Researcher, Artist, Designer. Deputy Vice-Chancellor @NorwichUniArts | Formally, Founding Dean @UAL Creative Computing Institute @UAL_CCi
London, England
Joined January 2009
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Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!
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We just opened the submissions portal for the #CreativeAI Track at @NeurIPSConf 🥳 🤖
Submit papers and art until 2nd August
Details: bit.ly/NeurIPSCreativeAI
cc @marcelocoelho @priyascape @alanyttian
#NeurIPS2025
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Want to learn how to build websites that everyone can use? 🌐 Click Start Peckham DAZ with @ual_cci, @UKBlackTech and @lb_southwark is live, and one of this round’s free pathways is Accessible Web Development.
Applications close tomorrow 12th June: bit.ly/4eNYLgR
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I recently gave a talk about my PhD research at @ual_cci after completing my PhD at @goldcomputing in March. You can watch the full talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=mee3pyr1…
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Explore the future of creativity + code!
Ahead of our Summer Festival next month, join us at the Creative Computing Collective Showcase by our 2025 Diploma class
🧠 Art, AI, design + tech collide
📅 5-11pm, 28 May 2025
📍Fleet House, EC4V 6AL
🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/creative-co…
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Myself and a couple of my @ual_cci colleagues were profiled in a recent feature in @techreview by @strwbilly on the ways artists are finding new ways of using AI in artistic practice by treating it as an artistic material: technologyreview.com/2025/04…
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The big switch on: Norwich University of the Arts powers up with solar energy.
265 new solar panels will be switched on across Norwich's Guntons and St Andrews buildings.
norwichuni.ac.uk/news/the-bi…
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Back to organising #CreativeAI at @NeurIPSConf this year 🤖🎨
We just launched our open call for papers and art on the theme of humanity until 2nd August
Details: bit.ly/NeurIPSCreativeAI
Organising with
@marcelocoelho
@priyascape
@alanyttian
#Neurips2025
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new project alert 🚨 🚨
Imagine the wackiest inventions 🧠
Sparky is a new experiment that lets you combine everyday objects to help dream up off-the-wall inventions using Google AI.
You'll also learn about the real-life inventors who changed our world.
goo.gle/4jDRcfz
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made this course a couple years back on designing a feminist chatbot with @ual_cci @feministintrnet @FutureLearn
6k people have enrolled... nice.. made this before the days of LLMs
futurelearn.com/courses/desi…
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The #TEI2025 studios explored ideation, sensoaesthetic and full-body textile interfaces, somaesthetic exploration, tangible LLMs, soft living artefacts, feminist and queer pleasure, shape change with keyboards, decentralized tangibles, digital papyrus, waste and inflatables.
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Join us in the next BRAID x IDI Online Seminar, where Ananda Rutherford from @UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute will share the topic of 'Do "Words Matter" in Machine Learning?'.
📅 Thurs 13 Mar 2025
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 Online via Zoom only
🎟 edin.ac/4i4FnPc
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New research from the @CCCatMIT, in collaboration with @mitPRG and the Human Dynamics research group, demonstrates a novel approach to using AI tools to transform complex legal concepts into engaging stories. media.mit.edu/projects/legal…
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Call for papers: Towards sustainable digital futures, a two-day symposium
📅14–15 May 2025, University of Sheffield, UK
🔗Find out more: digitalgood.net/call-for-pap… Apply by 17 Feb
🌳Hosted by the Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures project led by Minna Vigren @hmtk #digitalgood
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Tinu already had some good technical skills, but wanted to find ways of being more creative in her technical practice. This led her to join the @ual_cci @UAL @UKBlackTech Click Start programme, where she gained the skills & perspectives needed to help her stand out to employers.
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The final version of our book 'Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media' is now available as a free PDF download #GenerativeAI #DigitalCulture #Aesthetics #AIArt manovich.net/index.php/proje…
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Neurocognitive Research Specialist Technician at UAL Creative Computing Institute / @ual_cci / London, UK #Jobs creativeapplications.net/job…
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It took me a while but I finally finished to recode the 300 programs of Jean-Paul Delahaye’s book "Nouveaux dessins géométriques et artistiques" with p5js. The book was published in 1985 and features classic generative algorithms.
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Link below ↓
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If you're bored in the holidays, now could be a good time to prepare your submission to my AI art gallery at @CVPR 😁
More details here: bit.ly/CVPRAIArt25
For inspiration, the 2024 gallery: thecvf-art.com
#creativeAI #AIart #CVPR2025
