I hope you value both my physical effort in typing on these computer keys, and also the knowledge and thinking power I am bringing to the page (ChatGPT or other large language learning models have had only a small part in this process). I am not encouraging the machine to take over my job as writer or curator, and I like working as it gives me a chance to process the world, while work gives us a sense of purpose.

Torrential rain & flooding, Britains first 'Extreme Weather Event' with a week in the mid 30's gives me mixed feelings on the launch of this new work - I hope CES not to be the harbinger of doom, but wondering on what a follow up vehicle might look like and what its function might be ? Opening a deeper set of questions on remedies, creating policy change and personal behaviour as we watch the world catch fire and severe flooding in Germany less than a week ago. What are the

Originally published in Wild Times (Doncaster DNA - and since writing (post covid-19) started a new project #BirdsongOnthePlanetoftheApes) William Ruskin (1819-1900), thinker, critic and artist urges us to make sense of our environment, by directly by observing every detail, being in and studying nature (some of which took place on his walks in Yorkshire). Artists across time have layered observation, curiosity, material exploitation and imagination, to explore our place

ReROOTed was a two-day live and media arts takeover of Humber Street Gallery, which took place from 24–26 March 2017.

Ulf Langheinrich is one of my top favourite all-time artists. MADE UP Festival, part of the Liverpool Biennial 2008 (52:24) Ulf is someone I've chosen to work with over an extended period of time - and he's become my friend - which doesn't always happen when you work with artists. You enter some kind of contract, which usually comes around a shared interest - that's what makes it interesting...

At the dawn of the second quantum revolution, when quantum computers are set to transform our data-driven world it is interesting to consider some artistic interpretations of Einstein’s withering riposte: ‘Spooky Action At A Distance’ in his battle with physicist Niels Bohr over the completeness of quantum mechanics.

Artists across time have layered observation, curiosity, material exploitation and imagination, to explore our place in the world and find meaning. We look at nature, and the nature of ourselves.

I am on a train returning from the preview of ‘Build Your Own; Tools for Sharing’, an exhibition co-produced between, Norwich Museum and Art Gallery, The Crafts Council and FACT, 2015. Artists, designers and architects: Linda Brothwell, Will Shannon with Assemble made works and documentation of actions that created physical change in the public domain and in Assembles’ case local inhabitants of Toxteth to be directly involved in the re-processing of their previous homes into