If it is not the duty, it should at least be the delight, of poets to contemplate the world of science Edwin Morgan, ‘The Poet and the Particle’ (1974) The Particle Poem Collider is my latest project in collaboration with Ray Interactive and the Push the Boat Out poetry festival – a performance and a pamphlet of poetry generated by AI from the work of … Continue reading Particle Poem Collider – an exploration of creativity and AI
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Articulating Data: machine listening, vocalisation, and the (in)security of language in a digital age CALL FOR CREATIVE COMMISSIONS £2,500 | Deadline: 14th November 2022 (11.59pm UK time) “An articulation is the form of the connection that can make a unity of two different elements, under certain conditions. It is a linkage which is not necessary, determined, absolute and essential for all time”.[1] A 2-day single … Continue reading ARTICULATING DATA – call for artists
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The original iteration of Newspeak visualised the words of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as if they were commodities on a stock exchange. Using live data scraped from Google Ads, the text of the book scrolls across the screen as ticker-tape. The fluctuating prices of the words are determined by what they are worth to Google in the context of an advert. The project is a political … Continue reading Back for the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe! NEWSPEAK & {poem}.py at the Scottish Storytelling Centre – what are #wordsworth ?
I’ve been let loose to curate the first Creative Informatics Lab since lockdown (17th Sept 2020 – sign up here). These last few months have been really difficult and have thrown many of my plans and commitments into freefall. I’m only now beginning to get back some kind of grip on actioning future projects. I will catch up with pre-pandemic projects asap, but in the … Continue reading Data as Culture | Data as Politics: Creativity and curation in a post-digital world
I had exciting things planned for this year; events and exhibitions in America, Ireland, Rotterdam, Cardiff, London, Dundee, Germany and even a show at the Edinburgh Fringe. There was much to look forward to, but then came that week back in early March when things began to fall apart, and the volume of cancellation emails became almost unbearable. I know I’m not alone in this, … Continue reading Critique in a time of crisis
Arcadia (2020) : Benjamin at the Mall Fruitmarket Gallery Bookmarket, Waverley Mall, Edinburgh EH1 1BQ 6th Feb – 29th March 2020 / Preview 5th Feb 6-8pm Arcadia (2020) comments on the role of digital capitalism in the virtual and physical spaces of modern consumerism. Text from Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (1939) is fed through Google’s advertising platform and displayed as if the words were commodities … Continue reading Arcadia (2020)
Installation by PIP THORNTON & RAY INTERACTIVE at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2019. Part of DATA LATES, the installation ran periodically throughout the festival in the hours of darkness, with one complete run through on 26th August 2019, the final day of the Edinburgh Fringe, which took around 20 hours to complete. Video credits: Lucas Chih Peng Kao 高智鵬 http://lucaskaophotography.com (additional clip: Michael Sturrock) Photo … Continue reading NEWSPEAK 2019: Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2019
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Linguistic capitalism. Has Google become an all powerful usurer of language? I was interviewed by Régine Debatty for her wonderful We Make Money Not Art blog. It was a great opportunity to talk about the new iterations and directions of my research into linguistic capitalism and the monetisation of language by Google’s search and advertising platforms. Full interview can be found here: https://we-make-money-not-art.com/linguistic-capitalism/ Thanks Régine! Continue reading We Make Money Not Art: Interview
NEWSPEAK 2019 is the latest iteration of my ongoing intervention into linguistic capitalism and the economic, cultural and political effects of the monetisation of language by Google’s search and advertising platforms. The installation was a collaboration with Ray Interactive as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Data Lates program. FULL DETAILS OF NEWSPEAK 2019 HERE Full details for the project can be found in the … Continue reading NEWSPEAK 2019
I’m talking ‘Linguistic Capitalism: Critique and Intervention’ as part of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie graphic design department’s Opening Lecture series this Friday in Amsterdam. It’s open to the public – 18:30pm at Butchers Tears, Karperweg 45, Amsterdam. The amazing invite GIF is by design students Benedikte Hindstedgaard & Pernille Knudsgaar. Also speaking is Danah Abdullah from Brunel University – I am very much looking forward … Continue reading Guest lecture in Amsterdam this friday
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