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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The TERF/anti-antiracism nexus in the UK commentariat: Kathleen Stock pre death: doing a video a day for The Times (plus more elsewhere) about how scandalous it all was. Stock post death: thoughts and prayers so much to reflect on I am very sensitive

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I'm one of the people who commented on Arday plagiarism situation when it broke. I understand the haste to angrily or defensively blame others for this outcome, and I see that already happening: critics of Arday blaming Cambridge and his publishers for creating the situation;
Arday supporters blaming those in media like me for reporting the unfolding scandal so relentlessly. I don't feel like pronouncing on any of this so soon after the news; it seems to me nothing is clear when emotion runs so high.
Perhaps the inquest will help clarify. I'm deeply sorry that it ended this way, I pray for him, his friends and family, and there is much to reflect on all round.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is next level frustrating 1 - apply for DYCP funding from Arts Council 2 - get email that a decision letter awaits but you have to log in to Grantium 3 - try to log in to Grantium and it's not available and hasn't been all afternoon I'm unlikely to get the money but I'd like to know!

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

After the in conversation event with Irene Fubara-Manuel and Kinnari Saraiya accompanying her exhibition In the Eye of a Dream - the three of us came up with a reading list on the reading of colonial archives, race and technology, video games and a lot more - lots to dig into!

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Last few days to catch Home to My Teenage Bedroom by Grant Foster in the Main Gallery at Phoenix Art Space My first show as curator here and can't quite believe it's nearly over Open every day now, 12-5 until 13 April Photo: Bernard G Mills

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

What are you doing this sunny Sunday if you aren’t running the Brighton Marathon? Bet you’re not doing experiments on the best way to age paper with tea… #process #exhibitionplanning

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I love a studio visit and I had a great one last week with Laura White, ahead of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Space in autumn We talked about the process of making, the joy of pushing materials to their limits and how enjoy and utilise what happens when they fail Image: Terminal Flare No 4

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The second part of RH Lossin's writing on AI art and hegemony is so good - if AI and art and in particular how it's being applied to anti-racist, anti-colonialist endeavours is a subject that interests you then it is well worth your time www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...

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R.H. Lossin on AI art and hegemony part 2 - Criticism - e-flux

This is the second part of an essay by R.H. Lossin on the relationship between art, artificial intelligence, and emerging forms of hegemony. Th

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Ben Neal @psiconlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Looking to find and add people to this UK Arts starter pack go.bsky.app/BZ8Tmob

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 25/01/2025

My media art digital thinkers #StarterPack is full! This is a joy, because it means Bluesky is now bursting with the kind of people I want to share a community with. But it's also sad, because there are plenty more people I would love to add. We need 150+++ starterpacks please @bsky.app

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Great posters (with annoying reflections) for two really strong shows at Phoenix Art Space opening this Friday 28 Feb, 6-8pm: Home to My Teenage Bedroom by @foster_grant + Crosswinds and Elemental Dubs by David Harkins, a studio member will be in the Window Gallery Come along - all are welcome

Two posters for exhibitions side by side. On the left is a poster for Home to My Teenage Bedroom by Grant Foster, it shows a painting of two characters, a black man and a woman who are off to one side against an abstract background of yellows, greens and white. On the right is a poster for an exhibition by David Harkins called Crosswinds and Elemental Dubs. It features a black outline of the head of what seems to be a cat. Inside the outline and around it the painting is predominantly blue in may shades

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Enjoying some quiet moments in the gallery ahead of installing my first show as curator here at Phoenix Art Space in Brighton - I’ve always loved these quiet moments

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/01/2025

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Interesting read and it's hard to disagree with the basics of his argument h/t to whoever posted this yesterday Bit embarrassing though that the New Socialist are still encouraging people to Tweet - not a good look newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✍️⁠ It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £20k of prizes 🌟⁠ The theme this year is 'Wild'. ⁠ Find out more, including how to enter: shorturl.at/70n8V ⁠ #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writing #diversevoices

Artwork for the Creative Future Writers' Award 2025 with the title theme 'Wild'. Deadline for entry 18 May 2025.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I came here to say this but couldn't remember what they are called so thanks! Had an epic one at the Scandinavian Embassy cafe in Amsterdam

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is such critical work happening in archiving these queer histories

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Good to be at the launch of Brighton Festival last night, catching up with a lot of folk I haven’t seen in a while - also great to get a festival highlight nod for the show I’m curating at Phoenix Art Space with the work of the amazing Kinnari Saraiya

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A grey winter’s day visit to Hastings Contemporary for the Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs exhibition exploring the practice of still life. Work pictured is a section of Cathie Pilkington’s funny, sad and uncanny Singerie. The show is definitely worth a visit if you’re able to

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Seeta Peña Gangadharan about ideas of refusal and resistance. "Time for Refusal? The politics of resistance against AI". All welcome! - Thursday 27th Feb at Goldsmiths, room RHB 2014, www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/, www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/r...

