Mocksim / Micheál O'Connell (@mocksim-latest.bsky.social)

Exhibitions, new work & events. Backstage: https://bsky.app/profile/mocksim.bsky.social Site: https://mocksim.org.

Micheál O'Connell MOCKSIM on Instagram: "As part of annual events run by The Irish Heritage Club of Seattle, I am doing two talks at The Armory, The Seattle Center, with a curated 'digital art display' to coincide: pieces by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah @this.isnowhere, Katie Nolan @katienolanart, Daniel Murray https://loom.cafe, and Elinor O'Donovan @elinorodonovan. Digital Art Display: Sat 15th March 12:00 - 6:00PM. Loft Room 1 Sun 16th March 10:00AM - 6:00PM. Loft Room 1 TO HELL WITH TRAD... Sat 15th & Sun 16th March 4:00 PM. Loft Room 1 ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY and a bit of history Sun 16th March 1:00 PM. Loft Room 2 Further details: Title, Talk 1: To Hell with Trad! Irish Digital and Tech Art Now 'Technology artist and researcher Micheál O’Connell, also known as Mocksim, provides a critical survey of Ireland’s contemporary digital art scene, situating it within the broader context of the nation’s rapid technological and economic transformation. Ireland’s emergence as a base for tech giants like Apple and Google has reshaped its landscape and identity to an extent, with terms like “server farm,” “wind farm” and “solar farm” reflecting a curious continuity with its agrarian past. As elsewhere, Irish and Ireland-based digital artists work across diverse practices – glitch art, generative design, speculative AI and VR – producing imaginative and sometimes provocative responses to these new realities. This talk considers whether and how such practices engage with deeper cultural, political and ethical implications. Some work, as philosopher of aesthetics John Roberts suggests, risks being too easily absorbed into the very technosystems that artists might claim to critique. Roberts’ concept of “unfitting” will be given some attention. The talk/lecture highlights the diversity of Irish digital art (a contested term in itself) and will be accompanied by the exhibition featuring selected works...' Title, Talk 2: Artificial Stupidity and the Overlooked History of Ireland’s ‘Tech Bros’, Sisters, and Disruptors. Thanks to @snoozersband and others for tips. @digitalhumanitiesucc @sussexunimah @uillinnwestcorkarts @artscouncilireland @ihcirish"

83 likes, 4 comments - mocksim on March 5, 2025: "As part of annual events run by The Irish Heritage Club of Seattle, I am doing two talks at The Armory, The Seattle Center, with a curated 'digital art display' to coincide: pieces by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah @this.isnowhere, Katie Nolan @katienolanart, Daniel Murray https://loom.cafe, and Elinor O'Donovan @elinorodonovan. Digital Art Display: Sat 15th March 12:00 - 6:00PM. Loft Room 1 Sun 16th March 10:00AM - 6:00PM. Loft Room 1 TO HELL WITH TRAD... Sat 15th & Sun 16th March 4:00 PM. Loft Room 1 ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY and a bit of history Sun 16th March 1:00 PM. Loft Room 2 Further details: Title, Talk 1: To Hell with Trad! Irish Digital and Tech Art Now 'Technology artist and researcher Micheál O’Connell, also known as Mocksim, provides a critical survey of Ireland’s contemporary digital art scene, situating it within the broader context of the nation’s rapid technological and economic transformation. Ireland’s emergence as a base for tech giants like Apple and Google has reshaped its landscape and identity to an extent, with terms like “server farm,” “wind farm” and “solar farm” reflecting a curious continuity with its agrarian past. As elsewhere, Irish and Ireland-based digital artists work across diverse practices – glitch art, generative design, speculative AI and VR – producing imaginative and sometimes provocative responses to these new realities. This talk considers whether and how such practices engage with deeper cultural, political and ethical implications. Some work, as philosopher of aesthetics John Roberts suggests, risks being too easily absorbed into the very technosystems that artists might claim to critique. Roberts’ concept of “unfitting” will be given some attention. The talk/lecture highlights the diversity of Irish digital art (a contested term in itself) and will be accompanied by the exhibition featuring selected works...' Title, Talk 2: Artificial Stupidity and the Overlooked History of Ireland’s ‘Tech Bros’, Sisters, and Disruptors. Thanks to @snoozersband and others for tips. @digitalhumanitiesucc @sussexunimah @uillinnwestcorkarts @artscouncilireland @ihcirish".

