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

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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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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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