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Posts by Leon Butler

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Alternative Frontiers Alternative Frontiers

The excellent Stochastic Labs is offering summer residencies in the Bay Area for artists investigating AI creative tools, new futures of sound and graphics, and tangible and material interfaces. Apply now! stochasticlabs.org/alternative-...

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Thinking about CGI and all that stuff, here’s a clip of Anchors Aweigh! from 1945 that is another highpoint in visual effects.

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Why the radical right loves #generativeAI and how Midjourney & Co. are shaping the aesthetics of contemporary #digitalfascism. "Technology is not a politically neutral tool. As a nostalgia machine and stereotype amplifier, it lends itself to the creation of right-wing world views."

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Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens Participants for 2025–26 receive a monthly artist’s fee of €1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work.

Onassis AiR Invites Applications for Residencies and Fellowships in Athens. Participants for 2025–26 receive a monthly artist’s fee of €1,300, a research budget, housing, round-trip travel, and other resources to support their work hyperallergic.com/986076/onass...

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Really nice. I’ve seen them used a lot in European countries. Do you have a website?

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Are you going to do a Mac build?

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NASA (1965) "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labour"

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Little exploration of noise and audio reactive feedback loops with @touchdesigner.bsky.social

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Brilliant, who makes the robot arm?

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The M.O. Podcast Episode 29: Barry Threw, Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Podcast Episode · The M.O. Podcast · 21/01/2025 · 1h 9m

Really interesting listen the M.O. podcast with @barrythrew.com from @grayarea.org podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

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Sharing our Spring classes at SFPC here!

This season we’re expanding the command line not as the opaque workhorse of computing, but as a stage for poetic subversion, where code emerges as art to explore how technologies of control can become instruments of liberation

∗ Apply by Feb 2 at sfpc.study

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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data

Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.

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I spoke a little on a panel about AI futures, and touched on some of my work at Beta Festival this November.

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The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival

Recorded live at Beta Festival ‘24 in Dublin’s Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together Noam Young-Rak Son, Joanna Walsh and Leon Butler to help chart recent shifts at the intersection of art, design and AI.

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The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979.

www.epi.org/productivity...

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Open Call Photo showing Natalia Rivera, Jung Hsu and Adetola Eyimofe Jerry-Adesewo, Credit: tom mesic 2025 Open Call The Prix Ars Electronica is the world’s most time-honored media arts competition. Winners are...

The Ars Electronica Prix is open for entries until march. ars.electronica.art/prix/en/open...

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Support CAN in 2025 Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge —— with your support!

Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍

Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/

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Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super: The World’s Most Affordable Generative AI Computer
Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super: The World’s Most Affordable Generative AI Computer YouTube video by NVIDIA

This looks really impressive from @nvidiastudio.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9L2... at $249 dollars.

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Hybrid Realities Lab 2 Overview - Six Minutes Past Nine Hybrid Realities :Lab - Structure (2025) **All synchronous sessions will take place at 12PM EST/5PM GMT/6PM CET unless otherwise noted** PART 1: ORIENTING YOUR

HRL 2 is an intensive 9 week virtual studio and development program running from 13th March to 8th May 2025. sixminutespastnine.com/hybrid-reali...

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newhandlab | Facebook | Linktree Linktree. Make your link do more.

Another media arts residency call by New Hand Lab in Portugal: tr.ee/a54cXXY_Dc

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A+E Lab invites applications for early-to-mid career digital artists/collectives with creative souls and innovative minds who embrace digital tools and are always pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo.

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OPEN CALL - ART X TECH Artist in Residency – A+E Lab

OPEN CALL – ART X TECH Artist in Residency aelab.uk/event/open-c...

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Bold Portfolio | Figma

I made a @figma.com portfolio template based on one my students supplied and asked to to emulate for them to build on. Free to download in the Figam community: www.figma.com/community/fi...

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See Blender 4.3's Custom Clay Pencil In Action Daniel Martínez Lara plans to release the tool by the end of next week.

Another cool Blender tool: "Real-Time #3D #Character Creation With Blender's Clay Pencil... fantastic setup by Daniel Martínez Lara, demonstrating the capabilities of Blender 4.3's updated Grease Pencil with Geometry Nodes support, turning 2D into claymation-style 3D" #b3d
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If you're looking to learn Game AI, I published a course which covers both theory and practice. 🤖🎮

From Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks, including two coding assignments and eight C#/Unity libraries free for your projects! 📦

Oh, and it's 50% off for Black Friday! 🖤🛒🛍️

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Capabilities Deck 2025 | Figma

I've posted a free capabilities deck template to the Figma community based on the lovely Hello Muller deck. www.figma.com/community/fi...

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That would be very cool.

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Controlling multiple LED arrays from Touchdesigner to DMX to addressable LEDs.

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Associate or Full Professor of Art & Data in UCLA Department of Design Media Arts University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

Great roles as an Associate or Full Professor of Art & Data in UCLA Department of Design Media Arts recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10038

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