The last few weeks have been ‘a bit full on’ to say the least.
Over the weekend, Maria Ahmed and I set up our stall at Peckham24 again. We had fun, spoke to lots of old friends, made new ones, and two of my zines have sold out.
- LAMELLA://pamphlet is now available as a free PDF on my website but can no longer be purchased as a physical product. This way, that moment in time – the work was written and published not long after large language models like ChatGTP and image generators such as Midjourney were made accessible to the general public – is available to all, including the data-scraping machines which the work explores.
- Materialism and Its Discontents is now sold out too. I’ve not made this available as a free PDF as I plan to develop it and print an updated version. However, the series of blog posts which informed its making and subsequent relevant posts are available here.
- As I mentioned on Instagram, I had hoped to have The Circular Life and Death of Images ready in time for Peckham but was not happy entirely happy with it so I decided to postpone and give it a little more time before finalising decisions. It is almost there! I am selling a Special Edition which can be preordered on my website. I will post a video soon so people can see what it is they are preordering. These will be limited to ten but only five are available for sale.
- The Sense and Reason project continues to percolate. I hope to have a zine for this ready towards the end of the year. I played with the material in an online residency with Six Minutes Past Nine, where we explored New Art City’s 3D space as a potential way of exhibiting online. I have feelings of ambivalence about the space, but the experience was very useful for a project I will be doing later this year with a group of artists and curators (news soon). And I met some lovely people too. As for whether the 3D space is suitable for this project or my work, I am really not sure; it may be that playing around in the space informs some imagery that ends up in the zine/booklet, and would not have occurred without my time on the residency. Either way, the existence of such spaces certainly resonates with some themes I am exploring. You can see the 3D work in progress here (In the future, I’m liable either to strip elements away or leave it as it is and create images inspired by the space in Photoshop for the zine). I have also created a new landing page for the project on my website.
- A couple of generated images from the Sense and Reason Project were included in Milan this weekend for AI Week Italia. I suspect that I tend not to make the type of images people usually associate with ‘AI’, so I was surprised but delighted, first to be encouraged to submit and then to find that some images had been selected by Co-Meta, Prompt Magazine. Thank you!
- Maria and I are very pleased that an image from In Pursuit of an Apparition, Hands Can Miss the Object, was selected by Photographic Exploration Project for DECONSTRUCTED and will be shown at B-Part Exhibition in Berlin in August and September 2025.
Images from Sense and Reason that are likely to be published as an insert in a larger publication.
That’s it from me in terms of news. Better get on with the making, mixing and playing now. x