AI Ethics in a Post-Turing-Test World
In July of last year, Google engineer Blake Lemoine broke his confidentiality agreement with his employer by publishing his conversation with LaMDA, an artificial…
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The Wound and The Coyote: Joseph Beuys’ Spiritual Vision
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol…
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All that Jazz
“I never like jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw…
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The Worldview Behind the Work of Art: Five Cautionary Statements
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art…
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Abuse of Cakes
Take a good look–the precariously balanced pile of objects in this photo is actually a cake. In recent years, whether in trendy bakeries or…
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Deadly Theatre and a Plea for Creativity
Imagine yourself sitting in a theatre waiting for a play to begin. The lights dim, the curtain is pulled, and the first actors emerge…
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Cooking in Community
Artists are often perceived as isolated or alienated, and this can have a grain of truth. If an artist is crafting a work by…
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Learning to Be Critics with Our Hands and Feet
When it comes to criticism and interpretation of art and culture, of the writing of books, journal articles, blog posts and facebook notes there…
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If Sport is a God, then why don’t all my teams win?
Describing Sport as a Religion is nothing new – heck, I’ve done it here and here – but this year I’ve started noticing a…
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