This is next level frustrating 1 - apply for DYCP funding from Arts Council 2 - get email that a decision letter awaits but you have to log in to Grantium 3 - try to log in to Grantium and it's not available and hasn't been all afternoon I'm unlikely to get the money but I'd like to know!

After the in conversation event with Irene Fubara-Manuel and Kinnari Saraiya accompanying her exhibition In the Eye of a Dream - the three of us came up with a reading list on the reading of colonial archives, race and technology, video games and a lot more - lots to dig into!

RIP Dara Birnbaum - you'll always be Wonder Woman youtu.be/wJhEgbz9piI?...

Last few days to catch Home to My Teenage Bedroom by Grant Foster in the Main Gallery at Phoenix Art Space My first show as curator here and can't quite believe it's nearly over Open every day now, 12-5 until 13 April Photo: Bernard G Mills

What are you doing this sunny Sunday if you aren’t running the Brighton Marathon? Bet you’re not doing experiments on the best way to age paper with tea… #process #exhibitionplanning

I love a studio visit and I had a great one last week with Laura White, ahead of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Space in autumn We talked about the process of making, the joy of pushing materials to their limits and how enjoy and utilise what happens when they fail Image: Terminal Flare No 4

The second part of RH Lossin's writing on AI art and hegemony is so good - if AI and art and in particular how it's being applied to anti-racist, anti-colonialist endeavours is a subject that interests you then it is well worth your time www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...

Looking to find and add people to this UK Arts starter pack go.bsky.app/BZ8Tmob

My media art digital thinkers #StarterPack is full! This is a joy, because it means Bluesky is now bursting with the kind of people I want to share a community with. But it's also sad, because there are plenty more people I would love to add. We need 150+++ starterpacks please @bsky.app

Great posters (with annoying reflections) for two really strong shows at Phoenix Art Space opening this Friday 28 Feb, 6-8pm: Home to My Teenage Bedroom by @foster_grant + Crosswinds and Elemental Dubs by David Harkins, a studio member will be in the Window Gallery Come along - all are welcome

Enjoying some quiet moments in the gallery ahead of installing my first show as curator here at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton - I’ve always loved these quiet moments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Yes - make this!

Interesting read and it's hard to disagree with the basics of his argument h/t to whoever posted this yesterday Bit embarrassing though that the New Socialist are still encouraging people to Tweet - not a good look newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️⁠ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟⁠ The theme this year is 'Wild'. ⁠ Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V ⁠ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices

I came here to say this but couldn't remember what they are called so thanks! Had an epic one at the Scandinavian Embassy cafe in Amsterdam

Thoughts? hyperallergic.com/989344/thous...

This is such critical work happening in archiving these queer histories

Good to be at the launch of Brighton Festival last night, catching up with a lot of folk I haven’t seen in a while - also great to get a festival highlight nod for the show I’m curating at Phoenix Art Space with the work of the amazing Kinnari Saraiya

A grey winter’s day visit to Hastings Contemporary for the Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs exhibition exploring the practice of still life. Work pictured is a section of Cathie Pilkington’s funny, sad and uncanny Singerie. The show is definitely worth a visit if you’re able to

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Seeta Peña Gangadharan about ideas of refusal and resistance. "Time for Refusal? The politics of resistance against AI". All welcome! - Thursday 27th Feb at Goldsmiths, room RHB 2014, www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/, www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/r...

Another in an occasional series of books I almost definitely didn’t buy just for their cover

I was so pleased to see this guide from @weareunlimited.bsky.social appear recently. Ive spent 20 years of my life explaining and re-explaining (often badly!) how my illness affects me, so this is a big help that can be shared to orgs and workplaces: weareunlimited.org.uk/resource/how...

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Started a starter pack - it's a little sparse right now so I'm hoping to add to it as this community grows go.bsky.app/26iijBA

Did you know we have a podcast? My Queer Museum is a collection of stories and objects that won't end up in a traditional museum, told through interviews with some of our favourite queer people in Brighton & Hove. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1725250

Enjoyable visit to London Art Fair today. Enjoyed talking to a few people and seeing A LOT of work - highlights from Abigail Norris not pictured because I was too busy chatting and Antonio Sergio Moreira on the Ricardo Fernandes stand.

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

This is worth your time if you're interested in thinking through issues around AI and art - maybe skip it if you're a big Refik Anadol fan though ;) www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...

However you choose to mark the season, I hope you all have a safe and peaceful ending to the year Christmas card with four crows by Theo van Hoytema (1863-1917)

Fascinating Asian Bronze exhibition at the Rijksmuseum - this is a 19th century Japanese incense burner, the bronze worked with chemicals to create the coloured patination

Very happy that the news is out there and very happy to be joining Phoenix Art Space as curator mailchi.mp/7adc09d03386...

Recently read this fascinating account of artist collective Gran Fury and how they leveraged art as protest in the early days of the AIDS pandemic - compelling and, importantly, non-hagiographic. It’s pretty clear-eyed about the group’s shortcomings as well as its successes #art #activism

My #StarterPack of Media Art and Digital Thinkers. I have really tried to pick out some Blueskyers under-represented in similar packs. My picks cut across the digital arts and theory space - from gaming, through netart, to immersive media, critical design, AI... just follow them.

Despite rarely appearing here these days, I seem to have acquired 15 new followers today - somewhat bizarrely! So hello to you all and maybe this will prompt me to be more active here!

I wrote a preview now up on e-flux about a work by Korean artists Bang and Lee - The Hearing on AI Prophet www.e-flux.com/announcement... The exhibition is in Korea so... but check out the preview and their work which is great. This was a nice outcome of my trip to Korea with the BC five years ago

The name of one of the rooms at the Tate exhibition, Women in Revolt, made me laugh out loud. Taken from work by Alexis Hunter - The Marxist’s Wife (still does the housework)

Our last session on 'Remodelling the Software Development Lifecycle' from a feminist perspective coming up this Friday. Notes from previous sessions have been documented here: fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/feminist-cod...

I think I might hate Zotero - I cannot make it work properly (fully prepared to admit it might be my fault) - two hours in and I cannot make it do a citation properly - very wound up!

These workshops are looking so good - check them out!

I've been using otter.ai to transcribe some interviews for my PhD - it's a mixed blessing as a tool but it did just give me a moment of joy when it transcribed terf as turd 😊

Looking forward to this

Join me and artist Michael Takeo Magruder for an exploration of his work reanimating the data held in archival maps. This is the second seminar I organised for Sussex Digital Humanities Lab It's FREE! and it's OPEN TO ALL! Get a ticket and come along to the Lab or join us online shorturl.at/cfCMY

Yes to this

A blue sky (and some blurry palm trees) for Bluesky

I agree - Total Refusal do such great work - come along!