Switching to a new email provider (but keeping your old domain)I migrated my custom email domain to privacy-first email provider ProtonMail yesterday, and it was surprisingly straightforward.Jul 30, 2024Jul 30, 2024
Headless WordPress with Gatsby: How to set up a custom “Gallery” post type for freeKeywords: headless CMS, headless wordpress, gallery, custom post type, Gatsby, ACF, Pods, Custom meta fields, repeatable fields…May 15, 2024May 15, 2024
Let’s hope “The AI Dilemma” never gets turned into a Netflix seriesThe new campaign by the “Center of Humane Technology” is dripping with sensationalist X-risk AGI hype and pseudo-science. That’s not how we…Jun 28, 2023102Jun 28, 2023102
Opening speech at “Reshape forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design” (May 2023)In spring 2023 I had the opportunity to curate a conference at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd as part of my researcher…Jun 5, 20231Jun 5, 20231
Opening speech at “Reshape symposium — forum for AI in Art and Design” (KITeGG, May 2023)reshape (1)Jun 5, 20231Jun 5, 20231
Learnings after 2.5 years of running an AI lab at an Art University (XLab)I ran an AI lab at a German art university for 2,5 years — here’s what I learned about teaching AI/MLJan 16, 202372Jan 16, 202372
Explaining the code of the popular text-to-image algorithm (VQGAN+CLIP in PyTorch)A deepdive into the Google Colab notebook by Katherine Crowson. How do VQGAN and CLIP work together? What is being trained?Apr 11, 20221592Apr 11, 20221592
How to configure your Raspberry Pi Zero to play videos in a loop (= cheap and flexible solution for…This tutorial contains 2 sets of instructions depending on the type of Raspberry Pi Zero you have:Feb 27, 20222702Feb 27, 20222702
10 useful things about Wikidata & SPARQL that I wish I knew earlierWikidata is the nerdy cousin of Wikipedia. It’s a machine-readable user-editable graph database born in 2012. SPARQL is a query language…Jan 9, 20221791Jan 9, 20221791
Published inUX CollectiveDaring more raw AI-ness, a critique of personified voice assistantsPersonality and gender in voice assistants is not something that emerges due to the nature of “AI systems”. Rather, it is intentionally…Jan 12, 2022160Jan 12, 2022160
VQGAN+CLIP — How does it work?The synthetic imagery (“GAN Art”) scene has recently seen a kind of productivity explosion: A new kind of neural network architecture…Aug 3, 20213373Aug 3, 20213373
Warum ich das Trackingtool “Facebook Pixel” nicht auf Kundenwebseiten einbaue (auch wenn der Kunde…Das ist ein Brief an einen meiner Kunden, in dem ich ihm (sehr) ausführlich erkläre, warum ich den Facebook Pixel nicht einbauen werde.Jun 17, 202182Jun 17, 202182
AI at the art school — critical and creative AI research at the XLabThe tools and techniques from the field of AI & Robotics offer promising extensions of the usual creative toolkit of artists and designersMar 9, 2021113Mar 9, 2021113
Understanding gatsby-image (Part 3): Controlling sizes, breakpoints and stylingThis is Part 3 of a three-part series covering the Gatsby plugin gatsby-imageDec 7, 20191923Dec 7, 20191923
Understanding gatsby-image (Part 2): Responsive images 101This is Part 2 of a three-part series covering the Gatsby plugin gatsby-imageDec 7, 2019871Dec 7, 2019871
Understanding gatsby-image (Part 1) graphql, generated files & markupThis is Part 1 of a three-part series covering the Gatsby plugin gatsby-imageDec 7, 20191641Dec 7, 20191641
“My name is Alexa and I’m not your personal assistant” — Workshop at Mozfest (London, 27/10/19)A call to action towards questioning the ongoing personification of AI assistantsNov 8, 201920Nov 8, 201920
Personified machinesVoice assistants like Siri and Alexa display a pseudo-humanity that is heavily scripted by humans. What does that mean for our AI literacy?Nov 3, 2019113Nov 3, 2019113
Published inStorytellers UnitedOpen dialogue, conversation and storytelling — a meta interviewTheirStory is an online platform that helps with facilitating, recording and digitally archiving meaningful conversationsJun 26, 201946Jun 26, 201946
Published inStorytellers UnitedNomad — Reconnecting with Somali HeritageNomad explores the creative use of immersive and web-based technology to contextualise archival Somali objects with people and traditionsFeb 24, 201917Feb 24, 201917