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26 April 2024 Columbia Journalism Review
<p>What would social media look like if it served the public interest?</p>
25 April 2024 Nightingale
23 April 2024 The Baffler
I have never engaged with the world so deeply as an artist.
22 April 2024 MIT Technology Review
21 April 2024 NOEMA
Somaliland’s poets have toppled governments and ushered in peace.
19 April 2024 aaronsw.com
18 April 2024 arun.is
How throughout history, increasing computing capability has lead to increasing burden on users.
17 April 2024 ted.com
How the setting for “Slumdog Millionaire” became the location for a unique and vibrant pushcart museum
16 April 2024 Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg
The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
15 April 2024 issue-journal.ch
Communication is commonly understood as a process to share ideas, be it through written and oral language, or various non-verbal signs such as sounds, body language, smell, and a variety of visual cues. It is also largely agreed that the communication can be divided into three parts: the sender, the message, and the receiver. In high stake contexts, such as the military, communication needs to be efficient for matter of life and death: “For communication to be ‘successful’, the audience must not only get the message, but must interpret the message in the way the sender intended.”1 In this case, it is important that the sender and receiver share the same precise code, and that the message leaves no room for interpretation.
14 April 2024 e-flux.com
Luis Camnitzer on useless knowledge in art.
13 April 2024 Time
“We need online spaces that treat us as the unique, moral beings we are”
12 April 2024 WIRED
We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.
11 April 2024 LPE Project
Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…
9 April 2024 jofreeman.com
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
8 April 2024 The Baffler
A new publishing company called Authors Equity styles itself as a Silicon Valley-esque disruptor. How it will affect a beleaguered book industry?
7 April 2024 The Baffler
An internet linguist dives into the sludge of gesture and easily reproduced half-thought that we speak through online.
6 April 2024 Harvard Business Review
Design thinking is, at its core, a strategy to preserve and defend the status-quo – and an old strategy at that. Design thinking privileges the designer above the people she serves, and in doing so limits participation in the design process. In doing so, it limits the scope for truly innovative ideas, and makes it hard to solve challenges that are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty – like climate change — where doing things the way we always have done them is a sure recipe for disaster. The alternative is a design process where the designer is dethroned and where design is less a step-by-step march through a set of stages and more of a space where people can come together and interpret the ways that changing conditions challenge the meanings, patterns, and relationships that they had long taken for granted.
5 April 2024 instituteforpostnaturalstudies.org
Through interventions in specific places in the environment and a series of devices that blur the natural and cultural lines, we invite the experience and estrangement to be part of a complex ecosystem. Soft Matter, Deep Time activates a multi-species framework where biology, geology, and fiction dissolve.
4 April 2024 walkerart.org
Chin Music Press has a partial translation of a Japanese article about publishers making text available via cell phone.
3 April 2024 ssense
Ossian Melin and Arvida Byström use 3D scanning to manipulate and examine the signifiers of luxury.
2 April 2024 tacticaltech.org
Tinder, Grinder, Happn, OkCupid ...For the millions of people who use online dating platforms, potential dates, hook-ups or even love are now just a click or a swipe away. The question is: At what cost? The data we give away might seem like a small price to pay for the possibility of finding love, but what is happening in the background? How data is collected, analysed, sold, traded or reused might be more complicated than we think.
1 April 2024 Pioneer Wokrs
As Pioneer Works plans to construct a public observatory for New York City, Trudy E. Bell recounts the city’s history of false starts and failures.
31 March 2024 Ill Will
Ill Will is an independent, volunteer-run web publication since 2013 • For an autonomous, joyful, and dignified life in common
30 March 2024 e-flux.com
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29 March 2024 Tiff S Mak
How can we re-imagine technology informed by nature and indigenous values of care? —Rachel Chak Growing up living with and between cultures, Rachel is inspired by the indigenous and local communities that she has interacted with, as well as exploring ways to connect place-based knowledge for regen
28 March 2024 issue-journal.ch
Coding occupies a weird place within the field of graphic design. While it is recognized as a practice that profoundly shapes our artificial environment, its actual adoption within schools and studios is still minoritarian, to say the least. Moreover, as some of the interviews in this volume show, g…
27 March 2024 damnmagazine.net
A Magazine for Opinions on Contemporary Culture
26 March 2024 Dark Properties
Designer Elana Schlenker on transforming her Pittsburgh yard into an ecological oasis.
25 March 2024 Mousse Magazine and Publishing
Post-1960s attempts to exit the white cube landed us squarely back in it. What's left is a culture in which artists produce works littered with
24 March 2024 stackingthebricks.com
I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan
23 March 2024 ribbonfarm
The hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web. If the bit is the quark of information, the hyperlink is the hydrogen molecule. It shapes the microstructure of inf…
22 March 2024 ambient.institute
The internet is where I have always made myself.
21 March 2024 technorhetoric.net
20 March 2024 Iris van Rooij
Perhaps one of the most persistent myths in science—one that also pervades public perception of science—is that it provides a value-free method to arrive at objective Truth, with a big ‘T’. This my…
18 March 2024 n+1
But what’s the alternative to our formulaic norm? Far from uncovering some definitive ur-statement, the selective history of artist statements offered here shows them to be as varied and complex as the conditions that brought them forth. Comprehensibility, tastefulness, and brevity were clearly not always the goals.
17 March 2024 Spike
Technoromanticism may find the sublime by devirtualizing online culture – or usher in an end-times of Gothic circuit board worship.
16 March 2024 Diakron
I have no solution either, other than to say that, in general, I am more interested in things that have the effect of art but which refuse…
15 March 2024 chrbutler.com
A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object. Think back to when you were a child, to when you first encountered something
14 March 2024 Ribbonfarm Studio
Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality
12 March 2024 The Biblioracle Recommends
Pitchfork goes down. Some books and writers who embody what it means to consider, rather than just consume art and media.
11 March 2024 The Verge
AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.
10 March 2024 Brad Frost
TL;DR: This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components. A Global Design System would improve the quality and accessibility of the world’s web experiences, save the world’s web designers and developer
8 March 2024 Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI’s “Sora,” a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI’s DALL-E turns text into images. These videos — which are usually
6 March 2024 Rest of World
5 March 2024 aw.network
Conversation systems construct and are constructed by the worlds in which they occur. They represent a form of stigmergy, where an environment becomes a medium for communication rather than its container.
