“Capture your subconscious in ultra-low definition. Wake up, speak your dream aloud in any language, and watch it come to life as a dreamscape in the aesthetic of your choice.” https://modemworks.com/projects/dreamrecorder

"Websites can be resistance, aesthetic, technical and political. They can reflect our values, our histories, our futures. The platforms we choose, the code we write, the companies we support – it all carries political weight. There’s no neutral ground in how we build and inhabit digital spaces." https://www.protein.xyz/the-internet-has-borders/

Next Wednesday lunchtime Rob Eagle will hosting a *Meet the Technologists* event as part of *The Big Thing*, an annual gathering of the immersive art community, right here in Bradford.

Our meetup will be a space for artists to share with developers, creative technologists and fellow artists what they're working on and what kind collaborations they're seeking.

Join us for lunch at The Loading Bay on Wednesday 12th June, from 12:30 - 2pm.

https://sites.google.com/carbonimagineering.com/digitalartslab/meet-the-technologists-2025

#BDArtsLab

"…I’m thinking about the courage of the hungry, those waiting for the world to intervene so that they can one day watch those blue skies without fear of bombs falling. I’m thinking about how contagious that courage is among hearts that are open, how much they can hold when they do not beat alone." https://atmos.earth/the-palestine-sunbird-a-symbol-of-freedom/

“No signals in. No signals out. No WiFi. No cell service. No S-band emanations. No PrompNet. No Bluetooth. No nothing,” https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/dispatches/ai/faradays-cage-a-bar-and-grill/

"There are patterns of the world that repeat at scale—look at ferns, crowns of broccoli, look at the way water moves through deltas and the way blood moves through our bodies, look at our brains with their synapses like galaxies." https://atmos.earth/adrienne-maree-brown-we-are-earth/

"…from a paradigm of exploitation to one of coexistence and kinship. This requires a global awakening, a recognition of our interconnectedness with all living beings." https://atmos.earth/a-descendants-call-for-whale-legal-personhood/

"…the Nubbin allows you to enter a new world, where climate anxiety doesn’t exist." https://tckrsystems.tech

We're lurching from:

"The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed", to…

"Somehow, Palpatine returned", to…

"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes is in dispute."

"Every dollar that flows through Silicon Valley's toll booths is a policy failure." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-tech-heist-how-disruption-became-a-euphemism-for-theft/

“One thing I’m grateful for, and it’s a strength of my generation, is we weren’t promised anything… I was prepared to struggle.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html

"We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us." https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/03/25/shane-drinkwater-art/

“My data is a living essence, it tells the story genetically about where I’ve come from, who I am – that’s telling a story of me, a story about my whakapapa, right down to my belief.” https://www.temanararaunga.maori.nz

”…the same effect that engendered a class of people putting on neurodivergence is cultivating a new bent toward biblical altruism.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/christianity-was-borderline-illegal-in-silicon-valley-now-its-the-new-religion

"Nowhere else are immersive technologies being used to capture historical records as they are being destroyed… We started this project trying to defy the colonial impositions on us," https://atmos.earth/pioneering-virtual-reality-exhibit-immerses-users-in-a-liberated-gaza/

“Community ownership is central to Tainá. The data are stored locally—not on the cloud—and the community decides which parts get shared with the world. It’s a far cry from the status quo of “Big Tech lords deciding what to do with our data…” https://atmos.earth/indigenous-groups-are-safeguarding-culture-with-their-own-chatgpt/

"…a defining factor of the fourth space is the conscious architecting of a certain kind of experience or connection – an engineered third space with a shared objective." https://www.protein.xyz/fourth-spaces/

Almost read it as a piece of design fiction, but it's real enough…

"Real neurons are cultivated inside a nutrient rich solution, supplying them with everything they need to be healthy. They grow across a silicon chip…" https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html

"…active procrastinators had great control of their time, coping mechanisms, and overall performance. Not too bad for people often labelled as lazy." https://nesslabs.com/benefits-of-laziness

"I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act" https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/