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Congrats Robin Klemens and the Kumo team! We are proud and stoked to work with you on one of the biggest challenges of our time—financing and scaling the Carbon Removal Industry to fight climate change. 💪

“Previously I might have feared I have nothing unique to say, but my experience experimenting with AI has shown me that I do.” – Ryan Mather Learn more about Poetry Camera and what it means for art in the age of the machine: https://lnkd.in/gZDwctDr

"I deliberately avoid putting emphasis on the poems or the photos because it traps us in old ways of thinking. Generative models can create infinitely many words and images in an instant, which gives us the opportunity to use poems as intermediaries in a new type of creative process," shares kelin carolyn zhang in our latest Q&A. Learn more about how the creators of Poetry Camera think about the intersection of art and AI, and what's next for the device during the ICV Creative Residency: https://lnkd.in/gZDwctDr

“We’re trying to create a playful experience between human and machine.” Check out our latest ICV Creative Residency interview with kelin carolyn zhang and Ryan Mather – the creators of Poetry Camera, a camera that prints poems instead of photos: https://lnkd.in/gZDwctDr

"I love how web3 social offers more of an online identity than collection of spaces, and I love how it’s more of a frontier. You aren’t fighting established giants in the space."—James Lynch Read the Q&A: https://lnkd.in/gXW8Gikx

Exciting news! Kasia Chmielinski is our first co-resident with koodos labs, a lab and product studio building next-gen social. During the residency, Kasia will explore new design patterns that help people understand and control where their data is going and how it's being used, informing the next product cycle of Koodos. This project will involve co-creation workshops with artists and advocates to bring in emergent perspectives around data governance, access, and ownership. Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!

“No matter what you’re writing about, I believe that getting your hands on the place, or working with the technology, or manipulating the objects is crucial.” — James Lynch on getting experiential with journalism. Read more in our latest Q&A: https://lnkd.in/gXW8Gikx

“I want to learn how web3 social can make us feel good, how it can enable us to connect better with other real live humans, how it can help us get past busy work and to real creation, and how it can help us get to real world experiences and interactions.”—James Lynch Learn about James' latest project exploring the potentials of web3 social with Lens Protocol: https://lnkd.in/gXW8Gikx

"I believe that artistic practices have the most capacity for systemic change at the organizational level, rather than at the individual level. That’s why I’m inspired by cooperatives, DAOs, unions, guilds, and other more informal collectives — especially as applied to shifting the online distribution of power or value."—Austin Robey Read the full Q&A with Austin to learn more about what he's building during his creative residency: https://lnkd.in/gKKw7wvS

Join us in welcoming Gonzalo Garcia-Perate as our newest ICV Creative Resident! Gonzalo's work explores how AI agents can assist small teams in launching new ventures. With the goal of exploring how founders and VC case make faster, more informed decisions using AI agents, Gonzalo plans to do research and prototyping around the use of AI in the development of landscape/market summaries, augmented research, and pipeline and dealflow discovery. Stay tuned for more updates from Gonzalo!