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Audiovisual artist; one half of #OutputArts; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@jonathanhogg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
While I’m not telling anyone not to jump on this campaign and contact Sadiq Khan, these lights are (I believe) largely paid for by the shops. I wonder if it wouldn’t be more (or additionally) effective to email your favourite retailer on Oxford Street and tell them that you support trans rights […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
It’s the first day of Fucktober! The month when I fully internalise that I have to deliver 27 new light sculptures at the beginning of November. Fuck.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I didn’t have anything I needed to throw away, but the instruction was so insistent that I tore off some toilet roll to put in it
A steel bin in a white tiled toilet wall with the words “please use this bin” printed above.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
No, *you* ordered 25m of the wrong size of heat-shrink! Sigh…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Not gonna lie, if I had to guess which industry heavyweight would call out AI companies for using doomerism to escape accountability, I wouldn't have guessed at the head of NVidia: "2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” Huang […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Studio is so full of shit at the moment that I'm proceeding through my to-do list in order of "requires least amount of space / produces least amount of stuff"
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
I want to remain informed, but I struggle to read any news without feeling depressed; it really feels like humanity is entering the stupidest phase of my lifetime
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Still feeling crook today, but I really need to get on with some work, so I've decided to have an easy day soldering up control boards Yes, I am still doing through-hole soldering. No, I'm not sorry
Five plastic takeaway tubs lying on my studio workbench. Each has a black PCB and an assorted collection of components waiting to be soldered up into a LED controller.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Maybe AI discourse would be better if we started thinking of them as dogs? So instead of "OpenAI's foundation model escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face" we thought "OpenAI's dog broke the flimsy lead they had it on and mauled a child"
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Feeling rough today so I have cheered myself up a bit by finishing "Monument Valley III" and "Arise: a simple story" on the Steam Deck Both very enjoyable. Arise, in particular, has some lovely snow and ice graphics, and great music. I did do a lot of falling off ledges, though…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I am meant to be making shit today, but I took time out over a cup of tea to discuss the end of the human race with ChatGPT… jonathanhogg.com/i-asked-chatgpt-ho…
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I asked ChatGPT how it might wipe out humanity
There's been a lot of chatter about "superintelligence" and how the AI right around the corner could be too powerful for us to handle. I decided to have a chat about this with a current state-of-the-art AI.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I dunno… I feel like wanting to share my browsing behaviour with your 564 "trusted partners" is perhaps the opposite of valuing my privacy?
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Back at work today after my hols. Cheering myself up by donating to the RNLI, because there is surely nothing more positive than boiling far right piss rnli.org/support-us/give-money/dona…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I am on the holidays in lovely Croatia! First morning swim in the sea done. Now looking at maps and planning some hikes out to find more remote spots
A view over a rocky shoreline to crystal clear light cyan water. In the distance, a couple of near small green islands are visible and, beyond, a distant large, hilly island. The sky is clear and blue.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Experiments in combining 3D printing and willow #OutputArts #InstallationArt
A point formed from four sticks of brown, steamed willow cable-tied to a black plastic form. The small plastic shape clearly shows layers from 3D printing and is sort of a truncated cone with grooves and holes sliced into it to accommodate the sticks and cable ties. In the background can be seen another blurry point standing on the ugly blue carpet. Bonus corner of a sack of kiln-dried sand in frame too.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Are you based in Manchester, London or Merseyside? Have you considered mentoring young people looking to get into the creative industries? Arts Emergency are looking for 2027 mentors, particularly in Gaming, Animation, Fashion, Architecture and Journalism I've done it for years and it's […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
"We're having a little trouble locating your address to deliver your parcel" – Holy shit, InPost! Even if the address you were given wasn't perfectly clear, the postcode covers *exactly one building*
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Riding through the park today and it occurred to me that squirrels are both a wave and a particle
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Some days it is clear that I cannot be trusted with sudo on my own machines…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Today I have one of my LED control boxes half-submerged in water while I repeatedly run it hot and then turn it off to let it cool down. The ten thousand pound question: will it still be dry inside after an hour or two of this torture testing?
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
Just made the mistake of leaving my nice cool basement and going outside… 🫠
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Watched Hail Mary at last. It could easily have been an hour shorter
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Tower block spoiling my view of the sun, but am enjoying the weirdly dim light with a beer and a bag of crisps regardless
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Funny how America's two big growth industries at the moment are AI and dysentry Listen, I'm not saying these things are linked, but I'm also not not saying they are…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
Finally put some text and video on the #OutputArts website about Shatter, the light artwork we made last winter outputarts.com/projects/shatter It was inspired by the "This is not a place of honour" nuclear warning text. Admittedly, not very seasonal but… bah humbug! You may read it […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
New life achievement: drilled a hole into a water pipe!
