More on the neosynthetic

Posted by peterlunenfeld on April 2nd, 2025 filed in Uncategorized
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The latest Imagining the Digital Future Center report (used to be the Pew Report) is on the impact of AI. The line they are citing from my contribution is: “AI will be both the marble and the chisel, the brush and the canvas, the camera and the frame.”  Here’s the full essay. 


Let the moment fly…

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 24th, 2025 filed in Uncategorized
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Episode 81: “LA Light, LA Darkness,” or Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye w/Professor Peter Lunenfeld

I was invited to join Episode 81 of Upper Middlebrow, Jesse Dukes and Chris Bagg’s wonderful podcast in which they “discuss high-craft works of popular culture.” This one is titled, “LA Light, LA Darkness, or Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye”. If you don’t recognize the reference to Johnny Mercer’s lyrics on John Williams’ soundtrack, enjoy Jack Shelton’s great version of the song.


Fantastic Conversation

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 24th, 2025 filed in Uncategorized
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Jeffrey Schnapp of Harvard’s MetaLab among many other amazing affiliations, has translated Bruno Munari’s Fantasy, originally published in 1977. Inventory Press and Artbook are hosting a dialogue in DTLA about this remarkable work.


Thoughts on the Present Crisis

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 24th, 2025 filed in Uncategorized
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I’ve been writing letter’s to Geert Lovink in Amsterdam about what’s happening in America. He asked if he could put the latest one up on his Institute for Network Cultures site.


@Paradiso 09/02/24

Posted by peterlunenfeld on July 5th, 2024 filed in Uncategorized
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I’ll be in Amsterdam giving a talk on and around the concept of digital wellness in a conference organized by Next Nature. The venue is one of my favorites anywhere, a concert venue cum dialogue space that’s hosted performances by artists as varied as Prince and David Bowie, as well as Powershows organized by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort.


Bergman Center Residency

Posted by peterlunenfeld on July 3rd, 2024 filed in Uncategorized
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I was awarded a Bergman Foundation Residential Fellowship on Fårö Island in Sweden to support on a new book-in-progress on search-versus-research. We will be staying in the Writer’s Lodge, right on the Baltic Sea, where portions of Scenes from a Marriage were filmed.


Art & AI in Venezia

Posted by peterlunenfeld on April 10th, 2024 filed in Uncategorized
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With Massimo Sterpi, I’ve co-organized “The Neo-Synthetic: A Dialogue on Art, A.A., and Emergent Aesthetics,” during the opening week of the Venice Biennale at the Home of the Human Safety Net on Piazza San Marco. Featuring Refik Anadol, Michelle Kuo, Lev Manovich, and Eva & Franco Mattes, the event is sold out.


AI & Power

Posted by peterlunenfeld on February 29th, 2024 filed in Uncategorized
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I participated in Lee Rainie’s “Imagining the Digital Future Initiative,” his follow-up to 25 years of running the Pew Internet and American Life project. This year’s topic was – no surprise here – artificial intelligence. Check out the summary or the entire report.


Cryto in LA Review

Posted by peterlunenfeld on December 19th, 2023 filed in Uncategorized
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The Los Angeles Review of Books published my essay on crypto and the history of the American long con.


Launch of .able

Posted by peterlunenfeld on March 23rd, 2023 filed in Uncategorized
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Excited to see .able launch this week. I’m on the editorial board and have a piece titled “Solve for (x)Futurisms” in the first issue. This peer-reviewed publication makes research accessible through images. Created at the initiative of La Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École Polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, the journal is published by Actar Publishers. [The image above by UCLA undergraduates in my Design Futures hybrid seminar/studio.]