In 2023, Artificial Intelligence dominated discussions about authorship and ownership, the future of labour, corporate ethics, shifting legalese and expanding concepts of open culture. You can read about the ways Creative Commons has been supporting these important conversations here, here and here….

I’ve been asked/been asking myself a lot of questions lately about the nature of arts and culture in relation to creative commons. I’m still processing them all. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far….

I have began offering half day GIF workshops open to booking through Airbnb Experience or by contacting me directly.

Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Vancouver (generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts) to work with new media artist Lauren Marsden, we talked about the history of GIFs, the...

I was blessed with the opportunity to be mentored by artist James Kerr, a.k.a. Scorpion Dagger, for 4 days in March. James’ internet art fame began in 2012 when he made a GIF a day for a year. His...

Steve Wilhite invented the GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) in 1987 when he needed a lightweight image format that could work across platforms. If you’ve never shared or created a GIF, think of it like a jpeg. It’s a file…

Playing Occupy the Zoo: a numbers game Nuit Blanche at The Gladstone Hotel was a blast! There were many amazing audience moves made: some subtle, others more bold, mini revolutions led-with love,...

Artists are often expected to be reclusive, aloof, even a little bit snotty. And while I’d argue that there are some who’d fit that description to a T, karen darricades (yes, spelled with no capital...