sophia kosmaoglou

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

Open Call for Scholarships for upcoming 14-wk semester evening new media art tech program running Feb. - May in Berlin Mitte!

Reserved for women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ who would otherwise be unable to attend due to financial hardship.
www.schoolofma.org/programs/p/e...

Info session Friday, come by!

Printed copy of the Making a Buck Without Selling Out workbook. Riso-printed in black on off-white paper in block typography. The cover features the title, authors’ names (Cristiana Bottigella and Sophia Kosmaoglou), and a section of text outlining the workbook’s aims. A scaffold and aerostat are integrated into the functional design. The workbook lies on a tabletop with printed materials, evoking the process of making and reflection at the heart of the course.

Poster design for an artist development course titled 'Making a Buck Without Selling Out'. Bold, handmade collage with turquoise torn paper textured background. Title in large, bold dark blue text on uneven cream torn-paper background, centred: 'hARTslane Presents: MAKING A BUCK WITHOUT SELLING OUT'. Below, smaller text in black reads: 'six week online course for visual artists who want to develop their professional practice on their own terms'. At the bottom, a black paper strip with orange text: ‘14 Jan 2025 – 18 Feb 2026, Wednesdays, 6:00–8:30pm. Right side features a black scaffold structure and a small red hot air balloon above it. Bottom right includes a hand-drawn building labelled 'hARTslane'. Wildflowers and vines climb up the edges.

We've wrapped up Making a Buck Without Selling Out! Six weeks of conversation, reflection & collective strategy, plus 1-to-1 tutorials. So proud of the workbook - a practical tool for navigating tensions & planning next steps.
Next edition: 14 Jan - 18 Feb 2026, Wed 6-8:30pm
www.hartslane.org/mab

Archived recording of ANTIUNIVERSITY 2025 ~ Lessons from Artist-Run Schools: on Art, Attention, Ecology, and Technology chaired by Anne Lee Steele @aleesteele.bsky.social

youtu.be/fylp8RsdelY?...

Power Station Power Station

I met Hilary and Dan in London this summer. Their Power Station project is an incredible artist-led work showing how we can transform our energy system as well as our societies for better, more livable futures. Please, check them out and support their fundraising if you can! www.power.film

A Story from the Feral Class Every now and then, this is where I’ll explore what Feral Class means to me, as both a working-class identity and a shared experience. Most posts will weave together personal reflections and respon…

"It’s a blueprint for making art that terrifies the establishment. 9...] My journey proves creativity doesn’t start in lecture halls; it resides in the dark corners they’ve tried to pave over." M. Garrett.

Everybody knows that universities emerged historically due to the social need to generate student satisfaction surveys.

A starter pack on Self-Organisation & AI, as well as adjacent topics such as ALife, morphogenesis, and open-endedness.

I will keep adding researchers as people join 🦋

go.bsky.app/3jNeAPY

OK. The 'Feral Class' book is out! By Marc Garrett.

Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission.

Available direct from Minor Compositions (in the UK) for the special price of £13.

www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

Flyer for Art + Critique: Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice, Autumn 2025. The design evokes 1980s digital and sci-fi graphics. A black-and-white interior of a studio looking out through large windows onto a cityscape. The sky is glowing in neon pink, turquoise and purple. The colours are saturated with a retro-futurist Vaporwave effect. At the top, sans-serif text with metallic pastel shading reads “ART+CRITIQUE”. Across the centre, angled text announces “Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice”. Additional text states: “Online/Hybrid Course · 14 Oct 2025 – 3 Mar 2026 · Tuesdays · 6:30–8:30pm”.

Art+Critique returns this autumn: a practice-led course integrating theory, critique & peer learning - for artists, curators, art writers & researchers.
· 14 Oct 2025 – 3 Mar 2026
· Tuesdays 18:30–20:30 BST/GMT
· Online/Hybrid, register by 12 Oct
videomole.tv/artncritique/
#AlternativeArtEducation

Making a Buck Without Selling Out is a 6-week online course for artists who want to build a sustainable practice on their own terms. We'll rethink professional practice as care, solidarity & strategy.
www.hartslane.org/mab

Poster for BOOM! The Exploding Cinema and the New London Underground Cinema Scene BOOK LAUNCH. At the top, bold black text reads “The Exploding Cinema and the New London Underground.” Below, in red: “BOOK LAUNCH.” A graphic bomb with the word “BOOM!” in yellow on a black rectangle descends toward a colourful, kaleidoscopic target with a black heart at the centre. Event details in black text: “Saturday 6th Sept. FILMS ★ BOOKS ★ MUSIC ★ SPECIAL GUESTS. 7.30pm tickets £7.50. www.thehorsehospital.com www.explodingcinema.org

