Pockets of Weird: The Fight Over Reality

A New Team Human Live with Occult Historian Mitch Horowitz

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Knowing AI, Knowing U and AIKONIC – Public Voices in AI

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=eyiPd6vx_WE

Was a project in collaboration with Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel (Ambient Information Systems) as part of the Public Voices in AI research program that ‘aims to ensure that public voices are front and centre in artificial intelligence research, development and policy’. We set out to understand and help articulate beliefs and concerns about AI held by two groups in Tower Hamlets: clients of Streets of Growth, a charity supporting vulnerable teenagers at risk of diverse harms, and older adult clients of mental health charity MIND.

What makes AI problematic as a technology is its opacity. The spread of surveillance cameras...

Artistic Residency with Bielefeld University – 2024

Between 22 and 25 August 2024, The People Speak team – Mikey, Margot and our multilingual host Timna – joined the University of Bielefeld, Germany as part of the public relations project Ö for the CRC1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication. Over the next 4 years the CRC aims to investigate creativity of the German language. To combine research and public relations the project is using Talkaoke – our interactive talk show format. This year we had the opportunity to run Talkaoke in 4 different contexts: from a facilitation workshop with the Linguistic PhD students to public events in an adult...

Recently 2024

Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule!

This was my biggest year for running on record: 687 miles as of today. I think the biggest difference with this year was just that nothing stood in the way of my being pretty consistent and putting in the miles: the weather has been mild, I haven’t had any major injuries, and long runs have felt pretty good.

I was happy to hit...

You’re Invited: Live Rants in NYC, Dec 17

“Mic Check” — a new form of entertainment and expression for this time

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Bandcamp wrapped

I still use Bandcamp almost exclusively to buy music, and keep a big library of MP3s. The downside is that this marks me as a weirdo, but otherwise it’s great and has been working well for me.

Since I last wrote about it, Bandcamp was acquired by Epic games (?) and then acquired from them by Songtradr, and its employees are trying to get recognized as a union. Times are changing and Bandcamp is no longer a lovely indie company, but it’s still a heck of a lot better than Spotify.

People (who?) are sharing their ‘Spotify wrapped’ auto-generated compilations and I wanted the same, for my Bandcamp purchases,...

Refined

https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=HMp-dOpua6c

The relentless churn of London’s districts and histories continues as backdrop to our day to day experience. Step off your habitual pathways for just a moment and discover redrawn environments that jump cut the geography of your mind map.

A recent derive around City of London confirmed just how extraordinary a phenomenon this is in light of the post pandemic exodus and uncertainty for the future of work. Many international insurance companies, banks and mega corporations extracted themselves to country retreats with little trace but the now vacant floors throughout the city.

Not that this change of heart seems to have effected...

Summary of changes for November 2024

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.

Our website has a new look! The illustrated algae-eared rabbit nav helped solve the problem of navigating on mobile. We added a lot of information to this wiki over the years, creating separate...

Booted

It’s been a busy week again for YT almost forgot to mention a panel appearance and short presentation about Backspace cybercafe at The V&A on Saturday 23rd November – Digital Art Communities: Hubs, Nodes & Networks – SOLD OUT! There is deck for this talk just in case of connection issues but really should have just read out the contents of this page !

It follows on from contributions to ‘Hubs, Nodes and Networks: a new history of British digital art’, a book published by Thames and Hudson but we haven’t yet seen a copy so tell us what you think...

Chrome “Monopoly” Means AI has Arrived

The Justice Department indicated this week that it has finally decided to crack down on Google’s search monopoly and may be requiring that…

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