4 March 2024 WIRED
Bluntly: Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are not human-compatible. As long as we hang on to interfaces as we now know them, computers will remain inherently frustrating, upsetting, and stressful. GUIs have become so pervasive (or is it perversive?) that many computer users can’t even think about anything else as a human-computer interface. Mobile Office magazine […]
3 March 2024 The Namibian
If you’ve grown up with social media, chances are you have taken more photos in the last couple of decades than you will ever remember. When […]
2 March 2024 Boston Review
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
1 March 2024 newdesigncongress.org
What does it take to assemble a digital identity? What do different implementations of digital identity share? An abridged introduction to digital identity as part of a larger New Design Congress research project.
29 February 2024 MAEKAN
There’s so much “stuff” in this world, physical and digital.
28 February 2024 solarprotocol.net
A group exhibition hosted on Solar Protocol
27 February 2024 e-flux.com
Anna Kornbluh on the vogue for immediacy in critical theory.
26 February 2024 Maggie Appleton
Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project
25 February 2024 Harvey
Recently, a debate has emerged over whether Creative Commons licenses are still relevant in the context of how images are being collected, used, and distributed in image training datasets related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and in particular face recognition technologies (FRT).
24 February 2024 e-flux.com
Boris Groys on the utopian polyphony of the novel
22 February 2024 bryanlehrer.com
A story about what happens when you try to fix the internet
21 February 2024 Immerse
I’m waiting, eyes glued to the dark room on my screen, headphones in my ears, listening for the sound of him. I hear a knock. I scramble…
20 February 2024 e-flux.com
Bioclimatically conditioned public spaces can bring equity to the city by making comfort more accessible. But these public spaces could also be something more.
19 February 2024 Logic(s) Magazine
An explainer of language models and how they work, and their limits.
18 February 2024 tonsky.me
17 February 2024 newdesigncongress.org
16 February 2024 CJ Eller
Why do we stop at a digital garden as a metaphor? What could it mean for a garden to enter digital experience beyond being a way to descr…
15 February 2024 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
14 February 2024 Nieman Lab
“Paradoxically, the future might involve a high degree of automation to achieve a more authentically human journalism.”
13 February 2024 hyperlink.academy
Visions for more intimate social spaces on the internet — creative and cozy environments, with real friends, doing things that make us feel good — mapping vibes & setting intentions for our role in the small-scale socialverse
12 February 2024 Eye on Design
Design and tech industries often like to paint themselves as heroes. We are promised a future of smart cities, self-driving cars, and friendly refrigerators built on a fully networked, data-driven global infrastructure, all brought to us by the kind of innovation that only design can deliver. Yet
11 February 2024 Flash Art
Agnieszka Kurant’s complex conceptual practice can be described in many ways: as research into the invisible, as a study of algorithmic futurity and digital capitalism, an exploration of living a
10 February 2024 e-flux.com
Matteo Pasquinelli proposes a labor theory of automation.
9 February 2024 e-flux.com
Performance artist Amol K Patil on gesture as a visual language.
8 February 2024 shiftspace.pub
Considering the terroir of new media
7 February 2024 Sebastian Schmieg
In 2008, the science-fiction movie Sleep Dealer by Alex Rivera envisioned a future which couldn’t be more timely: the border between Mexico und the US has been closed. Therefore, immigrant workers in the US have been replaced by robots. However, these robots are remotely controlled by people in Mexico who have their bodies plugged directly into the […]
6 February 2024 walkerart.org
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hippie Modernism, the ongoing series Counter Currents invites a range of individuals and collectives—from artist Dread Scott and artist-archivist Josh MacPhee to Adam Michaels and Experimental Jetset—to share how countercultural artists and designers of the 1960s and ’70s have influenced their work and thinking today. Here, Charles Broskoski of Are.na discusses the reverberating influence of Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib / Dream Machines—an icon of counterculture which anticipated the interconnectedness of the World Wide Web—on the making and evolution of Are.na.
5 February 2024 Branch
Instead of doom and despair, we came to center conversations about solidarity, the redistribution of opportunities and resources from the few to the many, and to protect ‘joy and hope [as] the ultimate resistance to domination’. We came to examine the collective actions we need to reconnect and tran…
4 February 2024 Dave Rupert
Sarah Hendren’s What Can a Body Do? is a beautiful meditation on disability and the different ways bodies meet the physical world. In a word, there’s often a “mismatch” between how the world is designed and how people interact with it. There’s a chapter in the book where Hendren talks about a non-profit workshop that helps fabricate physical tools and accommodations for people with disabilities, when I read it I almost quit tech entirely.
2 February 2024 e-flux.com
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1 February 2024 Astra Magazine
Writers in the Vietnamese diaspora are too eager to signal ethnic authenticity. Have we no shame?
31 January 2024 aw.network
How do we measure the ‘liveliness’ of a world, and what does a digital physics conducive to sustained liveliness look like?.
30 January 2024 dsq-sds.org
The Gravity, The Levity: Let Us Speak of Tactile Encounters PhD candidate and sessional lecturer, Curatorial Practice, Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University Email: fayendevie@gmail.com Georgina Kleege Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Email: gkleege@berkeley.edu
29 January 2024 Mousse Magazine and Publishing
This essay highlights works of video art that critically and creatively engage the closed caption. These works toy with the caption’s limited capacity to
28 January 2024 canopycanopycanopy.com
An essay on belief, biomedicine, and the pursuit of alternative modes of care.…
27 January 2024 Leaving Evidence
There are many ways to describe intimacy. For example, there’s physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, intellectual, political, familial or sexual intimacy. But, as a physically disabled woman, th…
26 January 2024 dsq-sds.org
Readymade Code: Braille in Contemporary Visual Culture University of Manitoba Email: Vanessa.Warne@umanitoba.ca
25 January 2024 Amanda Cachia
This article will explore how I attempt to ‘disable’ the museum through my infrastructural curatorial practice, which is the basis for my scholarly research and writing. By infusing my curatorial projects with critical reflection and theoretical development, I hope to begin this process of building a new vocabulary and methodology…
24 January 2024 Colorlines
An interview with June Jordan.
23 January 2024 walkerart.org
Students with autism spectrum disorders need routine, strong boundaries, and repetition when being taught, right? Not necessarily. Meta Thomas shares her journey to implementing Teaching for Artistic Behavior, a student-centered, project-based approach to arts learning in her classroom at Lionsgate Academy. The Walker’s Education team has been observing classrooms like Thomas’s as they build education offerings for neurodiverse learners.
