[HN Gopher] Bjork on nature and technology (2016)
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Bjork on nature and technology (2016)
Author : atsy
Score : 78 points
Date : 2025-09-22 19:58 UTC (2 days ago)
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| labrador wrote:
| Bjork and Laurie Anderson are my two favorite artists who have a
| feel of both nature and technology in harmony, but there's an
| artist who preceeds both that captures the feeling best for me:
| Richard Brautigan in the 60's All Watched Over
| By Machines Of Loving Grace I like to think (and
| the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow
| where mammals and computers live together in mutually
| programming harmony like pure water touching
| clear sky. I like to think (right now,
| please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines
| and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past
| computers as if they were flowers with spinning
| blossoms. I like to think (it has to be!)
| of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors
| and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal
| brothers and sisters, and all watched over by
| machines of loving grace. https://allpoetry.com/All-
| Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving-Grace
| Rygian wrote:
| Could the title be perhaps the inspiration for the "Self Models
| of Loving Grace" presentation by Joscha Bach in last year's
| CCC?
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| https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-self-models-of-loving-grace
| labrador wrote:
| Good find. That's really interesting. I would guess the
| titles are related.
|
| I want to also mention that with "Bachlorette" Bjork seems to
| anticipate Large Language Models and wrote a cautionary tale
| about them:
|
| "One day I found a big book buried deep in the ground. I
| opened it, but all the pages were blank. Then, to my
| surprise, it started writing itself: 'One day, I found a big
| book buried deep in the ground...'"
|
| bjork : bachelorette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-
| Ebi67I
| entropie wrote:
| > bjork : bachelorette
|
| I love this song since my teens and never dig into the
| meaning of it. Its a musical masterpiece even without
| understanding the text (which I didnt)
| ics wrote:
| I was introduced to Richard Brautigan by a chance encounter
| with The Tokyo-Montana Express from the used book shelf, highly
| recommend it as well.
| lupusreal wrote:
| Love Bjork. She always has very refreshing takes.
| ge96 wrote:
| Aurora Aksnes interesting too
| ascorbic wrote:
| Ah, an excuse to share Bjork's legendary video about how TVs
| work! You shouldn't let poets lie to you.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y
| realo wrote:
| "... Millions of little screens that send light on you..."
|
| How poetic!
| pier25 wrote:
| for a moment it seems like she's talking about TikTok
| proee wrote:
| Bjork talking about her torn-apart CRT TV is one of my favorite
| videos.
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| https://youtu.be/75WFTHpOw8Y?si=FnWcYEtpdhsziJ11
| thr0waway001 wrote:
| The whole time I was thinking: 'don't touch Mr. Capacitor.'
| psadri wrote:
| Nature _is_ technology. It's far too advanced for us to
| understand. And perhaps due to not-invented-here syndrome, we
| tend to try and recreate it (crudely).
| pier25 wrote:
| We're part of nature too. Is the technology we produce also
| part of nature?
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| It is, but it's a somewhat different point. Or perhaps the
| same one, taken from the other end.
|
| I tend to phrase GP's point as: life is nothing but molecular
| nanotech that we didn't design ourselves, and don't fully
| understand _yet_.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| The mentioned Stonemilker video was one of the few things to
| really grab my attention with the Google Daydream VR when it got
| for free with whatever Pixel it was that came with it.
|
| At the time, she said of the 360 VR technology that it was a
| challenge and "it's still being discovered, but people don't know
| what it is."
|
| Daydream VR would be discontinued 4 years later...
|
| https://youtu.be/gQEyezu7G20?si=Tu7DirCjq8psKI8x
| Ambroos wrote:
| This might be a good time to remind you that her Vulnicura VR
| album (that the video you linked to is from) has just been
| remastered and rereleased. Available on Quest 3
| (https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/9760145800676411/) and
| Vision Pro (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bj%C3%B6rk-vulnicura-
| vr-remast...). It's one of my favourite ever albums and I
| really need to find a friend with a Quest 3/Vision Pro, I have
| never gotten to experience the VR videos.
| mastercheif wrote:
| Vulnicura VR is incredible. It's a truly moving experience
| that wouldn't work in any other medium.
| thr0waway001 wrote:
| Kristen Wiig does a killer Bjork impression.
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