iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I keep saying a version. Knowledge is only gained through labor. Eliminate labor and you eliminate learning. No learning, no knowledge.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

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Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Re-reading Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and remembering how joyous it was to perform. We must stir our way onward mixing as we go...

Excerpt from Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia

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Climate Choir Movement @climatechoirs.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Climate Choir strikes again in King's Cross! 🎵🎶🎵 Rosebank, Rosebank, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! Burning the #Rosebank oil would emit more than 200 million tons of CO2, while not helping our energy security because the oil would be sold on the international markets. It's madness.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Part of the ‘Gathering Ground’ exhibition at the Tate.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hugh Shrapnel’s Improvisation Rite 44 (1969): 'Do something impossible, Do something possible; Make the impossible thing seem possible, Make the possible thing seem impossible'.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A funny piece from Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (1971)

A paragraph of written text for a piece called 'Loud and Soft Laughter Music'.

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Emma Welton @emmawelton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The Earthlings Family Orchestra has been creating music to, with & about the accompanying ambiences of Exeter's Lower Hoopern Valley. It's been interesting and surprising. I'll write it up soon. In the meantime, these silent pics show a little of the space we shared & the space we made.

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Emma Welton @emmawelton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

ORGANS! clavichord, bon tempi organ, pipe organ, Venta organ, stylophone - Simon Belshaw has been 'converting pieces written to be played by a computer into pieces playable by musicians.' for our ECS concert 14/6. #ECSLostandFound #artweekexeter #artweekexeter25 #awe25 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My book Death in Modern Theatre: Stages of Mortality, first published by @manchesterup.bsky.social‬ in 2019, is now out in paperback at a more affordable price. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191236/ The subject matter may be 'heavy', but now the book is lighter...

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Manchester University Press - Death in modern theatre

Death in modern theatre - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Death in modern theatre by Adrian Curtin

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This petition was created by postgraduates at Plymouth University, responding to the proposed cutting of fine art, performing arts and music. This would be a huge loss to creative education in the region as well as to the city's cultural ecology and wellbeing. Please sign.

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Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Staff & students @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social attend an in-house screening of Romeo Castellucci’s strange yet beautiful piece Inferno (2008), inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. What dreams may come!

People in a screening room watching a film.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My book The Theatrical Orchestra: British Music Ensembles Experiment with Performance is out! I write about some amazing groups and aim to convey the richness of their work. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177629/ @manchesterup.bsky.social

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Manchester University Press - The theatrical orchestra

The theatrical orchestra - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The theatrical orchestra by Adrian Curtin

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Spotted at the Glucksman museum in Cork. I initially thought it was a real person.

A realistic sculpture of a male engineer, wearing a hi-vis jacket, kneeling in front of a communications box, ostensibly repairing it. The setting is an art museum.

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Climate Choir Movement @climatechoirs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land. Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch! @wildcard.land #ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Loré Lixenberg's call for The Voice Party, a participatory operatic political structure that proposes to radically musicalise the entire fabric of society. Taken from the open-access book, Classical Music Futures: Practices of Innovation: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116....

Banner design for 'The Voice Party', featuring a photograph of a mouth in place of a head atop a figure holding a raised fist.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Exeter Drama finalists have presented devised work for audiences around the city. There were shows about female codebreakers, fast fashion, women’s football, AI, the nature of art, our relationship with light, political cabaret, & toxic relationships. Quite a mix! @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

to what shall I / compare this world of ours –

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

‘The Ostrich Dance of Renita Kramer’ (1950s).

A female dancer, presented as an ostrich, is near some swans by a body of water.

A dancer presents as an ostrich and is turned toward an actual ostrich.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/02/03/s...

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Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the School of Music at Cardiff University – Royal Musical Association

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George Vass @georgevass.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Cardiff University is at the forefront of music education in the UK – a leader in composition, musicology and performance. Losing the music department would be a terrible loss to the cultural life of Wales and the wider musical world. If you care about music at all, please sign the petition below.

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SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Simon Stephens enthusiastically leads a playwriting workshop for Drama and Creative Writing students at the University of Exeter. @uofedrama.bsky.social

Simon Stephens, seated, gestures at workshop participants, also seated.

A group of people seated in a circle in a studio space.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Supportive messages and tips from last year's graduating students @exeterdrama.bsky.social on display for this year's finalists as they begin work on their Practical Essay projects -- hat tip to @evom.bsky.social.

Pieces of paper with written messages on them, affixed by clothes pegs to a clothesline on a wall. In the foreground, someone is taking a photo of the messages.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I may be alone in deriving a strange pleasure from creating a book index.

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University of Basel @unibas.ch · 02/12/2024

In pre-industrial times, music was played not only during daylight hours. Even in the middle of the night, people would pick up their instruments and play. Hanna Walsdorf, a professor of musicology, is investigating how sleep habits have influenced music.

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Sounds after sunset.

In pre-industrial times, music was played not only in the hours of daylight; in the middle of the night, people even took up their instruments to play. How sleep habits have influenced music.

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Cllr Tess Read @tessread.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Proud to be singing with the Climate Choir movement in London today to call on the #britishmuseum to end the £50mn funding deal with BP. Singing truth to power. #fossilfree

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Reading Donna Haraway and struck by her brilliantly poetic use of language.

Text written by Donna Haraway, from the book Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Production photo of Boris Vian's play The Empire Builders (1959). This play features a character called 'the schmürz', on whom the other characters vent their rage. I'm waiting for the word 'schmürz' to enter into common usage. Make it happen, Bluesky!

Production photo of Boris Vian's play The Empire Builders. Image shows a woman ('Mother') vigorously kicking a bandaged man ('the schmürz') who is on the floor, while another man ('Father') looks on.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pochettes — instruments designed to fit in a pocket — spotted at the Royal College of Music Museum, London.

Five pochettes — small stringed instruments designed to fit in a pocket.

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Adrian Curtin @adriancurtin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This made me smile — from the Chicago Manual of Style.

Photo of text from The Chicago Manual of Style. About references: ‘Do not list those unfortunates whose names are concealed under et al. In text’.

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