22 January 2024 garden3d.net
Pt. 1 - Corporate sustainability’s shortcomings
21 January 2024 OneZero
Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem
20 January 2024 Real Life
If memes reiterate the inequities between black creators and white appropriators, can they also move us into a new collective blackness?
19 January 2024 Real Life
New, technologized forms of anti-Asian appropriation betray both old prejudices and new desires
18 January 2024 New Statesman
Online content has transformed into a sedative.
17 January 2024 e-flux.com
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16 January 2024 Rolling Stone
The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.
15 January 2024 Tacticaltech
The lived experiences of digital platform users is at odds with how these systems are designed. Weaponised design - a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system - is faciliated by designers who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical.
14 January 2024 Public Seminar
Few people would disagree with an aspirational goal of a truly caring society—but what is a truly caring society? And what is the role of the state in a radical future? What kinds of reforms move us closer to a goal of a caring world, rather than setting us back?
13 January 2024 mirror.xyz
This project is an exercise in collective imagination about a future where economic value is aligned to the ecological health of our planet, and what the systems might look like to make that future real. The first essay, Undualing, explores foundational assumptions on the nature of prosperity which perpetuate our era of mass extinction. Unlearning these assumptions introduces poignant technical and ethical questions to be explored in the subsequent essays, Commons Sense and Market in the Temple. Our goal is to reformulate a shared understanding of social and economic well-being which is no longer reliant on the division between a human society that is here, close at hand and a wild nature that is out there, and far away. In framing these challenges, I hope to contribute to a common vocabulary in technology, ethics, and ecology which in turn, supports a diversity of approaches to meaningfully engage regenerative economics.
12 January 2024 Maggie Appleton
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
10 January 2024 OFLUXO
Finding Place in the Digitalby NICHOLAS O’BRIEN Nicholas O’ Brien, The Wanderer, 2012 Recently, it seems that many conversations regarding space have shifted into conversations regarding pl…
9 January 2024 x-traonline.org
8 January 2024 e-flux.com
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7 January 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books
Lori Emerson excavates the history of alternative internets like AfroNet — and concludes our current monolithic internet is the offspring of colonialist mindsets.…
6 January 2024 Maggie Appleton
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
5 January 2024 Are
The mediating aesthetics of Google apps, from Street View to Image Search.
4 January 2024 Poetry Foundation
The digital theorist Rick Prelinger has proclaimed that archiving is the new folk art, something that is widely practiced and has unconsciously become integrated into a great many people’s lives,...
3 January 2024 OFluxo
Nicholas O' Brien, The Wanderer, 2012 Recently, it seems that many conversations regarding space have shifted into conversations regarding place. As the long term preservation of Land Art becomes more questionable,[1] institutions and academics have sought multiple solutions or new approaches to working directly with landscape as a location for cultural production.
2 January 2024 Public Announcement
Always on.
1 January 2024 e-flux.com
31 December 2023 walkerart.org
The Interface is not restricted to any given program, app, or platform. It is, rather, the very idea of how we interact with the world in every sense. With this in mind, philosopher and writer Mark Kingwell explores the nature of boredom, identifying differences between its neoliberal and philosophical manifestations—a topic in his new book and one he’ll take up during his April 17 Walker lecture.
30 December 2023 walkerart.org
Chin Music Press has a partial translation of a Japanese article about publishers making text available via cell phone.
29 December 2023 ssense
Ossian Melin and Arvida Byström use 3D scanning to manipulate and examine the signifiers of luxury.
28 December 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
For TCI x Are.na’s Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Fei Liu shares ways to show unconditional love online.
27 December 2023 The New Yorker
26 December 2023 Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
“The Three-Legged Stool” is the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure’s banner white paper: the culmination of our work here at the lab so far and our roadmap for our efforts in the coming years. It was written primarily by Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Michael Sugarman under the editorial dir…
25 December 2023 Wix Studio
When it comes to website footers, bigger is better.
24 December 2023 The Verge
Programmers who are blind pioneered accessibility software.
23 December 2023 E-flux
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. -W.E.B. Du Bois The Latin term "Civitas" is traditionally defined as the social body of the citizens united by law.
22 December 2023 arkive.net
On the corner of Avenue Tamalpais in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, a new pharmacy’s blue inflatable marketing ploy folds and dances to a Cumbia Drive remix of Madonna’s “Hung Up.” The lyrics distort in the sun, TIME GOES BY SO SLOWLY echoes over a pulse of drums. A week before, browsing a knick knack shelf in a thrift store in Ridgewood, Queens, I pick up a mug that reads THE DAYS ARE LONG BUT THE YEARS ARE SHORT. I contemplate buying it, wondering how I’d feel holding that phrase in my hand every morning. Months earlier, helping my family clean out my Abuela’s house after her death, I find instructions for my Abuelo’s wristwatch in the same sleeve of photos where he and my Abuela are on a rare vacation with their friends. A moment of leisure I never knew they had.
21 December 2023 museumapocalypse.com
Interview de Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, curatrice et chercheuse.
20 December 2023 Outland
The hacker folk art of esoteric programming languages yields insights into glitch as a practice that hijacks existing algorithms to emphasize freedom.
19 December 2023 whitney.org
By Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of digital art Walk into any given gallery or museum today, and one will presumably encounter work that used digital technologies as a tool at some point in its production, whether videos that were filmed and edited using digital cameras and post-production softwa…
18 December 2023 Marius Watz | Artist archive
[Julia Kaganskiy of The Creators Project asked me to comment on Bruce Sterling’s “Essay On The New Aesthetic” along with 5 other art & tech writers (Kyle Chayka, Jonathan Minard, Greg Borenstein, James George and Kyle McDonald). You can find the collected texts on Creators Project, below is my subje…
17 December 2023 Real Life
Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations
16 December 2023 usurpatormag.com
15 December 2023 Medium
Recently AIGA just published an article on OCAD’s efforts to create what they are calling a curriculum with a decolonial agenda. What’s…
14 December 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
For TCI x Are.na’s Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Lucy Siyao Liu shares a collection of drawing instructions.
13 December 2023 Modes of Criticism
Essay by Noel Waite on the use of allohistory as design method.
12 December 2023 atlasofplaces.com
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11 December 2023 Syllabus
Taking an Internet Walk by Spencer Chang & Kristoffer Tjalve THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT In futuristic and cyberpunk media, we were promised a technological world “indistinguishable from magic:”…
10 December 2023 johnnyrodgers.is
Personal site of Johnny Rodgers, technology designer from Vancouver.
