Stephanie Vegh

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Tell me more about how bloody great AI is when it can’t even pull a reliable list of stat holidays. First clue: April 15 2026 is a Wednesday. Basically every date that isn’t fixed in the calendar is wrong here.

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Or… maybe don’t transform your body into harvestable data?

“It’s a lot easier to destroy a thing than to build a thing.”

Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."

It's the weekend, baby

Helen McNicoll at the AGH is also well worth a slow look - one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful interior paintings I’ve seen, plus moments that feel weirdly contemporary. Love this woman.

Greg Staats at the Art Gallery of Hamilton – Akimbo By Stephanie Vegh The impulse to read the span of Greg Staats’ Runners Continuum from left to right feels like a trap. Or, perhaps more playfully, a dare to accept this streamlined sequence of fourtee...

About a month left to see Greg Staats’ gorgeous solo exhibition Runners Continuum at the Art Gallery of Hamilton - my review is out today in Akimbo (not sure if any of the aforementioned are on here yet?): akimbo.ca/akimblog/gre...

'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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Sneak preview of In The Shadow of Rust 01 (2024) included in What We Inherit. Now open at Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. Hamilton ON 👇🏻

Feb 7th 2025 - April 12th 2025. Artist talk and reception Feb 15th

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A little intro to a fantastic exhibition on view now at the Art Gallery of Burlington. Yes, I work there so I may be biased but the whole show is worth a slow, lovely look.