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…
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Ian Hislop’s Fake News: A True History.
I created a #deepfake and gave and interview for this BBC4 documentary. It’s well worth a watch – catch the whole thing on iplayer here. If you’re in need of some fakery – I offer…
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The anatomy of a #deepfake
Back in July I gave a presentation to #pydata London about #deepfakes. It has been embargoed for months while waiting for the related TV programme to be released. Well, ‘Ian Hislop’s Fake News’ is on…
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Ozymandias
“Ozymandias” Percy Shelley Shelley’s famous poem is an ode to hubris, something that Mr Johnson possesses in spades. The music a piece I wrote some years ago, about cell death called Senesence. I met a…
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Algonory
Jackanory ran on BBC television from 1965 until 1996, and was a cornerstone of childhood for anyone raised in the UK between those years. The format was simple: an actor would read a book in…
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AlgoHiggs
My friend John Higgs releases his new book today, The Future Starts Here. It’s an excellent read which frames the future in a positive way (rather than the dystopian hellscape projected by the majority of…
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SLAB magazine
We (The Private Sector) have produced a new magazine called SLAB. The first issue, titled ‘Brexit Wounds’, is available now. It contains submissions from some of the finest counter-cultural writers and artists of the age,…
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Chilcot compressed
I’m old enough to remember Tony Blair coming to power in 1997. The country ebullient at the thought of a left-leaning leader after 18 years of Tory rule. I also remember his inevitable fall from…
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Bot Summit 2016
I had the pleasure of speaking at this years Bot Summit. The slides weren’t really visible in the original video recorded at the event, so I’ve taken the audio and added it to the presentation.…
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Algo Incantations
I recently had the pleasure at speaking at ‘Adventures on the edge of culture‘ with John Higgs, Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore and others. I wanted to create a new algorithmic work which could be distributed…