aggregated news and updates, both current and past
_current:
Symposium on the Convergence of Gamification & Financialisation ↪
May 31 2024 // type: symposium // venue: Abertay University, Dundee/UK // tags: gamification, financialisation, symposium, research network
RPG Co-Creation Workshop on Gamification & Financialisation ↪
Nov 24 2023 // type: workshop // venue: Abertay University, Dundee/UK // tags: gamification, financialisation, RPG, workshop, research network
Copies Without Originals ↪
Oct 25 2023 // type: Art criticism // venue: // tags: AI art, intellectual property
Media Art History conference presentation on AI and new anxieties of influence ↪
Sep 13 2023 // type: Conference presentation // venue: Venice // tags: AI art, computer art history, prompt engineering, art theory, Harold Bloom
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ISEA 2023 panel co-organised by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi ↪
May 20 2023 // type: Conference presentation // venue: Paris // tags: AI art, hyperobjects, anthropocene, global warming, digital art
Taxation without Representation ↪
Feb 20 2023 // type: Art criticism // venue: Outland.art // tags: blockchain art, NFTs, digital commons, smart contracts, financialisation
RSE Case study: Improving awareness of issues at the intersection of ‘gamification’ and ‘financialisation’ ↪
Feb 07 2023 // type: Case study // venue: // tags: gamification, financialisation, research
A Digital Art Revolution? ↪
Feb 07 2023 // type: Commentary // venue: // tags: blockchain art, NFTs, digital commons, smart contracts, financialisation
Structures of Belonging launch event ↪
Feb 03 2023 // type: Talk // venue: /rosa Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin/Germany // tags: digital art, blockchain, DAOs, NFTs, blockchain, token-gating, NFTs
Structures of Belonging ↪
Feb 01 2023 // type: Art criticism // venue: Aksioma Postscriptum series // tags: digital art, blockchain, DAOs, NFTs, digital commons, token-gating, NFTs
Podcast release – Radio Web MACBA, Son[i]a no. 363 ↪
Jan 12 2023 // type: Podcast // venue: // tags: blockchain art, digital commons, DAOs, NFTs
Zones of Exclusivity & Structures of Belonging ↪
Nov 12 2022 // type: Panel // venue: Aksioma, Ljubljana/Slovenia // tags: blockchain, token-gating, NFTs, blockchain art, activism, commons
Blockchain Futures Between Immutability and Radical Change ↪
Nov 11 2022 // type: Keynote lecture // venue: Bergen Center for Electronic Art (BEK), Norway // tags: blockchain, DAOs, blockchain art, anarchism, activism
Blockchain Vitalism ↪
Nov 07 2022 // type: Art criticism // venue: Outland.art // tags: blockchain art, NFTs, non-human agency
Platform Speaker Series guest lecture: Adrian Hon ↪
Oct 27 2022 // type: Guest lecture // venue: Abertay University // tags: gamification, guest speaker, game studies
The Politics of Visual Indeterminacy in Abstract AI Art ↪
Oct 20 2022 // type: Journal article // venue: Leonardo // tags: AI art, visual indeterminacy, abstraction, image recognition
Thoughts on Free Data ↪
Aug 24 2022 // type: Panel discussion // venue: nextmuseum.io (Online) // tags: commons, NFTs, blockchain art, authorship, licensing, Creative Commons
Agential Assemblage & Tactical AI – Two Contributions to ‘Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition’ ↪
Aug 08 2022 // type: Book chapter // venue: Onassis Foundation // tags: AI art, agency, posthumanism, tactical AI, agential assemblages, digital art
Joining the Editorial Board of the Scottish University Press (Open Access) ↪
Aug 03 2022 // type: Announcement // venue: Online // tags: Open Access, publishing
Towards a Non-Totalizing Metaverse ↪
Jul 18 2022 // type: Book chapter // venue: TBD // tags: metaverse, virtual Reality, VR, interface experiments, digital art
Co-convening Prospectives 2022 – Digital Art and Activism postgraduate symposium ↪
Jul 09 2022 // type: Announcement // venue: Online // tags: symposium, postgraduate, digital art
AI Art as Hyperobject-Like Portal to Global Warming ↪
Jul 08 2022 // type: Essay // venue: xCoAx 2022 // tags: AI art, hyperobjects, anthropocene, global warming, digital art
AI Art as Hyperobject-Like Portal to Global Warming ↪
Jul 08 2022 // type: Conference presentation // venue: xCoAx 2022 // tags: AI art, hyperobjects, anthropocene, global warming, digital art
Tactical Entanglements: Creative AI Lab in conversation with Martin Zeilinger ↪
Nov 15 2021 // type: Panel discussion // venue: Serpentine Galleries, London/UK (& online) // tags: AI art, posthumanism, creative agency
Adversarial Images Between Abstraction and Generalization ↪
Nov 05 2021 // type: Symposium presentation // venue: Alberta Univ. of the Arts, Calgary/CAN // tags: AI art, abstract art, GANs, deepfakes, perception
Algorithmic Adjudication and Tactical AI ↪
Sep 09 2021 // type: Keynote lecture // venue: Kunstuniversität Linz/AT (& online) // tags: AI art, posthumanism, algorithmic governance
Law, AI, Oracle ↪
Sep 04 2021 // type: Plenary talk // venue: Dundee University, Dundee/Scotland (& online) // tags: law, AI, posthumanism, mystifying AI
