This email is brought to you by the Baillie's Reading Room of the Mitchell Library (again), this time from the mezzanine which has a different carpet to the rest of the room! It's a good one and it's giving knowledge and learning. What'
▫️Important! I'll be in London 16-20th September showing Large Language Machine at the V&A South Kensington for their Digital Design weekend. More details below! This email is brought to you courtesy of the 12:15 Scotrail train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley. Actually
In this email: updates on what I've been working on this year, plus my talk from xCoAx 2026 with video + transcription. I'm just back from attending and exhibiting at xCoAx 2026 in boiling hot heatwave-assaulted Torino! It's currently 26° in Glasgow and I&
Two emails from me in two weeks! This one will be delightfully relatively brief, I mainly wanted to let you know about a new interactive artwork I'm displaying in Glasgow this weekend, and some reading/watching/listening updates I missed out last time. Before I talk about the
What's up 💡I know a lot of you receive these emails less because you care about my dumb ideas about tech or art or politics but more because I don't really share life and work updates anywhere else, so rather than bury that info at the
Hi this is a new format email! Please consider this a soft trial as I tell you about an event you can join (today!) where I'm showing some work. If you hate this format, please let me know! This is only good so long as it's
I enjoyed this piece from Rob Horning, where by a chance encounter a north american discovers Gogglebox while visiting Europe and appreciates it without irony. I've enjoyed following Rachel Coldicutt's opinions on critical social technologies, especially coming from the perspective of a woman who's
I've been thinking about a concept which I might unimaginatively call translucent technology or invisible technology (or shadow technology or ghost tech, idk something like this, hopefully someone else has already determined a much better name for it). The rough gist is that as a tech bubble deflates,
I want to start again here. To be frank, I've spent the last two or three months deeply immersed in a largely functional depression. Functional in the sense that I've been able to go to work or go outside or see people, but depressed in the
I've been reading Rachel O'Dwyer's Tokens. Not really because it's apropos of anything I was studying, but because it was the most recently-added book on my ereader on the 2nd January when I needed something to read, and then on the
This email has been a tough one to write, not because there's a dearth of content to discuss, nor because the content itself is necessarily particularly difficult, but because of the feeling of convergence of many threads of content I'd like to talk about. Each subject
Our trust in the new, generated content might be altered by the seemingly legitimate context within which it rests.