James Bridle
@jamesbridle.bsky.social
Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
In New York, the brilliant www.solarpowerforartists.com is creating tiny window mounts for solar panels, accessible even to those who rent: energytransitiondesign.com/products/
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In New York, the brilliant www.solarpowerforartists.com is creating tiny window mounts for solar panels, accessible even to those who rent: energytransitiondesign.com/products/
I’ve used the microtransformers built for balcony solar installations in my solar panel artworks. This means they plug directly into the local network, without batteries or the grid, and power the gallery, institution or site hosting them (e.g. an archeological site): jamesbridle.com/works/things...
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I’ve used the microtransformers built for balcony solar installations in my solar panel artworks. This means they plug directly into the local network, without batteries or the grid, and power the gallery, institution or site hosting them (e.g. an archeological site): jamesbridle.com/works/things...
But there’s more. Firstly, there are really interesting things happening around solar, driven by and shaping this transition, which you can meaningfully participate in. For example, balcony solar. This is solar at the scale not of a rooftop, or a garden, but a small apartment.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
But there’s more. Firstly, there are really interesting things happening around solar, driven by and shaping this transition, which you can meaningfully participate in. For example, balcony solar. This is solar at the scale not of a rooftop, or a garden, but a small apartment.
In fact, this is already happening, as the FT reported last year. Once you factor in the savings on an electricity bill, it is already cheaper in the Netherlands and Germany to install solar PV panels as garden fencing, than to use wood: archive.is/elGzu
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In fact, this is already happening, as the FT reported last year. Once you factor in the savings on an electricity bill, it is already cheaper in the Netherlands and Germany to install solar PV panels as garden fencing, than to use wood: archive.is/elGzu
Ben pointed out in that piece that the price of solar panels is getting so low, that you can buy a panel for just twice the price of a wooden fencing sheet the same size:
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Ben pointed out in that piece that the price of solar panels is getting so low, that you can buy a panel for just twice the price of a wooden fencing sheet the same size:
Thinking about this photo again.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Thinking about this photo again.
Anyway, and more importantly, Robert's wonderful album is available to pre-order and listen in advance here: archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/10000-... Enjoy!
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Anyway, and more importantly, Robert's wonderful album is available to pre-order and listen in advance here: archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/10000-... Enjoy!
I was also thinking a lot about Evan Roth's Multi Touch Paintings, which I've always loved, which document these intimate gestures we make every day www.evan-roth.com/~/works/mult... Here, "Slide to Unlock", 2013:
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I was also thinking a lot about Evan Roth's Multi Touch Paintings, which I've always loved, which document these intimate gestures we make every day www.evan-roth.com/~/works/mult... Here, "Slide to Unlock", 2013:
I should mention that this process was very much inspired by conversations with Robert about digital art and history. In particular, we were both very taken by Charles A. Csuri's "Sine Curve Man", a classic work of digital art from 1967.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I should mention that this process was very much inspired by conversations with Robert about digital art and history. In particular, we were both very taken by Charles A. Csuri's "Sine Curve Man", a classic work of digital art from 1967.
Robert also created a video for one of the songs, using the process video, where you can see how the hand tracking works. Here's a taste of it:
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Robert also created a video for one of the songs, using the process video, where you can see how the hand tracking works. Here's a taste of it:
I wrote some code to track his hand movements during the course of that presentation, and it's these gestures that form the basis of the cover art for Robert's new album, 10,000 Rivers:
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote some code to track his hand movements during the course of that presentation, and it's these gestures that form the basis of the cover art for Robert's new album, 10,000 Rivers:
66 little wedges for the roofline.
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
66 little wedges for the roofline.
Good morning from the top of the scaffolding, where the first roof beams are going on :)
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Good morning from the top of the scaffolding, where the first roof beams are going on :)
When your ecommerce platform defaults to a flame icon for hot deals, but it maybe isn't the vibe you should be going for.
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
When your ecommerce platform defaults to a flame icon for hot deals, but it maybe isn't the vibe you should be going for.
Our latest project, with TIDAL ArtS / Horizon EU, is to create a community map of the seagrass meadows surrounding the island, with school workshops, aerial and underwater photography, and the help of everyone around. Test mapping started today!
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our latest project, with TIDAL ArtS / Horizon EU, is to create a community map of the seagrass meadows surrounding the island, with school workshops, aerial and underwater photography, and the help of everyone around. Test mapping started today!
Pretty damn proud of the work we're starting to accumulate at Vessel, the eco arts project we founded on our island. From workshops on natural dyes and sacred geometry, to citizen science initiatives and critical technology. Check it out here: vessel-aegina.com/en/activities
October 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Pretty damn proud of the work we're starting to accumulate at Vessel, the eco arts project we founded on our island. From workshops on natural dyes and sacred geometry, to citizen science initiatives and critical technology. Check it out here: vessel-aegina.com/en/activities
Writing essays about design, quantum theory, the discovery of mRNA, seagrass, while occasionally popping out to move a tonne of wood, varnish it, cut, cover again. Typing for coins and the Towers of Hanoi: a self-build story.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Writing essays about design, quantum theory, the discovery of mRNA, seagrass, while occasionally popping out to move a tonne of wood, varnish it, cut, cover again. Typing for coins and the Towers of Hanoi: a self-build story.
Here's their Facebook: www.facebook.com/strawberry.g...
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Here's their Facebook: www.facebook.com/strawberry.g...
Here's their Instagram page: www.instagram.com/strawberry_g...
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Here's their Instagram page: www.instagram.com/strawberry_g...
Strawberry Farm, Beit Lahia, Gaza in 2020, and now.
October 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Strawberry Farm, Beit Lahia, Gaza in 2020, and now.
First day back on the site, watching a tornado roll over the next island. Good morning.
September 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
First day back on the site, watching a tornado roll over the next island. Good morning.
Feeling incredibly seen by this passage, but yes, it's lovely to read a piece about the LPA. www.the-fence.com/london-psych...
June 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Feeling incredibly seen by this passage, but yes, it's lovely to read a piece about the LPA. www.the-fence.com/london-psych...
⛴️ Athens 🚂 Thessaloniki 🚍 Sofia 🚂Bucharest 🚂 🚂 Budapest 🚂 Vienna
June 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
⛴️ Athens 🚂 Thessaloniki 🚍 Sofia 🚂Bucharest 🚂 🚂 Budapest 🚂 Vienna
... and the scanners of smartphones, drones, satellites, and information-processing systems.
June 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
... and the scanners of smartphones, drones, satellites, and information-processing systems.