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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim

@mocksim.bsky.social
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Tech-artist. Much spillage here. Selective posts on exhibitions, new work & events: bsky.app/profile/mocksim-latest.bsk… Site: mocksim.org .

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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Site of first oil well, 1846
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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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 · 01/09/2026
Where's the Algorithm? From 12th October. www.instagram.com/p/DcuLjKAjKfW/
Instagram post depicting billboard art poster installation.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Painting to support. Brilliant: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Ref, I barely brushed him! The artist who’s painted all of Roy Keane’s red cards
Before he was an irascible TV pundit, the Irish midfielder was equally feared on the pitch. Irish painter Seánie Harte has documented all the times Keane was sent off playing for Manchester United. ‘I...
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
O'Connell sisters featuring!
Photos from races at Ballydehob in The Southern Star newspaper.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
de-Parton
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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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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Mighty fine work by one of Ireland’s most important artists (and art educators), Peter Morgan, at Lavit Gallery, seen recently. A catalogue and transcribed interview (of himself by himself) to go with it. Referencing Craig-Martin too. lavitgallery.com/exhibition/b...
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Banquet & On Being An Artist, Or, Another Oak Tree - Lavit Gallery
Outer vault: BANQUET, 1995–2026 “Thirty years ago we planted native trees, small whips about 25cm high. Today some of these […]
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Three headlines connected
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Doctor Noël Browne
Text about Dr. Noel Browne who eradicated TB in Ireland.Noël Browne portrait by Robert Ballagh.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
November 4th 2010, The Argus, Brighton, UK
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Duchamp, on the danger of repeating (1961): I... DECIDED TO LIMIT THE PRODUCTION OF 'READYMADES' TO A SMALL NUMBER YEARLY. I WAS AWARE AT THAT TIME, THAT FOR THE SPECTATOR EVEN MORE THAN FOR THE ARTIST, ART IS A HABIT FORMING DRUG AND I WANTED TO PROTECT MY 'READYMADES' AGAINST SUCH CONTAMINATION.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Instead of all that modular synth nonsense, Paddy Steer1q
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Later at Connolly's of Leap, Paddy Steer youtube.com/watch?v=r5n-...
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Paddy Steer - Bifurcation Arrows [The Sessions of March 2016]
YouTube video by The Sessions of March
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Follow this one instead or as well: bsky.app/profile/mock...
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A talk yesterday at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Panel waiting to discuss Margaret Boden's legacy.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I found this, published in 1968, in my father's book collection. Kay, H., Dodd, B. and Sime, M. (1968) Teaching machines and programmed instruction. London: Penguin Books.
1968 book cover
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Just heard that Camila Cañeque had passed! Sad news. www.instagram.com/p/DaZ2PpXDUZ4
Camila Cañeque
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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
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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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Butterfingers 💪🇨🇦 @trikebum.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This article and the comments seem ignorant of the fact that Ontario is upgrading ebike regulations. 1/2 www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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Martin Regg Cohn: Bike lanes are no place for high-powered electric two-wheelers
If you’re in a bike lane, you should be pedalling, Martin Regg Cohn writes.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Is it like those people who reenact historical battles as so on? www.ft.com/content/b3a5...
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Why young artists are painting like old masters
A new generation has embraced the exquisite pigments and brushwork of Caravaggio and Rembrandt
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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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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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The phenomenal and darkly amusing Distant Animals in action last night @difficultart.bsky.social
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
All the big hitters, the likes of David Bate, Julia Peck, Liz Wells, Teemu Hupli, Tiffany Fairey, Michael Pritchard, Heather Diack, Veera Ojala, Nilupa Yasminat, and more Photography Ethics Symposium at Queens University Belfast on 3rd and 4th June www.belfastphotofestival.com/events-2026/...
David Bate and Julia Peck from Photographies Journal open a Photo Ethics Symposium at Queens University, Belfast
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
ABC Artists' Books Cooperative at Paris Ass bookfair
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Mightily impressive work seen over a few days, by students graduating from @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social
Betty O'Connell-Rogers' installation with visitors
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For the trip
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Betty O'Connell-Rogers' 'Current thoughts': 'Am currently studying Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art. My degree show is coming up. I recently finished writing my dissertation titled, "Weak Minds Discuss People" Reframing Gossip as Necessity' >28 May: gsaexhibitions.co.uk/exhibition/d...
screengrab, Getty, images relating to gossip
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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Join us for two days of creative discussion, exploration and imagination.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A few rough snaps from fantastic day of sightings of work on Sherkin Island from BAVA students connected with TU Dublin and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre where the work is now on display having been shipped over.
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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 · 19/05/2026
A forgotten classic, and hugely important, algorithm, youtu.be/PEssgMQ1O_k?l
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Safe Cross Code
YouTube video by dinadangdong
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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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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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 · 17/05/2026
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A well
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Two Tone Club - Talk About Love - (Turn Off)
YouTube video by Two Tone Club Official
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Basil al-Rawi's exhibition at The Lord Mayor's Pavilion, Cork City = affecting and superbly executed.
Basil al-Rawi's installation with VR headset.
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Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell @mocksim-latest.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Where's the Algorithm? Coming up, 12 October to 19 December 2026, at Uillinn:West Cork Arts Centre: westcorkartscentre.com/event/michea...
Installation of 'Have a great time. Cool! Grand.' (2019), Digital, Typography and photo composite on corrugated plastic, 244 x 366 cm. Installed Skibbereen. Photo credit: John Halpin
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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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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A history of 'The Jazz' in Ballydehob.
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Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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In Our Time - Cybernetics - BBC Sounds
The origins and lasting influences of the study of communication in animals and machines.
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