Jonathan Hogg
@jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Audiovisual artist; one half of #OutputArts; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; autist and aphantasic; literal programming […]
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Am on me ‘olidays now in the north of Engerland. It is the kind of perfectly grey seaside weather that I love
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Am on me ‘olidays now in the north of Engerland. It is the kind of perfectly grey seaside weather that I love
Actually, that is a genuinely good idea…
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Actually, that is a genuinely good idea…
Today I am rushing north to the ancestral homeland because of a family emergency – wish me luck!
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Today I am rushing north to the ancestral homeland because of a family emergency – wish me luck!
I am attempting to finish making a sun today out of willow. Very much following the "keep adding sticks until it looks right" approach…
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I am attempting to finish making a sun today out of willow. Very much following the "keep adding sticks until it looks right" approach…
I've got a deinstall to do next month and it's not gonna need a van, so I've decided to try hiring an electric car. I've never driven an EV before, so hit me up with any essential advice/gotchas/oh-shit-you've-made-a-mistake you have…
I have to drive London to Liverpool. The distance is […]
I have to drive London to Liverpool. The distance is […]
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December 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I've got a deinstall to do next month and it's not gonna need a van, so I've decided to try hiring an electric car. I've never driven an EV before, so hit me up with any essential advice/gotchas/oh-shit-you've-made-a-mistake you have…
I have to drive London to Liverpool. The distance is […]
I have to drive London to Liverpool. The distance is […]
Shit! ZipCar are pulling out of the UK!
This is a fucking ball-ache: I have come to completely rely on being able to pick up a vehicle (most often vans) at short notice on the street round here. A real gut punch to reducing car ownership
Are there any realistic alternatives? Enterprise Car […]
This is a fucking ball-ache: I have come to completely rely on being able to pick up a vehicle (most often vans) at short notice on the street round here. A real gut punch to reducing car ownership
Are there any realistic alternatives? Enterprise Car […]
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December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Shit! ZipCar are pulling out of the UK!
This is a fucking ball-ache: I have come to completely rely on being able to pick up a vehicle (most often vans) at short notice on the street round here. A real gut punch to reducing car ownership
Are there any realistic alternatives? Enterprise Car […]
This is a fucking ball-ache: I have come to completely rely on being able to pick up a vehicle (most often vans) at short notice on the street round here. A real gut punch to reducing car ownership
Are there any realistic alternatives? Enterprise Car […]
I am experimenting with making paper, illuminated mushrooms for a primary school workshop tomorrow
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am experimenting with making paper, illuminated mushrooms for a primary school workshop tomorrow
Off to see my mate Waterflower at New River Studios tonight if anybody I know is also going
https://newriverstudios.com/event/waterflower-m-l-deathman-kylie-monologue/
#livemusic
https://newriverstudios.com/event/waterflower-m-l-deathman-kylie-monologue/
#livemusic
newriverstudios.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Off to see my mate Waterflower at New River Studios tonight if anybody I know is also going
https://newriverstudios.com/event/waterflower-m-l-deathman-kylie-monologue/
#livemusic
https://newriverstudios.com/event/waterflower-m-l-deathman-kylie-monologue/
#livemusic
I am almost finished with xmas now (which, I should point out, I have been working on since January…) so this afternoon is all about EMF!
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I am almost finished with xmas now (which, I should point out, I have been working on since January…) so this afternoon is all about EMF!
Oh yay! New problem to deal with: we've gone from about 500 DNS queries a day on the #outputarts domain earlier in the year to an average of about 4000 per day over the last couple of months, and an extraordinary 24,000 queries in one day last week
Our work is absolutely not that popular, so […]
Our work is absolutely not that popular, so […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Oh yay! New problem to deal with: we've gone from about 500 DNS queries a day on the #outputarts domain earlier in the year to an average of about 4000 per day over the last couple of months, and an extraordinary 24,000 queries in one day last week
Our work is absolutely not that popular, so […]
Our work is absolutely not that popular, so […]
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The Alpaca festival (on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts) aftermovie and photography now live on our website ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/
Alpaca Festival – Alpaca 2025
2025.algorithmicpattern.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The Alpaca festival (on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts) aftermovie and photography now live on our website ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/
In more serious news, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the beginning of the UN's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism
#outputarts recently worked with survivors to produce a […]
https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism
#outputarts recently worked with survivors to produce a […]
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November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In more serious news, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the beginning of the UN's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism
#outputarts recently worked with survivors to produce a […]
https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism
#outputarts recently worked with survivors to produce a […]
So today's fuck-ups have included ordering 5 rolls of the wrong kind of tape for something I urgently need to finish today, and dropping my nice folding stanley knife down the toilet
How's your day going?
