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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sharing the announcement that Coventry Biennial founder & Artistic Director founder Ryan Hughes is moving on to pastures new, & wishing him the best in his new role at South Square Centre in Bradford. 10 years & 5 festivals delivered, I feel super proud of what the biennial has brought to the city 🙌

Coventry Biennial Artistic Director Ryan Hughes speakers from a podium to a crowd gathered in a large gallery space. He is dressed smartly and holding a microphone in his hand. The faces of a gathered crowd in the backround look attentively towards him.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

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A Digital Lynching

A practical guide for individuals and organisations when the mobs gather

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'll be screening this pithy cut from the longer film "Between the Orange Tree and the Lime" this Sunday 12 July at 'Rough Cut' at Abby Theatre. Put together by the Emerging Artist Network. All welcome, tickets via QR code 🙌

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Last Saeta: Literally the last saeta (a short flamenco prayer, literally meaning 'arrow' in spanish) sung by well-loved singer and tabernero Pepe Peregil, in the Plaza del Museo in Seville, during Easter Week 2011. He sings to the image of Christ, "The Giralda bends to her knees before you!"

An old man in the foreground is illuminated by the flash of cameras, in the darkness of a public square at night. He has his hand on the shoulder of a young lad who stands to one side of him, looking upwards towards something out of frame. The old man has his eyes closed, with a serious expression. His mouth is open in song.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

the BM site tutorials are super well put together, and they cover editing, fairlight, color page separately. I come back to them periodically to refresh!

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Blackmagic site for thorough intro inc. video files for practice if you're looking for overviews to the whole programme. Then I find 'creative video tips' Chad on youtube great for specific things & tips

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is Finch's party, and this is the guy he thinks "deserves" to be PM. You've given him a free ride on his "I'm not a racist" thing, why?

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www.lavaca.org @revistamu.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Memoria, Verdad y Justicia.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today marks 50 years since the 1976 military coupe in Argentina. #MemoriaVerdadYJusticia #NuncaMás Images: stills from video, showing founder members of the Mothers of the Disappeared Nora Cortiñas (1930-2024) and Mirta Acuña de Baravalle (1925-2024) in the Plaza de Mayo in 2018.

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 31/01/2026

📹 Vídeo | Israel mata al menos a 32 personas, siete de ellas niños, en bombardeos en Gaza contra edificios y tiendas de campaña de desplazados. Los ataques elevan la cifra de muertos desde el alto el fuego por encima de 510 social.elpais.com/ad1…

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Film and Video Umbrella @filmvidumbrella.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📣 LAST FEW WEEKS TO APPLY 📣 Film and Video Umbrella are seeking to hire two part-time (three days per week) Midlands-based Producers who will, between them, deliver FVU’s programme of artist’s moving image works, co-ordinating and overseeing the delivery of our multifaceted production activity.

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

In "Sound, power and participation: A conversation on the aurality of the House of Commons", @duncanwhitley.bsky.social explores how the sounding cultures of the House of Commons affect whose voices are heard. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

An otherwise interesting poll undermined by the omission of kraft cheese slices

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

You're sharing the govmts own data in the buildup to elections. He's a fraud leading an autocratic and deeply corrupt govmt. You think what you like.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The inflation rate is (allegedly) back down to around 40%, but inflation is up massively. Milei claims this as a win, but I think the inflation rate alone is a very poor measure of quality of living in any case.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I see it because my partner and her family and friends (also mine) are living it. Honestly it's a nightmare, and I see no credibility in Milei on any level (indeed, he himself has invented biographical details to position himself as a respected economist)

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

it doesn't take more than a cursory search of MMM articles to read historic levels of poverty now above 50% of the population. The rest you would need to read Argentine press to follow public transport hikes, dereg of rental laws etc. which mean landlords can charge in dollars and so forth

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

No. of ppl in poverty has risen sharply under Milei. Food costs up, public transport costs up by multiples, rents deregulated & out of control. Milei claims he's taming inflation (rate), but it's not reality

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

don't think it's aimed at 'most ppl in britain' - it's FT, so more about the City, tech bros and a rather optimistic punt at international positioning?

