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Naoki Matsuyama (b. 1982, Rieti, Italy) works as an editor, translator, and writer in English, Italian, and Japanese, with a focus on contemporary criticism and art. With a background in architecture and science technology studies, his research interests include infrastructure, sound and disaster.
Master project Stuck: The Deep Inertias of Large Language Models and How to Digress
Due to ideological, infrastructural and commercial entanglements, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT suffer from deep inertias resulting from problematic histories, which they obediently reflect and enact. Moreove…
Watching a Live Cam for 24 Hours
Naoki Matsuyama2020, Duration: 12 minutes; Format: mp4 Link to Film Film description The coronavirus prompted a hasty embrace of digital alternatives with little discussion about what is impoverished or enhanced. This wo…
10 Jun 2020
On Focus Groups
Fu-Zine
Our irregular zine documenting our research and connections within the neighbourhood of Fužine, Croatia during 2019 and 2020 as part of the SCHOOL FOR MULTISPECIES CONVIVIALITY: Experiments in living somewhere & elsewher…
Notes on an ethnography before arrival | Sounds Public
Notes on an ethnography before arrival Collage The local brass band summons soldiers who died in WW2 in an underwater ritual to combat the “White Plague”. The forest is turned into cardboard boxes to pack relics of the c…
01 Oct 2019
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