The Death of the Author
My presentation: “The Death of the Author, AI and the future of writing” from #copycon21
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Muybridge Manipulations
Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian English photographer who is most noted for his studies of human and animal locomotion. He used multiple cameras to capture stop-motion photographs of humans and animals, and invented one of…
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Kubla Khan vs AI
I am fascinated by CLIP guided neural interpretations of text. There’s something delightful about the interplay between the metaphorical language of poetry and the dream-like hallucinations of the net. Some of the lines produced amazing…
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Deep Shanty
Culture is a strange beast. Internet culture doubly so. Who could have possibly predicted that the dominant cultural phenomena of early 2021 would be … sea shanties? Senator Bernie Sanders also became a ‘meme’ when…
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Burning Trump
In July 2016, whilst he was running for office, I painted a portrait of Donald Trump. Today, after four years of horror, he finally left. To celebrate I burnt the canvas. I hope you enjoy…
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Quarantine Age Kicks
We (The Private Sector) managed to record and release a track in the depths of lockdown called Quarantine Age Kicks. As we move into the inevitable second wave and associated constrictions, the song seems even…
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BREXIT CUBE
I had a promotional branded Rubik’s Cube lying around, which I picked up, I think, at #pydata. Having lived through the original craze in the 80s, the object has an enduring resonance. It struck me…
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I will not cease from Mental Fight
We are 156 days from an almost inevitably ‘hard’ brexit. One may question how we got here, and whilst the tale is complex and rife with corruption and lies, one thread remains constant – the…
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Pan’s Opticon
I’ve been tinkering with Unity as a tool for film-making. I am amazed at the power of realtime gaming systems to generate filmic imagery. This experiment takes the opening paragraphs of War of the Worlds…