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Serious question? It's not aimed at the electorate, it's aimed potentially at big money donors & probably more so seeking attention of international hard right esp Trump. She's saying u want deregulated economy opps, back me.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Interview with my good friend and collaborator Guido Zen AKA Abul Mogard. BTW if you haven't listened to his latest release Quiet Pieces, I highly recommend it 🔥

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

@bsky.app please sort the behaviour which autoscrolls to top of feed everytime you close a post. makes the app completely unusable 😔

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Super news for Coventry Biennial who have secured £98,000 via National Lottery Project Grants from ‪@artscouncilengland.bsky.social‬ to support Coventry Biennial 2025! 🙌 Keep an eye on www.coventrybiennial.com for programme announcements... 📸 Image shows audiences at Coventry Biennial 2023.

Members of the public conversing amongst themselves and browsing the artwork of Yva Jung in a gallery a space. The artwork features framed drawings mounted on a large wall, and coloured drawings directly onto the wall around the frames.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

An astonishing slip(?) from Javier Milei: "they'd better not try to mess with my head, because I can be the bigger psychopath" ("No me psicopateen porque me pongo yo más psicópata"). Probably the first true thing he's said since assuming the Argentine presidency...

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

contemporary take on a classic. #Cov '25

graffiti on faded white panelling alongside a building site. the graffiti reads "BBC" (white text in a red box) "ARE PEDOS" (black text).

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This was one of my earliest phonography projects concerned with the aurality of places. I recorded for much of the 2004/5 season in Highfield Road's West Terrace, with my trusty Tascam DAT recorder(!). Now a searchable audio archive - thank you @paul-whitty.bsky.social for supporting on this!

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This Is Highfield Road - Online Sound Archive

"This is Highfield Road” is a documentary sound archive by artist Duncan Whitley. Search the archive to listen to 141 binaural recordings online.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hearing that composer Alan Lamb passed away earlier this week. I remember reading an article in The Wire, I think maybe 1997 as I was studying Fine Art at the time, about his experiments with sound and wire. Night Passage, incredible work room40.bandcamp.com/album/night-...

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Night Passage, by Alan Lamb

3 track album

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A link here to the latest Dossier from @mediapolis.bsky.social 'Projection Activism - the Right to the City in Mediated Space', edited by Giorgia Rizzioli 👇 Some great reading on video projection & the politics of public space here www.mediapolisjournal.com/dossiers/dos...

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Dossier: Projection Activism — the Right to the City in Mediated Space

Edited by Giorgia Rizzioli Giorgia Rizzioli, Introduction – Urban Light, Activist Fight: Redesigning Spaces of Change Giorgia Rizzioli introduces the Projection Activism dossier with some …

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A few days after the Electric Cinema marked the first anniversary of its sudden closure, Historic England have announced the decision not to recommend the building for listing... Some thoughts here from Flatpack Festival #Birmingham #IndependentCinema flatpackfestival.org.uk/news/electri...

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Electric Cinema Update: Historic England Decision

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A sad goodbye to Meter Room studios today. 13 years providing low cost studios w/ space for site-responsive & exhibitions work in central Coventry, born as Daniel Pryde-Jarman's PhD project in the city. Found this beautiful gesture from studio holder Sam Kelly this afternoon...

The flowers of a succulent (looking rather like abunch of electrical wires), emerging from a light switch by an open door frame of a functional-looking building. A red retro-looking fire alarm is mounted above the doorframe in the background.

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postdigitalcultures.org @postdigitalcultures.org · 24/01/2025

Hello! We're the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. We are a centre of researchers and postgraduates who aim to reimagine 21st century postdigital societies and their cultural institutions at a local, national and planetary level.

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

FYI Cov/ Warks based artists and orgs... good news Coventry Biennial is offering new artist studio provision in Leamington Spa. A number of studios available in a Georgian villa near Jephson Gardens. Pls share! #ArtistStudios #Warwickshire #Coventry www.coventrybiennial.com/2025/01/09/w...

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We've got studios! Join us!

Our mission statement includes the lines: “Activating spaces, exchanges & experiences” and “With Coventry, it’s neighbours & beyond” To date, that has largely been delivered through our commissionin...

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Duncan Whitley @duncanwhitley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is the first of 3 readings, and then it would go to the Lords. I can understand voting against on the 2nd or 3rd readings if not satisfied with the detail, but not on the 1st

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