9 December 2023 briankoberlein.com
If you filter out websites with ads, trackers, and noise, what of the Internet remains?
8 December 2023 hnr.fyi
The modern web is owned, operated, and hosted by a small number of
absolutely massive companies. They shape the way we socialise, the way
we’re able to present ourselves and our work, and make us fit into
whatever shape they want. They track us from website to website with
cookies, and make the experience of surfing the web absolutely miserable
with ads on almost every page. What if it didn’t need to be like that?
Oh wait, it doesn’t!
7 December 2023 archive.org
Clay Shirky’s writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
6 December 2023 Real Life
Even the most revolutionary technologies can’t substitute for care
5 December 2023 theindy.org
The College Hill Independent is New England’s largest alt-weekly newspaper.
4 December 2023 Atmos
For The Wild founder Ayana Young speaks with the poet, and public intellectual about the generative powers of stillness and fugitivity.
3 December 2023 Real Life
Computing has always been sourced from the knowledge of underpaid or unpaid people
2 December 2023 Real Life
On Vilém Flusser‘s philosophy of what a camera wants, and what such a perspective misses
1 December 2023 e-flux.com
McKenzie Wark on autofiction and autotheory.
30 November 2023 bryanlehrer.com
A story about what happens when you try to fix the internet
29 November 2023 Real Life
When all recordings are also hauntings
28 November 2023 e-flux.com
What people call “AI” is actually a long historical process of crystallizing collective behavior, personal data, and individual labor into privati…
27 November 2023 parametric.press
JPEG images are everywhere in our digital lives, but behind the veil of familiarity lie algorithms that remove details that are imperceptible to the human eye. This produces the highest visual quality with the smallest file size—but what does that look like? Let’s see what our eyes can’t see!
26 November 2023 The Third Rail
The late civil rights activist John Lewis spoke of the "soul-wrenching, existential struggle" that took hold in the wake of the Cruikshank ruling of 1876, which eviscerated the Fourteenth Amendment's power to prosecute violations of civil rights by state governments and gave free rein to white terrorist attacks on the formerly enslaved.
25 November 2023 kingsreview.co.uk
24 November 2023 The New Inquiry
23 November 2023 e-flux.com
22 November 2023 Longreads
21 November 2023 The Anarchist Library
Paul Buckermann On Socialist Cybernetics Accelerationist Dreams, and Tiqqun’s Nightmares
20 November 2023 The New Inquiry
Why would anyone want to believe that people who are communicating with phones have forgotten what friendship is?
19 November 2023 shiftspace.pub
A psychological model reveals how artists bring necessary friction and wisdom to our tech-preoccupied society, and to our future
18 November 2023 e-flux.com
A beautiful perspective on the importance of maintenance for all things we build. It applies directly to digital infrastructure – what is built, should be maintained, and maintenance work is as important as design and construction for the overall value of that which is built.
17 November 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
For our series with Are.na, designer Édouard U. advocates for conceptual wandering as a way to find and make meaning.
16 November 2023 Thecreativeindependent
For TCI x Are.na's Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Fei Liu shares ways to show unconditional love online.
15 November 2023 unbag
unbag is an arts & politics publication and community arts organization based in New York.
14 November 2023 Phenomenal World
The internet’s early proliferation was steeped in cyber-utopian ideals. The circumvention of censorship and gatekeeping, digital public squares, direct democracy, revitalized civic engagement, the “global village”—these were all anticipated characteristics of the internet age, premised on the notion…
13 November 2023 nationalaffairs.com
Virtual public spaces have increasingly replaced physical ones in our lives. But how should virtual spaces be governed? As policymakers set out to tame America’s nascent virtual public sphere, they would do well to consider how the conventions, laws,...
12 November 2023 e-flux.com
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11 November 2023 Eye on Design
We’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the year that best encapsulate 2020. Happy reading! Sometimes the design scene can feel like a Eurocentric monolith. Does every app need to look as if it were designed by someone in the Bay Area? Or can it reflect the location in which it was
10 November 2023 frankchimero.com
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
9 November 2023 Real Life
Information literacy is not the antidote to fake news, because the institutions for teaching it can’t be trusted either
8 November 2023 Peter Frase
Henry Farrell has a nice discussion of some recent debates about steampunk novels. He refers to Charles Stross’s complaint that much steampunk is so infatuated with gadgets and elites that it…
7 November 2023 ted-hunt.com
Design for an Entrance to the Internet; Design for an entrance to London — Design for an entrance to the InternetKristian Vistrup Madsen, RCA MA Critical Writing in Art and Design Around the year 1805, the highly revered and eccentric architect Si…
6 November 2023 2x4
What does it mean to call a graphic designer an author? Authorship, in one form or another, has been a popular term in graphic design circles, especially those at the edge of the profession, the design academies and the murky territories that exist between design and art. The word authorship has a r…
5 November 2023 Boston Review
Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.
4 November 2023 Disorganising
The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow. Sun Ra, A Joyful Noise (1980) And what would you rather I talk about at the beginning, if not this transparency whose aim was to reduce us? Because, if l don't begin there, you will see me consumed with the sullen jabber of childish refusal, convulsive and powerless.
3 November 2023 Pioneer Wokrs
What—and whom—does technology recognize?
2 November 2023 American Academy of Arts & Sciences
While people in and around the tech industry debate whether algorithms are political at all, social scientists take the politics as a given, asking instead how this politics unfolds: how algorithms concretely govern. What we call “high-tech modernism”—the application of machine learning algorithms t…
1 November 2023 e-flux.com
31 October 2023 Boston Review
30 October 2023 Bloomberg.com
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
29 October 2023 Tacticaltech
The lived experiences of digital platform users is at odds with how these systems are designed. Weaponised design - a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system - is faciliated by designers who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical.
28 October 2023 NOEMA
It’s the moment that matters.
27 October 2023 Emergence Magazine
26 October 2023 superhi.com
What does it mean to build a sustainable website? Nika spotlights two founders who are taking an eco approach.
25 October 2023 Branch
Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet. Read Issue 2.
24 October 2023 solarprotocol.net
23 October 2023 peerproduction.net
What critical power remains for Free Software? It has been a powerfully practical critique of Intellectual Property and capitalist incentives, but it is increasingly assimilated by corporations and government as part of a wider strand of open source liberalism. Perhaps the cutting edge of Free Sof…
22 October 2023 R / D
<p>An online archive of critical writing about design, from product, graphic and fashion to architecture, urbanism and beyond.</p>
21 October 2023 GRAPHITE
Img[1]: Maze screensaver from Microsoft ’95 [1] Situationism and the Internet The enduring legacy of the Situationist dérive for the 21st century may include…
20 October 2023 contemporary-home-computing.org
The requested URL /vernacular-web-2/ was not found on this server.
