Back home - Montréal and Dublin, near back to back. It's been quite the voyage and a privilege - I'm still not able to wholly celebrate the prevailing idea that travel is the preeminent life experience, but I hope these latest journeys mean I can feel a tiny bit more at ease next time.

One last wander around Dublin this morning before heading back - it's a privilege to be invited to visit places like this, especially off the back of work I did a decade ago, but after 2 weeks of travelling I'll be glad to get back home.

Currently doing battle with my very modern hotel lighting, with a slightly broken touch controller. It's a vibrant evening here 🟣🟪🟣🟪

In Dublin! Later today I'll be at the National College of Art and Design gallery, discussing "Waveform", the drone poetry project.

🔊Sharing new preprint titled: "The Technopolitics of Data Centres" Studying DCs raises methodological questions, while also offering opportunities and opening challenges for interdisciplinary research into the governance of digital infrastructure." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

From all evidence before me, I do declare that nobody must go to Manchester airport anymore - train here was almost empty, as is the destination, and there's not even that many planes 🛫

As I pack my bags, once again, to head onto the road, while, once again, being confronted by exhausting travel anxiety, I will indulge in finding it rather cool to see photos of my work in an actual gallery exhibition with actual humans interacting with it. It will be nice to see it in-situ myself.

Many years ago I made a Twitter bot that posted data from an unmoored weather buoy in the Pacific Ocean. Here's its successor, a NOAA buoy that transmits actual live data but also its own unhinged thoughts after spending years by itself in the ocean.

The promise of instant, personalized code has human effects. Not every problem is a coding problem but with agents, everything starts to look like one: “The blurry edge cases stop being the soft fibers of a social fabric. They become a technical nuisance.” 🧵

Waveform is having a moment in the sun as it approaches 10 years since I started work on it. Predating the present age of multimodal text-image transformations, the latter is giving it a whole new resonance for new audiences. A reminder that the text + film is available here

Have recieved some great shots of "Waveform" in-situ at @ncad-ireland.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing them for myself next week when I head over to Dublin to take part in a symposium exploring what radically transdisciplinary research, reworking rhythms of space and time, can look like.

A day of exploring awaits before hometime - if there are any Montréal must-sees, I'm open for suggestions!

It's done! The close-out of the AHRC - SSHRC-CRSH Humanities AI Sandpit, and I find myself leading a new project bid! Exciting and daunting, but with some really great people involved. Let's see where we go.

It's day three of the AI sandpit - now all about the wicked miniutia relating to bilateral international funding, and the requirements thereof. I must admit I often find it mystifying how academics are supposed to be instant experts in budgetary administration in order to even apply to grants!

Looks like my project proposal, Ecological AI, is being selected to go forward for further development - let's see where we go 🌿🌿🌿

So, I was very bold and proposed a dedicated session for a project idea on day two, centring more-than-human agencies and realities (thought that I can't be critical if I don't try!) I am delighted to say it was a very popular session, with lots of like-minded finding a "home" at last.

So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based. Super worth reading and sharing around.

That's Day One done! While my conference companion would have preferred stronger ('any') environmental dialogues, we're both hopeful, after some of today's conversations, for suitably colorful creative work tomorrow, as we consider whether entirely differerent modes of AI can be realised.

It's perhaps typical that I find myself in a discussion group that is all about the problematics of AI "solutionism" and critiques the presumption it is necessary at all for worldly challenges!

One (very gentle) critical observation about the AI programme so far - the environment and more-than-human voices are entirely absent from the conversation, and that does say something, I think, about the state of a lot of present thinking about AI systems.

The AI Sandpit continues! I'll be the first to admit I'm not the greatest at being ultra social and conversational at events like this, but those exchanges I have had are enriching and interesting so far.

It begins! We're currently being addressed by the British Consul General in Montreal about UK Canada industrial AI strategy.

I'm now in Montreal, for three days of work on the AHRC AI Humanities Sandpit programme, developing the basis for AI systems that are built using Humanities principles from the ground up. It should be a very interesting, and very intense workshop - looking forward to it!

Cor, travel anxiety is strong this evening. Not helping is the flood of 'It's time to get ready!' emails, including those relating to the 'next' trip immediately following this one!