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Another in an occasional series of books I almost definitely didn’t buy just for their cover

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I was so pleased to see this guide from @weareunlimited.bsky.social appear recently. Ive spent 20 years of my life explaining and re-explaining (often badly!) how my illness affects me, so this is a big help that can be shared to orgs and workplaces: weareunlimited.org.uk/resource/how...

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How to support individuals with autoimmune conditions | Unlimited

One in ten people in the UK have an autoimmune condition. We’re sharing our top tips for how to support staff.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Started a starter pack - it's a little sparse right now so I'm hoping to add to it as this community grows go.bsky.app/26iijBA

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Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Did you know we have a podcast? My Queer Museum is a collection of stories and objects that won't end up in a traditional museum, told through interviews with some of our favourite queer people in Brighton & Hove. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1725250

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My Queer Museum

A collection of stories and objects that won't end up in a traditional museum! David Sheppeard and Roni Guetta interview some of their favorite queer people in Brighton and Hove about the objects they...

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Enjoyable visit to London Art Fair today. Enjoyed talking to a few people and seeing A LOT of work - highlights from Abigail Norris not pictured because I was too busy chatting and Antonio Sergio Moreira on the Ricardo Fernandes stand.

A series of paintings of faces done in a loose style - some of them are fantastical and all use bright colours - the paintings are laid out in a grid pattern

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is worth your time if you're interested in thinking through issues around AI and art - maybe skip it if you're a big Refik Anadol fan though ;) www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...

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R.H. Lossin on AI art and hegemony - Criticism - e-flux

In 2023, Refik Anadol launched the digital artwork collection “Winds of Yawanawa.” In collaboration with the Yawanawa people of Brazil, Anadol

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

However you choose to mark the season, I hope you all have a safe and peaceful ending to the year Christmas card with four crows by Theo van Hoytema (1863-1917)

Christmas Card with Four Crows by Theo van Hoytema (1863-1917) - a late nineteenth-century Christmas card by the Dutch lithographer Theo van Hoytema. It features four crows sitting on and around a log with some snow and other birds flying in the background. A Happy Christmas to you is written on the card with some letters picked out in red

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Fascinating Asian Bronze exhibition at the Rijksmuseum - this is a 19th century Japanese incense burner, the bronze worked with chemicals to create the coloured patination

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Very happy that the news is out there and very happy to be joining Phoenix Art Space as curator mailchi.mp/7adc09d03386...

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Phoenix Art Space Welcomes New Curator & Marketing Coordinator

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Recently read this fascinating account of artist collective Gran Fury and how they leveraged art as protest in the early days of the AIDS pandemic - compelling and, importantly, non-hagiographic. It’s pretty clear-eyed about the group’s shortcomings as well as its successes #art #activism

A photo of a paperback book on a wooden table. The book is yellow with the words It was Vulgar and it was Beautiful - How AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic by Jack Lowery printed on it in black all in capital letters. There is also a faded black and white photo of a man being dragged away but police at a protest

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Daniel Rourke @therourke.net · 15/11/2024

My #StarterPack of Media Art and Digital Thinkers. I have really tried to pick out some Blueskyers under-represented in similar packs. My picks cut across the digital arts and theory space - from gaming, through netart, to immersive media, critical design, AI... just follow them.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Despite rarely appearing here these days, I seem to have acquired 15 new followers today - somewhat bizarrely! So hello to you all and maybe this will prompt me to be more active here!

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

I wrote a preview now up on e-flux about a work by Korean artists Bang and Lee - The Hearing on AI Prophet www.e-flux.com/announcement... The exhibition is in Korea so... but check out the preview and their work which is great. This was a nice outcome of my trip to Korea with the BC five years ago

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Bang & Lee: The Hearing on AI Prophet - Announcements - e-flux

This exhibition features Bang & Lee’s film The Hearing on AI Prophet, which tells the tale of the hearing of an AI driver of autonomous vehicles that has caused an accident.

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The name of one of the rooms at the Tate exhibition, Women in Revolt, made me laugh out loud. Taken from work by Alexis Hunter - The Marxist’s Wife (still does the housework)

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Full Stack Feminism @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Our last session on 'Remodelling the Software Development Lifecycle' from a feminist perspective coming up this Friday. Notes from previous sessions have been documented here: fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/feminist-cod...

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Remodelling The Software Development Lifecycle (workshop 5)

'We aim to unpack and remodel the software development lifecycle (SDLC)'

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

I think I might hate Zotero - I cannot make it work properly (fully prepared to admit it might be my fault) - two hours in and I cannot make it do a citation properly - very wound up!

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

These workshops are looking so good - check them out!

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

I've been using otter.ai to transcribe some interviews for my PhD - it's a mixed blessing as a tool but it did just give me a moment of joy when it transcribed terf as turd 😊

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Join me and artist Michael Takeo Magruder for an exploration of his work reanimating the data held in archival maps. This is the second seminar I organised for Sussex Digital Humanities Lab It's FREE! and it's OPEN TO ALL! Get a ticket and come along to the Lab or join us online shorturl.at/cfCMY

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Laurence Hill @laurencehill.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

A blue sky (and some blurry palm trees) for Bluesky

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