Author: benlingardstudio
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How did we get here? (part 2)
This post picks up from where I left off here. I had decided to do a bit of experimenting with generative AI but didn’t really know where to start. I spoke to somebody that I know has used Midjourney but they made it sound very complicated and I was, frankly baffled by the idea that you…
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Competing Ontologies
As I write my Study Statement, I am becoming increasingly aware of the need to set some boundaries on my research. Jonathan made the point yesterday that this is not a huge piece of writing, saying ‘you are artists’ and this was a helpful calibration. I am not trying to write a PhD; this is…
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GPUs
I have recently become a bit obsessed with GPUs. I have been making paintings of imagined data centres for a while now without giving much thought to what is inside the real things. In my exhibition, data centres serve as a recurring motif which, according to the accompanying text that I wrote (but which now…
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Tutorial #2
23/01/26 Tutorial with Jonathan Things discussed: Next steps:
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Begin Again
So, I need to get better at making entries to this journal. At the end of today’s group meeting, we did 5 minutes of continuous writing, and I am using what I wrote there as the basis for this entry. I think that the problem that I have created with this journal is that I…
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End of term
On the train home after the last day of teaching for this year. Phew! I am getting to the point with the exhibition preparation where I am beginning to reflect on how it has gone. I have a pile of paintings that are coming to a finish, and I can start to see how the…
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Some thoughts
January (and therefore the exhibition) suddenly feels very close. I have been doing a lot of extra teaching this term. I am grateful for the money as I have tuition fees to pay but am also conscious that it is eating into the time that I had allocated to making the exhibition work. I worked…
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Something New
I am already finding the process of writing this journal helpful although I need to get more diligent with actually doing the writing. I am sat on a train looking at my blog and yet again I am shocked that it is more than a week since my last post. I am not always the…
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Tutorial #1
29/10/25 Tutorial with Jonathan Things discussed: Next Steps:
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How did we get here? (part 1)
I think that I need to go back to go forward with this journal. I am going to write a post (or more likely two or three) reviewing what I have been up to over the last few months. I am conscious that in moments like the present where I have a lot going on,…
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