The Evolution of Creativity

The AI Aesthetic

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Make It Work vs. Make It Good

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

You Might Debate It — If You Could See It

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Brad Woods Digital Garden

Notes about creative coding on the Web.

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet

How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.

The Subversive Hyperlink

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Creative Computing Group by @tgoerke.bsky.social — Grain

Let's start a group at CODIP to explore creative computing. Let's not start by defining creativity nor computing. It would be a trap. Let's collect artifacts instead. Images, text, thoughts,...

What Makes Us Smart?

Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...

The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Chasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity

Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- broadly defined to include navigating, interpreting, and curating media across interconnected sources -- as creative activity both for future artifacts and as a form of creation in its own right. By tracing trajectories of traversal, association, and reflection as inspectable artifacts, RATs render visible the creative work that algorithmic feeds and AI summarization increasingly compress and automate away. We illustrate this through WikiRAT, a speculative instantiation on Wikipedia, and open new ground for reflective practice, reader modeling, collective sensemaking, and understanding what is lost when human interpretation is automated -- towards designing intelligent tools that preserve it.

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon…

Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era

A new book highlighting the visual evolution of web design paints a picture of a risk-taking creative culture that hasn’t been quite the same since Steve Jobs stuck a knife into Flash.

poetic web: unfolding spiral

'poetic web: unfolding spiral' is a non-linear text I wrote as part of my bachelor thesis at the HFBK Hamburg. Driven by curiosity about the poetic web, the object of the text rather became the opening of a reflective space, where I could touch on the constraints and possibilities of language, words, worlds, and their artifacts, relation and meaning-making, smoothness, attention, and agency, and see how subtle shifts in understanding allowed for words to restructure and new meanings to grow.

Revisiting creative behaviour as an epistemic process: lessons from 12 computational artists and designers | Proceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference

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