Category: Arts
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Goldsmiths | The importance of design in a GenAI world
Had an amazing time at Goldsmiths presenting on the book for the Expanded Practice Design MA course! So good to throw the material in the book up against a new context, and see what interesting resonances come out. Most importantly, I wanted to highlight how all technologies emerge into a theological and socio-cultural context… and…
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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…
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‘Perspectives on Pages’
Delighted to have been a guest on the writing podcast ‘Perspectives on Pages’, talking about ‘writing to discover, not to reveal,’ the impact of AI on the creative process, and the new book. But it’s a wider discussion about my passion for fiction, and the other writing projects going on under the hood. Well worth…
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Auerbach on making art: ‘enjoyable; but that does not mean that it is not difficult’
One of the things that I have been listening to a lot of late is This Cultural Life, ‘in-depth conversations with some of the world’s leading artists and creatives.’ It can be enjoyable listening, but I sometimes wonder why I put myself through it. Hearing supremely successful people talk about their craft, and the time…
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Dear Sky: Photographing North Korea’s Airline
Really great series of photographs by Arthur Mebius, documenting ‘the planes and people of North Korea’s airline’, previewed here.
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Cathedral of the Pines
If you happen to be around London over the next couple of months, I’d highly recommend going to The Photographers’ Gallery near Oxford Street to catch this (rare) exhibition of Gregory Crewdson’s new series of photographs. And, though they look more like paintings by Hopper, these are photographs. The technical set-ups for each shot require Hollywood…