19 October 2023 INTERFACECRITIQUE
Me is cheap, Me is easy to control, Me is easy to channel, Me is slave of its own reflection, Me is a slave of the platforms that make the reflection glossy. Me is data. Me is data closest to metadata. This makes Me just perfect to satisfy advertisers and to sate neural networks.
18 October 2023 media-studies.ca
From The Electronic Labyrinth:
17 October 2023 cabinetmagazine.org
Getting spanked by INTERCAL
16 October 2023 mirror.xyz
New Cultures, New Worlds
15 October 2023 n+1
Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to turn them into . . . this?
14 October 2023 Why Do We Interface?
In this micro book we look at the past, present, and future of interfaces and how they allow us to utilize information in ways that change what it means to be human.
13 October 2023 so-far.xyz
From geopolitical psyops to experiments with alternative economies, games don’t just distract us from reality but reshape it in significant ways. Writer Rafi Abdullah sets out a concept of gaming as a powerful cultural phenomenon.
12 October 2023 The Outline
11 October 2023 hypha.coop
Community Memory (CM) was the first computer-based public bulletin board, operating from 1973 through 1992 with most terminals located in public spaces in Berkeley, California, such as libraries, s…
10 October 2023 Real Life
Even through a screen, machines can read our body language
9 October 2023 tilde.town
8 October 2023 tomcritchlow.com
Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption
7 October 2023 preventdefault.net
6 October 2023 MIT Technology Review
A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media
5 October 2023 artforum.com
4 October 2023 MIT Technology Review
From million-dollar slide shows to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone, a bit of show business never hurt plain old business.
3 October 2023 usurpatormag.com
I Wanna Be Software The question of transhumanism Published Aug 10 2023 Two weeks ago, Grimes released her new song “I Wanna Be Software,” an anthem of…
2 October 2023 Rhizome
A desktop is a changing record of visual decisions. It speaks to the aesthetics of a particular work-flow and personal space. A desktop exhibits a diagram of your organizational habits and a screenshot of it captures a brief moment of its functional evolution. The image of your desktop becomes an in…
1 October 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
For TCI x Are.na’s Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Fei Liu shares ways to show unconditional love online.
30 September 2023 Deem
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity, by Annika Hansteen-Izora for Deem
29 September 2023 E-flux
Is the internet dead? This is not a metaphorical question. It does not suggest that the internet is dysfunctional, useless or out of fashion. It asks what happened to the internet after it stopped being a possibility. The question is very literally whether it is dead, how it died and whether anyone killed it.
28 September 2023 NOEMA
Grafting the lessons of old cooperatively owned companies to the online economy.
27 September 2023 walkerart.org
“If the web is a built environment increasingly designed and constructed by corporations, tool-making offers users a way to regain some of their lost agency.” In the sixth edition of our Soundboard series, artist and writer Gary Zhexi Zhang shares his response to the question, “How can we reenvision…
26 September 2023 Hyperallergic
Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.
25 September 2023 networkcultures.org
24 September 2023 Wesley Aptekar-Cassels
A common identity scheme for websites is to give users pages like example.com/username. Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, Pinterest, and many other websites use this model. Reddit, TikTok, Mastodon, Lobsters, and several others use a slightly more conservative version of this, with a prefix (either @ or u…
23 September 2023 Tumblr
Updates on the book by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, published by Harvard University Press/Belknap Press
22 September 2023 e-flux.com
21 September 2023 The New Yorker
20 September 2023 Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
“The Three-Legged Stool” is the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure’s banner white paper: the culmination of our work here at the lab so far and our roadmap for our efforts in the coming years. It was written primarily by Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci and Michael Sugarman under the editorial dir…
19 September 2023 LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
18 September 2023 Distributed Web of Care
I consider the internet as an environment, a digital space where limits are imposed upon access just as in physical environments. Reflective of the society which we inhabit, discriminatory principles are embedded in the digital space through racist, sexist, and ableist ideologies and exclusionary algorithms. Jeff Chang writes in his recent book We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation , "Segregation is still linked to racial disparities of every kind.
17 September 2023 Nodes in a social network
I think one of the defining characteristics of human beings is their tendency to build infrastructures. Many animals do have tools, basically “tech”, but I think few if not none establish these wonderous objects. Infrastructures are not just tech, or tech that’s around for a long time. Infrastructur…
8 September 2023 C/Change
Mutual learning has been explicitly stated as a core tenet in the canon of participatory design, socially engaged art and other community-oriented and -driven “making” processes. Yet, what is mutual learning and how does it concretize in the world?
7 September 2023 Real Life
A few weeks ago, Nikki Stevens, Jacqueline Wernimont, and I published an exposé on the use of non-consensually gathered, highly sensitive facial-recognition datasets by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
6 September 2023 NOEMA
The eccentric logician Kurt Gödel revolutionized the study of mathematics with his famous incompleteness theorem, but the most compelling implications of his hypothesis might be in what it means for the study of the mind and consciousness.
4 September 2023 Ben Landau-Taylor
3 September 2023 ucla.edu
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/
2 September 2023 NOEMA
Like the microscope and the telescope did centuries ago, new technologies to capture and analyze sound are leading to startling discoveries about what the eyes cannot see.
1 September 2023 Outland
Digital art is finding felicitous ways to migrate from personal screens to public space that bypass the museum at Art on the Mart, Times Square, and beyond.
30 August 2023 contemporary-home-computing.org
“Any error may vitiate the entire output of the device. For the recognition and correction of such malfunctions intelligent human intervention will in general be necessary.”
— John von Neumann, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, 1945
29 August 2023 averyreview.com
The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media.
27 August 2023 CCCB LAB
Slow Thinking hopes to promote bilateral relationships with non-human entities who live and communicate on different timescales.
26 August 2023 Hyperallergic
The trans nonbinary artist, writer, and game designer employs data as their medium to expand on the broader “garden” and the often violent ways in which we preserve its beauty.
25 August 2023 Container Magazine
24 August 2023 E-flux
"Artificial intelligence is not the answer to organized stupidity"-Johan Sjerpstra. "Please don't email me unless you're going to pay me"-Molly Soda. "Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter"-Laurie Penny. "Wonder how many people going on about the necessity of free speech and rational debate have blocked and muted trolls?"-Nick Srnicek.
