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STORYBOOK: ON RECYCLING
EDITED BY SOLL (SILVIO VUJČIĆ AND MIRO ROMAN) with contributions by NOT VITAL - ON ART, PROF. DR. TILO HÜHN, ZHAW - ON CELL CULTURES, PROF. DR. SANJA CVETNIĆ, FFZG - ON VIRTUALITY, PETRA TOMLJANOVIĆ, KULTURFOLGER & PROF.DR. DEJAN LUKIĆ, GCAS - ON CONVIVIO, ADIL BOKHARI, ETHZ - ON SCENOGRAPHY, DR. JORGE OROZCO, ETHZ - ON MOVIES, PROF. DR. KATARINA NINA SIMONČIČ, TTF - ON PEARLS, MATE JONJIĆ - ON DANCE, BRUNA KAZINOTI - ON AUTORSHIP, MIA KOVAČIĆ - ON MASKS, SAŠA JOKA - ON COPY, DINO BONAČIĆ - ON FASHION, + SOLL (SILVIO VUJČIĆ AND MIRO ROMAN): ON RECYCLING, ON DREAMS, ON MOUTHS, ON DAVIDS, ON HOROSCOPE... ++
This magazine is a demonstration of how to write and work with AI in the 21. Century. This unique project was made possible by research conducted at UIBK, ETH, and E.A. 1/1 S.V., and by the trust, freedom, and production of STORYBOOK.HR Watch the 🔗 TALK ABOUT THE STORYBOOK 52: ON RECYCLING.
SOLL: “This STORYBOOK is quite unusual. It transcends the traditional boundaries of lifestyle magazines, academic journals, or artistic books. By playing all three formats and by adding commercial aspects, this hybrid medium not only fosters serious discussions among varied audiences but plays the freedom of the format and also leverages the infrastructure of commercial distribution to broaden its reach. Magazine itself becomes a branding tool for its editor, and precisely because of that the quality of its content has to be on the highest level.
In an era where notion of truth is increasingly elusive, it is crucial to explore novel formats for engaging in discussions about our world. This is quite present in contemporary scientific endeavors, especially in fields such as quantum mechanics, category theory, general relativity, and artificial intelligence, where the pursuit is to explore the world beyond mere analytics. Scientific observation is no longer isolated from the observer. What if we don’t think about today’s world only in terms of measurement and analysis but rather in terms of communication and synthesis. Than instead of certainties we think with probabilities, instead solving we dissolve problems and articulate ones that are more abstract, instead of constants we work with invariants, and so on... The focus shifts. Still It is not this simple and straight forward. Similar constellations to this one can be found in history. When one translates Ancient Greek word ‘techne’ to Latin one gets ‘art’. These two words behave like synonyms. This is quite different than the enlightenment understanding of the couple where science is the other to art. Instead of essences and definitions I prefer to think and work with lists and spectra.
In this manner, this StoryBook presents a spectrum of stories about recycling, encouraging us to think beyond the usual frames: resources and waste, good and bad, artificial and natural. It’s a world where everything endlessly circulates—objects, ideas, thoughts, and emotions. As the editor of this edition of the StoryBook, I - SOLL -, as a collection of various intelligences—artificial and natural, large and small, planetary and object-based—want to open the topic of cycles. I’m interested in the ways objects move and exist in infinite cycles. I intend to discuss recycling in the broadest sense.
This edition of the StoryBook engages us in a dialogue with our past and fantasies about the future, transcending the boundaries of history, analysis, scientific objectivity, artistic self-expression, and religious beliefs. These stories interweave the intelligence of plants and pigments with the intelligence of thread and textiles, connecting them with the intelligence of books and films, adding a touch of human intelligence and a bit of artificial intelligence. In the StoryBook, culture, and mathematics engage in a sophisticated conversation, merging two poles into an intriguing relationship.”
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A SYMPOSIUM ON ARCHITECTURE SPELT IN ATOM LETTERS
BY MIRO ROMAN & ALICE_CH3N81
How does coding change the way we think about architecture?
In this book, Miro Roman and AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new kind of literacy that grew out of information technologies and programing languages. They talk about concepts, knowledge, words and galaxies that link the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.
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A QUANTUM CITY
MASTERING THE GENERIC
EDITED BY LUDGER HOVESTADT, VERA BÜHLMANN, DIANA ALVAREZ MARIN, MIRO ROMAN AND SEBASTIAN MICHAEL
A Quantum City invites you to tap into the wealth of indexes belonging to our world. You get introduced to Orlando, a person with no noteworthy qualities, nor any particular properties: a human being who has not yet travelled. And it’s because of this that Orlando is singled out by the gods. He sets sail from Crete towards Athens in 320 BCE, hoping to find evidence of perfection. Throughout the book you follow him on his Odyssey through Western civilisation; though Orlando never quite ends up where she intended to go. And yet, by the time she arrives in the New York of the 1960s, all the decisions that have been made must be called hers. Orlando’s adventure is to challenge the collective origin of intellectual nature. In doing so, Orlando becomes neither an authoritarian functionary, nor a restless activist, nor a comfortable member of a bourgeoisie, but a citizen of the digital age, a Quantum Citizen. This is not a book as you might expect. It doesn’t offer a theory about cities; rather it speaks of any theory. It is not engaged in solving problems, but it is outraged at stupidity, at the oppressive and anonymous demand that any solid formulation of a problem should be simple. And above all it takes you onto a journey to (re-)discover The City…
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