I gave a talk in Belgrade at the Descon event, entitled 'Everything is Mixed in Black', about properties of negation from Poe to Chat-GPT.
April 2024
I gave a lecture of my PhD thesis on Hansjörg Mayer's titles of the 1960s for the Computer Arts Society at the British Computer Society in London; a video of the talk is available (right)
February 2024
I was co-organiser of "Cybernetic Serendipity - Towards AI" -- at the ICA on 24 February, with an amazing line up of speakers and performers. Details:
https://www.ica.art/learning/cybernetic-serendipity-towards-ai
17 January 2024: Introduced the Inaugural Jasia Reichardt Lecture for the Computer Arts Society, at the British Computer Society in Bishopsgate in London
June 2023: "From Monkeys at Typewriters to Hallucinating Large Language Models: What Can 'AI' Systems learn from [leading] Artists and Poets?" An evening event with performative readings by Tony White and a visual presentation and discussion with Paul Brown and Joel McKim. Organised by Joel McKim and me in Bloomsbury.
April 2023
Watch Words symposium in Bristol, organised by Dr Natalie Ferris and Dr Greg Thomas. I spoke on connections between John Furnival and Hansjörg Mayer, and interviewed Liliane Lijn about her machine, text and visual poetics of the 1960s.
2021: I gave a talk for the Ben Uri Gallery, entitled 'Visiting Wittgenstein's Grave with Gustav Metzger'; it can be viewed here.
