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Oct 9, 2021 • 10 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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1/10 Back home after a full #Coventry week. Read on to see what we found #MovingOurFutures #OurFutureMoves #CovMotoFest - @CovMotoFest @CraigoAshley @TweetSherrie @MattChinnArt - as city of culture 2021, Coventry is thinking about its future with some brilliant people...
2/10 The first thing to say is that #Coventry has some brilliant artists, people able to challenge, design & make new work. In the artist lab we explored the city - it's not all concrete - it has a canal, green areas & 5g (not everywhere)...
3/10 Here are Sunil, Colin & Sabine. What's really impressive is their openness to share ideas & be honest about successes & failures. Sabine taught us about Coventry's history & its history of promoting peace. In the room, artists, academics & civic officers. @Jonestheregen
4/10 Here is James Noble @CovMotoFest - someone dedicated to connecting & making things happen. He's not just a petrol head, he wants to open up the debate about a post-carbon city & #Coventry has all the people to do this. Of course, there's the ring road...@aohereng
5/10 We tasked the artists with thinking about future travel & city use. @MattChinnArt compared Cov's ring road to Saturn. @DionEllisTaylor made some new work about the re-use of the road with @anatomyofasmile & #MaryScott taking ideas further...@markjtimms surprised me...
6/10 The lab was about crossing boundaries & Chantelle Boyle made a film about being a horse on the 12x bus, with myself @viralinfo as the grumpy H&S officer. We had laughs & the kindness of strangers - thank you to the man who gave us £4 bus fare at the rail station...
7/10 @SKBansa99969929 developed some new design work for public realm & automotive application. We visited the amazing National Transport Design Centre & met the inspiring Prof Paul Herriots @covcampus ...VR, clay & the best video wall in town! Rupert Mitchell played nicely.
8/10 Laura Jaunzems introduced us to the Bollards of Coventry, considering the textures & furniture of the changing city @chenineb. She talked about how young artists need a gig & some time to think. (Plus us older artists too!)...@TweetSherrie stunned with a top film...
9/10 And I had the good fortune to be in the Prem Inn in #Cov - this man inspired the end of the week. Each day cleaning the trash & drains. Then in search of art materials, a quiet moment with an @GreggVegan sausage roll...
10/10 With necessary thanks to Kat & Sophie for top work on the mission. I am knackered but thankful to @ace_midlands for giving us the loot. Plus some moments to be IRL with old friends...oh, stop it...etc #Coventry !!! We love you. @Coventry2021

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Nov 4, 2021
1/5 Thatcher/Johnson downfall - first you need a 'heavyweight' Tory to turn against you. In this case the candidate is Theresa May...
2/5 Secondly, you need a major policy divide. In Thatcher's case it was the Poll Tax. Riots followed. In Johnson's case it's 'Levelling Up'. Soon people will see that it is only Tory constituency Levelling Up, not the rest of The North.
3/5 Plotting & insurrection are how Tory PMs are removed. A caucus gathers, WhatsApp group shapes up, hardliners sense pay back time. Knives out, but where are they? Thatcher was famously undermined by Geoffrey's Howe's pro-European speech. Johnson's downfall is of his own making
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Oct 21, 2021
1/10 An aberration. Night Mail (for Sean Bonney) after WH Auden.

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the chaos and the civil disorder,
Packages for the rich, letters for the poor,
The Amazon Prime held for the woman next door.
2/10 Pulling up Lives, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her, but her UC’s declined.
Past abandoned shops and moorland boulder
Neglected towns are left to moulder,
Snorting speedballs as she passes
Silent miles of skunky grasses.
3/10 Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Glazed over citizens sleep with cockroaches.
Sheep-dogs abandoned upon the hills;
Animals force fed with pre-death pills.
In the farm the beasts stand unaware,
As there’s no-one left to really care .
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Oct 11, 2021
LEVELLING UP
It might be a space to do ’take downs’ on Laura K but I’m not going to do that. Let’s have some facts and journalism instead. If you’re interested in ‘levelling up’
or think it’s just another empty bluster mantra then read on...#levellingup #ToryBritain - DB5 dash.
GENERATIONAL
Property wealth is held by Boomers. They mostly protect their wealth, vote Conservative & pass on to their children. There is no indicator through taxation that @conservatives will level this up. Younger people 30-40 still live with their parents.
REGULATORY
UK streets have been decimated by giants like Amazon. Plenty of flim flam about new (low) paid jobs though. BBC source: Amazon pays £492m in UK tax on sales of £20.6bn. There is no levelling up framework assessing fair competition for UK shops in relation to Amazon.
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Oct 2, 2021
1/10 This is the story of The Machine Stops by EM Forster, written in 1909. It's also the story of #AI #Brexit & #China. You could be a theatre director looking for a gig, an academic researching the future of #AI or a citizen of #China ...read on...
2/10 The Machine Stops tells the story of Vashti and Kuno (her son) who live in standard rooms with The Machine providing everything through screens that deal in 'second hand' information. Vashti does not like the idea of travelling & trusts the omnipotent machine for everything.
3/10 Kuno is more rebellious; he has heard of people living above ground on the earth. He persuades Vashti to visit him IRL & she does. He tells her he doesn't like the confines of The Machine & that he has visited the surface. The Machine disapproves of 'unmechanical' behaviour.
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Oct 2, 2021
1/10 #MentalHealthMatters - read on if you are interested in arts & mental health. This is a practical guide that talks about the impact of the pandemic @ace_national @HENLEYDARREN @DCMS - we @closeandremote have spent the last 18 months responding to the situation.
2/10 #MentalHealthMatters - March 2020 all of our work was cancelled @closeandremote - along with other artists we were in trouble. With digital & painting skills we reinvented our workflow, not overnight but by trying things out. Zoom went from novel to necessary...
3/10 We quickly realised that people struggling with mental health did not want to spend time online. It needed a different approach. With @2NQLondon #ArtSchoolinaBox was developed. It's a very simple idea - you get an art workbook & all the materials in a box, with some tea bags
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Sep 18, 2021
1/10 This is a knowledge dump about mobile #AR #opensource #XR etc. To get this look at mutiny.org.uk/portfolio/elea…
1 The state of #AR for public works often focusses on images
2 More interesting experiences (walking) focus on spatial audio
3 Building in web has limits, but pays off
2/10
4 The client will want exact tracking of 3d spatial #AR objects
5 GPS variability across devices won't allow exact tracking
6 Open source strategies introduce adaptability & immediate testing on site
7 App stores are dead ends for dead apps (18 month cycle) @closeandremote
3/10
8 The sweet spot for 'locative' media is integration of the senses, in Eleanor as you walk along the River Wensum the boats & oars are panned left @SandyNuttgens
9 Sound design for software is a potential growth area, it needs people who get software & sound
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