New Piece: Limitless Bad Advice

2025

Acrylic, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, LCD monitor, various electronics

Limitless Bad Advice confronts our contemporary faith in artificial intelligence by leaning into the dubious nature of its advisory capacity. Rather than offering solutions, this piece provides deliberately flawed counsel on three aspects of human existence: desire, creative expression, and finance. The device feeds a compulsive need for guidance while acknowledging the challenge of authentic advice from systems incapable of genuine understanding.

Operating on local infrastructure via a Raspberry Pi running Google's Gemma model through Ollama, it deliberately abstains from the vast networked intelligence of cloud-based systems. This technological isolation serves both practical and conceptual purposes: greatly reducing environmental impact while creating a closed system that can only recombine its limited training data in increasingly absurd configurations.

Step up and press a button, this device has got Limitless Bad Advice for you.

Another Great Summer Class: Digital Fabrication!

In the 2nd week of CCA's summer formations program, a small group of students from CCA and beyond worked on generative architectural studies using Rhino and Grasshopper.  Each project was designed to tile together to create a larger collaborative pattern.  Each tile used a different digital fabrication process including: laser cutting, CNC routing and 3D printing. Thanks to Adam Marcus for all the guidance.

Keith and Kiki lay out the group's piece on Friday afternoon.

Cutting curved paths with the CNC router.

Breaking a solid form into 100 or more laser-cut slotted pieces.

Breaking a solid form into 100 or more laser-cut slotted pieces.

My end of the week project collection.NCC

My end of the week project collection.NCC