Why Human-Led Art, Design and Ethical Creativity Matter More Than Ever. Artists, designers rise up and say NO to AI
We recently talked about creating our own LLM (Living Language Memory) at a talk for Norwich Book Festival. As Artists and Designers, this is what we do. We create our own nexus of data points that we experienced, saw, felt, heard, tasted and thought. The human body processes information in many ways. We smell the rain on our face, taste the sunshine on our lips, experience music through excited goosebumps on our arms. You‘ve got to ”Feel your Way” and “Start believing now that we can be who we are” – messy, complex, flawed, annoyingly wilful beautiful living language memories, wrapped up in ”Skins can you see them, holding us in”.
GRRR’s LLM is ours and ours alone, we made it over the course of 53 years and counting. It has many points of data that AI will never perceive or receive.
Our advice: Don’t delay, start yours today and get a free gift: Self-respect and abundant love from the creators of the future. Tell your story with Imagination, Intuition and Empathy. This is what we teach our students. We care what they think and the connections only humans can make through living, loving, being.
Artists, designers rise up and say NO to AI – Artificial Intelligence. Protect our young creators from the empty promises of the Tech Bros. They Lie.
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ABOUT STUDIO GRRR
Hiya, we are Glen & Rebecca mischievously-led married couple with a shared love of books, drawing, colour, pattern and stories.
We make Art, Design Book Covers and Tell Stories.
For thirty years we have been Artists, Designers, Educators, Public Speakers, Creative Nomads and Heritage Crafts People.
Nice to meet you.
We believe creativity has an important role in our society and stories in the form of art, design and writing provide a vital gateway to our continued education and open doors to the imagination of others. At their best stories can challenge the way we view world and creativity gives these crucial ideas form and permanence. For thirty years we have found and lost, read, watched and listened to many fairy tales, folk-stories, discovered ancient symbols and thought about the reality of things (we believe stories are the orienting structures of our lives and language shapes reality).
Our artists books, paintings, journals, street art, pamphlets and zines have been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Leeds City Art Gallery, Hotel Maria Kapel (NL), The Enschede Academy of Visual Arts (NL), East Gallery (Norwich), Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), Permanent Gallery (Brighton) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Manchester Craft and Design Centre, K Gallery (California) SHOWROOM (Austria), Bureau Gallery (Manchester), PrintROOM’s AmsterdamZineJam and The Anti Design Festival (London)
DESIGN & COMMERCIAL WORK
We currently focus on book cover design and editorial based projects for independent and commercial publishers, research departments, universities, cultural organisations, academics and artisan makers. We have recently completed projects funded by The National Centre for Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich University of the Arts, The Lithuanian Culture Institute, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Pro Helvetia, LTI Korea and The Nippon Foundation.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP IN ARTS EDUCATION
Glen has been working in the Creative Industry for over thirty years and has been a Leading Design Educator for over twenty years. He has been an Educator to some of the most influential Graphic Designers and Notorious Creative Leaders around today and has taught students from all over the world. He has developed a deep understanding for mentoring designers which empowers and celebrates individuality and fosters a critical approach to creativity through curiosity, play and discovery. He is course leader for a unique rabble-rousing bunch of story-tellers on the BA (Hons) Design for Publishing and BA (Hons) Graphic Design Programmes at Norwich University of the Arts.
WORDS ART PHOTOGRAPHY By Glen & Rebecca (aka Studio GRRR)
Words are reproduced without permission and published as a matter of public interest.
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BLOG AND STORIES
Our Blog is a curated collection of articles, stories, reprints, photographic essays, conversations and inspriation written for the curious minds of analogue people living in a digital world. Through our life’s journey we stumble through layered narratives found in naturally occurring intersections between the metaphysical realm, and terrestrial landscape, collecting spell fragments from a cast of unlikely collaborators.
Angels, demons, gods, ancestors, aliens tell of a bizarre world brimming with legacy broadcast media, music, philosophy, literature, fictional characters, and the simple truth of everyday life and death.
From this confused debris we conjure and construe interconnecting polychromic stories (we think stories and light are the orienting structures of our lives) about art, creative practice, communication theory, how language shapes our reality, mental and physical health, comedy, music, the politics of bullshit and lashings of esoteric flim-flam.
