I closed my last blog with the famous words of Meri Ngāroto of Te Aupōuri: ‘He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata!’ I find myself ruminating on those words once again as I consider: this is my final official Te Papa Tupu blog post. Out of all the things I […]
Stop Giving the Baby to Rumplestiltskin: Artificial Intelligence and the Arts An opinion piece, complete with references and memes It’s inescapable, isn’t it? You don’t even have to be on the internet to see it around anymore. Signs of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are everywhere around us these days, leaking off our screens and into ‘meatspace’. […]
In February this year, I was heavily pregnant with my second child. So heavy, in fact, that a major connective ligament gave up, and I could barely walk. I made the choice to submit my manuscript to Te Papa Tupu nice and early, because if I was already having this sort of problem, who knew […]
It has been, at time of writing, less than three weeks since Te Papa Tupu Workshop One. How is that possible? Borne aloft in the whirlwind of those two days, it felt as if months of mātauranga were being imparted. I know I’m not the only one who felt that way. Yet, coming down from […]
