The Cave ART Research Work in progress by antonyhall - November 18, 2025December 11, 20250 Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offers a metaphor for the limits of human perception. Plato describes a group of prisoners in a cave who know the outside world only through shadows projected on a wall in front of them. Similarly, LLMs don't learn about the world from direct experience, but from “shadows” in its training data: billions of sentences written by people, describing things, events, and our conversations about them. It is trained to predict the next word in those texts, not to build an accurate picture of reality. Jan Kulveit suggested that an LLM is like a ‘blind oracle in yet another cave, who only hears the prisoners conversations about what they see. I thought It would be interesting to simulate a version
Becoming Pond – A statement of intent Events / News Notes and writing Research Work in progress by antonyhall - November 16, 2025June 13, 20260 On Being Moss Over the past couple of years, I have been focusing on mosses. I learned a lot about moss, but to really understand it, I actually started embodying and reflecting moss-like behaviours in my working practice. I began to become like the moss. Thinking through moss affords a different way of practising and being in the world. I employed a 'methodology of moss' to guide my practice, a set of principles for eco-activist practice that draws parallels between the ecology of moss and eco-arts practice. The power of moss is in its smallness and its slow persistence. It's both interesting and challenging to align these principles with the fast-moving worlds of emerging technologies, new media and AI. Mosses, like artists,
Carbon Cloud Chat Notes and writing Research Work in progress by antonyhall - November 15, 2025November 16, 20250 https://carbon-cloud-chat-21c0d88f.base44.app As a thought experiment, I used AI to develop a carbon-aware AI chatbot that actively discourages the use of AI and guides users toward lower-carbon alternatives, or encourages them not to use the AI at all. I have been working on several modules related to UX and sustainability in the digital arts this year, and the ecological impact of AI is a key concern. This is a work in progress, and I will use this app as a point of discussion in my lectures. I am aware of the meta irony here: I used AI (Basse44, with one primary design prompt and 20 further iterations, plus a few hours of testing) to build an AI that advises people not to overuse AI. That
Co Lab Game Research Work in progress by antonyhall - November 14, 2025December 2, 20250 I creted this game using p5js.org for stundets, as a fun way of outlining the benifit of turning up to lessons, doing the work and avoiding over use of AI (However I did create this game with help of AI. This has been an enjoyable process, exploring basic game design through lots of play testing and code tweaks (Aproximatly 5 hours work so far)..
Text scramble effect Research Work in progress by antonyhall - November 13, 2025November 13, 20250 Some experiments with P5JS code. https://editor.p5js.org I wanted to create a poster for Dorkbot which had a glitch scramble effect...Alsoi tried to replicate slime mould type visulisations with words..Next step if to make these updateable from a google sheet so we can quickly update the info and presnet full screen for the dorkbot event.
Moss worlds ART Events / News by antonyhall - November 13, 2025November 13, 20250 MossWorlds: The Exhibition is now on! National Trust Castlefield Viaduct 22 Oct 2025 – 1 Feb 2026 Step into the lush, layered world of moss a quiet hero of Manchester’s past, present, and future. Through immersive art, music, poetry, and hands-on activities, MossWorlds re-stories moss as more than a plant: it’s resilience, intelligence, and wonder. From lowland bogs to railway embankments, community parks to viaduct gardens, moss has always been part of Manchester’s evolution See more info on exhibition here See more about the project here: https://mossworlds.co.uk/
Remember Nature 2025 (with Yu-Chen Wang) ART Events / News Work in progress by antonyhall - November 4, 2025November 4, 20250 I am taking part in Remember Nature 2025 Here is the information...I will be at hulme GHarden centre making Microprotests (see generator above built in p5js click to re-generate).... A Nationwide Day of Artist‑led Action to Stand Up for Nature NATURE REMEMBERED Communal Walk: 4 November 2025 (12.30–3pm)Meet at Manchester Art Gallery, Derek Jarman Pocket Park, M2 3JL.Tickets (Free) Gathering: 4 November 2025 (3–5pm)Hulme Community Garden Centre, M15 5RG.Tickets (Free)In 2015 artist Gustav Metzger called on art schools and students of all disciplines to “Remember Nature” and “make a stand against the ongoing erasure of species”. Tuesday 4 November 2025 marks a decade since that call, and partners across England are coming together, bringing ethics into aesthetics, for Remember Nature 2025. You can find out more about
Cryptogamic oracle v1 ART by antonyhall - November 4, 2025June 10, 20260 Cryptogamic Oracle is a practice-based research project exploring how walking, photography and app-based image compositing can support more-than-human attention in urban space. Developed through moss walks and ecological workshops, the project invites participants to notice cryptogamic life, mosses, lichens, algae and ferns, in relation to the technological and infrastructural systems that shape the city. Rather than treating moss as a sign of nature within the urban environment, the project approaches cryptogams as indicators of dampness, shade, leakage, repair, neglect, maintenance and material design. The app functions as an urban probe, asking participants to photograph organisms, surfaces and infrastructures before recomposing these images through an oracle-like interface. These readings do not provide answers, but generate prompts for reflection, relation and uncertainty.