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
I am reading the code for the #EMFCamp CfP system This surely cannot end well…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Have managed to get my #EMFCamp badge upgraded to a Spaceagon; sadly I didn't realise that there were loose bits in the bag and so I am down one screw and the nubbin 😢
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
More thoughts on working in schools following my EMF talk. Two blog posts in *one* day? I am certain that an influencer would tell me that I am doing Internet wrong, but there you go. Tomorrow I'll be back to work and you'll probably never see one again… […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Goddess help me, but I've started blogging again First, easy, post thinking about #EMFCamp and my role in it. These will get harder… jonathanhogg.com/what-does-emf-art-…
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What does EMF Art & Installations do?
I'm back in the real world after doing my third EMF, second as team lead for Art & Installations. Before EMF I was encouraged to start a new blog by friends but, of course, ended up way too busy organising EMF to actually write anything. So it seemed appropriate that
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Jess Robinson @castaway.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
#QT fosstodon.org/@castaway/11693502417… #EMFCamp #cluesbysam anyone manage to play this? get any pics to share? Apologies for bugginess!
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Attached: 1 image Sooo its setup and kinda working, be kind to it! #emfcamp #cluesbysam
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
I gave a talk at #EMFCamp this year on making art in schools. Having reviewed it now, it is not terrible and so I'm happy to share a link: app.media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-280-1-i-…
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I make things in schools, you can too
If you remember me from "I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist", you'll know that I've spent the last 17 years being an...
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Well, another #EMFCamp almost done! All the installations are gone and the Arts tent has been packed down. I've relocated to the production office to do some final admin and then, tomorrow, home!
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Why am I, again, underprepared for how overwhelming the workload and my emotions are at doing an #EMFCamp again
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Picked up a borrowed tent yesterday, now I just need to do a test deploy of it, pack, make a monolith, apparently put LEDs on my BMX, sort out some PVA glue, a bluetooth speaker and a photocopier, write my talk… #EMFCamp
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
Depending on your familiarity with #EMFCamp you may be either surprised or entirely unsurprised to hear that much of my day at the moment involves worrying about whether <insert suspect activity here> invalidates our insurance…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
I am basically working full time on #EMFCamp Art & Installations work now
The classic "My body…" meme featuring a skeleton lifting weights on a black background. In this case the text reads, "My body is a machine that turns biscuits into organisation".
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Since the #EMFCamp announcement about dropping Mullvad sponsorship yesterday, we've had about £500 of new Art & Installations donations, which is super cool and we're really grateful. It will go towards supporting the amazing makers who bring their weird and wonderful things to the festival. If […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
Houses were a mistake. They are just bottomless pits of repair work. We should have stayed living in caves
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
I love that moment in a game where the music swells and I run towards this emotional turning point in the story of my character and accidentally fall sideways off a cliff
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
"Hi {{ customer.first_name | default: 'there' }}," It is the year 2026, mail merge still defeats companies on planet Earth…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
[Spider!] Picked up a passenger on my ride back from the climbing centre this morning…
The black, badly worn, left handlebar grip of my BMX bike against a tarmac background in the park. At the outermost edge of the grip, a small brownish spider sits motionless considering its options. It has spent the last kilometre scrabbling backwards and forwards across the handlebar and my hand in a panic – or perhaps thrilled excitement? Who knows the minds of spiders? Anyway, at this point I let it disembark.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
The #EMFcamp talk and workshop line-up went live last night. If you're coming, please log in and favourite the things you'd like to see/do: www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026 If you're not familiar with how an EMF works, all of that data is fed into the scheduling robot, which then does a […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026
All those "Instagram for kids" adverts looking a poor investment now…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
Making deranged looking bugs today for charity. Raising money for repairs at The Old Church, our local arts venue in Stokey #OutputArts #StokeNewington #TheOldChurch
A vaguely bug like cardboard thing hanging from a piece of string tied to a leaning tree. There’s a lot of weeds behind. The bug has orange wings and legs, and a yellow body. Some crude scrawling on it with a black marker completes the half-arsed effect.A significantly more terrifying pink and blue bug attached to an A Frame advertising the event. It has spotty wings and a stripey tail. The face drawn on it was a mistake in retrospect.
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
One of my favourite things to do is quietly tidying up the studio at the end of a project On that note, I will hopefully have some pictures and video to share of the New Thing shortly
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
I put in a complaint to my bank a little while ago and today they messaged to say: “Mr Hogg, we've got high volumes of complaints at the moment, sorry it's taking us longer to respond.” I feel like maybe that’s a weird admission to be making? I mean, I appreciate the honesty, but…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
I went to a low-expectation secondary school, where I stood out by being a geek and being into Maths and Physics and stuff. So the teachers were somewhat perplexed when I opted to do a course in woodworking. Today, in the continuing series of Things Jonathan is Genuinely Paid To Do, I will be […]
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
Every time I turn *down* the learning rate on training this model, it learns more quickly and with better results!? Someone who is good at ML please help me budget this, my family is dying…
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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
Christ! 25mm ply sheets are heavy!
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