How's your day going?
November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So today's fuck-ups have included ordering 5 rolls of the wrong kind of tape for something I urgently need to finish today, and dropping my nice folding stanley knife down the toilet
How's your day going?
How's your day going?
Hunting round the studio to figure out where I left my cup of tea and I realise that I did not, in fact, make any…
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Hunting round the studio to figure out where I left my cup of tea and I realise that I did not, in fact, make any…
I have, perhaps unwisely, decided to go to a kid's birthday costume party this weekend as Quetzalcoatl. Now madly trying to make a feathered snake headdress…
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I have, perhaps unwisely, decided to go to a kid's birthday costume party this weekend as Quetzalcoatl. Now madly trying to make a feathered snake headdress…
A significant portion of today has been spent coaching one of the onsite teams in rewiring one of our artworks back to the way it started before the warehouse team inexplicably rewired it to a way it absolutely wasn’t suppose to be. Had to step through a video frame by frame to figure out what […]
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November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A significant portion of today has been spent coaching one of the onsite teams in rewiring one of our artworks back to the way it started before the warehouse team inexplicably rewired it to a way it absolutely wasn’t suppose to be. Had to step through a video frame by frame to figure out what […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, the time when we put the stars back up anyway
#outputarts #lightart
#outputarts #lightart
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, the time when we put the stars back up anyway
#outputarts #lightart
#outputarts #lightart
The #outputarts website consists of a few dozen pages in total. It changes only when we publish info on a new art project every few months or so. So why are the same AI crawlers hoovering up the website *multiple times per day*!
Honestly, I don't even care if you train your AI on my meanderings […]
Honestly, I don't even care if you train your AI on my meanderings […]
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The #outputarts website consists of a few dozen pages in total. It changes only when we publish info on a new art project every few months or so. So why are the same AI crawlers hoovering up the website *multiple times per day*!
Honestly, I don't even care if you train your AI on my meanderings […]
Honestly, I don't even care if you train your AI on my meanderings […]
Just had a SATA SSD fail on me. Was kind of annoyed until I realised that it's 11 years old
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just had a SATA SSD fail on me. Was kind of annoyed until I realised that it's 11 years old
OK, so hear me out here: PaaS – Pockets as a Service. You pay me monthly to have pockets…
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
OK, so hear me out here: PaaS – Pockets as a Service. You pay me monthly to have pockets…
Been installing today! New work Shatter is now in place at Dunham Massey in Altrincham ready for the Xmas light trail. You don’t get any proper pictures of it until the show opens cos of embargo!
#outputarts #lightart #installationart
#outputarts #lightart #installationart
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Been installing today! New work Shatter is now in place at Dunham Massey in Altrincham ready for the Xmas light trail. You don’t get any proper pictures of it until the show opens cos of embargo!
#outputarts #lightart #installationart
#outputarts #lightart #installationart
25 years after abandoning my PhD studies in partial evaluation, I now seem to spend about one third of my waking hours thinking about partial evaluation
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
25 years after abandoning my PhD studies in partial evaluation, I now seem to spend about one third of my waking hours thinking about partial evaluation
Sometimes I just feel so bone tired at having to adult every day. May clock off early and buy some sweeties on the way home…
October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sometimes I just feel so bone tired at having to adult every day. May clock off early and buy some sweeties on the way home…
Reading a conservation report on the impacts of artificial lighting on bats this morning in preparation for making a set of our baubles bat-friendly…
#outputarts #installationart #lightart
#outputarts #installationart #lightart
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Reading a conservation report on the impacts of artificial lighting on bats this morning in preparation for making a set of our baubles bat-friendly…
#outputarts #installationart #lightart
#outputarts #installationart #lightart
Demonstration of the careful work-in-progress management for which I am famed
#outputarts #inthestudio #installationart
#outputarts #inthestudio #installationart
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Demonstration of the careful work-in-progress management for which I am famed
#outputarts #inthestudio #installationart
#outputarts #inthestudio #installationart