The Second-Guess
@_second_guess
Curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles. Co-founded by @postanika and @margaretonline.
Me after pushing out nine pages of text: dead, but I’m over the hill. Four more to go, and I can log off for the day. Additionally, I'm fascinated by how quickly I can visualise my thoughts using text-to-image. Love it. Keep an eye on the white horse for future things
"Honey Trap" by @BorisEldagsen sold for 600.00 $XTZ ($537.17 USD) to tz2U4GQhXZJjd3ymgnsNr9LUvvJ4DvRy2twq on @objktcom 🔗 objkt.com/tokens/KT1RTRr…
Does an artist’s use of color always reflect their personality? That question came to mind when I first met @tamikothiel at the @artmetaofficial conference in Basel. I had always felt drawn to the colors in her amazing work and saw them mirrored in her vibrant presence. 🌈
"Regretting Fertility" by @BorisEldagsen sold for 600.00 $XTZ ($538.61 USD) to @ganbrood on @objktcom 🔗 objkt.com/tokens/KT1RTRr…
Gm 💖 if your developmental tendencies manifested in a being, what would it look / be like? This is Ego, my posthuman self-descendant. They hatched from an egg in the Womb of the space station Nucleus ✨ (3D Model & Animation by ABOOOH)
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sitting in bed writing about works i made three years ago, listening to the twin peaks soundtrack. throwback in content, context, and mood.
The future doesn’t arrive evenly. It seeps in through formatting errors and tooltips, through interface updates and unnoticed policy shifts. I watch it happen in the background—quiet, slow, irreversible. By the time it’s visible, it’s already legacy.
Very happy about my first release on @objktcom - there will be more to come. Thanks to @_second_guess for curation!!
🤝 @BorisEldagsen »Monologues of the Forgotten Twin« by Boris Eldagsen are AI-animated mind-echoes: thoughts that never conclude, unanswered questions in a locked room, confronting viewers with phantom limbs of identity, caught between confession and collapse.
Emotional Objects we made with @hi_flynn are a bit like contemporary archaeology - excavating feelings that are simultaneously ancient (humans bonding with non-humans) and completely new (specific to AI interaction). They document our emotional adaptation in real-time, creating…
Intelligence isn’t a mirror. It’s a horizon. And for a moment, we could see further than we were built to. 🧵1/3
When CIFRA invited me to contribute an award to their Open Call, I immediately knew I wanted this to be about more than just tech demos by artists. I will select three artists whose works imagine new forms of agency with technology. The prize will include, among other things, an…
‘Monologues of the Forgotten Twin’, exhibition by Boris Eldagsen, is now released on _second_guess gallery on objkt.
Is this inner guidance or just premium-grade sarcasm? Why does my conscience have punchlines? And what if the voice is right — but also deeply drunk? - drink another bottle of wine, play it as a loop and meditate on - "My Better Self Keeps Whispering Insults" is one of twelve…