Great start of the conference with our first paper session “Into practice” 👉 Check the programme for more details about the great papers presented this morning: shorturl.at/mxEFP #TEI2024

What happened in Parliament was a moral disgrace. The same political establishment which left the Palestinian people for dead can’t even bother hide its contempt. New video 👇 youtu.be/pv0O72niqjI

Protesting against the mass slaughter of civilians is not a threat to democracy. The real threat to democracy is a government that crushes our rights and silences our solidarity. Our movement is made up of all faiths and backgrounds, united by a belief in a more peaceful world.

Our performance-installation 'Beyond the Loudspeaker' is open today Newcastle Contemporary Art from 12 - 5pm w/ Dirty Electronics

Famine – even in northern #Gaza – could still be averted. We need: 🔴 An immediate stop to the fighting 🔴 Full access for aid organizations to reach the entire civilian population A declaration of #famine means it’s too late. We must act now to save thousands of lives.

Almost exactly fifteen years since we took the Curiosity Collective proverbial machines to the first Maker Faire UK in Newcastle in 2009 - Here a Watched Pot Never Boils: davidchatting.com/watchedpot/

Delighted to say I'll be working with my first PhD student Gareth McMurchy (@gmcm_work) and his existing team of Nick Taylor and @vasilisvla, Open Lab - Newcastle University - Check out Gareth's work: openlab.ncl.ac.uk/people/gareth-…

If Goldsmiths succeeds in steamrolling these devastating cuts through, it will be unrecognisable from the great creative powerhouse it currently is Management must think again Goldsmiths UCU timeshighereducation.com/news/union-war…

Launched in 1980, Margaret Calvert’s graphic design for the Tyne and Wear Metro is still in use across the network today, so it’s great to see her pay a visit! Whether via road, rail, air or sea, her work over six decades has helped shape the visual identity of modern Britain.

We've just launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring Can You See Me Now?, one of the first location based games in the world, back to life! Pledge now and get a chance to play in an exclusive game this summer. Pledge now: kck.st/4b7qIPq

What an astonishing campaign. I’m in awe of everyone who gave their time, energy, resources and votes. When recent GE polling in the North East shows Labour with 60+% of the vote, most commentators thought Labour would walk this. The fact that we got 126,652 votes here, nearly

We are Premier League.

Since the schedule changes Sunday morning BBC Radio 4 has the wrong pace and tone - two extra news bulletins, for instance

As Israeli forces advance into Rafah’s densely populated centre, bombing indiscriminately and targeting what little aid/medical infrastructure remains in Gaza, they are forcing the ~1.5m civilians in Rafah into a ‘humanitarian zone’ with no functioning medical infrastructure.

Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data. 🧵

Time for a new mind-bending project! #QLOCK — A JavaScript Quine Clock aem1k.com/qlock It displays the current time in a seven-segment style, embedded within its own JavaScript source code. 🕔 🕝 🕢 🕤 🕑 🕜 (321 bytes)

☀️ NOW OPEN ☀️ Solar is our new free display showcasing cutting-edge projects exploring the role of design in our relationship with the sun. Bringing together the work of the four 2023/24 Design Researchers in Residence; April Barrett, Eliza Collin, Jamie Gatty Irving and Freya

Come join us at #nordichi2024 for the Designing with Friction workshop - to invert notions of seamless technology! - oplb.uk/friction #designresearch