I have been awarded a one-year studio residency at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland, where I'll be developing new work about the role of technology in rural places.

https://www.thedock.ie/artists/shane-finan-and-jack-collum

#art #artNews #criticalTechnology

Questioning the AI Hype Cycle

Not all AI conversations need urgency or fear.

Jocelyn Burnham invites people to slow down, question assumptions, and engage with AI in ways that reflect their own values.

This episode looks at AI beyond hype—focusing on agency, creativity, and how people in arts and culture can shape their own relationship with emerging technologies.

🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/s3MkT8fCpgw

#Podcast #AIethics #CriticalTechnology #ArtsAndCulture #HumanValues

Another Infrastructure (AI): 2026 #art & #criticalTechnology project by new ensemble Drop Table.

Six artists will work with the community in Clondalkin, south Dublin, to create work about the environmental, social and political impact of data infrastructure. Clondalkin is home to two large data centres and their associated infrastructure.

The project artists are me, Dasha Ilina @dasha Paul O'Neill @aswemaysink , Living Rhythms, Alisha Doody, Amy Bunce & Cían Flynn.

https://www.incontext.ie/projects/in-context-5-strand-2-commissions/another-infrastructure-ai

ASPI Australia's Critical Technology Tracker

Interesting website that allows you to compare pairs of countries in different critical technology areas.

The example at the weblink compares US vs. Russia in machine learning.

https://techtracker.aspi.org.au/tech/machine-learning/historical-performance/?c1=us&c2=ru

#ML #machineLearning #ASPI #criticalTechnology #AI

Thinking about remembering & forgetting in machine mediated conversations.

Reanbar is here... [Twice, again] conversation with a written character based on their contextual knowledge within a canonical text.

https://andrewburrell.net/blog/reanbar-is-here

#electronicLiterature #generativeArt #designResearch #digitalhumanities #practiceBasedResearch #largeLanguageModel #ml #machineLearning #criticalTechnology