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Joined Metalabel 04/24/2025Ari Melenciano explores forms of intelligence that elude the machine.
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This essay enacts what it argues - that knowledge is relational and accumulative, and intelligence is designed by culture. The writing navigates across two very different parties, compares the internet and AGI to desire paths, and brings Caribbean theory into advanced forms of technoculture.
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A consideration of the unquantifiable parts of being alive, what eludes the machine.
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Alloentity recognizes a deeply human experience, the allostatic (versus homeostatic) nature of identity. How it is relational and negotiated, consistently. Explored with some of the earliest synthesized portraits created with a fine-tuned generative model, alongside quotes from a century of thinkers including Sylvia Wynter, Zadie Smith, + Carl Jung
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Cosmeage, originally experienced as a film, has traveled from NYC's MoMA to Los Angeles' The Music Center. It explores Black cultural gestures, embodied sensorial memory, and pan-African diasporic sound, while situated within surrealist architecture. This release translates the film into a tactile form of nearly 200 cinematic stills and process.