52. Cognitive Futures (w/ Metahaven)
We’re joined by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden of Metahaven, the Amsterdam design and film studio. In some part we're here to talk about their new book, The Hard Question of Art: Cognitive Futures (Verso, 2026), though also at the top of our minds is Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans, written this year with Nina Beguš, Gašper Beguš and Riccardo Petrini for Antikythera.
The Hard Question of Art opens by conceding that art does not change the world, at least in the way we were told it would. For Daniel, art does its actual work by being perceived, and any politics of art has to…
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