Weekly Round-up

I say this every year, but this year has been particularly bad for it so here I am tentatively saying it again. I’m going to stop applying for ‘opportunities’. To put this decision into context and start with the positive,…

Last Thursday we had “AI & Creativity” – the latest event I’ve put together in my capacity as Digital Art Curator for the Site Gallery, here in Sheffield. This time it was a co-production with Sheffield Technology Parks and The…

I thought I’d bring back blogging. I predict a blogging revolution. I really think this ‘weblogging’ thing is going to take off. It’s been a long while, as usual! Here are some of the things that have been happening since…

Sunday saw the third Site Sessions event, a bit of a different one as it was both 1) outside and 2) a co-curation with the rest of the Site team. We had an afternoon of activities facilitated by our Society of…

I’ve just had an amazing week in Cambridge as one of eight artist residents selected for the Collusion Lab for Artifical Intelligence. We were based at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence – a tucked-away building in a…

In one of the creativity motivation posts I wrote for my Huffington Post blog back in late 2016, I suggested freelancers ‘give yourself a promotion in 2017‘. I recommended making yourself more valuable, add a few more strings to your…

Last Thursday saw the second of the Site Sessions events that I’m curating regularly for the Site Gallery. Our venue was The Roco in Sheffield, I called this one The New Economies because I wanted to stoke some fresh thinking around alternative…

UPDATE: Here’s the audio! Part 1 and Part 2. Apologies for the audio quality on Part 1 and various pops and scuffs. The podium mic wasn’t connected to the mixer. The second half is easier to hear as we’re at the table,…

A quarter of the way through the year already. Don’t know about you, but to me it’s felt really busy. I thought it might help to take stock of the things I’ve done so far. I’ve been making a concerted…

I’m constantly struck by how wildly digital is missing the point when it comes to the arts, as you know. There is such a cosmic boner across arts and tech these days every time we have minor update in technology, that…