The challenges of windfall funding
This US research featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review about the experience of organisations receiving large, unexpected funding uplifts raised some interesting questions for Susan around the recent experience of the CRF and CJRS programmes here.
Playing with fire – ChatGPT
‘Most people (including me) believed that the next versions of these and other AI applications and tools would be incremental improvements. We were very, very wrong
Stop calling everything AI
Dawn has a particular interest in this area and has been using machine learning in her creative practice for several years. One of the key issues is around terminology and a very definite need for digital literacy. These are very complex issues and Dawn doesn’t hold with the binary of technological utopia or dystopia. Although written a couple of years ago this piece sets out some useful points.
“People are getting confused about the meaning of AI in discussions of technology trends—that there is some kind of intelligent thought in computers that is responsible for the progress and which is competing with humans,” he says. “We don’t have that, but people are talking as if we do.”
Creative Menopause
Good to see a growing number of projects around the menopause incorporating creativity.
The Menopause Messages project took place at the Whitworth Art Gallery during summer 2022. The project formed a research element to the broader ‘Creative responses to the Menopause’ Age Friendly programme at the gallery.
Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
A great feature from an old favourite source.
This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both.
Photo London Talks and Workshops
Good grief it’s that time of year again, the Photo London talks have just bee released. Something for all the photography enthusiasts.