Generative Adversarial Copy Machines ↪
Sep 01 2021 // type: Journal article // venue: Culture Machine Vol. 20 // tags: AI art, GANs, posthumanism, agency, intellectual property
On De/centralization: Blockchain Art & New Forms of Community-Building ↪
Jul 15 2021 // type: Discussion panel // venue: Vector Festival, Toronto/CAN // tags: crypto art, NFTs, digital art, decentralised autonomous organisations
OUT NOW: Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property ↪
Jul 01 2021 // type: Monograph // venue: Meson Press // tags: AI, AI art, digital art, intellectual property, agency, posthumanism, tactical media
Shaping the Future Synthetic Realities panel discussion ↪
May 14 2021 // type: Panel discussion // venue: Uroboros Festival, Prague/CZ // tags: AI art, posthumanism, algorithmic governance
On the Conceptual Affordances of Blockchain Art ↪
May 13 2021 // type: Keynote lecture // venue: Uroboros Festival, Prague/CZ // tags: blockchain, crypto art, conceptual art, NFTs
Machinima as Creative Practice & Critical Intervention ↪
May 05 2021 // type: Discussion panel // venue: online // tags: machinima, game art, media art
‘Chaotic Lawful’: Teaching Videogames in a Licensing and Permissions Lacuna ↪
Mar 16 2021 // type: Journal article // venue: // tags: game studies, COVID-19, online teaching, educational licensing, intellectual property
Emerging ownership models on the blockchain ↪
Dec 20 2020 // type: special issue // venue: // tags: blockchain, fintech, ownership, intellectual property, creative industries
AI Art and Post-Anthropocentric Agency ↪
Nov 13 2020 // type: conference presentation // venue: Indeterminate Futures conference, Dundee University // tags: AI art, agency, posthumanism
Unownability on the Blockchain ↪
Jun 22 2020 // type: invited lecture and discussion // venue: Aksioma, Ljubljana/SLO // tags: blockchain art, fintech, ownership, commons, activism
MoneyLab #7 workshop: ‘How Will the Tooth Fairy Pay You on Planet Cashless?’‘ ↪
Nov 12 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: fintech, MoneyLab, cashlessness
AI art and creative agency: Pecha Kucha lightning talk ↪
Nov 04 2019 // type: invited lecture // venue: Dundee/UK // tags: AI art, agency
Rethinking Affordance ↪
Aug 23 2019 // type: journal special issue // venue: // tags: affordance theory, digital art, design, media theory, media art history
Digital Art Research Group talk on digital art, AI, and IP ↪
May 16 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: AI art, intellectual property, digital art, talk
CFP: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age (CRASSH) ↪
Apr 03 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: CFP
Survival Interventions in GTA & the Limits of Performance in Virtual Environments ↪
Mar 25 2019 // type: journal article // venue: // tags: performance art, game art
‘Vertiginous Data’ curatorial essay, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea ↪
Mar 22 2019 // type: essay // venue: // tags: crypto, digital art, blockchain, copyright, curatorial essay
IP, AI, and Digital Art ↪
Mar 20 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: intellectual property, AI, digital art
Twine Resources ↪
Mar 19 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: digital_storytelling, teaching materials, Twine
CFP: Emerging ownership models on the blockchain ↪
Mar 15 2019 // type: // venue: // tags: crypto, blockchain, special issue, CFP
‘All Your Photo Are Belong To Us’: Post-Scarcity Photography and the Blockchain ↪
Nov 24 2018 // type: symposium presentation // venue: Photographers’ Gallery, London/UK // tags: photography, digital art, blockchain, fintech
Plotting Critical Research Practice in Digital Art ↪
Nov 10 2018 // type: book chapter // venue: // tags: digital art, computer art, creative coding, research-practice
First as Snapshot, Then as Decentralised Digital Asset ↪
Oct 15 2018 // type: online article // venue: // tags: crypto, digital art, fintech, photography, blockchain
Rethinking Affordance Issue launched on Schloss-Post ↪
May 15 2018 // type: special issue (online journal) // venue: // tags: design, special issue, symposium
Digital Art as ‘Monetised Graphics:’ Enforcing IP on the Blockchain ↪
Mar 01 2018 // type: journal article // venue: // tags: copyright, digital art, financialization, blockchain, art market
Digital Art Between Algomysticism & Fintech Activism ↪
Jan 20 2018 // type: book chapter // venue: // tags: crypto, digital art, blockchain
Métic Action in Digital Culture ↪
Oct 10 2017 // type: journal article // venue: // tags: cunning, biopower, metis, activism
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know about the Blockchain* (*But Were Afraid to Ask Mel Ramsden) ↪
Sep 10 2017 // type: book chapter // venue: // tags: crypto, digital art, conceptual art, fintech
Live Coding the Law: Improvisation, Code & Copyright ↪
Feb 10 2014 // type: journal article // venue: // tags: music, live coding, IP, copyright
Chiptuning IP Between Creative Commons and Moral Economy ↪
Mar 25 2013 // type: journal article // venue: // tags: music, IP, copyright, Creative Commons