Kate Armstrong
@katearmstrong.bsky.social
Artist , writer, curator , AI, generative literature, AI Futures for Art and Design, founder Living Labs at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver 🇨🇦 @verseverse
I've written a 2 part series on AI and cultural policy - would love to hear thoughts!
Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai...
Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai...
Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
Do we wanna be somebody
Part 2 of the series “Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists” If Part 1 was about why, this one is about what.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I've written a 2 part series on AI and cultural policy - would love to hear thoughts!
Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai...
Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
Part 1: Canada's AI Strategy forgot the artists aifutures.substack.com/p/canadas-ai...
Part 2 Do we wanna be somebody? open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
Super excited about this project with RefractionDAO and baseapp x.com/RefractionDA...
September 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Super excited about this project with RefractionDAO and baseapp x.com/RefractionDA...
New today! Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a critical media artist and researcher whose work explores the often invisible systems that shape our digital lives.
aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...
aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen
When tools push back
aifutures.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
New today! Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen, a critical media artist and researcher whose work explores the often invisible systems that shape our digital lives.
aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...
aifutures.substack.com/p/interview-...
New post on Substack! Today's subject is interactive video and how we might come to see 2D images differently once we can "play" 3 dimensionally inside any image. Also - mid-century Italian gothic horror and Loeb. aifutures.substack.com/p/what-lurks...
What Lurks Inside Interactive Video
Today's gothic miracle
aifutures.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
New post on Substack! Today's subject is interactive video and how we might come to see 2D images differently once we can "play" 3 dimensionally inside any image. Also - mid-century Italian gothic horror and Loeb. aifutures.substack.com/p/what-lurks...
Is it just me or does AI allow zeitgeist to be created and measured in real time aifutures.substack.com/p/the-univer...
The universe is giving Storm Troopers
AI is an engine for manifesting zeitgeist
aifutures.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Is it just me or does AI allow zeitgeist to be created and measured in real time aifutures.substack.com/p/the-univer...
new substack post - This is what happens when you ask me about cultural policy.... aifutures.substack.com/p/i-was-there
I was there
Where is our freakishly successful envelope-pushing cultural infrastructure that stretches underneath it all like an undulating electric field pulsing with glory?
aifutures.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
new substack post - This is what happens when you ask me about cultural policy.... aifutures.substack.com/p/i-was-there
reflecting on the state of AI Film in 2025 aifutures.substack.com/p/unaddresse...
June 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
reflecting on the state of AI Film in 2025 aifutures.substack.com/p/unaddresse...
Was very busy last week in Los Angeles and forgot to send this around. New post> aifutures.substack.com/p/making-str... check it out 🎉
June 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Was very busy last week in Los Angeles and forgot to send this around. New post> aifutures.substack.com/p/making-str... check it out 🎉
Yo Biennale! Conversing with museum objects is todays's subject on my substack aifutures.substack.com/p/messages-f...
May 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Yo Biennale! Conversing with museum objects is todays's subject on my substack aifutures.substack.com/p/messages-f...
New post on my substack: Thoughts on Immersive Media - check it out and let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
May 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
New post on my substack: Thoughts on Immersive Media - check it out and let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/aifuture...
New post on my substack about why everything right now is SO LARGE aifutures.substack.com/p/big-boi
Big Boi
The sublime new giants among us
aifutures.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New post on my substack about why everything right now is SO LARGE aifutures.substack.com/p/big-boi
Law of Accelerating Returns - Cow Version: new post on substack aifutures.substack.com/p/law-of-acc...
Law of Accelerating Returns, Cow Version
Quick reminder for those of us who might have forgotten what an outrageously extravagant, fantastical and improbable moment we are living through with regard to Generative AI in terms of the vast poss...
aifutures.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Law of Accelerating Returns - Cow Version: new post on substack aifutures.substack.com/p/law-of-acc...
Soon I will release a little collection of text works from outer space >>> here's one for Valentine's day (romantic? Notsure)
February 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Soon I will release a little collection of text works from outer space >>> here's one for Valentine's day (romantic? Notsure)
TESTING bluesky images and how they work: image: from a forthcoming series stay tuned!
February 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
TESTING bluesky images and how they work: image: from a forthcoming series stay tuned!
🦏TESTING pink sky🦏🦏 image: From multiple realities - experimental art in the eastern block 1960-1980 at @vanartgallery
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🦏TESTING pink sky🦏🦏 image: From multiple realities - experimental art in the eastern block 1960-1980 at @vanartgallery
University of Bergen Library has added the book from our 2005 work Grafik Dynamo to the collection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafik_... 😍
Grafik Dynamo - Wikipedia
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February 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
University of Bergen Library has added the book from our 2005 work Grafik Dynamo to the collection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafik_... 😍
Hive mind - are there any fabulous conferences or openings in art, AI, web3 etc in NYC April 25-30ish, or anyone around?
February 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Hive mind - are there any fabulous conferences or openings in art, AI, web3 etc in NYC April 25-30ish, or anyone around?
I just realized I've been forgetting to post my substack links. Check it out, would love comments on this or other posts -- aifutures.substack.com/p/pros-and-c...
Pros and choices
The NeurIPs convention brought 16,000 AI people to Vancouver last week, including Ted Chiang, the famous science fiction author and author of the article in the New Yorker that caused so much stir in ...
aifutures.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I just realized I've been forgetting to post my substack links. Check it out, would love comments on this or other posts -- aifutures.substack.com/p/pros-and-c...
Does AI HAVE a subconscious or IS it our subconscious?
December 10, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Does AI HAVE a subconscious or IS it our subconscious?
Ok so how excited are we @mtippett.bsky.social to be participating in this show opening tomorrow curated by @postanika.bsky.social and @expandedart 💯💯🪇🪇
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REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024
OBUM explores the ambiguous, post-photographic space of AI-driven production and image-making.
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REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024
OBUM explores the ambiguous, post-photographic space of AI-driven production and image-making.
November 17, 2024 at 3:56 AM
Ok so how excited are we @mtippett.bsky.social to be participating in this show opening tomorrow curated by @postanika.bsky.social and @expandedart 💯💯🪇🪇
——-
REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024
OBUM explores the ambiguous, post-photographic space of AI-driven production and image-making.
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REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024
OBUM explores the ambiguous, post-photographic space of AI-driven production and image-making.
Reposted by Kate Armstrong
I've been thinking about Lisa Robertson's idea that the author is not a creator, but an augmenter of work that came before. Art becomes a continuity that looks different based on who makes it manifest.
November 17, 2024 at 2:25 AM
I've been thinking about Lisa Robertson's idea that the author is not a creator, but an augmenter of work that came before. Art becomes a continuity that looks different based on who makes it manifest.
3rd Birthday card for The VerseVerse - now on BLUE SKY theverseverse.com
theVERSEverse is a literary gallery where poems are works of art. - theVERSEverse
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November 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM
3rd Birthday card for The VerseVerse - now on BLUE SKY theverseverse.com
Big day over here as I begin to migrate over from X
November 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Big day over here as I begin to migrate over from X