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The Life & Times of Aphrodite, Queen of Beauty

WHAT IS THE STORY
In ‘The Life & Times of Aphrodite, Queen of Beauty’ we invoked the text-generating capabilities of contemporary AI to reflect on questions of beauty, art and materiality through a series of mythological genealogies, (anti-)humanist reflections and archetypal story-telling. The algorithm used to produce the text relies on a deep learning model called a recurrent neural network (RNN). This model is trained on a large corpus of text, and can generate new text that is similar to the training data - in this case we used Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 aka GTP-3 which is trained on a vast amount of online conversations and millions of digitized books. The model is capable of learning the long-term dependencies in the text, and can generate coherent and realistic outputs. The language model we used is capable of generating long-form text with the assistance of a few user-inputed prompts. Our prompts of 10-15 words set the overall intention of the text, and the algorithm generated the different chapters based on them. We didn’t edit or intervene in any shape or form with the final output. 

In order to transcribe the text into sound we used a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). With a GAN, you have two neural networks: a generator and a discriminator. The generator tries to create fake audio samples that sound realistic, while the discriminator tries to distinguish between real and fake samples. The two networks compete with each other, and as they do, the generator gets better and better at creating fake audio samples. Other audio inputs for this piece also included stock music, T-T-S (Ivy, child), special FX awards, field recordings, 8-bit music, happy hardcore, a song by Dana International, and YouTube extracts.

The resulting audioplay follows goddess Aphrodite through the millennia of her existence providing a philosophical account of the history of aesthetics. While story-driven and highly entertaining the work also explores questions around the nature of art, the concepts in art, and the experience of art. In our story, Aphrodite the goddess of love and beauty experiences multiple existential crises as historical definitions of both love and beauty shift and often collapse over time. In her attempt to keep up with times Aphrodite has to re-configure her subjectivity and belief systems, a process of evolutionary adaptations that mirrors the function of artificial intelligence. Both AI and our Aphrodite crave for a totalising comprehension of reality but always fails as we live in a world of absurdity and finitude. Our training data sets are as flawed as the subjects producing them; creativity (and even our understanding of beauty) spring out of unconscious processes in ways that can only be affectively effective when they ambush us. With this work we aspire to understand what the collective unconscious of the algorithmic abyss can teach us about the impossibility (and therefore freedom) of desire.

Part 1: The Beginning; The School of Wild Aesthetics

Part 2: Industrial Revolution & the Creation of Beauty 2.0

Part 3: Pikachu, the Beloved Slave

Part 4: The Plight of the Perverts

Part 5: Lena Kitsopoulou’s Heart

Part 6: Crime & Punishment; The Birth of the House of Love & Beauty

Part 7: Bio-Hacking Aristotle

Part 8: Aphrodite X: the Famous Widow

Part 9: Eternal Diva

The Life & Times Of Aphrodite, Queen Of Beauty

Before MC

Book Of Power

Kinky Disco Series 1 🕺💃🏻🎶❤️.

These mixes are a celebration of the fact under Pauls guidance, KM will reach its 25th Anniversary in March 2024.

2nd release tickets for Kinky Malinki’s 25th Anniversary will now go on sale on Thursday, 30th Novmber.

You MUST purchase an advance ticket if you want to attend the event. 

Sign up now to gain early access to our 2nd release tickets by clicking on this link: 

https://bit.ly/KM25_sign_up 🎫🔥😄

It was a popular night with the guys and girls in its heyday, and that was very likely because we played quality feel good house music pretty much all night long, with a disco, piano driven or vocal edge and a good beat 🕺💃🏻🎶❤️

These mixes are nothing more than my interpretation of the music policy from back then, and a mixture of new and old tracks, many that you'll likely hear at the Anniversary Party.

If you like the mix, please give it a share 🙏 

if you like what you hear and want to come to the 25th Anniversary, be sure to get a ticket on the 30th as the first release sold out in less than 48 hours.

And please, please do give it share.  Much love ❤️ 

Tracklisting - 

Hot Toddy feat Karen Harding - So Good
Aline Rocha - WTF
Re-Tide - Deep in my Soul
Sonic Soul Orchestra feat Kathy Brown - Good Inside
DJ Duke - Can you Feel it (Roy Davis Jnr Mix)
Funkybeat feat Angela Johnson - Waiting on a Love
Sgt Slick feat Karina Chavez - I Thank You
The Agenda - Versatile (Jay Vegas Remix)
Tertulien Thomas - Hide your Love (Shane D Remix)
The BC Crew - Grace (Young Pulse Full Journey Mix)
Steve Silk Hurley - The Word is Love
Illyus and Barrientos - Wait
Emiliano 90 - Love Undefined
Mike Millrain - A new Dawn
Tom Novy - My Loving
Din Jay - Deep Inside (Marc Cottrell Jacked Mix)
Niles Cooper - Lead me Home
Melba Moore - My Heart Belongs to You (Ferreck Dawn Remix)
Donna Allen - He is my Joy (T.Markakis Remix)
Urban Blues Project  - Your Heaven (I Can Feel It) (Micky More and Andy Tee Remix).

Kinky Disco Series 1 - A New Dawn (Kinky Uplifting House Music)

Gamechanger ft. 2krazy

Rolling (Mami Ven Aqui)

Sandcastles

club closing sealed deal with a baddie cruising vibe great night.. love God yo!!

Vibes

005 (155 BPM)

Sanity

Track list:

1 - Marc Houle & Miss Kittin - Where Is Kittin  (Dubfire Remix)
2 - Citizen Kain - Low Blow (Original Mix)
3 - Borderline - Never Know
4 - Kiko - Apollo (Original Mix)
5 - A.Balter & Eitan Reiter - E0E (Da Fresh Remix)
6 - Dave Seaman - Dance in Tongues
7 - Kiko - Black Dahlia
8 - Mijk Van Dijk - Boa Ramon (Zenker Remix)
9 - Gregor Tresher - Permafrost
10 - Benjamin Fehr (aka_ffwd)- Do What You Lie

Sanity

Qwote Sillable

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