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Workplanning
Completing the Unit 1 Assessment has made me give some serious thought to how I am managing both my workload and the journal. I suspect that both could be better. I am going to try an experiment for the next couple of months. I will post a weekly workplan to the journal on Sunday evening/…
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Iterative printmaking
I haven’t had time to do any printmaking since early in term 1 as making the paintings for my exhibition took up all of my time. I went to the print making space for the first time in a couple of months this week and was pleasantly surprised by what I found. I had started…
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An interview, twice
This week I was asked to do a short interview with the organiser of my exhibition to use for publicity. We had a chat and not entirely seriously, we thought that it might be quite interesting to see what would happen if we asked ChatGPT to give the interview as me. We uploaded this blurb…
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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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