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Interdependence 13 w/ Elvia Wilk (Oval)
🕑 Added 2020-07-28 19:48:37 +0000 UTCFor the second part of our conversation series with contemporary fiction writers we are over the moon to have a chat with Elvia Wilk, who released her debut novel “Oval” last year to great acclaim.
Oval is a beautiful book that depicts a world at vastly different scales, not least addressing the contemporary role of the artist as embedded in wider economic systems. We discuss how art communities in the shifting economic landscape of Berlin inspired some of the books themes, the increasingly entangled relationships between artists and corporations, the hyperstitional anxiety of seeing gestures from marginal scenes influence wider culture from your bedroom while also simultaneously feeling very little agency over the future, and how some of her writing related to machine learning takes on new dimension in the wake of OpenAI’s release of the GPT3 API.
Thanks again for listening and have a great week :)
Links
Read Oval - https://softskull.com/dd-product/oval/
"My Kid Could Do That" - https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/my-kid-could-do-that/
GPT-3 - https://github.com/openai/gpt-3
Comments
Mat
hey! You know iirc it was a really trashy "weirdest composer ever" video that ended up in my recommendations and I can't find it. The video itself wasn't all that special, it just occurred to me from the information covered that Satie was very talented at creating his own mythology around what he was doing at the time - and like Cage that is an enduring feature that helps frame the music
Hi! big fan of the podcast! any chance you remember or got the link to the youtube video about Erik Satie being a great salesman?
Mat
Ellul is a new name to us! Will have to take a look! I agree that the "is it like a human" narrative is pretty boring - I think our earlier episodes on ML stuff address this quite often. The Buddhist angle is very interesting, we have reached out to someone on this topic in fact but are awaiting a reply as they are quite busy..
