum.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year.

It’s sort of amazing & terrifying.

Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

@wuchun_ling FYI

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Battersea Power Station is merry and bright with Christmas trees designed on iPad this holiday season! Thanks to Munya Chawawa and our collaborators for sharing their creativity—every submission brought joy to all of us at Apple!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Life of a keyboard.

[Oku @oku_yungx]

This is going to eliminate human Barbers 😂

[Esteban Moro @estebanmoro]

📢 New paper in Nature Human Behavior! A perspective on the field we have been working in the last 10 years: urban mobility data reveals experienced inequalities in cities beyond where people live.
👉 Link: https://t.co/wHoq3eOa59
👉 Open-access: https://t.co/JIWjbxVWVj

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

@lin

[The London Eye @TheLondonEye]

✨ Tonight, the London Eye will light up the skyline in vibrant colours to celebrate Diwali! 🌈

Inspired by the spectrum of light and traditional rangoli art, this dazzling display symbolises new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil. 💫

#Diwali #LondonEye

[Ava@LivingMediArcLab @WildScreens]

@ergin_ecem time square campaigns

[Zvika Klein צביקה קליין @ZvikaKlein]

🚨 BREAKING: Israel’s Consulate in New York launches a Times Square campaign exposing Hamas executions of Gazans. Consul General Ofir Akunis: “Hamas is executing dozens of Palestinians. Why is the world silent? We will not accept this hypocrisy. Hamas must fully honor the agreement.” #NewYork #Israel #Gaza @IsraelinNewYork @OfirAkunis