Paradigm

We can't know where we're going if we don't know where we are.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Paradigm #103

Still Moving by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles

*The mind moves at the speed of dreams.
Hold on! Hold on! Hold on!
I like to think of my brain as a hand,
palm of my soul, fragile nerve bundle.
I think about my brain as I hold my heart
in both hands  a private thing, a pulsing secret.
It fills my palms and bones with heat.
The world is full of heartbeat.
I am trying to hold it all together...*
    &nbsp; -- &nbsp;Excerpt from *STILL MOVING*, by Technelegy

**NOTE: To fully experience *STILL MOVING*, please open in LIVE VIEW and enable your webcam for motion tracking.**

The first project of its kind, *STILL MOVING* is an interactive poem about humanitys visceral engagement with the virtual  written and published via the blockchain as a token word performance, and embodied by each collector as a uniquely intimate, personalized interpretation. In this epic on-chain ode to the relationship of bodies and machines, literal and figurative wordplay activates the liminal space between text and reader, extending the two-dimensional screen/page into a somatic, material realm where language moves us in every sense of that phrase  up, down, sideways, forwards, backwards, and in otherwise inexpressible directions  urging us to reclaim our dynamism and intuitive physicality in an age of technological acceleration, bodily inertia, and rote gestures.

A collaboration between Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles  rooted in Stiles AI-powered verse and Sterns career in digital, interactive, and networked art  *STILL MOVING* is an ars poetica about what it means to be a human body facing a machine: a showdown, a form of worship, a distraction, a mirror gaze, an other, an alter, an alter. After we bend to our technologies, do we spring back into shape, or assume new forms? Where does input end, and output begin? As we continue to think, work, and play faster than ever while rooted in place, it is still possible to be moved  *really* moved?

*STILL MOVING* also embodies the future of web3 literature, in which the book  read-only  evolves into a read-write-interact experience, and authors begin to adopt such tools as webcams and NFTs in their writerly arsenal. In each unique edition of *STILL MOVING*, camera-based motion tracking (data confined to your local machine only) facilitates a play-full and meaning-full interface between the readers physical self and language on screen. Human forms and gestures shape machine expression, and vice versa, cybernetic serendipity inspires poetic association. Make a move, and be moved Stand still, and instill meaning

Palettes pair paper, charcoal, and pencil colorings  emblematic of the stationery/stationary  with neon and electric highlights that nod to computational restlessness. Preview images feature lines from the core poem, potent standalone phrases, or rare, gestural graphics and images, caught somewhere between language and illustration, expression and wordless apprehension. 


**FUNCTIONS**

*Click inside the interaction area if any of the function keys below are not working.*

*Space Bar* to toggle Play/Pause the interaction and animation

*"d"* Downloads the current image at the screen/browser resolution

*Up/Down arrows* increase/decrease camera sensitivity by 5
(for use in high and low light situations;
0-150, default is 90; higher numbers = more text)

*Top two keyboard rows (numbers 1 thru 0 and letters q thru p)* also birth semi-mapped text

*"c"* toggles Camera use (if present and on) between keyboard only or both

*"v"* Views/hides the Verse (your poetry / your iterations text)

*"f"* toggles Full screen (Live View only)

*"s"* downloads / Saves the entire AI poem to the hard drive

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Created by Daniel Allan on Sound. Leave a comment on the song at https://www.sound.xyz/danielallan/bricks-with-belis

Bricks (with Belis)

Welcome to PIN003.

For this month's edition of PIN I decided to do go home to Louisville.

Home is always where the heart has been for me and every time something new is brewing musically I make sure it touches Louisville.

Belis sent me this topline and per usual I put most of this song together on the flight. I swear I need to make a project about making music on planes lol.

Bricks (with Belis) #570

I'm Feeling Lucky by Maya Man

*Im Feeling Lucky* focuses on the contemporary culture of astrology and how it prompts us to make sense of ourselves through its structures. Barthes calls astrology a confirmation of the real. There is comfort in the promise of realness over fantasy. Even if it's influenced by randomness, confirmation bias gives way to some kind of feeling of faith.

The title of the collection comes from Googles Im Feeling Lucky button which initially embodied the energy of software and chance, but has evolved over the years in a way that parallels the fast-paced commercialization of the internet. 

I dont feel lucky anymore, but I want to Feel Lucky again
