Author Archives: Rejected Short Stories

Abstraction Addressing a series of animation experiments undertaken as part of a Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Bursary, this paper speculates upon the meaning of the gif in an age of AI driven reductionism. Medieval marginalia, the essay argues, can support an urgently needed political possibility for the gif, via questioning linear media trajectories and discontinuities,Continue reading “Ceaseless intertextual flux: re-animating images and words from Medieval margins to the animated gif”

This bursary is an opportunity to invite people to engage with medieval and contemporary visual cultures via arts practice so that we learn something new about our diverse understandings of intelligence (and its perceived absence) and it’s long standing relationship to wider historical, animal and material forces. As a starting point I started to createContinue reading “Medieval Ideas Creative Laboratory Artist’s Bursary”

In the week of March 20th 2023 myself and a shifting ensemble of colleagues and students, Dr Dylan Yamada-Rice, Jing Wang Thomas, James Edward Marks, Andy Cheung and Jiahe Lin, took part in an online performance called ‘Monstrous’, as part of the Mozilla Festival (MozFest), 2023. Throughout the festival dozens of participants came to theContinue reading “Between immersion and alienation, magic and realism: co-devising alternative approaches to critical storytelling for Monstrous”

Animating resources for intergalactic justice, an X||Dinary Stories workshop at Space2 Gipton, June, 2023, something rumbles in the fields behind the old fire station as vast engines fire up, engineers rush around to make their final adjustments. A rocket is about to be launched, on board the ship 12 billionaires are hoping to experience theContinue reading “The Gipton Space Agency:”

Arts Based VR/XR approaches to media research with children Dr Eleanor Dare BBC story about the project :https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/xrstories/ A few weeks ago, while teaching Games Design at UCL, I invited undergraduates to create origami swans, this was part of an exercise exploring the so-called ‘Ikea Effect’. The Ikea Effect (Ariely, 2012) is the premise thatContinue reading “‘In the future we will make our own superheros’: Future of Broadcast, 2023”

Project Lead: Dr E.Dare Recognising the need for greater public understanding of how machine learning and other algorithms work, this project proposes to create a Mozilla Hubs and mixed reality AI themed amusement park,, designed for visitors to transparently experience machine learning algorithms and data processing mechanisms.  We are proposing to build a virtual funContinue reading “MozFest: AI-Musement Park”

     It wasn’t until I heard the news about that shark discovered on the New York Subway the other day that I began to  understand what’s been happening in my own life. Forget the detail about the shark having a cigarette in his mouth, a travel card and a can of red bull, blahdy blah,Continue reading “Fleet in Being”

Above and below, scenes from my Aardman Academy Stop Motion final project about a library assistant who reads and daydreams while at work. Below, Entangled Futures (image from Entangled Futures) Dylan Yamada-Rice and Eleanor Dare presented their work, ‘Accidents, games and jokes’Part of the Entangled Futures Festival 2024 collectionThis talk is part of the ‘EntangledContinue reading “Eleanor Dare: Some work”