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• The censorship of erotic art in Germany — A hidden history of banned desire. In this post I map the censorship of erotic art in Germany, from the Church's Libroru
• Japanese erotic art and its two-way influence on Western erotic artists — Surprising connections between Japanese erotic art and Western erotic artists drive this post. I trace shunga history an
• Twilight and rebirth – sex and art at the turn of the twentieth century — At the turn of the century art and sex collided in ways that still unsettle. I follow Munch, Klimt and Stuck through fin
• A Paris gallery with a novel approach to ‘difficult art’ — A tiny Paris loft gallery is confronting difficult art head on. Here I tell how Rachel Hardouin turned 15 rue Martel int
• Not the only one … — A touching letter arrived from Dave in British Columbia, who sent drawings, paintings and a lifetime of memories. I shar
• Exploring the value of homoerotic art — A rare 1945 Roland Caillaux portfolio surfaced at Vallot Auctioneers with Jean Genet poems. I reflect on twenty lithogra
• Field Day: New York City — Field day New York City sent me on an art exhibitions in NYC crawl. I hit Tara Donovan at Pace Gallery, Odili Donald Odi
• The best work he had ever done — Staying inside, twilight drifts and the new year feels on hold. Reading Derek Jarman final journals, Smiling in Slow Mot
• The Art of Cybersecurity — Stunning data-driven art by Brendan Dawes for Trend Micro, The Art of Cybersecurity turns cybersecurity threat data into
• Trend Micro Perspectives — What if cybersecurity had a soundtrack? Commissioned for Trend Micro Perspectives, I turned thousands of attack logs int
• The Swan — What if a ballet became a sculpture? I transformed Natalia Makarova's 1905 ballet The Dying Swan into a flowing digital
• Moments in Music — Moments in Music, making music physical again. For my Dot Dot Dot show in Sheffield I turned three tracks from local ban
• Frequencies — Somewhere in the dark a form sends music into silence. Here I unpack Brendan Dawes' video Frequencies Frequencies, a 202
• The Opponents — Brendan Dawes's mashup hooked me from the first frame. I write about The Opponents, a 2021 AI generated digital sculptur
• Majestic Landscapes — What if your web link data became a keepsake? Here I explain building bespoke software to turn Majestic link data and Fl
• States of Mind — What does your mental health look like right now? At Nexus for the Group Therapy exhibition at FACT I tried Brendan Dawe
• Remnants — Corrupted photo ruining your memories? Here I walk through step by step methods to repair corrupted JPEG files and fix J
• Here and Elsewhere — A Camus quote inspired this filmic experiment. I collaborated with Sion Trefor on Bird in the House, scoring Here and El
• Three Steps Forward — Ever wondered how jazz looks? In my post on Brendan Dawes Three Steps Forward I write about the 2022 collaboration with
• You, Me and the Machine — A striking interactive work, Brendan Dawes' You, Me and the Machine is a generative art tribute to Herbert W. Franke. I
• Ode to Valentina — Honoring Valentina Wasson and the women who shaped psychedelic medicine. In this post I unpack Brendan Dawes' Ode to Val
• Persian Dreams — What if the Shahnameh met AI and motion? In my review of Brendan Dawes Persian Dreams I unpack AI-driven figurative and
• SPACE TUNNEL — Want to captain a spaceship made of LEDs? I guide you through Space Tunnel, an immersive LED tunnel art installation wit
• WHEN IN DOME — Step into a glowing geodesic dome where movement becomes light. In When in Dome I describe my 2018 geodesic dome light i
• Meaningful Nonsense — What if a silly sentence felt like a secret? In this post I present Meaningful Nonsense, a handwritten artwork series of
• LED Wall — A wall of 960 LEDs reacting to music. I built it for London Decompression 2015 as my first electronics project. I cover
• Collaborative Body Control Experiments — Curious about collaborative body control with Kinect? In this post I document hands on Kinect collaborative control expe
• Planning a tunnel full of LEDs — Want to see a tunnel of LEDs at Nowhere festival in Spain? In this post I walk through planning an interactive LED tunne
• THE TIGER — Surprising truth: a six-year-old's poem taught me more about courage in writing than many workshops. I write about Nael'
• Twisted Ribbons — Curious how a Genuary prompt became twisted ribbon lines? In this generative art tutorial I walk through making rows of
• Curved Line Jellyfish — Curved line jellyfish emerged from a p5js sketch. I walk through coding a circle of points and anchor points placed far
• Pretty much all I want in life… — Want art that makes people walk away dazed? A tweet turned into a short manifesto about making and showing art. From my
• Forecast — What if paintings looked like weather maps and constellations. I built Forecast, a long-form generative art project laun
• A strange kind of physical reality — Particles as pixels collapsing into form. A long form generative art project lands on fxhash with FAB DAO, allow list dr
• Meaningless — Curious how generative art emerges from rules and chance? I unpack my ArtBlocks debut Meaningless, dropping 30 May 2023,
• Coding my Handwriting — Too fiddly to code? Two months later I built a cursive handwriting generator in p5js from my own script. I walk through
• How Should Literature Mean? A Conversation About Art and Ambiguity — Curious whether a poem or novel can refuse to be known? In this edited interview I talk with John Gibson, Magdalena Osta
• How to Illustrate Philosophy — Could a Roman mosaic teach us how to illustrate philosophy? I follow Thomas Wartenberg's essay from Thoughtful Images, s
• Ray Briggs on Self-Love and Sin — What happens when Aaron Feltman reimagines Gabrielle d'Estrées for today? I read Ray Briggs on self-love and sin for Aes
• Gold Buick — A regal gold Buick in Havana stopped me in my tracks. Elegant, not garish, it sat perfectly on an Old Havana street. My
• Fabrica de Arte Cuba — Taxi pulled up at Fabrica de Arte Cuba in Havana, a converted cooking factory that doubles as art museum, bar and concer
• Become an Artist — Make yourself alive, the phrase that opens my essay on how to become an artist through photography and creative self exp
• Complex Art — A banana duct-taped to a wall made me rethink what art rewards. In this post I unpack complex art and show how to apprec
• Thinking in Color — Guessing Pantone's Color of the Year became a little obsession this December. I voted for the Red family and was way off
• The art in everyday life — What if art isn't a mural but a loaf of cardamom buns? After Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2024 I wrote about art in everyday
• Rollercoaster — Crunch time for BCAF registration. I'm racing to finish five Shapeshifter Sculpting pieces before March 31, testing a Jo
• First Sculpt Completed — Ever finished a first sculpt and felt both proud and baffled? My first piece, Uncle Frank, is done. I posted final image
• Sculpture Roundup — Behind on documentation but not progress. Three sculptures are in this roundup: Travis Bickell: Taxi Driver, a Gas Mask
• The Biomechanical and Blast Face Zombie Sculpts — Four months, endless nooks and a Giger homage. Here I document two new Shapeshifter Sculpting pieces: a four month biome
• 'I see the Four-fold man, Humanity in deadly sleep'; Ben Edge and the Children of Albion, Fitzrovia Chapel — A chapel marooned in a corporate square becomes a glittering folk altarpiece. I wandered the Fitzrovia Chapel and give a