My friend Timotheus Vermeulen and I have started a podcast called The Cluster F Theory. The blurb: Pandemics, populism, post-truth. Rising sea-levels and dwindling economies. SpaceX, Zoom fatigue. Smart fridges, nepobabies, Love Island. To many of us the world, our very planet, appears to be coming apart. How are...

‘The Digital Dark Age’ is the idea that because of outdated file formats/software/hardware or data decay, the huge amount of information being generated now may be lost forever to future generations. To a future historian, we mightn’t exist. It’s important to think about those incidental moments in your life...

Nagel, Thomas. “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” The Philosophical Review 83, no. 4 (1974): 435–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/2183914. CONSCIOUSNESS is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave...

As I come to the end of my MA, it’s important to reflect on the previous two years. My very first term was brilliant. I had a good idea where I was and the direction I wanted to head in after 3 years doing a BA at Chelsea… and...

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I’m thinking about what to write for my new artist’s statement and was reminded of the one I wrote in my final year at Chelsea… ————————- If I was writing this as a film script, I’d start with EXT. THE FINAL BLACK HOLE AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE–...

Part 1 Part 2 Since the year 2000, there have been far too many films made about people traveling to new spaces to do them all justice- and that’s just ones written or directed by Charlie Kaufman- but I will try and cram in enough of them to give...

I just attended the Glocal Metamodernisms Conference in Jyväskylä, Finland and gave a talk on the idea of ‘space’ and ‘alternative spaces’ as represented in films (see Space 1 and Space 2 for more, Space 3 will be up soon). Though I have no qualms or nervousness about the...

Part 1 is here. I’ve been looking at examples of films – mainly – about characters that travel to a ‘new or a different space’ in order to see how films have reflected our changing understanding of where we are over the years. In the early era of film,...

I had my tutorial today to discuss our end of year exhibition in June. Jonathan and I discussed my idea – both the practicalities and the ‘feel’ of the piece. The practicality that is most important to me are: WILL THERE BE A BLOODY SIGNAL IN THE STUDIO??? The...

We had our first session of the new term yesterday and Jonathan asked us to fill in a form with what we are planning to exhibit in the end of year show. Well… that was a surprise. I’ve been operating under the idea that I’d not have to “finalise”...

There are several different AI image generators that I’ve been using to make images and video. Some of them are better than others, although the ones that aren’t as good, still produce very interesting images… Midjourney Midjourney is by far the best for pure text-to-image generation. I wrote a...

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I’ve been looking at the idea of ‘Space’ and our changing thoughts on what that is and where we exist. These changes are prompted by new discoveries, new technologies or media, each one extending us and giving us access to a new way of being in and perceiving the...

Midjourney prompt “A woman suspended in a non-physical space looking at trees on a screen.”...

I started on this ‘education’ lark in 2017 when I started out doing a casual drawing and painting class and was soon accepted on the UAL Art Foundation diploma at Morley College. As part of that, we were encouraged to apply to university. I’d never been to uni before...