23 August 2023 newdesigncongress.org
Between the digital realm and our physical world is a third space — hybrid, ephemeral and poorly understood. We call it the Para-Real, an emotional and transformative state that emerges when the electronic and the real collide, and — just for a moment — creates a space that can only exist at the ex…
22 August 2023 Real Life
On Vilém Flusser‘s philosophy of what a camera wants, and what such a perspective misses
21 August 2023 The Anarchist Library
George Crowley, Louise Crowley Beyond Automation 1964, November Originally published in Monthly Review November, 1964
20 August 2023 danmcquillan.org
I propose we look at data science through the historical lens of phrenology. This is not to denigrate data science but to take it seriously in it’s claim to be a science, and examine its parallels with the methodological and social trajectories of phrenology as a scientific discourse.
My aim is no…
19 August 2023 networkcultures.org
I’m driving recklessly. The city unfolds as I whip past shops, offices, and other cars. All of a sudden, I see a heavy truck rushing towards me at top speed. I realize that I’m driving on the wron
18 August 2023 Real Life
Weather apps can’t tell us what we want to know
17 August 2023 networkcultures.org
16 August 2023 mirror.xyz
Feral computing asks how technology can be a vector towards animism; of learning how to locate ourselves within a big world, and in the process getting more entangled in it.
15 August 2023 e-flux.com
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14 August 2023 chrbutler.com
A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object. Think back to when you were a child, to when you first encountered something
13 August 2023 usurpatormag.com
12 August 2023 Stephan Ango
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve an…
11 August 2023 The White Review
10 August 2023 Subconscious
9 August 2023 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
7 August 2023 Flat Journal
FLAT is a journal for theoretical and critical texts, interviews, reviews, projects, and experiments that engage with contemporary conversations surrounding emerging media in the arts. FLAT is designed, curated, and produced by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from UCLA’s department of…
6 August 2023 walkerart.org
Music these days, right? The amount of music being released or performed has always exceeded the amount of time required to listen to all of it, but the pace at which this is happening now makes our current musical climate ridiculously incomprehensible–which is to say: literally beyond the grasp of…
4 August 2023 github.io
Thesis 2017
3 August 2023 brandur.org
A few words on the Unix philosophy of building small programs that do one thing well, and compose for comprehensive functionality.
2 August 2023 kayserifserif.place
1 August 2023 New_ Public
31 July 2023 Distributed Web of Care
by Mindy Seu, DWC Artist in Residence
30 July 2023 shiftspace.pub
29 July 2023 digitalfeministcollective.net
One of the feminist practices key to my teaching and research is a feminist practice of citation.
27 July 2023 display.cz
This is a book for those who lie defeated by history and by the present. It isn’t a manual to turn the current defeat into a future triumph, but a rumour about a passage hidden within the battlefield leading to a forest beyond it.[^1] I began to write this book in the late autumn of 2016, at the tim…
26 July 2023 Rhizome
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
25 July 2023 knightcolumbia.org
23 July 2023 nickarner.com
19 July 2023 neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
18 July 2023 E-flux
Artists like to role-play scenarios in order to max-out concepts to their logical ends. Art is the space where practices that cannot function within generic constraints run up against the walls and expose fissures in the structures they are working in.
16 July 2023 ribbonfarm
I’ve been experimenting lately with aphorisms. Pithy one-liners of the sort favored by writers like La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). My goal was to turn a relatively big idea, the sort I would n…
15 July 2023 The New Yorker
Meet Jacob Bakkila and Thomas Bender, two major players in the wide, weird world of online “performance mischief.”
14 July 2023 oritgat.com
First published on Rhizome. Published in book form in Best of Rhizome 2012 by Link Editions. I once heard Leon Botstein, the President of Bard College, compare books to stairs. “They’ve invented the elevator,” he said, “but sometimes you still wa…
13 July 2023 Rhizome
Collectable.art by Bunny Rogers and Nozlee Samadzadeh is part of First Look: Real Artists Ship, a selection of works from recent editions of Seven on Seven. It wasn't long into my collaboration with Bunny Rogers for Rhizome's Seven on Seven conference in 2017 when we realized our similarities might outnumber our perceived differences.
12 July 2023 The Alliance
11 July 2023 taeyoonchoi.com
10 July 2023 Logic(s) Magazine
9 July 2023 Rhizome
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
6 July 2023 Phenomenal World
4 July 2023 The History of the Web
The word homepage came into popular use in the mid to late 90’s, but it’s origin dates back to the web’s beginning.
2 July 2023 nocategories.net
What is hypertext? Where did it come from and where is it going? Is it art?
29 June 2023 electronic book review › digital futures of literature, theory, criticism, and the arts
Digital utopianism is still with us. It is with us despite having been tempered by network logistics and an all-too-reasonable demand for ‘content.’ Admittedly, New Media has aged. It has acquired a history or at least some genuine engagement with the reality principle, now that the Net is accepted…
28 June 2023 MODEM
Our devices are increasingly becoming the primary medium through which we relate to one another. Through a series of speculative hardware interventions, Networked Intimacy envisions the potential of interpersonal relationships in the connected age.
27 June 2023 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
25 June 2023 Pioneer Wokrs
23 June 2023 Cavi
In January 2013, a picture of a young man sitting on a park bench while typing on a mechanical typewriter went viral on the popular website Reddit. It had been designed in the typical style of an "image macro" or "meme" (Klok 16-19): On top of the photograph, bold white letters in the Impact typeface sarcastically stated that "You're not a real hipster [...]
17 June 2023 The Baffler
Ben Smith’s book on the history of the viral internet doesn’t truly reckon with the costs of traffic worship.
16 June 2023 Syllabus
Again, again by Rachel Meade Smith If I had a motto, it would be: no new things unless they’re old. The world is overfull, brimming with junk, the kind we can hold and the invisible kind that satur…
12 June 2023 Pioneer Wokrs
How Aarati Akkapeddi leverages machine bias as a practice of self-reflection.
9 June 2023 New Left Review
An artist considers a new form of machinic representation: the statistical rendering of large datasets, indexed to the probable rather than the real of photography; to the uncanny composite rather than the abstraction of the graph.
