Lockdown_ AR

on 29^th Oct 20 7:49 pm

Lockdown_ is an augmented reality (AR) installation that continues the artist's research into family history, memory, and the way digital technology may provide another lens through ...

29^th Oct 20 7:49 pm

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ECO VOICE

on 30^th Sep 20 7:55 am

Eco-Voice This work was initially titled Eco-Song and was to be the focus for my major project this term. During the research phase I realised that ...

30^th Sep 20 7:55 am

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SKY NET

on 2^nd Sep 20 7:53 am

SKY NET Sky Net is a digital sculpture suspended in the air, that focuses on the material infrastructure behind the growing Internet of Things permeating contemporary ...

2^nd Sep 20 7:53 am

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BABBLE_ Autonomous Vehicle System

on 29^th Aug 20 7:13 pm

BABBLE is an autonomous vehicle system within which the individual vehicles access their environment through, and communicate with, different senses. The title of the work ...

29^th Aug 20 7:13 pm

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“Update your privacy settings” / Algorithmic Phenomenology

on 20^th May 19 12:13 pm

Algorithmic Phenomenology / “Update your privacy settings” is an ambient augmented reality “portal” installation that aims to put the participant into the role of the ...

20^th May 19 12:13 pm

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“Dubrovnik Ghost Series” / Neural Networks as a Diffractive Medium (Part 2)

on 17^th May 19 10:48 am

This post is the second half of my final report for Computational Arts Based Theory and Research, 2019. It follows on from Part 1 which ...

17^th May 19 10:48 am

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“Dubrovnik Ghost Series” / Neural Networks as a Diffractive Medium (Part 1)

on 17^th May 19 10:30 am

“How can you shift.. from a dimension of decomposition to a dimension of recomposition?” - Franco Berardi, E-Flux lecture AI / Human relationships are surely now endemic to ...

17^th May 19 10:30 am

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on 27^th Mar 19 10:20 am

If this blog was a film, this post would form the confusing info-dump that a time travelling character is shown early on, but only makes ...

27^th Mar 19 10:20 am

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Curation as an art form / Exhibition as a node

on 18^th Mar 19 10:38 pm

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18^th Mar 19 10:38 pm

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Research Project – Update 01

on 15^th Mar 19 12:46 pm

Well, the research proposal has been submitted, peer grading has happened and I’ve had some feedback from Rachel about some good topics to follow up ...

15^th Mar 19 12:46 pm

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VR experience “We live in an Ocean of Air” – reviewed by a guy who won’t shut up about the new Avengers film.

on 14^th Mar 19 2:18 pm

-- ** Warning. This incredibly serious review is completely, 100% filled to the brim with spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War. If you have no knowledge of ...

14^th Mar 19 2:18 pm

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Ghosts in the Machine / Voices in the Synthesiser

on 13^th Mar 19 4:03 pm

A lovely reading this week introduced us to post-phenomenology, a wide ranging topic that is only just sinking in now as I approach my research ...

13^th Mar 19 4:03 pm

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Technogeographies – sensing from a non-human perspective

on 20^th Feb 19 12:02 pm

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20^th Feb 19 12:02 pm

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Pizza and peaches

on 15^th Feb 19 9:53 am

Here’s a bombshell - 93% of tweets involving the peach emoji are not actually related to the peach at all! I know! I’m sorry, I ...

15^th Feb 19 9:53 am

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Research Assignment 02 – Proposal

on 10^th Feb 19 11:10 am

-   Some turpentine in a jar. Brushes dropped in, pressed down, fanned out, bristles releasing residue from before. Swish them around, bump them down again, draw ...

10^th Feb 19 11:10 am

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Critical Technical Practice: “Just Do it”

on 5^th Feb 19 5:24 pm

Disobedient Electronics, edited by Garnet Hertz, was this week’s reading that introduced us to the topic of computational art as a critical technical practice.  It introduced ...

5^th Feb 19 5:24 pm

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Theory and Process – Projection Mapping

on 1^st Feb 19 11:37 am

As part of our creative coding course we had a projection mapping assignment in which we created real-time graphics to be shown over real-world geometry. ...

1^st Feb 19 11:37 am

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Stelarc’s head and the Uncanny Valley

on 11^th Dec 18 11:22 pm

“What figures of the human are materialized in these technologies? What are the circumstances through which machines can be claimed, or experienced, as humanlike? And ...

11^th Dec 18 11:22 pm

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Digital Witnessing – Forensic Architecture @ Tate Britain

on 24^th Nov 18 11:22 pm

This year’s Turner art prize was unique as each finalist was a film. The entries were Naeem Mohaiemen: Tripoli Cancelled, BRIDGIT by Charlotte Prodger, Autoportrait ...

24^th Nov 18 11:22 pm

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Yes you GAN (part 2)

on 17^th Nov 18 8:54 pm

Preparing images for training For our artefact we used paired images, creating a Conditional GAN. Conditional meaning we give extra Conditions (labels, contours, anything) that helps ...

17^th Nov 18 8:54 pm

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Affect / Effect: My experience at an affective writing workshop

on 14^th Nov 18 11:29 am

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14^th Nov 18 11:29 am

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Yes you GAN (part 1)

on 5^th Nov 18 8:55 pm

This is a more technical post than elsewhere on the blog. If you’re interested in learning more about how to make images or videos with ...

5^th Nov 18 8:55 pm

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Deepmind, AlphaStar and Cake – getting messy with Material Semiotics

on 30^th Oct 18 5:44 pm

A recurrent theme that’s popping up a lot in this blog is CONTEXT. Understanding how things physical and philosophical fit together is crucial to a ...

30^th Oct 18 5:44 pm

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Learning to Read – exploring academic journals Leonardo and JAR

on 24^th Oct 18 5:13 pm

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24^th Oct 18 5:13 pm

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Algorithms in Nature – Computing with slime

on 18^th Oct 18 6:14 pm

I'm fascinated with the way that elegant solutions to computational problems often both: - Pop up unpredictably in nature, often where you would least expect and - ...

18^th Oct 18 6:14 pm

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Algorithm by Tarleton Gillespie

on 15^th Oct 18 5:28 pm

In his essay Algorithm, Tarleton Gillespie elegantly articulates the etymology of the word “Algorithm”, and how the different ways the term is understood make it ...

15^th Oct 18 5:28 pm

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A fish can’t judge the water

on 14^th Oct 18 10:34 pm

In her short essay “A fish can’t judge the water”, Femke Snelting gives a modern take on a couple of classic communication theories, by asking: ...

14^th Oct 18 10:34 pm

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