Dada de Dada

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dada · July 12, 2022October 27, 2024

♬ = music 🎬 = video 🔊 = spoken word ✍ = verse 💬 = comment

Analogue Epilogue 🔊 ✍ 💬

dada · January 7, 2025January 8, 2025

We have created a world of apparent efficiency that can move faster than our analogue brains, bodies and social structures can cope with. In that efficiency and dependence comes incredible vulnerability — for us all. The post features a podcast discussion, an enhanced poem, and extensive pages of prose intended as a potential resource for anyone considering the complexity of what we have built.

AI;lure — The Podcast +

dada · January 1, 2025January 3, 2025

An Exploration of AI in Art & Society. This is a podcast discussion featuring Dada de Dada’s multimedia poem AI;lure and its associated essay. The discussion considers how AI is already influencing human creativity.

#Lords Prayer: editio revenientis 🔊 ✍

dada · November 26, 2024November 27, 2024

In this #LordsPrayer poetic fantasy version of events, God exacts vengeance upon humanity by elevating a divisive celebrity from a reality TV show — best known for his bombastic personality and employment of social media — to the US presidency. It could never happen of course.

School of Rap ♬ ✍ 💬

dada · November 19, 2024November 22, 2024

Dada de Dada started this post with the intention of uploading a light-hearted piece of audio pedagogy in the form of a rap about rap. But he fell down a rabbit-hole as he tripped over poetry-based pedagogy, grazed his knuckles on rap-based pedagogy and hit his head on hip-hop pedagogy.

Learning Machine ✍ 💬

dada · November 10, 2024November 22, 2024

Poetry can condense complex ideas, opinions, emotions, problems, and issues. So here is some free verse trying to grapple with the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when applied to the teaching and learning of our young — an issue of immense scope and importance. There is an optional essay as well for those wanting to explore the theme in a bit more depth.

AI;lure 🔊 ✍ 💬

dada · November 4, 2024January 1, 2025

One of the ironies of this rather dystopian piece is just how much AI was involved in the production. So to find out more …

Disconnected 🎬 🔊 ♬ ✍ 💬

dada · November 2, 2024November 4, 2024

Inspired by the Banksy work ‘Mobile Lovers’ this spoken word/musical production poses the question: has our always connected age made us connected to the ‘machine’ but less connected to each other? We don’t gaze into the eyes. We gaze, instead, at the screen because we are becoming afflicted with a chronic disease caused by ‘technoference’.

Just Tell Me a Story ♬ ✍

dada · October 26, 2024November 4, 2024

Just Tell Me a Story explores shifting identities, narrative manipulation, narrative selection and narrative preferences; all creating an ocean of distorted news and misinformation we now have to swim or drown in.

Sauron’s Gaze ♬ ✍

dada · October 22, 2024October 26, 2024

Humans appear hard-wired for stories. But sometimes it’s the story-tellers who hardwire our brains.

Freedom’s Dark Mirror ✍ 💬

dada · October 20, 2024November 4, 2024

An illustrated poem about Freedom. It is a slippery concept. At a surface level everyone just ‘knows’ it is a good thing and so on that basis, some would argue, you can never have too much of it. However …