6 June 2023 e-flux Supercommunity
4 June 2023 transmediale.de
2 June 2023 shiftspace.pub
Collecting, sharing, and creating the Cyberfeminism Index
28 May 2023 superhi.com
How much of life are we cropping out? Nika reflects on this vital question in a brief history of aspect ratios in tech.
27 May 2023 Outland
New Models describes the shape of media now, where legacy outlets are noise and communities are filters through which information is accessed.
25 May 2023 Document Journal
24 May 2023 Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians typically appreciate either generic or exceptional beauty in their work, but one type is more useful in describing the universe.
21 May 2023 Maggie Appleton
14 May 2023 Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
This is an entry in our Keyword series, where we try to define the terms you’ll often hear when people talk about building a better Internet and put those keywords in their current context. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, people and organizations needed a new virtual space to host all ki…
10 May 2023 Maggie Appleton
There are and research groups and thought leaders and . But more than anything, people are using the term to describe a new class of software. Tools for thought is now a category tag in the databases of venture capital firms. The phrase appears on the landing page of every hot new knowledge management app: Even when it doesn't appear verbatim, we can see it in the subtext.
9 May 2023 Emreed
2023 will be remembered as an important year in the history of videogames, and in culture and curatorship in general.
7 May 2023 Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Tracing the evolution of tech’s three eras, and why the fourth era — the Metaverse — is defined by its bifurcation with the physical world.
6 May 2023 Hypha
"Does the internet dream of physical spaces?" A hypothetical question someone could have, quickly scrawled in mid-thought, posted on a message board in the early-aughts that has since disappeared from its now expired domain.
3 May 2023 Grow by Ginkgo
2 May 2023 Seeda School
On automation anxiety reminding us of the most important work
29 April 2023 rodneybrooks.com
This is the first post in an intended series on what is the current state of Artificial Intelligence capabilities, and what we can expect in the relative short term. I will be at odds with the more outlandish claims that are circulating in the press, and amongst what I consider an alarmist group tha…
28 April 2023 Futuress
A palace of memories for collective imagination قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
27 April 2023 NOEMA
Governments in the digital age face difficult choices in negotiating with powerful technology companies and citizens without losing legitimacy or succumbing to unforeseen threats.
26 April 2023 Nautilus
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
25 April 2023 Distributed Web of Care
I consider the internet as an environment, a digital space where limits are imposed upon access just as in physical environments. Reflective of the society which we inhabit, discriminatory principles are embedded in the digital space through racist, sexist, and ableist ideologies and exclusionary algorithms. Jeff Chang writes in his recent book We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation , "Segregation is still linked to racial disparities of every kind.
24 April 2023 Nodes in a social network
I think one of the defining characteristics of human beings is their tendency to build infrastructures. Many animals do have tools, basically “tech”, but I think few if not none establish these wonderous objects. Infrastructures are not just tech, or tech that’s around for a long time. Infrastructur…
23 April 2023 Aeon
The 'cloud' is not an intangible monolith. It's a messy, swelling tangle of data centres, fibre optic cables, cellular towers and networked devices that spans the globe. From the tropical megalopolis of Singapore to the remote Atacama Desert, or the glacial extremes of Antarctica, the material infrastructure of the cloud is becoming ubiquitous and expanding as more users come online and the digital divide closes.
22 April 2023 Forgotten Worlds
How the internet killed video game magazines
21 April 2023 WINDOW RESEARCH INSTITUTE
We humans seem to enjoy the view we get from behind windows. Window seats on the bullet train, on an…
19 April 2023 redpepper.org.uk
Sophie Lewis assesses Xenofeminism and its close comrades, bedfellows and associates
15 April 2023 frankchimero.com
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
14 April 2023 Medium
By Jutta Haider and Malte Rödl In its 2022 Environmental Report, Google (as in all its previous environmental reports) describes the company's positive impact on the environment and all the good it does for the climate.
13 April 2023 Branch
The internet is the biggest machine in the world, and even now, in 2021 it still mostly runs on fossil fuels. We must build a greener internet writes Chris Adams
12 April 2023 Medium
The web has an immense influence on our daily life and the social relationships we construct, making undeniable the importance of internet culture and its associated artistic creations.
11 April 2023 London Review of Books
A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind.
10 April 2023 Medium
A few years ago, too much Internet just meant I got a manageable stomachache scrolling through a relationship-exhibitionist friend's yucky trip to Puerto Vallarta. But my tolerance has dropped, and its effects are hitting me harder - now, too much Internet means I get explosive diarrhea from a single, all-caps HuffPost headline.
9 April 2023 The Baffler
In Lincolnshire, England, the local police force has indicated that they will be testing out a kind of "emotion recognition" technology on CCTV footage which they collect around Gainsborough, a town in the county.
8 April 2023 after us
Symbolic language can help us grasp the nature and power of what is coming
7 April 2023 Container Magazine
6 April 2023 idlewords.com
3 April 2023 Architectural Review
We think of architectural regulations as being there to ensure that buildings are safe for the public. But what if a building's harm is not caused by unexpected structural failure but by the building performing exactly as intended? Can a building designed to facilitate human rights violations amount to a violation in itself?
2 April 2023 Emergence Magazine
1 April 2023 The Nextographer
31 March 2023 The Atlantic
29 March 2023 The Baffler
Countering the politics of memory practiced by Viktor Orbán in Hungary.
26 March 2023 otherinter.net
24 March 2023 mirror.xyz
Even though we are indeed building a curation protocol, writing an article about curation while trying to not alienate any of the very diverse stakeholders that form part of the JPG microverse, was a really hard task.
23 March 2023 nabeelqu.co
18 March 2023 Smithsonian Magazine
17 March 2023 The Hmm
Lilian Stolk diving into TikTok’s machine learning recommendation algorithm.
16 March 2023 Atmos
As humans start to pay more attention to them, fungi are changing how we see the story of life on our planet. Just ask Merlin Sheldrake.
