Author: KB
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Write Diaries. Use Paper. Make Back Ups
I thought this ‘skeet’ was interesting: Please remember to keep diaries, use ink & paper, they will not believe the 2020's unless we unite in poems, letters, written testimony corroborating it was what it was & we saw what we saw. The past won't believe we repeat it. The future won’t believe we endured. The…
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Break
I took one. Over a month since I last posted on the blog. Some stuff happened, but all good. I wasn’t the one who needed it, but please learn CPR, because you never know. Also, taking a break is fine. Content creation… updating socials… you really don’t have to. So, sometimes, don’t. And don’t worry.…
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On keeping hope alive: living symbolically in a many-bodied world
Shared by a colleague a few days ago, and been on my mind since. Not sure if I fully buy the first part… but the Right definitely do, and – given that – it feels important that the rest of us make sure that the ground of ideas is kept fertile and well-sown with good…
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Frictionless: why free-flows of information are not doing us any good
“Recruitment… it’s just totally broken” This week I was at an event in Bournemouth visiting the excellent Spear project there, and the collaboration they were doing with a job agency, Pollen. One of the young people on the panel that formed part of the event is an advisor in a job centre, and she, and…
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Supporting creative futures in arts, culture and AI…
Was great to chair this panel at the British Library as part of the official AI Fringe a couple of weeks ago. The panel featured ex-Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Thangham Debbonaire, who will shortly be joining the House of Lords, alongside: Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead, Serpentine GalleriesSuhair Khan, Founder…
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The Portrait of the Artist as… a Canary in a Coal Mine
A privilege today to chair a fantastic panel at the AI Fringe event at the British Library in London, mirroring the AI Action Summit going on in Paris. I was there both in my work role – helping lead the CREAATIF project along with the Turing Institute and Queen Mary University that’s been investigating how…