Extreme Noticing under Lockdown

Video presentation of art-walking in Stirchley during the pandemic, for 4WCoP.

September 2020 - online

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Video presentation for the 4th World Congress on Psychogeography 2020 by myself with Fiona Cullinan and Andy Howlett, the founder members of Walkspace.

Walkspace archive page, with video of the subsequent panel discussion.

Talks I've given, mostly in rooms:

Extreme Noticing under Lockdown: Video presentation of art-walking in Stirchley during the pandemic, for 4WCoP. (2020)

1972 v0.1: A first stab at figuring some stuff out. (2019)

Crit Club for Black Hole Club: A review of my art journey to this date, presented to my peers. (2018)

Stirchley Salon: A meetup for artists and makers to present their work to peers. (2018)

Dead Shrines: A camera obscura sculpture in Stirchley Park. (2018)

Instructions for Humans: A Cargo Cult for Artificial Intelligence - artworks exploring human interactions with machines. (2017)

Developed in Birmingham: A camera obscura studio in Birmingham Museum and a Speculative Cameras workshop. (2017)

APHE Human Interfaces conference: I spoke at the Academic Photography in Higher Education conference (2017)

The Delightful Impossibility of Cityscapes: A lecture to the Kings Norton Photography Society on how to document a city in curious ways. (2017)

Experimental Capture workshop for BOM: Sharing knowledge on weird cameras at Art & Tech Social. (2017)

Making it Matter at Random String: An unstructured talk about making politically aware art. (2016)

Speculative Cameras at BOM: Fellowship research project into what cameras could be. (2016)

Live Sonification of Photography: Lecture and Performance of a system for turning photos into sound. (2014)

Typologies of Hypernetworked Vernacular Self-Portraiture: A video essay about selfies. (2014)

Birmingham Zine Festival 2010 Talk: I spoke about The Emergence of the British Small Press Comics Scene in the Early 1980s to an audience of zine enthusiasts. (2010)

A Few Of My Favourite Things - Ikon talk: A talk given at the Ikon gallery as part of their series. (2010)

The 8-Bit Pete Lectures: A talk given at a videogame movie night run by Flatpack Film Festival (2010)

Next art:

Coronavirus Press Conferences

February 2021: A book of focus-stacked images of the 89 press briefings from No 10 Downing Street in 2020.

Previous art:

Boris Johnson speeches

May 2020: Merging Boris Johnson's pandemic addresses to the nation.