My project to go In Search of Silicon Valley has come to a close. The final outcomes included ‘A Cybernetic Meadow’ – a new installation at The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough, plus a zine and a talk. The project has […]
And so to The Auxiliary project space in Middlesbrough this week with artist and curator Lizz Brady. Lizz is helping me to build a large scale installation to reflect on the themes of technology and connectedness that I have been […]
In 1967 Richard Brautigan dared to imagine a technological dreamland where ‘mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky’. Forty-five years later, how’s that looking? My project In Search of Silicon Valley approaches […]
There is a paradoxical claustrophobia about the vastness of the internet. The world is condensed into a smartphone. We talk about being glued to our screens because it seems as though when we are online, we are unable to look […]
I have been spending the summer learning a new craft. I have been visiting the wonderful Make Space workshops in Cambridge to learn how to use their CNC Model Mill and CNC Router. CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control, and […]
I’m slightly regretting calling this blog ‘Remind Me Later’, as it implies that it is something that can be parked on the back burner of life, to be added to the great To Do List that never gets done. Whereas, […]
If you listen to tech evangelists (is it just me or are they getting fewer in number?), you will hear that the sunlit uplands of the metaverse are just around the corner. By contrast, doommongers warn of surveillance capitalism and […]
My visit to the Computer History Museum was great, and you didn’t need to know your bits from your bytes to appreciate it. There was so much uber-cool retro gear from the 60s and 70s: stylishly designed knobs, sliders, lights […]
I chose to stay at the Flamingo Motel because (a) it was cheap, (b) I liked the name, and (c) it had a huge pink neon flamingo sign outside. What’s not to like? But in one of those moments of […]
I will be honest, my trip to Silicon Valley did not go entirely as expected. I had thought (perhaps rather naively) that I would be thrown into a cauldron of red hot tech enterprise, with the heat of innovation and […]
Some Thoughts on Art and Tech
