It's been tempting to blast out all these blogs with everybody's new best LLM ChatGPT but thus far I have restricted myself to experimenting with ...
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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? ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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_ 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Algorithmic Phenomenology / “Update your privacy settings” is an ambient augmented reality “portal” installation that aims to put the participant into the role of the ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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** Warning. This incredibly serious review is completely, 100% filled to the brim with spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War. If you have no knowledge of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...