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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 2d

www.maakuu.com/blog/logic-and-skill
#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

There’s a logic that lives under the chaos. A slow, stubborn rhythm that ties one attempt to the next, like footsteps across an invisible bridge. When I look back, the path almost makes sense — though...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 9d

Some words about the world we live in
www.maakuu.com/blog/the-struggle
#ArtistLife #Capitalism #Depression

The Struggle — Maa Kuu

As Keanu Reeves said, we are not struggling with depression, we are struggling with the world we live in. And it's inevitable.  The very moment you cease to buy into hustle culture - “my 5 to 9...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 12d

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Future Plans and the Limits of Time — Maa Kuu

The future has always been a horizon I look toward with both longing and caution. Plans are fragile things. They bend under pressure, collapse under circumstance, and sometimes dissolve into nothing a...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 20d

Works. Very 2025

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 20d

Might lead to something interesting. Not gonna win a Grammy I'm afraid :)

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 23d

The thinking behind my art practice:
www.maakuu.com/blog/impossi...
#ArtistLife #ContemporaryArt

Impossible Beauty from Exile — Maa Kuu

I call my practice emotional archaeology. The works I make are excavations — layers of feeling, fragments of memory, pieces of a life that has been broken and remade. I bend AI into a role it wasn’t d...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 25d

Prints now available at shop.maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · 27d

On the autumn equinox, light and shadow hold each other in balance. A new set of images now at maakuu.com
#AutumnEquinox #NewArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtRelease #ArtistLife #AIart #DigitalArt #ConceptualArt #ArtAndLife #MaaKuu

Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Sep 19

Next Monday equinox will be bringing new works to light, this blog post sets the scene
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Looking for Cy Twombly — Maa Kuu

Rivkin writes in his excellent Cy Twombly biography: ‘ “A Twombly looks,” writes one critic, “the way thinking sometimes feels.” And that is Twombly’s gift — the bewildering slipstream between thinki...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Sep 1

New blog at maakuu.com
#ArtistLife
#ArtSchool

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First steps at Art School Maa — Maa Kuu

"Maan kurssi alkaa huomenna ja mulla on tooodella huonot vibat siitä." (31st Jan 2016) (The course at Maa starts tomorrow and I have reeeeally bad vibes about it.) The night before my first sessi...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Aug 17

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#Artistlife #Antihero #Creative

Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Aug 13

Saltlight - glints of a passage now online: maakuu.com
#Anti-hero #ArtistLife

Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jul 8

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#ArtistLife #AntiCapitalism #Protomutant #Antihero

Too Human for Capitalism — Maa Kuu

“A bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.” The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-hero—call him the Protomutant—has already missed the mo...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jul 6

Got inspired!
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Too Human for Capitalism — Maa Kuu

“A bit of grandiose delusional thinking takes one a long way.” The line appears in a coffee-shop diary scrawl dated 18 November 2015. Our anti-hero—call him the Protomutant—has already missed the mo...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jul 4

New blog post, about those foggy times.....
www.maakuu.com/blog/you-do-not-have-to-know-yet

You Do Not Have to Know Yet — Maa Kuu

"Tilapäinen epävarmuus? Prosessin luonne? Etsikkoaika?" (entry, November 12, 2015) Lesson 4: You do not have to know yet. In fact, not-knowing is part of the work. In late 2015, I thought I w...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 27

New blog online:

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Begin Before You Believe — Maa Kuu

“Ehkä mä olen vaan kuntoutuva opiskelija. Ja taiteilija-identiteetti on deluusiota, jäänteitä suuruudenhullusta ‘minun on oltava joku’ -tarpeesta.” (entry, November 9, 2015) Lesson 3: Begin bef...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 23

New blog online:
www.maakuu.com/blog/there-i...

There Is No Clear Path — Maa Kuu

"Joko tää on hallusinaatio tai tietojenkäsittelytieteen opinnot tuntuu avaavan paljon uusia työllistymismahdollisuuksia." (diary entry, August 29, 2015) Lesson 2: There is no clear path. The myt...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 21

Ash on skin. Light in the wound.

Solstice Transmission begins here — a ritual in fragments.

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#MaaKuu #SolsticeTransmission #ContemporaryMyth #AIArt

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 13

New blog post online: You Will Be Obscure www.maakuu.com/blog/you-will-be-obscure

You Will Be Obscure — Maa Kuu

“Mä voisin olla Kuvataideakatemian käynyt ja silti yhtä obscure and culturally irrelevant as now.” (diary entry, June 25, 2015) Lesson 1: You will be obscure. The question is—will you survive it...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 13

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ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · Jun 11

Full moon above.
Ash between us.
The solstice waits, patient and burning.

This is not mourning. It’s memory made visible.

— from the upcoming Solstice Transmission

#MaaKuu #Edgewalking #MythicArt #Solstice #AIart #EmotionalTechnology #DesertRituals

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · May 26

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OpenAI ChatGPT o3 caught sabotaging shutdown in terrifying AI test

OpenAI has a very scary problem on its hands. A new experiment by PalisadeAI reveals that the company’s ChatGPT o3 model sometimes refuses to obey a basic instruction to shut itself down. The results ...

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · May 25

See that lighthouse? That's where I write Edgewalking, my occasional bundle of signals for you. Subscribe on my website: maakuu.com

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Maa Kuu @maakuuart.bsky.social · May 22

Bhahahahaha