I did not mention that the past few months (since late March), life has changed quite substantially for people in this country and around the world; namely, we are living through the coronavirus pandemic. Not only that, but a number of political upheavals are taking place, from the greater visibility on the Black Lives Matter … Continue reading 2020 May – June: Lockdown Writing
I feel glad to have written the first chapter of my thesis - at least, the first draft of a chapter - and so feel I have at least started trying to express the more theoretical parts of the project. This chapter focuses on some of the historical uses of the role of the 'spiritual … Continue reading 2020 April: Self-Estrangement
As of this month I am joining a new research group at think tank and project space Exposed Arts. Our research topic is 'Intelligence Debiased', and I've been asked to think of a research question + key words to start mapping out our overlapping interests. So I've been thinking about how best to use this … Continue reading 2020 March: Character as Thought-Filter
Introduction to Personal Metrics, performance/experiment held at MARs, Goldsmiths College. 21 Jan 2020: Hello, welcome everyone, to this Art Research Installation, Personal Metrics, in which I’m hoping to conduct an experiment with your help. Some of you may know by now that my practice is concerned with using my own personhood as a kind of … Continue reading 2020 February: The Psychology of Characters
Ridiculous! At Elephant West, 9 Jan - 2 Feb 2020 I did manage to develop Atom into a longer piece, from 3 to 7 minutes. What helped was to create as intimate a space as possible in which to try telling the story again and again to myself. Instead of changing anything about the physical … Continue reading 2020 January: Personal Metrics and Elephant West
Okay, so I have quite a few different things going on at once… I need to address the weakest link in my understanding, which is the machine learning/AI side of the project, or at least the analogies I draw with the field. I’ve composed an email ready to send once the lecturer’s strike is over, … Continue reading 2019 December: Performance Anxiety
01/11/19 One challenge right now is to answer that blunt question: So what? So there is this hypothesis developing where I want to present the writing/reading phenomenon as a model from which all ‘life-like’ behaviour stems. So what? I want to talk about the role of the author as a medium accommodating other subjectivities in … Continue reading 2019 November: Artist as Medium and Person
Professor John Frow of Sydney University is somebody I may wish to establish contact with, as his book, Character and Person (2014), is very related to my project. We have even come across some of the same examples (Kundera) as instances of character/person crossover. He may even be appropriate as a supervisor, although I should … Continue reading 2019 October: Defining the Field and Forging Connections in the Literature
The Hospital of Happiness. Sound work with autogenerated image of non-existent person. 2019. Listen here. 07/09/19 Exploring Evolutionary Algorithms In Chapter 3 of The Blind Watchmaker, when Richard Dawkins refutes the idea that, with enough time, a monkey typing randomly on a typewriter could come up with the complete works of Shakespeare, or rather, even … Continue reading 2019 September: PhD Begins
It’s been a good month for me so far, opening my first solo show on 9th Aug at Tension Fine Art Gallery in Penge, London. Despite opening a show during one of the quietest months of the art calendar, it was pretty well attended, and I found myself busy throughout. The aim of the show … Continue reading 2019 August: First Solo Exhibition
