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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell

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Systems Interference (art). Using this as a place to keep records of exhibitions, new work and events. General link here: bsky.app/profile/mocksim.bsky.social. Site: mocksim.ie

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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 6h
Monument to those who died fighting fascism, in Sighnaghi
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 6h
Town hall or something, Kvareli, Georgia
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 6h
Paintings and fridge magnets for sale in Tbilisi, Georgia, depicting certain fashionable icons but also Stalin and the likes 😟
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 6h
Meant Mark Barker obv. www.instagram.com/mrmarkbarker
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Mark Braker show with cat at LC Queisser, Tbilisi, Georgia. Thanks to Yerevan's Tereza Davtyan for the tipoff
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Georgia - Demolition of the 'Rike Tubes' (officially the Rike Park Music Theatre and Exhibition Hall).
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
The Palace of Shaki Khans (Azerbaijani: Şəki xan sarayı or Şəki xanlarının sarayı; Persian: کاخ خانان شکی) in Shaki.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Exhibition in what was main railways station, Baku - Thanks for intros Vafa Alizada.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Baku 03 - Exhibition
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
First oil well ever
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Baku 02 Mat Collishaw matcollishaw.com/exhibitions/...
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 7h
Baku 01
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From 20th October, find Mocksim at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, way upstairs. Title of investigation: 'Where's the Algorithm?' Details: westcorkartscentre.com/event/michea... Supported by @artscouncilireland.bsky.social and other entities.
Artist (Micheál O'Connell) and team putting billboard poster up in 2019. Photo credits John Halpin.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Snippet from workshop with MA Art and Environment students run Friday 4th Sept: www.instagram.com/p/DdTOfAGi6YW/ - Course details: www.art-environment.com
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Running a workshop with students on this brilliant MA Art and Environment Course tomorrow Friday 4th Sept. www.art-environment.com
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Work, Expanded Photography, www.mocksim.org/works/expand... appearing (again) on one page in the latest issue, 6 that is, of lush and glossy magazine Swerve www.swervemagazine.org
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Described as a 'very avant-garde piece ', though I insist that this work turned out to be unoriginal, derivative, and not so special: uillinnwestcorkartscentre.blogspot.com/2026/07/memb...
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.instagram.com/computerarts...
Panel waiting to discuss Margaret Boden's legacy.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Plymouth is in Devon, not Cornwall
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Am part of this www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-com...
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Hybrid: Computer Arts Society Evening - EVA London 2026
CAS celebrate the life and work of Professor Maggie Boden, led by Professor Ernest Edmonds, a close friend and collaborator.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
rameishing.substack.com/p/is-this-go...
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‘Is this good? Is this bad? I don't know: I just think it's a big conversation to be had.’ Annie Mac on AI.
Mixing it up with extracts from a forthcoming book on 'AI'
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
ABC Artists' Books Cooperative at Biblioteka Art Book Fair, London, 2026 warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
With ABC Artists' Books Cooperative at Paris Ass bookfair 2026, 5-7 June parisassbookfair.fr
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Keynote lecture in November in Lithuania at Kaunas University of Technology, KTU's 'Intermediality in Communication | International Conference' Nov. 19-20 2026: Title: ‘Artificial stupidity’ and what art and performance can teach critical AI studies? Abstract: icconference.ktu.edu/people/dr-mi...
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Dr. Micheál O’Connell
‘‘Artificial stupidity’’ and what art and performance can teach critical AI studies? Apart from the common concerns raised about copyright and the undermining of creative labour, art and performance a...
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
rameishing.substack.com/p/hydrocarbo...
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
substack.com/@mocksim/not...
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Micheál O'Connell (@mocksim)
In response to a post titled ‘The Great Australian Art Con’ https://substack.com/@thisartlife/p-197098606 which argues that contemporary art culture has replaced criticism and judgement with instituti...
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DX_ZvCkglHD/ APEC Studios, May 9,10th / 16,17th, 11am-4pm Opening event, 8th May, 6-8pm
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Mocksim's work description
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Spoke at Session 2 of AI Art Assembly on 7th Nov. '25, and facilitated/lead a table discussion: 2025.betafestival.ie/conferences/...
Notes from table discussion at AI Art Assembly, at BetaFest, Dublin 2025, Micheál O'Connell
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
thanks for the correction. close though.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Last day of this today: in Plymouth, Cornwall, UK
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Time Space Transmat physical show at 'Under Gallery' 18 East Street, Plymouth, Cornwall, PL1 3NU, UK. Runs Wed-Sat, 12:00-16:00, 21st-28th March.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Pics from Opening of Dissonant Laws exhibition on Friday: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/scktv...
Sarah Holyfield artwork about Universal Credit applications, and how long they are. Dissonant Laws exhibitionA still from a film work at Dissonant Laws exhibitionA still from a film work at Dissonant Laws exhibition
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Rhys Trimble and Lucy Finchett-Maddock
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Opening tonight in Plymouth, #Cornwall, UK: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hitgm...
Flyer for Time Space Transmat exhibition in Plymouth opening 20th March 2026Flyer for Time Space Transmat opening event and music details in Under Project space, Plymouth, Cornwall, UK, 20th March 2026
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Got new work 'Expanded Photography' in Dissonant Laws exhibition at The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR, opening Friday 20th March, runs to June 1st, Mon-Fri 08:30-18:00. Opening Event info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-climate-...
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A CLIMATE OF DISSONANCE & REINVENTION - Exhibition Opening + Film Screening
An exhibition + film screening on the climate of disagreement with the status quo - when breaking the law becomes necessary for survival.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Exhibition of late acquaintance Mark O'Knee's cards, a follow on from Time Space Transmat mobile-only works www.polygonpalm.com/timespacetra... opening 20th March 6pm at 'Under Gallery' 18 East Street, Plymouth, Cornwall, PL1 3NU, 'U'K. Runs 20.03.26 – 30.04.26 Wed-Sat, 12:00-16:00, 21st-28th March.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Most would agree. The question though is how. That surely requires looking back and understanding why the astonishing emancipatory movements in the 20th century eventually failed: good intentions too paved a read to hell. If another attempt is to be made it would be useful to learn from the past.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ha ha
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Piece 'Expanded Photography' currently in exhibition 'All Dressed up and Nowhere to Show' at Gallery Dodo, or is it Dodo Gallery?
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Doing this tomorrow www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/medi...
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System Interference (Artist’s talk)
Appropriation, ‘mild hacking’, clowning dispositions and strategic misuse draw out the politico-aesthetic dimensions of everyday systems.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Martin Parr
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijji...
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The 2nd After AI Symposium 2025 - Session 2
YouTube video by Shifting Power AI - Knowledge Media Institute
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
2025.betafestival.ie/conferences/...
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Beta Festival 2025
The Beta Festival 2025 catalogue showcasing and archiving all exhibitions, events, and conferences which will be on as part of this years festival.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Micheál O'Connell presented ‘Artificial Stupidity and Resistance After AI: the Need to be Misunderstood?’ at the ‘After AI’ Symposium, an interdisciplinary discussion on Artificial Intelligence, on 17th October 2025: afteraisymposium.com/symposium-pr...
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Symposium Program 2025
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
That's right. There were some hitches but overall it went fine.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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MOCKSIM work: Immersive Interactive Installation
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Exhibition Title: Giphy Gallery (2025) www.mocksim.org/shows/giphy_...
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Event Title: Action in Art/Law - Praxis Belfast (2024) www.mocksim.org/shows/praxis...
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