Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of #OutputArts; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby #FlitterLang; @installations@social.emfcamp.org lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!)
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Jonathan Hogg

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social

Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social

Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · 4d ago

I’m sure the Astral tools are all very useful but, controversial opinion here, my preferred way to debug Python code is by reading and understanding it…

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Jonathan Hogg

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social

Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social

Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · 5d ago

Just been doing kite-design workshops with two classes of 9/10 year olds locally – equal parts exhausting and brilliant, as ever. Some of the designs are incredibly sophisticated.

#OutputArts

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · 6d ago

It is the time of year where the bumblebees come out of hibernation in our chimney and the ladybirds come out of hibernation in the frames of the sash windows; we are now continually rescuing them from the house and helping them on their ways…

#Spring

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

You know what? HyperCard was a glorious moment in time that I dearly miss: an army of non-experts were bashing together and sharing weird and wonderful stacks that were part 'zine, part adventure game and part database. Instead of laughing at vibe-coders, maybe we should ask ourselves why the current state-of-the-art in beginner-friendly programming tools is a planet-boiling roulette wheel.

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

My experience with generative-AI has been that, at its very best, it is subtly wrong in ways that only an expert in the relevant subject would recognise. So I don't worry about us creating super-intelligent AI, I worry about us allowing that expertise to atrophy through laziness and greed. I refuse to use LLMs not because I'm scared of how clever they are, but because I do not wish to become stupider.

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation

I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.

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Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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Jonathan Hogg

@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social

Audiovisual artist; one half of # OutputArts ; literal programming greybeard; intermittent tutor in Product Design and mentor of young people; neuro-eccentric; undercover Scot; “whimsical fairy”; "hobby programmer"; doting parent to code-baby # FlitterLang ; @ installations lead for EMF (talk to us about your ideas!) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 # audiovisual # art # artist # LightArt # LiveVisuals # ProceduralArt # CreativeCoding # emfcamp # fedi22

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@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social · Sep 18, 2023

So my EMF talk from last year, “I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist,” is now available for your viewing pleasure! I have watched only a tiny part of it because I can't bear to see myself on screen, but some people said nice things about it at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaqnFGea2qc

#EMF #EMF2022 #DigitalArt #Art

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