• Sampling 2.0: How will automated forms of production reshape creative processes? (Towards Data Science, 2019)
    Short Essay
    In this essay, Eduardo Navas considers the political implications of sampling as a cultural variable in relation to aesthetics and labor in juxtaposition with the emergence of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Navas reflects on how automated and self-training forms of production are reshaping the creative possibilities in music and culture.
  • Quotation

    «Art and music in an archive will function like words in our minds.»

  • Classic sample material: Lego bricks (photo: Alan Chia/Flickr)
    Academic Text
    Just like words to create sentences, songs and artworks have become building blocks for new ones. In his essay, Eduardo Navas proposes a future in which constant updates and connectivity will become ubiquitous.