My first 100 Buildings piece for 2026 as part of my series for @rte.ie Culture is on an often-overlooked structures - the humble lampstandard. Read about a pair of rare 1940s concrete Art Deco ones in Co.Meath. Huge thanks to @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social for her photos www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Wine! Cheese! Fruit! Knowledge! What more could you want? Amateurs! at @maynoothuniversity.ie, the institution that supported my work on the book, with my excellent colleagues @fleshandcircuit.bsky.social and @jeneen.bsky.social 6 November, 1pm, open to all!

New publication out!!

Does anyone know of research pertaining to the history of big garden centres in Ireland and if there is a connection to the Celtic Tiger/being part of EU?

My brain is fried

Livestreaming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the wild! Someone just sent me this photo from a bookstore in Berkeley!

cold water / golden light

In that glorious stage of just starting a new book project, where the ideas are fresh as the thoughts are still forming; the theories are weaving together as the patterns are coming into place and every art work is rich with the potential for analysis..... working title: Trading in Visions

Let the Mirror Express the Room, the Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition at Luan Gallery Atholone curated by Benjamin Stafford (with over 30 Westmeath artists) opened last night. Show is up until 2 February and you can also check out my piece Displacement from the bridge next to the Gallery.

I honestly thought Thanksgiving was this past Thursday

Big research deadlines (plural) approaching... me: hey look at that other topic over there!

magic on the surface

I also got around to updating website with Imbue with Spirit: www.elputnam.com/imbue-with-s... The video will be screening this weekend at Bankley Gallery in Manchester as part of the exhibition Planetary Thinking with the Cosmotechnics Group.

My video work Displacement has been selected for inclusion in the Westmeath Artists' Award exhibition, Let the Mirror Express the Room, curated by Benjamin Stafford at Luan Gallery in Athlone, opening next Friday 29 November at 6 pm. Show is up until 2 February 2025.

breaking through the surface

the underside of rain

watching an oak leaf drift

I’m re-reading Parable of the Sower for a workshop and from the moment of opening the first page to ‘2024’ my face has just been the grimace emoji 😬 page after page, paired with a very quiet eeenggghghhhhg

Watch: www.rte.ie/player/movie...

Currently reading. Highly recommend.

Driving country roads in early morning/night when foggy is both terrifying and thrilling; I feel like I am in a ghost story.

I just closed Acrobat with about 15 tabs open of unread journal articles that I was planning to read.....

I am looking forward to this

#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) Myth, tech and speculative fiction in Ireland 2) comparing gestures of influencers to early silent cinema

First look at "Did you read about Erskine Fogarty?". A film adapted from a short story I wrote back in 2017. Directed by James Cotter and starring Robert Sheehan. I also composed the soundtrack.

Renewing my account on Bluesky and finding all the wonderful folks in Ireland making, doing, and producing amazing creative work. My initial stab at a starter pack for Creative & Cultural Ireland. Suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/3bwvaMZ

I have taken to throwing myself in cold water again.

A time lapse/layered video from the first hour of the performance Imbue with Spirit (when GoPro battery died, actual performance duration was 2.5 hours) I recently presented at Bankley Gallery as part of the ongoing exhibition Planetary Thinking by the Cosmotechnics Group.

Trying to write after not writing for a while and I feel mentally sore

Listening to the audio book of Tech Agnostic now out with @mitpress.bsky.social and pondering how we got to this moment

Out-of-office reply is on and outlook notifications are off... commence annual leave!

I am well into shooting and editing for the forthcoming exhibition, Under the Feet of Shadows, at Mart Gallery in Dublin this September. Created in collaboration with Irish author Mike McCormack, we are developing a speculative origin myth for a yet-to-be built data centre in rural Ireland.

For my class on speculative fiction, I made a speculative eLearning tool with #p5js I am calling ProfBot as an alternative to powerpoint.

Feelings Hack: sometimes I do applications in a rush to feel less bad when they get rejected

Open access version book available for free to read online: manifold.umn.edu/read/livestr...

I just received hard copies of my latest book, Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter, coming out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social

I just received hard copies of my latest book, Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter, coming out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social

I wrote an article last year that included an analysis of my performance Interlooping that was created with refuse Irish wool.... and now I regularly get academic spam to submit to agricultural research journals.

I wanted to make a generative animation for class that conveyed the expectations versus reality of progress in creative projects and ended up with this animation. I used it as a "screen saver" for the last group work session: elputnam.github.io/Progress/

experimenting with circle packing algorithm to create a geological generative animation: elputnam.github.io/Oolite/ #p5js #generativeart #generativeanimation

I am not very good at ticking boxes 🙃🙃🙃

Companies keep saying “AI” when they really mean “people you can’t see.”

Today in Academic spam…

I didn’t intend to become one of the those cold water swimmers, but here we are

Surface tension now up on the website www.elputnam.com/surface-tens...

'Mike McCormack’s follow-up to his award-winning novel Solar Bones (2016) has brushed off its rivals for 2023’s most obscurely gripping metaphysical thriller like so much dirt on its shoe.' – The TLS #ThisPlagueOfSouls

Walked along the Liffey this morning, greeted by burned out rubbish bins

Happening Friday! www.dcci.ie/events/myth-...

Current mood

Other social media sites are now asking for subscriptions to use ad free? I think I will be spending more time here now…