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…
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What is it like to be a Bot?
My keynote at #pydataLondon from earlier this year has made it online: What do we mean by intelligence? How do the limitations of language leave us floundering with regards to discussing our relationship with ‘algorithms’…
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Release The Wasps
Here’s a video of a talk I gave at the LetsGetReal conference last month. Filmed by the talented Driftwood Productions
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2014 review of the year
Trite as it may be, the end of the year offers an opportunity to review our deeds, and plot future (mis)adventures. Herewith, a review of my year of aesthetic experimentation, 2014. The year started with…
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Exploring The Tate Collection
The Tate Collection recently released their metadata on github, the first ‘big data’ set that has piqued my interest enough to download it and have a play. Here we present the metadata for around 70,000…
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@klfbook
How do you model the mind of a book? This was the question John Higgs and I were discussing in the pub one night. John’s excellent book The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band who…
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I forked myself
I forked myself sometime around 2pm on the 1st of March 2013. There are now two shardcores, the one typing these words into some sort of explanation, and the other, a newborn shardcore (@shardecho) living…
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Senescence
I was invited to create a piece of music and write up the process for inclusion in a book on Music and Wellbeing. I was asked to consider the notion of ‘well being’ in relation…
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Cut Up Magazine (2012)
When faced with a choice of unknowns, often the question we ask ourselves is “who’s opinion do we trust to help guide our aesthetic choices?”. Sometimes we listen to our friends, sometimes we listen to…