The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon on Instagram: "We were honoured to host delegations from arts councils and cultural institutions across Europe this week for the 2025 Nordic, Baltic, UK & Ireland Forum. We're grateful to be able to strengthen relationships with our European counterparts and thank delegates for sharing valuable perspectives and ideas. Organisations represented at the forum included: 🔹 Arts Council England @aceagrams 🔹 Creative Scotland @creativescots 🔹 Arts Promotion Centre Finland @taikegram 🔹 Council of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia @kultuurkapital 🔹 Rannís - The Icelandic Centre for Research @rannis_iceland 🔹 State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia 🔹 Lithuanian Council for Culture 🔹 Nordic Culture Point @nordiskkulturkontakt 🔹 Arts Council Northern Ireland @artscouncilni 🔹 Arts Council Norway @kulturdir 🔹 Swedish Arts Council @kulturradet.se 🔹 Wales Art International @waicymruwales 🔹 Arts Council Wales @celfcymruarts 🔹 Nordic Culture Fund @nordiskkulturfond 🔹 Culture Ireland @cultureireland Participating artist: Micheál O'Connell @mocksim 📷 : Conor Ó Mearáin / Mark Maxwell #AccessibilityDescription: A series of ten photographs at a conference setting. Some shots feature different speakers making presentations from a lectern, others show members of the audience and there are two posed photographs with the subjects looking directly to the camera and smiling."

183 likes, 3 comments - artscouncilireland on January 24, 2025: "We were honoured to host delegations from arts councils and cultural institutions across Europe this week for the 2025 Nordic, Baltic, UK & Ireland Forum. We're grateful to be able to strengthen relationships with our European counterparts and thank delegates for sharing valuable perspectives and ideas. Organisations represented at the forum included: 🔹 Arts Council England @aceagrams 🔹 Creative Scotland @creativescots 🔹 Arts Promotion Centre Finland @taikegram 🔹 Council of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia @kultuurkapital 🔹 Rannís - The Icelandic Centre for Research @rannis_iceland 🔹 State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia 🔹 Lithuanian Council for Culture 🔹 Nordic Culture Point @nordiskkulturkontakt 🔹 Arts Council Northern Ireland @artscouncilni 🔹 Arts Council Norway @kulturdir 🔹 Swedish Arts Council @kulturradet.se 🔹 Wales Art International @waicymruwales 🔹 Arts Council Wales @celfcymruarts 🔹 Nordic Culture Fund @nordiskkulturfond 🔹 Culture Ireland @cultureireland Participating artist: Micheál O'Connell @mocksim 📷 : Conor Ó Mearáin / Mark Maxwell #AccessibilityDescription: A series of ten photographs at a conference setting. Some shots feature different speakers making presentations from a lectern, others show members of the audience and there are two posed photographs with the subjects looking directly to the camera and smiling.".

Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim (@mocksim.bsky.social)

System Interference owrt. Much spillage here. Selective posts on exhibitions, new work & events: https://bsky.app/profile/mocksim-latest.bsky.social Site: https://mocksim.org .

Car Parked – The London Group

Micheál O'Connell MOCKSIM on Instagram: "'Fall II' After #BasJanAder Camera operator credit and bike lender Orin Green @orin949"

54 likes, 22 comments - mocksim on August 15, 2024: "'Fall II' After #BasJanAder Camera operator credit and bike lender Orin Green @orin949".

Breeze Blocks on a Pallet

Outside Working Artists Studios

Micheál O'Connell MOCKSIM on Instagram: "'The first blow against the monolithic accumulation of tradition… is to free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space and the look of the audience into dialectics, passionate detachment. There is no doubt that this destroys the satisfaction, pleasure and privilege of the ' invisible guest', and highlights how film has depended on voyeuristic active/passive mechanisms. Women, whose image has continually been stolen…’, Laura Mulvey, 1973"

3 likes, 0 comments - mocksim on July 13, 2024: "'The first blow against the monolithic accumulation of tradition… is to free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space and the look of the audience into dialectics, passionate detachment. There is no doubt that this destroys the satisfaction, pleasure and privilege of the ' invisible guest', and highlights how film has depended on voyeuristic active/passive mechanisms. Women, whose image has continually been stolen…’, Laura Mulvey, 1973".