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.

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

Time & Motion: Materialism & New Media by Mike Stubbs

We are going talk mainly about your own artistic practice and your curatorial work. In particular, it will be in relation to the 1970s and 1980s but we will also look at your subsequent career as well.