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January 3, 2024
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Fractal Sequencer @ CCC | 12/2023

For the occasion of the 37th Chaos Computer Club hacker conference, I created an online fractal MIDI sequencer that produces irregular beat patterns and melodies. It works really well for creating organic textures for moving and resting and working and living. Can connect to any internal MIDI device (the examples below are made with GarageBand which is available on any Mac) or with an external synth / drum machine. This tool is best suitable for exploring and cultivating non-linear dynamical patterns in time and space. Many natural systems have fractal properties: a certain principle is replicated across different scales. In the context of time, this means that no matter how short or how long we're going to be exposed to something, we will observe a similar pattern of change. And the longer we observe, the bigger the variability will be. This MIDI sequencer is available on fractalbeat.live and it was created on the basis...

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December 28, 2023
in Presentations, Software
by agent Paranyushkin

InfraNodus @ CCC | 12/23

For the occasion of the 37th Chaos Computer Club congress in Hamburg, Germany, I presented a methodology for creative thinking that uses a combination of knowledge graphs and LLMs. The core of the approach is in detecting a structural gap in ideas using a knowledge graph and then using LLMs to generate an idea that bridges this gap in an interesting way. This algorithm is now implemented in InfraNodus thinking tool and is also available via API to help algorithms think creatively.      ...

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October 18, 2023
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by agent Paranyushkin

Visual AI Thinking Tool @ YouTube | 10/23

This video, which was watched more than 600 000 times in the first 3 months, presents a method for visual thinking using knowledge graphs and AI. The approach is based on using a knowledge graph to gradually build your idea, focusing on the blind spots in your thinking. Once a gap is identified, the user can generate a research question using an LLM to bridge this gap and to come up with a new idea. This way, AI is not used to think for us, but, rather, with us, augmenting our thinking capacity rather than replacing it. This methodology is implemented into InfraNodus visual thinking tool, which is available online.   You can watch the full video presentation below: ...

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August 14, 2023
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by agent Paranyushkin

Circadian @ a.p. Berlin | 08/2023

On the 12th of August 2023, I hosted a presentation on Circadian Press — an independent publishing house on practices that we established together with Diego Agullo and Noam Assayag. I talked about the concept of the project and also presented some of the older and newer books and the practices contained within. In order to bring those practices to life, we hosted two activation sessions. The first proposition was to find a complete stranger and to use a hypothetical question from The Conversation Book published by Circadian in order to explore each other's perceptions of life. The second proposition was based on my new book, Ecology of Variability, where I invite the readers to explore various types of dynamics and their relation to environment and space. ...

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May 29, 2023
in Presentations, Software
by agent Paranyushkin

InfraNodus @ Internet | 05/2023

During the spring of 2023, I've been working on developing the AI module inside InfraNodus. My focus was on helping it avoid coming up with generic questions and developing a version of AI that could help people explore the hidden parts of any discourse, beyond the periphery of the knowledge, helping to fill the gaps between ideas. Most of the existing tools, like ChatGPT and others, are too focused on providing a concrete answer, which is often reductive and touches upon the main ideas. I thought it would be a pity if AI is used to come up with the most predictable things. My interest was to make it come up with unpredictable, help us stimulate our imagination in the directions we would not normally take. So my intention was to develop a tool that would combine data science and visualization with AI so that the users of InfraNodus could...

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September 15, 2022
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by agent Paranyushkin

Embodied Decentralization @ Ethereum Conference | 09/2022

Ethereum conference is a regular gathering of people interested in blockchain technology from around the world. In the frame of the JOY space at the conference, I hosted an EightOS session where we explored how decentralization of trust (often talked about in crypto circles) can be explored in an embodied way. Interestingly, numerous principles in blockchain technology are very much similar to the patterns that are present in nature, due to the higher level of resilience and adaptability they provide (nature had to evolve this way to avoid a single point of failure and to have backup options). For example, blockchain, by design, has a high level of decentralization, which makes it more resilient against a malfunction or an attack. Yet, when talking about "decentralization" as a concept, we approach it intellectually or in application to a specific engineering problem, losing the "sense" of what it might actually feel like. In my...

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July 27, 2022
in Framework, Presentations
by agent Paranyushkin

Ecological Thinking Framework @ InfraNodus | 07/2022

In August 2022, I presented the ecological thinking framework in the context of InfraNodus tool for insight generation. InfraNodus platform has thousands of users who use it for ideation, knowledge management, and text analysis. I decided to integrate this framework directly into the tool, so it would be available to the users within their existing workflows. After the functionality was released, I also hosted a webinar where I showcased this methodology and proposed several ways to integrate it into research practice. The basic approach behind the ecological thinking framework is closely related to panarchy, embracing the iterative nature of any developmental process: a period of extensive growth is followed by stagnation, followed by release, which frees up resources for reorganization. It is a useful framework for thinking about ecological systems, particularly in the context of limited resources. In panarchy, recession and crisis are seen as an opportunity to optimize the existing...

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Dmitry Paranyushkin (FR/RU) is an artistic researcher and entrepreneur who works with networks, languages, and bodies. In his practice, he explores how different combinations of these elements can originate alternative microcosms, ecological frameworks, temporary cultures, and technologies of the self — bringing into relation the natural and the artificial, documenting the aesthetical and ethical implications of this approach.

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