Category Archives: Art

Art Not Art #3 – Power

Posted on September 29, 2022 by julianstodd

This is the third in a series of #WorkingOutLoud posts considering the evolution of art in the age of the Art Engines: the disruptive technologies of AI generation and concomitant debates about creativity, value, and purpose. In this work i … Continue reading →

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Art Not Art #2

Posted on September 15, 2022 by julianstodd

I’m revisiting my thinking about what constitutes Art in the age of the Art Engines, and an open question for me as to whether there is a uniquely human component of this. Specifically i am responding to challenges and ideas … Continue reading →

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Art Not Art

Posted on September 13, 2022 by julianstodd

Berlin is a city of graffiti: you do not have to walk far to find something scrawled, painted, or posted upon the wall. By a human hand. It’s easy to come down on the wrong side of a debate: bound … Continue reading →

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The Mirror Image

Posted on December 5, 2018 by julianstodd

The weekend between two international trips is always a compressed amount of time: by the time i’ve unpacked, sorted the washing, and packed again, i have to make some choices, and this week, the choice was to work on my … Continue reading →

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The Art of Science

Posted on September 28, 2017 by julianstodd

I was speaking to a paediatric consultant earlier, and asked him whether he felt his work was art, or science, and whether he had felt this shift over time. Cognitively, we become adept at pattern matching, whilst sociologically, we learn … Continue reading →

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Lino Cuts

Posted on January 28, 2017 by julianstodd

Last week was time out for walking, painting and reading books. I spend some time making lino prints: it’s the closest i have got to sculpture, starting with nothing, and physically carving the expression into the bland canvas: it’s a … Continue reading →

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Not Art Nor Science

Posted on November 2, 2016 by julianstodd

Science lets us see better: we can see ever deeper the inner workings of the brain, we can image and visualize, scan and probe. We are mapping the functional areas and the interrelationships between them and, as we do so, … Continue reading →

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Painting The Thing

Posted on November 1, 2016 by julianstodd

I took some time out last week, a chance to catch up on some reading, spend time with family, and even fit in some painting. Whilst wrestling with new paints I was reminded how painting is not about capturing the … Continue reading →

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Democratised voices: the intent of graffiti

Posted on January 26, 2015 by julianstodd

There are classes of voice: levels of authenticity and volume. From formal, highly produced, vetted, authorised, famous, sanctioned and pervasive through to the suppressed, denied, desperate rants scratched in wood and walls. The voices that shout beside railway tracks, festoon … Continue reading →

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Beauty

Posted on November 27, 2014 by julianstodd

Whilst it may be in the eye of the beholder, it’s not a term you often hear at work. We talk about ‘engagement‘, ‘effectiveness‘ and ‘investment‘ but rarely about beauty. Beauty is somehow personal, somehow soft, somehow unquantifiable. Not something … Continue reading →

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