Bridging art, culture, & tech | Curator, researcher, and producer | @avant_arte | @thecourtauld | culture as infrastructure
London, England
Joined June 2021
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Exciting news!! I’ve been awarded support from @ace_national to develop my curatorial research and practice over the next year.
I’ll be exploring two main threads:
-How are public-private partnerships, philanthropy, and patronage reshaping the cultural infrastructures that support artists?
-How are emerging technologies reshaping artistic practice, collaboration, and aesthetics?
If you’re working across museums, technology, philanthropy, cultural policy or research, I’d love to connect, collab, and exchange ideas.
@thebyteproject will be changing and evolving over the next few months 👀
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Today we announce a landmark global partnership of the leading contemporary cultural institutions @MuseumModernArt @mplusmuseum & @CentrePompidou. This cultural alliance, founded in collection sharing, research collaboration, & synergistic bridges between the institutions may stand as a guiding example to the art community and to the world.
Art and culture as form of soft power will be a determining factor in AI acceleration and computing race.
I'd argue all the interesting work, thoughts, and funding are coming from China right now.
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If you're a tech or progress or innovation person/fund/company thinking about how to harness arts and culture to amplify what you're doing, I'd love to chat.
Watch my video essay below for proof of thought
I made a film.
Every chapter of technological modernity has searched for an aesthetics adequate to its time.
Time and again, the pursuit of the new and the beautiful has involved looking back to the past.
There has never been progress without nostalgia, or novelty without tradition.
The film tells this story through the history of architecture and design, from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day Silicon Valley.
Just for @Greekdx
Coming soon – a new limited edition print by American painter Seth Armstrong.
Get updates: avantarte.co/seth-armstrong-…
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⛳️Rhizome microgrants are open! Apply by November 20 for grants between $500- 1500!
We invite proposals in the following categories: PERMANENCE, in partnership with @larvalabs,🛠️MISUSE, ✋HANDMADE & 💬CO-OP. Visit microgrants.rhizome.org for more details + to apply!
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funny how you almost always HAVE to be a scientist by background to run a scientific r&d org
whereas in the arts you can be an appreciator of art and never have practiced as an artist to run an art r&d org
As everyone runs towards institutions, I thinks it critical to consider what is even in the conversation and what do they support and serve
I just wrote the worst essay of my life. 2000 words, but I wrote it.
Does anyone else feel like they are needing to reteach themselves on how to write?
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I have very exciting news. Thanks to a generous gift from @patrickc, the Cræft Prize is growing to £110,000.
My March open call for artisan-innovators fusing the wisdom of craft with cutting-edge technology sparked a flood of excellent submissions.
In early 2027, we will host an awards ceremony, exhibition, and conference exploring how craft can breathe soul and beauty into the machine.
Read all about it 👇
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Very grateful to see this project by @frogspitsimulat come to life and this question from @proofofgail - feels more prescient than ever and what is written in this article by Nick is almost foretold by explorations that Nakamura has done along with many other researchers
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
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People forget that SF use to be incredible and influential in the arts. Pioneering curator Jermayne MacAgy gave Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollack and Clyfford Still some of their first serious career exhibitions
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The exhibit runs until May 2027, and highlights the work of Vera Molnár alongside several contemporary artists.
Pictured below, works by @REAS @williamapan @zachlieberman @Licia_He, alongside Vera’s.
