Miguel Carvalhais

A Chinese translation of my book Algorithm, Image, Art has been published by Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Publishing House. I'm really excited that this will allow more people to read it outside of primarily English-speaking contexts.

The Wire's Global Ear focuses Tilburg and Breda and listens to Jos Smolders's “Textuur 2” www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks... @earlabs.bsky.social @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

Year is ending but there's still plenty to look for. November will see releases by Gintas K and @c + Visiophone, and, to close the year in the best possible way we'll have Jos Smolders's amazing “Textuur 5”. Check them all out at cronicaelectronica.org @earlabs.bsky.social @gintask.bsky.social

Setting up for tonight’s performance at volumens.es in València @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social

The show is up!🌈

✨hoje: Matéria Escura Digital inaugura no gnration às 16:00✨ #materiaescuradigital #digitaldarkmatter #exhibition #artandtechnology

Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

inauguração 10 outubro 16h: matéria escura digital no gnration, Braga

We’re very happy to present Nicola Di Croce’s second release in Crónica, “Attuning To / Resonating with (Aomori)”, now available to stream or download from www.cronicaelectronica.org/254/

'They are often filed under industrial, pigeonholed as punk, but belong to neither; if they must fit into a genre then that genre is Neubauten.' Happy Birthday to #EinstürzendeNeubauten’s Kollaps, which turns 45 today! buff.ly/MmUYkJ4

Here's my very close reading of what a stochastic parrot is, and how I, personally, make sense of it. Because I felt like getting roasted by literally everybody on BlueSky today.

the moral rights to our own work is a pretty important concept underpinning lot of people’s livelihoods and our collective creative future that there are devs out there that see no issue with dismantling that because they prefer slop coding to practicing their profession will turn me into the joker

Coming up next Saturday: Matéria Escura Digital / Digital Dark Matter opens at gnration 10 October, 16:00. I will present a new video-installation exploring the opacity that is marbled into advanced visual technologies. www.gnration.pt/event/2026/m...

These are the charts behind AI narratives. This, as far as I understand, is the end goal.

Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either.

Some download codes for Diogo Alvim’s wonderful “Música para Mysterious Heart”: w5uw-xx42 e85q-j5ec rn76-grrw dw5u-34x4 sp8a-hmaa 6ffs-xmuh uwdc-egav ljqe-33f8 q9rf-cxjn 92lx-cp8e Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum

My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes

Recently I presented alongside @carvalhais.org a bit of research about this in @xcoax.org . I explored the history of spatiotemporal video visualizations, speacially those used for media analysis incluiding the work of many others. Have a look!

There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

This album is part of the Textuur Project, a series exploring methods of stripping sounds from their original context and fragmenting them into ever-smaller particles and questioning where representation gives way to abstraction.

This album was inspired by the poetry of Greta Monach (1928–2018), a pioneering Dutch artist who forged her own path in the fields of computer-generated composition, microtonal singing, and sound poetry.

We're very happy to announce that the new album by Jos Smolders, Textuur 5 [ Automatergon ] is now available to preorder from cronica.bandcamp.com/album/textuu... @earlabs.bsky.social

I recently sat down with Andrés Isaza for a studio visit and conversation about the material and conceptual research for my upcoming show Matéria Escura Digital at @gnration The exhibition will run from 9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027. youtube.com/watch?v=BJu2jn-TTRw

“To be gripped by another person’s inner life is old equipment built into us. … AI slop feels like betrayal. There is this haunting feeling when you lean toward a face and then find only a mask, with no person behind it.” www.noemamag.com/a-new-kind-o...

> I don’t care about your credentials, I don’t care about your experience. With a couple of words, you gladly announced that you are obliterating them and refusing all forms of free will. Goodbye!

Video recap from 30xN AV Live performance at ARCA - Dias Abertos, 2026, at ossocoletivo Video: irinasofiaoliveira _ @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.

Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. In an era shaped by climate crisis, war and deepening social inequalities,listening is increasingly called upon to bear witness – to melting glaciers, disappearing species, militarised borders, extractive infrastructures and

@carvalhais.org and I have an entry on Algorithmic Listening in Listening Glossary The book is edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and comes out 8 October. You can already preorder it here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...

We're super happy to present the new album by Roel Meelkop, “Antithesis”, now out in Crónica and available as a limited-release CD and as a download (featuring an extra, one-hour long track). Get it now from www.cronicaelectronica.org/253/

Some shots from 30xN AV Live performance last June at ARCA2026 - OSSO. . @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.

Still on break, but timely reminder since it's September again (almost)

Reminder: “30×N — VRM1” is now out and available at name your price as a download. This is a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org

(Cough) newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

I also crafted a little Starter Pack, that needs to get much bigger. A tonne more people ought to be on this list, do tag them here and I'll add. "Writers / Critics / Activists / Devs / Cultural Actors interested in the intersection of videogames & real-life politics & culture." go.bsky.app/RzmV6GM

No one interested in education, in humanities, in what constitutes knowledge, in true collective learning in societies and critical (as in critical thinking critical) of LLM AI in those systems and its impact should skip this article by Ishani Ray and @olivia.science Really. It's that important! 1/

New essay out, "As peças que não se encontram" (the pieces that can't be found), commissioned by Óscar Silva and André Barata for the book “As Peças Que — Ensaios Sobre”, part of a project inspired on Henri Lefebvre's book. The book is published by www.terceirapessoa.pt

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Love this new metaphor for AI. It’s basically a katamari. 😅 (Read the full thread)

Video by @visiophone.bsky.social is at archive.org/details/30xN...

Out now: “30×N — VRM1”, a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social

Coming tomorrow, “30×N — VRM1”, new release in the series, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. Stay tuned! www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social