AI Futures for Art and Design

What the Fungus Knows

Does Sam Altman know

Apr 16 • Kate Armstrong

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March 2026

Spiritual Weather

Weird with patches of clarity

Mar 31 • Kate Armstrong

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February 2026

The Long Road to the Avocado Chair

A lot of minds were blown in 2021 when Dalle-2 first created a picture of an avocado that is also a chair.

Feb 27 • Kate Armstrong

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Toward a Critical Media Theory of the Hot Tub

Hot tubs don’t appear very often in critical media theory or histories of technology but they should.

Feb 12 • Kate Armstrong

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The week it became truly weird

All Hail Mike Tyson's Fruit

Feb 7 • Kate Armstrong

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January 2026

Back from a Future

And it's a fatty

Jan 12 • Kate Armstrong

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December 2025

Deviants Unite!

Wow do I ever love this analysis in my new favourite Substack, Experimental History by Adam Mastroianni, especially this post The Decline of Deviance…

Dec 4, 2025 • Kate Armstrong

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October 2025

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.

Oct 20, 2025 • Kate Armstrong

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Canada’s AI Strategy Forgot the Artists

Dangerous mistake dudes

Oct 16, 2025 • Kate Armstrong

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A Brief History of the Very Quickly

Because it’s October in Vancouver, the city is once again alive with the Signals Festival and VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival). Exactly a…

Oct 9, 2025 • Kate Armstrong

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September 2025

Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

When tools push back

Sep 9, 2025 • Kate Armstrong

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Episode 3: When Machines Forget: A Dialogue with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Read the interview here:

Sep 9, 2025 • Kate Armstrong and Jonah Brucker-Cohen

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