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26 May 2026
Ban on the Line
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A few weeks ago a student circulated an open letter calling for the abolition of generative AI within the art school. It was carefully writt...
24 May 2026
Mistaking Stillness for Motion
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Someone points to a tomato and says “That’s green”. It is sitting on the table in front of us, in ordinary light. The rest of us have no h...
21 May 2026
Disciplined Observation
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As a young child, I remember a teacher, Mr Taylor, urging us—quite insistently—to “see” the ellipse in a roll of masking tape placed on the ...
18 May 2026
Blur in Focus
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Clarity is something we appeal to readily. We speak of bringing things into focus, of sharpening an idea, of seeing clearly. The language ...
14 May 2026
On Scale and its Disappearance
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A ruler offers a promise. It fixes length, establishes proportion, provides a stable reference against which things can be measured. It anch...
11 May 2026
On AI, Discovery, and the Already Known
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Artificial intelligence now occupies a familiar place within creative practice. It can generate images, structure text, suggest forms, and p...
10 May 2026
Intelligence is Situated
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Intelligence is not a property we possesses so much as a condition we inhabit. It is not sealed within the skull, nor does it operate indepe...
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