The News of the Whirled #5

A multifarious collective of AI text and image generators get tangled in a feedback loop and hallucinate what resembles a journal. From diverse representations dredged from cyberspace, the AIs disgorge anodyne narratives and fantastical features by turns. Imagery edges into the absurd when not bland, pseudonymous renderings. Eventually, graphics dissipate into a bio-angular ataxia. Texts fragment into cryptic, machine-language runes. The algorithms imagine they are producing a sequel, or successor, of an obscure, possibly fictional, magazine from the turn of the century. They call it The News of the Whirled. (Click on image for an animated showing of pages.)

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60 pages + cover, full color

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Process Music in Eye 104

photo of book review in Eye magazine

My recent book Process Music is reviewed by Gabriela Matuszyk in the latest issue of Eye magazine. Matuszyk says “The book does a great job in containing core design issues, themes, figures and objects by making them accessible through humour, observational storytelling and self-referential framing. For me, Process Music was energising, a reminder that the process of reading and writing is fundamental to self-reflection, criticism and designing.”

In addition, Rick Poynor discusses the book’s cover concept in context with other self-referential art and design works, in his Critique article, “This is a column.” Of the book’s cover/interior concept, Poynor says, “It would be hard to imagine how any designer could take this concept any further. FitzGerald has succeeded in imbuing a pictureless sequence of critical texts with that all-important, value-adding ‘object quality’ demanded by contemporary buyers.”

photo of Critique article in Eye 104