Agitation as a countervailing force
What acts, movements, gestures does an embod- ied archive of political agitation comprise? What are the forms and modes of embodiment that can be counted? ...
Chat-GPZzzzzzz
Have we reached peak GPT yet? It’s only been out for a month and it seems to have completely devoured the zeitgeist. OpenAI has had ...
Dissertation Prep – All the words
Given the rapid advances in machine learning technologies, what new creative affordances do these mediums offer the artist? Are these technologies actually offering anything new ...
“Who Controls Control?”
In pre-production for“Minority Report” a film based on the novel by Phillip K. Dick, Spielberg invited 15 futurists (1) to a hotel in California for ...
Leaky Box Strategies
This week Rachel Falconer took us worldbuilding via curatorial sense-making with a selection of films, essays and articles for us to chew over.
Yuk Hui presented ...
Writing Risky Accounts
In a recent (2019) article about Donna Haraway she recounts an interesting interaction with herself, Bruno Latour, and a biologist at a conference in Brazil. ...
Re/Discovering Diffraction
As I attempt to gather my thoughts on this week’s topic, I’m sat in a bar. The music in the background has just flipped over ...
(Investigative) Aesthetics
I’ve discussed the work of Forensic Architecture earlier in this blog, and lately have been reading Investigative Aesthetics (by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman). This ...
Situated Knowledges / After the Interlude
“The only position from which objectivity could not possibly be practiced and honored is the standpoint of the master, the Man, the One God, whose ...
Lockdown_ AR
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 ...
BABBLE_ Autonomous Vehicle System
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 ...
Stelarc’s head and the Uncanny Valley
“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 ...
Deepmind, AlphaStar and Cake – getting messy with Material Semiotics
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 ...