#yuramironart
‘Artif-Org’
“George Walt’s corporate existence proved the workability of wholly mechanical organs… they would be left alone if they would reveal the manufacture of their highly sophisticated and successful artificial components. It was, most likely, a West German firm; the cartels were most advanced in such experimentation.
…if they keep after me, or if they won’t make a deal regarding artif-org construction - then it’ll be necessary to do something.”
From ‘Cantata 140’ by Philip K. Dick.
Mixed Ai techniques. 1024 x 1024 pix.
Music by AphexTwin - Sline
New 1/1 minted now on KnownOrigin.io
https://dapp.knownorigin.io/gallery/234950-artif-org
Listed for Ξ 1.222
‘WatchdØg’
What happens when mankind is ready to leave the cradle and seek other worlds? Who can you leave behind?
…the earth shook and the sky split as the giant rockets lifted the soul and body of man to Pluto and the distant stars.
Only he stayed behind.
Basically he was six hundred square miles of squat building, with control over a world-wide network of smaller stations and probes.
A babysitter.
From WatchdØg, by Jack C. Haldeman.
Published by Ultimate Publishers in 1972.
Artwork was created with a mix of Ai tools.
Music by DenniswithY - GrünerGrasshalm
1/1 minted now on @makersplace.co
Available for Ξ1.333
‘Emissarial Projection’
“Do you know what an emissarial projection is…? It’s when they send a tuned suite of queries and responses to a remote location, by light beam. To play the part of an emissary.”
“…If we are to believe what we are told, the object they send is something like a library, transmitted by a signal laser. Suitably housed and emplaced within enabled equipment of sufficient capacity and complexity, this… entity, though it is simply a many-branched array of statements, questions and answers, with a set of rules governing the order in which they are expressed, is able to carry out what seems like an intelligent conversation. It is as close as one is allowed to to come to an artificial intelligence.
From The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.
Published by Orbit in 2004
Artwork was created with a mix of Ai tools.
Music by AphexTwin - Lush Ambulance
1/1 minted now on @makersplace.co
Available for 1.5Ξ
https://makersplace.com/yuramiron/emissarial-projection-1-of-1-36453/
‘Boulder’
“The weapon which Herb Lackmore had been provided with contained a costly replica of the encephalic brainwave pattern of James Briskin. He needed merely to place the device within a few miles of Briskin, screw in the handle, and then, with a switch, detonate it. It was a mechanism, he decided, which provided little if any personal satisfaction."
From Cantata 140, by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964. Artwork was created in Artbreeder & upscaled in Topaz Gigapixel Ai. 1024x1024 pix. mp4
Minted now on @SuperRare.co
Open for bids:
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/boulder–15118
Music by Strukturator - Budeshche from "Beholding Spring” - long play album, which is the result of rethinking the phenomenon of emptiness as an event-forming space.
Listen it on Bandcamp: https://strukturator.bandcamp.com/album/beholding-spring-lp
‘Pushing the edge of meaning’
“We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.” by Terence McKenna
Minted now on SuperRare.co
Open for bidding! First bid of 0.9876 ETH is already placed by jkprag. Thank you!
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/pushing-the-edge-of-meaning-14980
‘Mycroft Holmes’
“When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum, a flexible logic - "High-Optional, Logical, Multi-evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV, Mod. L” - a HOLMES FOUR. He computed ballistics for pilotless freighters and controlled their catapult. This kept him busy less than one percent of time and Luna Authority never believed in idle hands. They kept hooking hardware into him - decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers, bank on bank of additional memories, more banks of associational neural nets, another tubful of twelve-digit random numbers, a greatly augmented temporary memory. Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that many neuristors. And woke up.“
From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein. Published by GP Putnam in 1966.
Artwork was created in Artbreeder & upscaled in Topaz Gigapixel Ai. 1024x1024 pix. mp4
Minted now on @SuperRare.co
Listed for 1.222 ETH
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/mycroft-holmes–14925
Music by Strukturator - Silent Ride from "Beholding Spring” - long play album, which is the result of rethinking the phenomenon of emptiness as an event-forming space.
Listen it on Bandcamp: https://strukturator.bandcamp.com/album/beholding-spring-lp
‘Continuous unfolding of understanding’
“The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.” quote by Terence McKenna
Now on SuperRare.co
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/continuous-unfolding-of-understanding-14808
‘Technological independence’
After the unification of the planet, the Rebouças brothers’ study showed the dangers of greenhouse effect amplification for the climate and the planetary environment, after which UN resolutions increasingly restricted the use of fossil fuels. And also of nuclear energy, after its risks were evidenced when an earthquake followed by tsunami devastated the plant of Paramonga, in the Tauantinsuio. Fifty years later, there were only thirty experimental nuclear power plants and three hundred small research reactors operating in the world, all under strict supervision by the Union of Nations Commission on Science and Culture. And coal, oil, and gas were being used only as chemical raw materials. Former mining and industrial centers disappeared in many places. Although the Union financed the substitution of renewable energy sources, the imposition aroused much resentment in Eurasia, where many saw the threat of global warming as a forged pretext to deprive them of their technological independence and subject them to the uniform and oppressive vulgarity of solar panels and wind turbines that turned magnificent landscapes in ugly things to behold. From ‘Once Upon a Time in a World’ by Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa ‘Solarpunk: Ecological and fantastical stories in a sustainable world. An Anthology’. Published by World Weaver Press in 2018. Artwork was created in Artbreeder & upscaled in Topaz Gigapixel Ai 1024x1024 pix. mp4
Now on @SuperRare.co
Open for bidding:
https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/technological-independence-14442
Music by Aphex Twin - Rough Beat Tune
