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Kate Armstrong

@katearmstrong.bsky.social
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Artist , writer, curator , AI, generative literature, AI Futures for Art and Design, founder Living Labs at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver 🇨🇦 @verseverse

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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
There is a cultural moment now where artists are looking for giant spiritual answers again, as they have always done throughout history, especially in the face of huge technological shifts that catalyze a reassessment of where humans fit in the universe. aifutures.substack.com/p/spiritual-...
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Spiritual Weather
Weird with patches of clarity
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I've written a 2 part series on AI and cultural policy - would love to hear thoughts! Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai... Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
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Do we wanna be somebody
Part 2 of the series “Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists” If Part 1 was about why, this one is about what.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Super excited about this project with RefractionDAO and baseapp x.com/RefractionDA...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thank you !
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@coinop29.bsky.social
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New today! Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a critical media artist and researcher whose work explores the often invisible systems that shape our digital lives. aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen
When tools push back
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New post on Substack! Today's subject is interactive video and how we might come to see 2D images differently once we can "play" 3 dimensionally inside any image. Also - mid-century Italian gothic horror and Loeb. aifutures.substack.com/p/what-lurks...
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What Lurks Inside Interactive Video
Today's gothic miracle
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Is it just me or does AI allow zeitgeist to be created and measured in real time aifutures.substack.com/p/the-univer...
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The universe is giving Storm Troopers
AI is an engine for manifesting zeitgeist
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
new substack post - This is what happens when you ask me about cultural policy.... aifutures.substack.com/p/i-was-there
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I was there
Where is our freakishly successful envelope-pushing cultural infrastructure that stretches underneath it all like an undulating electric field pulsing with glory?
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I can’t compare to Eryk salvaggio but here’s mine - would love to know what you think aifutures.substack.com
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AI Futures for Art and Design | Kate Armstrong | Substack
Charting impacts of AI technologies on art and design and imagining new futures. Click to read AI Futures for Art and Design, by Kate Armstrong, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
reflecting on the state of AI Film in 2025 aifutures.substack.com/p/unaddresse...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Was very busy last week in Los Angeles and forgot to send this around. New post> aifutures.substack.com/p/making-str... check it out 🎉
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Yo Biennale! Conversing with museum objects is todays's subject on my substack aifutures.substack.com/p/messages-f...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
New post on my substack: Thoughts on Immersive Media - check it out and let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New post on my substack about why everything right now is SO LARGE aifutures.substack.com/p/big-boi
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Big Boi
The sublime new giants among us
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Law of Accelerating Returns - Cow Version: new post on substack aifutures.substack.com/p/law-of-acc...
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Law of Accelerating Returns, Cow Version
Quick reminder for those of us who might have forgotten what an outrageously extravagant, fantastical and improbable moment we are living through with regard to Generative AI in terms of the vast poss...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
No plans for it actually tho would love to ! You going ?
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Soon I will release a little collection of text works from outer space >>> here's one for Valentine's day (romantic? Notsure)
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
TESTING bluesky images and how they work: image: from a forthcoming series stay tuned!
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🦏TESTING pink sky🦏🦏 image: From multiple realities - experimental art in the eastern block 1960-1980 at @vanartgallery
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It’s super grim - he has 11 children and apparently has chosen one of them as the best and that is x so he takes him everywhere
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
University of Bergen Library has added the book from our 2005 work Grafik Dynamo to the collection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafik_... 😍
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Grafik Dynamo - Wikipedia
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hive mind - are there any fabulous conferences or openings in art, AI, web3 etc in NYC April 25-30ish, or anyone around?
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I just realized I've been forgetting to post my substack links. Check it out, would love comments on this or other posts -- aifutures.substack.com/p/pros-and-c...
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Pros and choices
The NeurIPs convention brought 16,000 AI people to Vancouver last week, including Ted Chiang, the famous science fiction author and author of the article in the New Yorker that caused so much stir in ...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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KATE ARMSTRONG AND MICHAEL TIPPETT | OBUM
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
With this project, @mtippett.bsky.social and I wanted to capture and expand OBUM’s strange world. The 13 works offered by @ExpandedArt curated by @postanika as part of Reimagine Tomorrow (1954-2024) mark the launch of this world-building project.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What makes OBUM unique for us as artists is how it almost felt discovered, not created. Even the name "OBUM" appeared spontaneously during the creative process, as if the project named itself.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
As post-photographic AI art, OBUM’s images are derived from human-made datasets, so the works are in some way products of our collective unconscious that reflect our culture's preoccupations with power, sexuality, and consumerism.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The project features solitary women juxtaposed with bizarre machines or vehicles. These images feel familiar yet unsettling, like glimpsing an alternate reality.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
At its core, OBUM explores the mysterious "latent space" of AI image generation.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A thread about OBUM for @ExpandedArt
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Does AI HAVE a subconscious or IS it our subconscious?
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s OG ! Brilliant and created everything that came after it - huuuge fan
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ok so how excited are we @mtippett.bsky.social to be participating in this show opening tomorrow curated by @postanika.bsky.social and @expandedart 💯💯🪇🪇 ——- REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024 OBUM explores the ambiguous, post-photographic space of AI-driven production and image-making.
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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I've been thinking about Lisa Robertson's idea that the author is not a creator, but an augmenter of work that came before. Art becomes a continuity that looks different based on who makes it manifest.
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I have been working in this area for 20 years and have never seen such a vibrant and cool community coming together around writing, computation, new technologies, and the network. SOOOOOO - HBD and THANKU
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
To show I, Sinkhole - a poem written with products in a Zazzle store. The poem can purchased all at once or each line separately so run away now and get your leggings that say Can't See Faces zazzle.com/store/i_sink... We offered an NFT in the show which is now sold out objkt.com/tokens/KT196...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
...participating in this...
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I feel so lucky to have met you all. You are each an inspiration in different ways. @KalenIwamoto @sashastiles.bsky.social @CaballeroAnaMa @speciesofvalue Meeting you in Paris 2023 was a serious highlight and was in fact my first real engagement with the Web3 community....
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
3rd Birthday card for The VerseVerse - now on BLUE SKY theverseverse.com
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theVERSEverse is a literary gallery where poems are works of art. - theVERSEverse
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Kate Armstrong @katearmstrong.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Big day over here as I begin to migrate over from X
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