Tag: perception
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The Loss of Distance: Real-Time Systems, Perception, and the Digital Present
Contemporary digital systems increasingly eliminate temporal, spatial, and cognitive distance. Drawing on Paul Virilio and Vilém Flusser, this essay examines how real-time interfaces, AI, and platform logics transform perception into an operational process of immediacy, prediction, and behavioral stabilization. In contrast to media artists of the 1960s and 70s who used technology to expose interruption,…
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From Perception to Prediction
Contemporary AI systems promise adaptability, prediction, and optimization. Yet many of the concepts behind today’s data-driven technologies already emerged in the cybernetic art and design experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The crucial difference lies in their cultural function. While postwar artists and designers developed open systems to expand perception, contemporary AI increasingly transforms systems…
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The Last Design Revolution: Why the Bauhaus Still Matters and Why We Are Misunderstanding Adaptability in the Age of AI
Adaptability has become a central promise in contemporary branding. Yet what is often described as flexibility is, in many cases, nothing more than controlled repetition. True adaptability does not emerge from variation alone, but from structure. The Bauhaus understood this. Today’s AI-driven systems often do not. They generate consistency, but struggle to produce meaning.