15 March 2023 Real Life
What we lose when we go wireless
14 March 2023 Dissent Magazine
13 March 2023 danmcquillan.org
12 March 2023 Numb at the Lodge
11 March 2023 LibrarianShipwreck
“The computer has long been a solution looking for problems—the ultimate technological fix which insulates us from having to look at problems.” – Joseph Weizenbaum (1983) Trying to kee…
10 March 2023 The Dirtyverse
9 March 2023 aaronzlewis.com
How did the internet disrupt 20th century timekeeping systems and spark an insurgence of alternative historical narratives? How do old media institutions try (and fail) to keep up with the narratives of online subcultures? How does the immediate accessibility of so many alt histories undermine our a…
8 March 2023 tomcritchlow.com
7 March 2023 hfg-karlsruhe.de
Computer vision changes how people see the world. It mediates the relationship between input and output, abstracting reality through algorithmic transformations. Computer vision acts as optical middleware, intercepting reality and projecting objectivity through an inherited interface of truth. Compu…
6 March 2023 Ungated
The Pattern, and the Battle for the Soul of the Internet
5 March 2023 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
4 March 2023 cca.qc.ca
Mike Pepi revisits his text of 2014 “Is a Museum a Database?: Institutional Conditions in Net Utopia”
3 March 2023 Jeffreymoro
I gave this talk as a part of the ASAP 2019 conference Ecologies of the Present in College Park, MD. This is a talk about two technologies that control the planet: air conditioning and the internet. My project, as briefly as I can put it, is to argue that air conditioning and the internet are inextricable from each other in two senses.
2 March 2023 The Baffler
How did the threat of nuclear war become little more than a footnote to the dread machinations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
1 March 2023 VICE
We asked a selection of writers, artists and technologists to weigh in on Bruce Sterling’s incisive appraisal of The New Aesthetic.
28 February 2023 Bloomberg
In the 1990s, AOL and Netscape got Americans onto the web, but it was Geocities—with its suburban-style “neighborhoods”—that made them feel at home.
27 February 2023 laboriacuboniks.net
Xenofeminism indexes the desire to construct an alien future with a triumphant X on a mobile map.
26 February 2023 Pioneer Wokrs
Mystery Science Theater 3000 turned spectatorship into our #1 sport.
25 February 2023 Sidecar
1947-2022.
24 February 2023 mondotheque.be
Dušan Barok
22 February 2023 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
21 February 2023 Square
Jargon—we love to hate it but sometimes we can’t write without it.
20 February 2023 HIIG
Why is Artificial Intelligence so commonly depicted as a machine with a human brain? Read how misleading metaphors became so prevalent.
19 February 2023 Logic Magazine
The cloud wasn’t imposed from above. It came from below.
18 February 2023 are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
17 February 2023 Real Life
When maps become algorithms and algorithms become maps
15 February 2023 Social Imaginaries Project
14 February 2023 Knowing without Seeing
Examining the Transparency Ideal
13 February 2023 Novum Newsletter
Fewer friends, relationships on the decline, delayed adulthood, trust at an all-time low, and many diseases of despair. The prognosis is not great.
12 February 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
Capitalism runs on scarcity, and I think care promotes abundance...
11 February 2023 The New Inquiry
10 February 2023 uchicago.edu
8 February 2023 LPE Project
7 February 2023 Galaxy Brain
Kate Lindsay on TikTok, the influencer trickle-down, and what social media breaks in our brains
6 February 2023 Gawker
In the end, we’re all bored apes
5 February 2023 Allison Posts
Spell check is a “straightening device”
4 February 2023 github.io
3 February 2023 thecreativeindependent.com
Times like these are difficult, but they’re also an opportunity to organize efforts to lift up our communities.
2 February 2023 Logic Magazine
1 February 2023 The Atlantic
A scuba-diving philosopher explores invertebrate intelligence and consciousness.
30 January 2023 Works in Progress
30 January 2023 Works in Progress
29 January 2023 Pioneer Works
Ahead of the sixth annual Software For Artists Day on July 18 and 19, Willa Koerner spoke with participant Tsige Tafesse, one of the five founders of By Us For Us (BUFU), a Brooklyn-based collective focusing on the discourse of Black and Asian cultural and political relationships.
28 January 2023 cognitivemedium.com
27 January 2023 PUNCTR ART
26 January 2023 Better Images of AI
Dreaming Beyond AI is a multi-disciplinary and collaborative web-based project bringing together artists, researchers, activists, and policymakers to create new narratives and visions around AI technologies. The project aims to enable understanding of the impact AI technologies have on inequity, and…
25 January 2023 cuny.edu
Meet Oya, a first-year college student at a new venture-capital-backed school located on the campus of Alvara College, a traditional liberal arts college. Oya is not a typical undergraduate student; they have been targeted by Petra Capital’s recruitment team to supplement the traditional demographic…
24 January 2023 nytimes.com
23 January 2023 Aeon Magazine
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
22 January 2023 The Baffler
Covid-19 showed us what the ICU was made to do—but we must grapple with the reality that it has a dark side too.
21 January 2023 Flat Journal
19 January 2023 display.cz
K Allado-McDowell co-leads the Artist + Machine Intelligence program at Google Research, facilitating collaboration between Google AI researchers, artists, and cultural institutions. Alongside twenty years of experience in software design and engineering, K also has an MFA in photography and regular…
18 January 2023 e-flux.com
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17 January 2023 Iris van Rooij
I’ve been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as “stochastic parrots” (Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major,…
13 January 2023 newdesigncongress.org
A new major research report from The New Design Congress on the threats and opportunities for web preservation practice and tooling in a changing world.
12 January 2023 Doteveryone
11 January 2023 Comment Magazine
Bodies, agency, and infrastructure.
10 January 2023 NOEMA
The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.
9 January 2023 jacobin.com
8 January 2023 The Anarchist Library
Ursula K. Le Guin The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction 1986
7 January 2023 Logic Magazine
How care-work gig platforms cultivate a culture of surveillance.
6 January 2023 Fred and Far by Melody Godfred - Creator of the Self Love Pinky Ring
5 January 2023 Amelia Hruby
4 January 2023 NOEMA
Taiwan is reinventing the consent of the governed.
2 January 2023 Medium
In the fall of 2009, I wrote a pair of algorithms to place nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan. The crux of the problem…
1 January 2023 YouTube
Chiara Amisola took a close look at the stories and revelations that people leave below online videos.
31 December 2022 somewheregood.com
The internet can be a neighborly Welcoming Place For You, if you find the right space.
30 December 2022 numinous.productions
30 December 2022 walkerart.org
29 December 2022 NEO.LIFE
Are 21st century rites of passage an essential human need?
29 December 2022 13th Gwangju Biennale
Technology researcher and writer Maya Indira Ganesh’s piece speaks to feminist interpretations of cyborgs and bots while building a broader conversation on how machine learning reshapes the virtuality of desire and body image and offers “wiggle room” away from tech-bro culture.
28 December 2022 Foolish Journey
An experiment in using mythic mode to confront the meaning crisis.
28 December 2022 Real Life
Toward the full commodification of ambience