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Architectural Film Festival London
I am excited to have two films screening at the inaugrural Architectural Film Festival in London from June 7-11 this year. Both were produced during my residency at the Palais de Tokyo. Network /...
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This weekend I took part in the annual Sci Fi London 48 hour film challenge, in which participants have to write, shoot, and edit a sci-fi film in 48 hours. My film had to include the following...
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Residency at V2_
I’m happy to announce that I am one of the nine resident artists at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media as part of their Summer Sessions programme this year. I’ll be developing a sound project that I am...
View ArticleHundred Thousand Billion Poems
I am sure it’s been done before, possibly hundreds of billions of times, but as a small coding exercise whilst writing my PhD I wrote a little piece of code which renders random iterations of Raymond...
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Des’ree Bot
This week, I made a silly Twitter bot. It was mostly an attempt to make a tutorial about making Twitter bots using Dreamhost servers, but ended up being a bot who periodically tweets lines from...
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NaNoGenMo 2019: Directory Directory
I decided to participate in NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) this year with a project called Directory Directory – an online directory of fictional companies, all located within the...
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Landscape Mode
Students of the Scripted Design course I run at MIVC are putting on a show at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media on 17 December, in which they will showcase their work from the course: a series of...
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Teaching: MIVC, open access
In April last year I started working as core tutor of the Situated Design MA at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures, AKV St Joost. It’s been an intense year – under the directorship of Úna Henry,...
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Movie Lines bot / 48 lines
Building on the bot-structure I built for the @life_by_desree bot, I built a quick bot that tweets alphabetised movie lines from the Cornell Movie Dialog Corpus, called @al_film_betical. I started...
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“Hawaiian Wisdom”
Selected excerpts from my work Hawaiian Wisdom have been published in the book No, Robot, No!. The introduction to the work is a merging of narrative – describing the project in a speculative project...
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All the Worlds
I’m excited to announce that I am working on a new project called All the Worlds, along with writer Ross Sutherland, and creative technologists Adriaan Wormgoor and Mark Selby. The project builds on...
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Podcast!
With the recent turn to online education, I’ve reformatted the Parallel Worlds course I run at the Master Institute of Visual Cultures to be an open access podcast – so anyone can listen and take...
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More experimentation, please!
Testing breathing equipment for the Ant Ballet project, nearly ten years ago It’s been a while – actually a few years – since I paid any attention to my website. I’ve been off doing other,...
View ArticleRoad worthy
I haven’t spent a day in the studio just doing studio-ish meandering things for ages, despite this being part of “the plan.” Today I was able to head in, finish production on three podcast episodes for...
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Hybrid Futures talk
I’ll be presenting some of my work at UAL on 9 December as part of the Hybrid Futures lecture series at Central St Martins, curated by Betti Marenko. It’s online (of course!) and open to all. It will...
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PhD thesis online
Well, it’s finally happened! Three and a bit years after submission, my PhD thesis is online. I’m very happy about this – I believe that publicly-funded research should be open access, and mine is now...
View ArticleHybrid Futures talk video
Here’s the video of the talk I gave yesterday at Central St Martins as part of their Hybrid Futures series: It was great to be able to present work from my PhD (which is now open access!) and my...
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Things I Learned in 2020
Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s annual lists of 52 things that he read in any one year (see 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020), I decided to make a list of interesting snippets from articles I’d...
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Broken camera
I’ve just been digging around some old hard drives and came across this screenshot from a project I did for Krieder O’Leary back in 2012. It was an experimental camera that moved back and forth along...
View ArticleGoogle Earth, 2011
Google Earth 2011 from Ollie Palmer on Vimeo. A video of footage I took back in 2011 of late-night journeys in Google Earth. This is my attempt to recapture the strange energy of that time: staying up...
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