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.".

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Action in ART/LAW - Praxis, Participation and Collaboration

The Art/Law Network invites you to our workshop in Belfast, taking place on 18 July, on the theme of ‘Action in ART/LAW’ and ways artists, l

Micheál O'Connell MOCKSIM on Instagram: "Team Mocksim are excited to announce we have been working with a new client, none other than Ireland’s RURAL INDAPPENDIX group of TDs and Councillors, on both their branding and their manifesto. Specialists from Cork City's cosmopolitan suburb Blarney were given free reign with the latter! The politicians themselves care not what we come up with, so long as it looks, feels, and sounds #RURAL to an imagined, or at least quickly dying-off (no disrespect intended), constituency. Innovative to the bone, our strategy has been to adopt existing demands and take them to their natural, logical conclusion. Commitment no. 1 then will be to dig up every remaining sod of turf in Ireland outside of Offaly and transport it to that Faithful midlands county. The rural representatives, accustomed to driving everywhere, could do with the exercise, and so, in what would also be a massive propaganda coup, good, often black, turf will be moved manually by the Rural Indappendix TDs themselves. Rather than employ real donkeys, each (strong, wealthy, and well-fed) rural TD will be harnessed to an old turf cart. Instead of canvassing before the next general election, our agri-heroes will pull the loads of peat from their own constituencies to the borders of Offaly, travelling by backroad and motorway alike. Triggered by extreme left-wing of the movement MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s comment, “It would tear our hearts out if we had to stop cutting turf – no more than asking a book reader to use a Kindle; some things are hard to let go of,” special plans for Offaly have been drawn up. Co. Offaly - wait for it - will be given a new lease of life as an enormous open-air health spa and addiction recovery clinic combination. Here consumption of the harmless drug Cannabis will not only be made legal, but compulsory, with exemptions for golfers. Golf is already a painfully slow game, and it is felt that marijuana smoking could distract and bring things to a grinding halt. #turbary #tubridy #TCCA #CessationofTurfCuttingCompensationScheme #ACRES #ShaneLowry #cantbebothered #maybenotmyprerogativebut #physicsdoesntcare #climatebreakdown #yourmother #yourchildren"

10 likes, 0 comments - Micheál O'Connell MOCKSIM (@mocksim) on Instagram: "Team Mocksim are excited to announce we have been working with a new client, none other than Irel..."