Welcome to the fifth issue of Half Dozen – your fortnightly dose of what's brewing at Restless Egg, alongside highlights from arts, technology, startups, and the founder frontier.
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🥚 EVENT RECAP: ANOTHER TECHNOLOGY IS INDEED POSSIBLE.
Last night’s salon explored the provocation, “Is Another Technology Possible? Another Technology Is Possible.” Panelists Günseli Yalcinkaya (Moth Quantum, Dazed), Ana Prendes (Arts at CERN), Libby Hoffenberg (RCA), and Sylvan Rackham (Restless Egg) unthought entrenched tech paradigms and opened wormholes toward avant-garde futures.
William Morgan opened the second half with a playful, provocative talk, *“Why is my phone not a hat that I control by wiggling my toes?”* that highlighted the role of humor and absurdity in unlocking technical futures otherwise obscured by present-day habits and path dependencies.
The evening culminated in the creation of Oblique Eggs, set to tunes by yingtuitive, using Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies to transform the familiar deck into a platform for experimentation. The playful question, "Why is my phone not a hat that I control by wiggling my toes?" points to a deeper design corollary in AI: Why is AI this way and not that way? The present bears the responsibility to ask before that answer is locked in.
Special thanks to Maeve, Othy, La Sobremesa, and Shai Space for bringing this event to life. Make sure you’re following the Egg on Instagram to see photos of the Oblique Eggs outcomes as we release them!
🥚🥚 BOOK YOUR TRIP TO ACID CITY!
Acid City is officially announced! Laser Days Studio's first original production, this animated short film is coming to the world in Spring 2025. The film is powered in part by Blue Leaf, a new product giving filmmakers unprecedented autonomy in AI-driven worlding. Seriously, just look at those teeth!
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🥚🥚🥚 BAT CAVE OPENS TODAY IN LONDON
Join us tonight, 17 April, for the opening of Bat Cave by egg-friend Alice Bucknell at Salon by IMPORT EXPORT (47 Bedford Street, WC2E 9HA). A playtest of Bucknell’s new interactive work Nightcrawlers, the show invites players to embody a bat or a flower in a two-player cooperative game exploring nocturnal pollinators, communication beyond language, and how to see in the dark.
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