Not very active here, it turns out. For professional connections please find me on LinkedIn.

Proud to see two BRAID projects shortlisted for Impact Awards at #UKAIRS2025 Congratulations to the FRAIM project team, led by Denis Newman-Griffis & Susan Oman in collaboration with Blast Theory @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social on their WIN & to @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social on her honorable mention.

I just backed POST: A vital new artist-led cultural space in Brighton&Hove on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...

One last post before I rest for the weekend. Truly a bit overwhelmed to receive this review from a writer who I respect so much. Thanks @lucywebster.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

#WelfareNotWarfare Join @peoplesassembly.bsky.social for the national demonstration as we say No to Austerity 2.0 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

Most excellent top tip from my 14 yo - if you add various expletives (excluding "bloody") to your Google search you do NOT get given any AI answer, just the regular responses. Simples

I block accounts with comedy names, suspected AI-gen profile pics and apparently only reposts. Sorry if this is you and you’re a genuine person I’d love to chat with IRL but I suspect most of being bots.

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

I do sometimes worry I don't post enough photos of me wearing lovely clothes to compete in today's art world #whendidcuratingbecomesuchastagemanagedthing?

🎙️ Dr @suoman.bsky.social joined BBC Radio Wales to talk AI, art, power & public engagement — featuring #ConstantWashingMachine, Public Voices in AI & broader work at @shefcmi.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #AI #CMI #ResponsibleAI #PublicEngagement #FRAIM

Bad news for people who want the correct info too (as I write 14yo is laughing head off at all the wrong Inspector Calls quotes Google no-click AI is chucking out at him)...

If you listened in to this and were wondering how @suoman.bsky.social 's portrait worked out, we were all rather pleased.. more on the Data as Culture website culture.theodi.org/constant-was...

While I was in the MRI tube this eve, I was on the radio: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., reflecting on the meaning, power and politics of AI, and using art to communicate AI to people I also talked about Blast Theory's #ConstantWashingMachine - curated by @hannahredlerhawes.bsky.social

“We, the undersigned, will not stand by while our community is sacrificed for the illusion of savings.” They add: “For us, Pip is not a benefit – it is access to life.” #TakingThePip

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

I am planning an event @wshed.bsky.social for the culture sector around our collective role in building togetherness to combat the rise of the far right. I am talking with Hope not Hate and imagining a mix of talk and workshop covering. Is this something you would be interested to attend?

Every minister should read this. 👇 If the government actually cared about disabled people being in work, they would reform the chaos of Access to Work.

How did the Information Age flow so readily into the Age of Stupidity and Inauthenticity? Friday blues about AI-first approaches in business which don't even make good business sense

When a leading artist, employer, trailblazer, activist with unquestionable complex support needs has to halt work bc #AccessToWork has been cut, it sadly looks like Labour Isn’t Working. Wonder if @bambosmp.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social can make some noise?

Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...

Fuuuuuuck! Remember being at a D&AD awards ceremony where Ive was honoured. Lots of other leading UK designers saying “I hate this guy” in that “I really really love this bloody genius” way. Please don’t let this lead to reasons to hate hate him :-/

Yuji Agematsu documents daily life not in a journal or a diary, but in the objects he collects and stores in cigarette pack cellophane wrappers.

More proof of the essential nature of art, when you’re lost for words, the poets will find them @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social new poem in Guardian “My Island of Strangers”

Sneak PEEKs ahem - what's an e between friends @jwyg.bsky.social ?!

This is really very good - I was lucky to get some sneak peaks at a few chapters - really comprehensive and enjoyable to read, I'm looking forward to getting my paws on a whole copy 📖🤓

Doing some reading around Time - and am loving @emergencemagazine.bsky.social’s Volume 5 on Time. In particular this piece - the best big picture poetic writing on Earth’s geology I’ve come across emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkl...

If you want to live in the UK you should speak Gaelic, you should speak Welsh, you should speak Polish, you should speak Orkney & Shetlandic Norn, you should speak Urdu, you should speak Scots. Wish I was Here, multicultural, multilingual, it was possible in 2001... www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

Amen to Prof Stuart Hall on Desert Island Discs in 2000 on how we need to "reimagine what Britain is. I think Britain has much more diverse origins, much more plural strands in its culture, much more mixes..it's got to learn to love mixture.." www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's an honour to be on the Board of Trustees of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Each year we await with excitement the jewels in the fields of photography and moving image book publishing our illustrious judges will longlist! All on view at #photolondon from 15/5 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Anyone else feeling freaked by UK gov focus on satisfying the people who *didn't* vote for them?

Being quite long of tooth in the museum world I can wholeheartedly say the best projects make space for failure and lessons learned. Also as decreasing funds directly decrease appetite for risk, agree failure (and mitigation) should be planned for not treated as disaster or feared.

Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.

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Call for Papers - Digital Artivism: Intersections between Art, Activism and Social Transformation. Editors: Isabel Cristina Carvalho, @mgarrett.bsky.social & Pedro Alves da Veiga. Deadline 2025-09-15 publicacoes.ciac.pt/.../rotura/c...

“The AI jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop—instead, it’s evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.”

But where did the film industry start? @mediamuseum.bsky.social offers a potted history www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-...

I salute you @britishlibrary.bsky.social

That AI pic doing the rounds adds a whole new dimension to “is the Pope Catholic?”

If you're a final year photography student, the coming week is your *last opportunity* to take part in Graduate Photography Online 2025. Contact [email protected] to reserve a spot for your course. All details at www.source.ie/graduate/sub... (deadline 12/5/25) Image: Rahaf Aburideh

"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. And if there’s one salient point from the work presented across multiple [London] institutions this spring, it’s this: disability is not a separate category of personhood... Disability is not something to overcome – and it is not a choice."

Had SUCH a nice time chatting with a bunch of novelists / game writers for this including @mallorymarlowe.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social @joedunthorne.bsky.social @sharnajackson.com @jimmunroe.net Jon from @inkle.co et al www.theguardian.com/games/2025/a...

Such a great programme with dialogue front and centre ⬇️ 🙌🏻

Rude! But also what an own goal if you follow to even two possible conclusions a) if everything that fed it is worthless why engage? b) the incentive for authors to create new work is now..? I am being wilfully pedantic but this is one where the parts are better than the sum -show some respect meta

In which I argue #museums can learn a lot from how #artists work with and critically respond to #AI. Also an entreaty to Museums to cherish their USP - fab content and precious public trust, specially in convos with big tech funders journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/ten-...

Women on medical trials left abandoned with HIV treatment vaginal rings and no one to remove them. Atul Gwande discusses global health implications of US political decisions on immediate stop-work orders on global aid “against every ethic”

Nice one Canada 🍁

Just been discussing this very history with a fab group of people gathered in Brixton to celebrate #RonyFM’s new project Provisional VA&PA with @viralinfo.bsky.social

Tonight! 👀⬇️🩷