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Yesterday afternoon and evening I spent 4 hours lying on my back listening to the wonderful music of the sadly late Steve Roden. I know his music well and yet to spend this time with little else in my perception was extraordinary. Thanks to everyone who supported and released his music.

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Programme online & resistragtion open for Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design at TU Dresden on June 13. planetary-experiments.dgtf.de Looking forward to participating and to contributions from Open Weather (Soph Dyer), Orit Halpern, Thomas Pausz & many others, thx to Michaela Büsse.

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BERLIN: tomorrow evening Openhaus at ZK/U includes some research and early footage from our film about Visual Cultures of Forest Carbon with Theo Stanley. (sadly I will be missing it as parental duties call)

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This is a Turkish Grocers appreciation post. In every city I have ever lived in, or visited for a long time, the Turkish groceries are unsurpassed for price and quality.

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I am going to need a bigger tripod at this rate..

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More timelapse experiments in the Grünewald today.

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Oh no! I just found out that Jonathan Sterne passed away. His writing was such a massive influence on my thinking and practice for most of my career. A sad loss.

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Dinner this evening in an absolute gem of Berlin: Seerose vegetarian buffet. Prices and vibe of last century, wonderful hearty dinner for €7.50 a plate. 😍

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Spent today with forest scientists discussing and filming the terrestrial laser scanning process which is used to measure biomass, carbon storage, and growth.

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Petrified Media, the artist book I made with Carel Fransen of The Eriskay Connection, was reviewed in the latest issue of Art Monthly. Thanks to Michael Hampton for his thoughtful engagement with it! (I still have some copies of this, if anybody wants one hit me up)

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Starting to dig into the German Colonial Bundersarchiv today, for precedents to the LiDAR image regimes of contemporary forestry:

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Filming today at #Tesla gigafactory on the outskirts of Berlin.

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How are natural disasters accounted for in carbon markets? In some years wildfires release as much CO2 as half of global emissions. While biogenic emissions like fires have historically been held in balance by natural seuqestration, is that true when wildfires are more widepsread and devastating?

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Unlikely find in the Berlin flohmarkt. Glass negative of some German foresters on their lunch break. Media histories of #ForestCarbon

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This morning’s location for physically demanding slow cinema production:

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Big tech will literally change the name of planetary bodies of water on the whim of an autocrat but I’m still not allowed to write the word FUCK in a text message.

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As of December 2020, there were a total of 156 #ForestCarbon Offset projects in the USA, totalling 185,088,866 carbon credits from 5,778,744 acres of forest.

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Travelling to Berlin today, where I will be in residence for the next two months at ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst & Urbanistik. Just made my second connection in Köln.

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USGS now has publically available 3D elevation point cloud data for large areas of the United States.

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Wonderful talk last night at Goldsmiths with Françoise Vergès in conversation with Ros Gray & Shela Sheikh launching her excellent new book: Making The World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environmnent, and Racial Capitalism.

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I've written a response to the UK Government Copyright and AI Consultation. Here is my contribution. Feedback is welcome! I have included doc, pdf, pptx and jpg versions of this text in a Drive link, available for everyone. Deadline is 25th February 2025. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... @theguardian.com 1. I come from a working class background and a lot of this is very familiar... impostor syndrome, balancing full-time work, no parental safety net, the bureaucracy of funding applications, etc.

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I started 2025 writing writing writing. Just submitted the 3rd manuscript of the year, all of which were started in December. Note to self: never again agree to so many conflicting writing deadlines. I now look forward to spending two months without opening Microsoft Word.

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Including my thoughts on Operative and Collateral Landscapes: (thanks Fabio!)

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The UK government should open up a pipeline for US students looking to go to uni IMMEDIATELY. Halve their fees, waive visas, family support programs, whatever’s needed; we can solve our current domestic HE crisis and help out desperate US students at the same time

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Advance warning. Believe it or not, in June I will be in Dresden speaking at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, which this year is titled Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design. Thanks to Michaela Büsse for the invite.

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Weekend of woodland walks in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean. Here are the #fungi highlights

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Took students to the SOIL show @ Somerset House this week. Some great work by Maeve Brennan, Kim Norton, Michael Prime & Wim Van Egmond (among others). But for an exhibition about soil, the experience is surprisingly clean. Not a plant in sight, but tons of data, science, screens and technology hmm

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📢 Dream Job Alert 📢 Professorship of Interface Cultures & Critical Data. Linz www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/j...

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The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now! https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk

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The only problem with the prescient dystopias everyone is busily referencing is that none of them were anywhere near as Dumb as the reality.

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New York Times update on Moss Landing battery fire.. DTSC found high levels of cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese in soil up to five miles away, confirming SJSU/Moss Landing analysis; also found in water, but below drinking water standard. 🔋🔥🔌💡 #MossLandingFire www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

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Do any browsers have a 'Copy Alt-Text' from Image function yet?

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