This is an introduction to our project Performing AI. Our project takes an unconventional approach to exploring artificial intelligence (AI): through hacking and game development, performance, and fiction. …

These are some thoughts I’ve gathered over the past few years on how to deconstruct and reconstruct reality. This is intended as a philosphical grounding to inform creative practice, written mainly for a current project with Edie Jo Murray. …

originally published 2017 Turing: I hereby open this seminar on the extinction of humans. …

originally published 2017 Composition in Line by Piet Mondrian, 1917 [public domain image] In 1917, Piet Mondrian and colleagues launched the journal De Stijl, to document and promote their increasingly abstract art, design and architecture. They believed in a quasi-religious philosophy which held that humanity progresses from physical or natural…

How we make meaning over time, space and multiple perspectives. This is the fourth and last in a series of articles about information (here is the previous article). …

A computational view of information as an active entity. This is the third in a series of articles about information (here are the first and second). …

Why this is not a war, and why we should take a systems perspective. I’ve been teaching systems thinking to postgraduate design students, and one key reference has been on my mind during the pandemic: Dancing with Systems by Donella Meadows. She was a renowned biophysicist, best known for the…

How we make meaning from patterns that perpetuate. This is the second of a series of articles about information (here is the first one). …

This is the first of a series of articles about information. I am collecting all my notes from years of teaching into these informal articles, and updating them as new information comes in and as my views change. I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I make no secret of…