@leannehammacott.bsky.social
Head of Programming, Culture kcl.ac.uk/cultural King’s College London 🌱 Part of bodydataspace.net collective 🙇♀️ Project board member 'The Jewel in the Strand' https://stmarylestrand.com/ 💫
🎨 The Guardian (@theguardian.com) cartoonist Ella Baron’s exhibition reveals the unseen toll of the #UkraineWar through intimate drawings and testimonies—capturing trauma, memory & hope.🖊️
“There’s nothing left to draw of an amputated limb but memories.” — Ella Baron
🔗Register: bit.ly/4g99jJJ
My exhibition ‘Battles of the Mind’, explores trauma & imagination through drawings I made in Ukraine in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières & The Guardian. Join me for the launch at King's College London Bush House this Thursday 18th September by registering here 🖤 tinyurl.com/dvhfnfc9
15.09.2025 13:53 — 👍 24 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
🗣️ Is AI a tool for enhancing creativity or does it pose a threat to authentic human expression?
Join us and @aiatkings.bsky.social for the discussion featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, @clemicollett.bsky.social, Genevieve Liveley and Sarah Perry.
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏰ 19:30-20:45
🎟️ Register ⤵️
Gaming, media and digital arts professionals - join our Arts & Creativity Hub at the Informatics Industry Showcase 2025 to explore how AI is transforming creativity! 🎮🎨
📅 11 June
⏰ 14.00 - 17.00
📍Bush House, WC2B 4BG
Register ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informatic...
Fascinating insights tonight for opening of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social and brilliant programme of events 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...
20.05.2025 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Johanna Walker, Lucy Bell, James Joshua Otto, @mtrc.bsky.social and Jennifer Ding will follow the performance of Humans in the Loop with a panel discussion.
Supported by @kingsnmes.bsky.social and King's Culture.
Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-l...
👏 Congratulations to Sofía Ramírez Sandoval (CMCI MA) and Lilien Ezeugwu (CMCI PhD), who have been selected as King’s Student Fellows for the Venice Fellowships Programme, supported by the British Council and @kingscmci.bsky.social.
Read more about their creative projects 🔽
Love hearing expert musical input from Dr Flora Willson 🎶 🎭 @kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
for the epic opera Turandot @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
Join a hands on workshop with artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley (SIM project) and explore some of the intricate ties between smartphones, mobility, and belonging 🔨📲🌏 The map was part of London Design Festival at #V&A last year.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/bonds...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social
The UK Chancellor will set out the #SpringBudget this week.
Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced…
#KingsQs 🧵⬇
The Oxford Street consultation is still open, and I’m urging all Londoners to have their say on the proposed plans for one of the city’s most iconic locations.
You have until 2 May 2025 to share your views:
The Eye Bach Choir welcomes you along to this May 18th afternoon performance in Suffolk with works by 20th & 21st century composers 🎶💛Conductor Benedict Collins Rice. Early 🐤 ticket discount available. Buffet refreshments included 🍰🍓
eyebachchoir.co.uk/forthcoming-...
Imaging Peace now open on the Strand - new outdoor exhibition featuring global community peace photography projects by Dr Tiffany Fairey @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social produced by King's Culture 📸🌏 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/imaging...
(c) Ro Yassin Abdumonab/ Rohingyatographer
Waymarkers to open in The Curiosity Cabinet @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a living exhibition and intimate archive from artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley/ the SIM Project, sharing stories of mobility and belonging 📸🌏📱 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/waymark... @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social
11.03.2025 11:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This time last year we were GLOWing on the Strand 💚 for International Women’s Day @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #digitalart #iwd #artists #outdoorart #immersive
08.03.2025 17:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: Men and women belonging to Gen Z are more divided than those of any other generation on key questions about feminism, gender roles and women’s rights
Read our new 30-country study with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for #IWD2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-m...
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“It can feel like we are on the verge of the World War Three. And broken Britain is quite depressing, isn’t it? Before, I’d have been really worried. Now I’m just happy to go down with the ship. My job from now on is just to try and keep up the good vibe” ❤️❤️ tinyurl.com/55ac3k6z
07.03.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Publishing today!
'The Strand: A biography' is the first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets, revealing how it grew in importance over millennia until everything that mattered converged on the Strand.
Available now in this stunning hardback edition. #London
Two young ladies walking along a pavement holding the skirts up to avoid the rain The Strand near Charing Cross Station London, 1900 s
Credit & Photo by Museum of London /Heritage Images/science Photo Library
St Mary le Strand is a striking Baroque church in London, designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1724. It stands elegantly on a traffic island along the Strand, originally intended as one of Queen Anne’s “Fifty New Churches”. #historicarchitecture
26.02.2025 15:02 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🇺🇦 On 27 February, the exhibition ‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ opens at Europe House in London.
Curated by Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene @kingsdh.bsky.social, it sheds light on the fragility of architecture and the resilience of Ukrainians. Read more ⬇️
#Ukraine
Hearing about Edible Incredible 🌱 brilliant scheme and community of growers & food mapping across #Lambeth borough and the UK 🌱 part of Vital Communities london.sciencegallery.com/vital-signs
25.02.2025 19:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A gold ring with intricate intertwined designs which look like creatures or people, on a reflective black surface and black background
A ring and its world: Anglo-Saxon Exeter and Devon, 29 March 2025, 10.30-4.15pm, RAMM and Cathedral, £25/30
A day of exploration of everything Anglo-Saxon, including a chance to see rare charters, objects and coins from the period, as well as this stunning ring!
rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/a-r...
COLLECT 2025 - the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design
27 Feb - 02 Mar 2025 www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/col...
Self-healing roads, made from biomass waste and designed using AI, could offer a solution to the country’s £143 million pothole problem www.kcl.ac.uk/news/self-he... 🛣️
@kingsnmes.bsky.social
So, so chuffed that the wonderful charity Medicinema is getting BAFTA's Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award tonight, and proud to know some of the folk who work for it. More cinemas in hospitals, please! 👏👏 #Baftas www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
16.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 82 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 7
St Mary-le-Strand with Somerset House (which then housed the Royal Academy of Art) shown to the right nestling within a splendid terrace heading east towards Temple Bar, by Thomas Malton #London May 1781
27.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I hope that the Summit will lead to concrete action and co-operation internationally on AI regulation. What people need most right now is clarity and certainty about the impact of AI on their lives. Dr Mike Cook, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics
As the creative industries embrace generative AI, the 2025 AI Action Summit is the ideal space to bring together the then, now, and next of machine learning - to reflect on the cautionary tales that have persisted around artificial intelligence; to map the innovations that are driving it forward; and to look ahead in plotting AI's next moves. Dr Chris Holliday, Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education
Recent developments have sent a clear message: AI developers need to re-think their approach to continue to materially improve AI capabilities. Human-made data, collected and used thoughtfully, will make or break the next iteration of models. Open AI ecosytems will prevail over proprietary, opaque ones. Professor Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London
As the #AIActionSummit begins today, King's College London academics from kingsnmes.bsky.social and kingsartshums.bsky.social shared their expectations for the event, and hopes for the development and use of AI in society.
@aiatkings.bsky.social
A page of watercolour paintings of shells/molluscs with handwritten labels and numbers underneath.
Upcoming lecture at RAMM!
25 February 2025 2–3pm
From the Ottoman World to Exeter: The Untold Story of RAMM’s Natural History Collections - Dr Semih Celik
Head to @rammuseum.bsky.social website and click on What's On - Talks and Lectures - to book your ticket (members £8, standard £10)
