FYI #63
9 Incredible Art Exhibitions To See In 2025, via the Design Files
Shortlist for the Asia Pacific Arts Awards 2025, via Creative Australia
Australian team announced for 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, via Creative Australia
Data Dreams: Contemporary Art in the Age of AI, interesting sounding exhibition at the MCA later this year
Stick nation! Why do 3 million people – including me and my kids – love stick reviews?, via the Guardian
Stop Surveillance Copaganda: A Collaboration with Fight for the Future, via Strange Horizons
Inside a Danish Architect's Mid-Century House | Timeless Nordic Design on a London Terrace, film via The Modern House
“It Keeps a Cap on How Maximalist I Might Be”: How Matt Reynolds Lives Small, film via Never Too Small
A Notting Hill townhouse revitalised for a young American couple, via House & Garden
The Case for Kicking the Stone, Philip Ball reviews Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart”, via the Los Angeles Review of Books
US Copyright Office Releases Part 2 of Artificial Intelligence Report
The Office affirms that existing principles of copyright law are flexible enough to apply to this new technology, as they have applied to technological innovations in the past. It concludes that the outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements. This can include situations where a human-authored work is perceptible in an AI output, or a human makes creative arrangements or modifications of the output, but not the mere provision of prompts.
Podcast listening highlights:
Gareth Southgate OBE, football manager, on Desert Island Discs
James Harding on Ruthie's Table 4
Sarah Moss & Octavia Bright: My Good Bright Wolf, via London Review Bookshop
The Splendor of Nature, Now Streaming, via the New Yorker’s Critics at Large