___ People often ask Magali and I how it is possible to work across such a wide array of clients, from startups to large corporates, from cultural communities to isolated individuals beavering away. The reality is the last seven years have been a rollercoaster of inquiry, of investigations into processes…

In 1996 I recall assembling by third router to connect to our fixed landline telephone service socket which had been tucked away under a small office nook in my home, built in 1920. The 56.6kbps modem emitted a series of wonderful robotic sounding audio bytes that, had I been imbued…

The essence of always on, always available has been a mystery to me as I see much of my life either disappear behind firewalls as an academic, or as I have endeavoured to do, create an open access identity through the likes of Figshare as a researcher, scholar and artist.

This morning, after reading the response I have had to a post in Twitter, I’ve decided to respectfully address @Luwhart who I note is a Patreon patron and Artstation advocate. Those who know of my work will attest to the torture of 10 years composing a PhD thesis on the…

...and then there is the whole issue of data genocide with what we are told we can and cant put out for public access ... for instance my PhD thesis ... I was told my data was strictly of 'no consequence' to the final examiners ... to which I said 'f#4k you' and with each respondents consent made the entire project and many other elements of my creative inquiry open access under CC by 4.0 (many thanks to you for the inspiration to stay open to protect culture) - here is what George Siemen's had to say at the time - https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Interview_-_George_Siemens/7104971

Human meets AI bot Yesterday I took some time out to establish a Substack account. It seems to me the most logical way to gain an emic perspective of the realm of artificial intelligence, by literally immersing myself as an artist, author and researcher amongst it. …

Towering super Cyber Cities are now enduring folklore on post-Anthropocentric extra-terrestrial planet Earth, most beings now confined to clustered hubs, satellite corridors, and intergalactic spaceships. …

On the eve of the comet, an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) named Gaiasimulations or GASIMs, a derivative of the B_GAN that had become self-aware in the human Metaverse had begun to share its knowledge and insights with human scientists, signaling direct links through to the larger MultiVerse. GASIMs The GASIM which…

As the rise of Symbiotics and gradual assumption of power over humans by Sentinels became apparent, life on post-apocalyptic Earth resembled closely what had been depicted in the 2014 film Automata, starring Antonio Banderas and featuring Birgitte Hjort Sørenson. …