New project, now released! Over the last year, as part of my work with the Cambridge Centre for Drones and Culture, I've been developing with the team an interactive 'untimeline' of drone evolution, using a volumetric 'time-space' format www.centrefordronesandculture.com/dronotope #drones #dataviz

I can see the stars

New project, now released! Over the last year, as part of my work with the Cambridge Centre for Drones and Culture, I've been developing with the team an interactive 'untimeline' of drone evolution, using a volumetric 'time-space' format www.centrefordronesandculture.com/dronotope #drones #dataviz

1/ Have recieved some lovely reports of people really enjoying the design of the BRAID AI Resource - alongside the all important contents, of course! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

IMPORTANT pls RT My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct) If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

It's the year 2026, and having a photo appear on an LCD screen is not magic. Nor is it when said screen and device have been put together from bits. But it is the first time *I* have done it, and that definitely counts for me ☀️

We are starting an AI literacy effort at UA libraries and yours truly, who has been doing this for a long time, is working on some foundational basics. I revived the old blog to share this snippet from a larger training I'm putting together: hfroehli.ch/2026/02/11/w...

« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world » THIS 👆 Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍

“It’s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing” — my chapter in “Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social April2026, Edinburgh University Press edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

Of minor note, it has been 10 years since I put my website online. Early WayBack captures no longer exist, given it had an entirely different theme, but it marks its launch nonetheless. Setting up this site was, by far, one of the best things I've done for just about all my work. May it keep going.

Can a kite help us "feel" the climate crisis? 🪁 @richardacarter.bsky.social’s new project uses AI-powered sensory payloads on sustainable kites to link environmental data with human narratives. It’s an "Environmental Intelligence" approach to sensing our world. 🌍 Learn more 🔗 buff.ly/lMHu49B

Our team in the MORPHSS Project are proud to share our first set of deliverables! We've produced a new catalogue resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences:

While I'm still fending off my perennial self-doubts in the face of the technocratic side of academia, I will crow about my new reveal.js slide workflow - unlike PowerPoint, one can embed just about anything into the deck, so, at last, I can have fully interactive slides - here, a pocket CA 'lab'.

Feeling like I'm cos-playing as an academic these days, rather than the real thing. So much effort spent on so much creative work that achieves so little.

Pre-emptive travel anxiety is a strange thing - I'm heading to Canada next week for an AI workshop, and while I know it is a very priviliged adventure, the prospect of all the logistics and social energy drain, let alone being away from home, is depleting the spirits. Envy those who travel lightly.

Had cause to revisit this one earlier - a complete indulgence to say this, but time has allowed me better to appreciate and take satisfaction in this project as a whole, especially now I have its 'successors' in development. Ultimately, I don't think it's too bad doi.org/10.7273/x3d0...

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

If it brings any silly fun to your day, I had to do a couple of test runs of the Z-Image setup on my research machine, and have discovered it is wholly incapable of yielding a generic 'Henri Matisse' painting without including a chicken. First two were 'saxophones', others, just 'a painting'...

Ah, geez. This is sad: "First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

I am very sorry to report that I've just had to be Reviewer No 2 - though I do think we good reason!

Do I know anyone on here who is going to be part of the AI Humanities Sandpit workshop in Montreal in a week or so's time?

Do I know anyone on here who is going to be part of the AI Humanities Sandpit workshop in Montreal in a week or so's time?

This rather caught my attention this evening, as I finish working at my desk, dark outside and raining - maybe it will catch yours, as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7cl...

New Open Access Booklet! As part of the AHRC BRAID project 'Museum Visitor Experience and the Responsible Use of AI to Communicate Colonial Collections' (PI Dr Joanna Tidy, Sheffield) we've developed a resource for heritage professionals evaluating responsible AI use richardacarter.com/braid-report/

It is a real privilige to have my work featured in Natasha Chuk's "Photo Obscura: The Photographic in Post-Photography" (Intellect 2025). Here is a new interview with Chuk discussing the book at length "Photography without Photographs". substack.com/home/post/p-... #photography #academicSky #book

It's true! We now have a blog to share small ELC5 updates such as: 1. Submissions are now closed 🤖🔐 2. we received well over 300 submissions 🎉🙏 3. we're starting work!! 🤓🔍 More soon as the process moves forward!