Ochre & CircuitFounding Story & Commitment to Careful Writing
Ochre & Circuit began because two of us, a former gallery curator and a newsroom fact-checker, kept noticing the same thing: most writing about art and artificial intelligence was either produced by the very tools it described or written in a hurry with no one checking the claims. We wanted a smaller, slower publication instead.
We work directly with the artists, curators and technologists we write about, recording every interview and checking exhibition dates against public gallery records rather than press releases. A second editor reads every article against its sources before it is published, from our single office on Oldham Street in Manchester.
We earn through reader subscriptions and partnerships that are listed openly on our about page, with no undisclosed payment from the galleries or software makers we cover. When we get a detail wrong, we say so on the article itself, and we welcome a reader's correction as readily as a compliment.
How We Keep Our Standards
Every article is checked by a second editor against its recorded sources before publication, and any confirmed error is corrected openly on the page itself. We would rather publish less often than publish something we have not verified.
Direct Sourcing
We interview the people involved rather than rewriting someone else's report. Every quotation in a published piece can be traced back to a recording or a written record.
Open Correction
We log every confirmed mistake on the article where it appeared, dated and visible to any reader. Nothing is quietly edited out of sight.
Editorial Independence
We choose stories because they are worth telling, not because a gallery or software company has paid for coverage. Our funding sources are listed plainly on our about page.
We built Ochre & Circuit because too much writing on art and artificial intelligence reads like either marketing copy or alarmist noise. Every piece we publish is checked against named sources before it reaches a reader, and we correct what we get wrong in the open.
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