Zip Zap Zop: The Power of Theater & Storytelling in ‘New’ Hip HopIn a previous post I highlighted the visual storytelling and theatrical elements in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance…5d ago5d ago
The ‘Liberatory Thinking’ of Toni Morrison & Kendrick LamarMy favorite novel of all time is Song of Solomon or SOS by Toni Morrison.Mar 1Mar 1
Sun Ra, Kendrick Lamar and the Emergence of ‘oklama’Jazz maverick and proto-Afrofuturist Sun Ra was born Herman Blount on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was nicknamed “Sonny” from…Feb 24Feb 24
Data Scraping Before AI: The Story of Modern ArtCubists pioneered one of the most radical avant-garde movements in Europe during the early 20th century. However, these artists “scraped”…Feb 14Feb 14
The Algorhythmic Toolbox: Riffing on Bias Using Generative AIIn the past I’ve drawn analogies between AI art and sampling or remixing in hip-hop culture. I also pointed to techno-vernacular creativity…Jan 241Jan 241
Future Self Continuity in the Latent Space of AIThere are many theories about what self-concept is and how it develops (Cherry, 2018B; Gecas, 1982). The term refers to the overall idea we…Jan 15Jan 15
Prompts Didn’t Make These: Deep Style is Still HereThe first wave of generative AI content was roughly from 2014–2021, before Dall-E and other text-2-image (prompt-based) generators reached…Jan 91Jan 91