BOOM! Book Launch
The Exploding Cinema & the New London Underground Cinema Scene
Sat, 6 Sept 2025, 7:30pm tickets £7.50
The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury WC1N 1JD
FILMS ★ BOOKS ★ MUSIC ★ SPECIAL GUESTS
explodingcinema.org/book-launch-...
#ExplodingCinema #UndergroundCinema

Homeroom: LA ESCUELA___ - MoMA PS1 Exhibition. Opens Nov 6. In their first project in the US, artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ will initiate a collective learning project in Homeroom this fall charting pedagogies from across Latin Ame...

So many recent art exhibitions about *pedagogy* and learning communities - including this forthcoming show at PS1, and...

AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House

Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.

How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

"It would be characteristic of the digital disruption era if - like rideshare+homestay apps - the longterm impact of LLMs is not to revolutionize a service sector but merely to deskill+precaritize existing workforce+impose technofeudal rents."

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

If you've looking to switch away from fascist enabling unaccountable tech giants these directories are all pretty good in their own way

1. switching.software
2. www.privacyguides.org
3. alternativeto.net
4. ethical.net/resources/
5. selfh.st/apps/
6. european-alternatives.eu
7. prism-break.org/en/

🫁 To Prepare Our Lungs
Open Studio & Reading Group in #JaneMcCabe’s Studio Takeover
💀 Discussing death & desire in end-stage capitalism
Reading #Berardi’s Expiration: The Last Breath
📅 24 July, 7-9pm
📍 #FanshawProjects, N1 6LQ
🎟️ Free, RSVP fanshaw-projects.com/events#discu...
#Cyanotype

Postponed due to illness, here are the updated details:
📅 24 July, 7-9pm
📍 Fanshaw Projects, N1 6LQ
🎟️ Free, RSVP fanshaw-projects.com/events#discu...
#Cyanotype

🫁 To Prepare Our Lungs
Open Studio & Reading Group at #JaneMcCabe’s Studio Takeover at #FanshawProjects
💀 Mortality & desire in end-stage capitalism
Reading #Berardi’s Expiration: The Last Breath
📅 16 July, 7–9pm
📍 Fanshaw Projects, Hoxton
🎟️ Free, RSVP fanshaw-projects.com/events#discu...
#Cyanotype

A poster reading "Build a wall of resistance—don't talk to ICE" with a drawing showing a line of houses slamming their doors at the approach of a man who can be identified as a heartless and despicable mercenary by the letters "I.C.E." emblazoned on his jacket.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his payroll.

I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?

-St. Vincent Millay

Disabled people have unnecessarily died in their 1000s because of cruel and dehumanising process of welfare assessment and the pittance given if you are deemed disabled 'enough'. The UKs recent decision to cut disability payments will only cause more death and suffering.

artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.

to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.

Call for Papers - Digital Artivism: Intersections between Art, Activism and Social Transformation.

Editors: Isabel Cristina Carvalho, @mgarrett.bsky.social & Pedro Alves da Veiga.

Deadline 2025-09-15
publicacoes.ciac.pt/.../rotura/c...

Oops All Comics! Charity Zine “Oops All Comics!” is a mini comics zine made of submissions from Cartoonist Coop members. This year’s theme is “colorful,” and artists were given restrictions of a square page ratio. It will be sold ...

Exclusive to NIF, the Oops! All Comics zine is a digital 60 page collection of 1-page comics by our talented members, available in SFW/NSFW editions. Proceeds from the zine will be used to fund the coop!

NIF Marketplace: nif-shop.cartoonist.coop/products/oop... #NIF2025

👇 part one core reason why I left my job in UK HE and moved to Iceland to be part of LungA School. It was no secret that even in the 'creative' courses, industry was infiltrating subjects and demanding specified training to prepare students to be 'competitive' aquisitons for their company.

It has become increasingly clear that student debt was never meant to be paid off. It was intended to create a generation(s) of indentured servants whose entire lives and anything they ever attempt to own automatically become property of the capitalist state.

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

The UK’s academic recession is in full swing This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers

NEW from me in the FT today... The UK's university 'system' is now in freefall. How on Earth did the disaster unfold? Read all about it: www.ft.com/content/0ec7...