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31 December 2024 artnet News
Richard Prince is making art by recycling Instagram screenshots. Dealers are hawking art via Instagram. The Met has even retained an Instagram guru "to play catch-up to figure out how best to exploit this online pictorial medium." A four-year-old app is dominating the art conversation as no purely art-related topic is.
30 December 2024 STUDIO HALIA
IN A CENTRALIZED TECH LANDSCAPE, HOW DO ARTISTS COPE WITH THE LOSS OF KEY CREATIVE TOOLS? HOW DOES THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A PLATFORM IMPACT DIGITAL IDENTITIES AND LIVELIHOODS OF THE CREATORS USING THEM? When Meta announced it would discontinue its AR filter creation software Spark AR along with UGC filters across it’s pl
29 December 2024 framer.website
28 December 2024 Harper's Magazine
Spotify’s plot against musicians
27 December 2024 macwright.com
Daydreaming a post-HTML Utopia
26 December 2024 walkerart.org
How did a rough philosophy unit in 1990’s UK herald today’s world of AI generated content? Matt Colquhoun traces the lasting influence of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit’s unorthodox mix of media theory, Jacques Derrida, Aleister Crowley, and HP Lovecraft on AI generating tools like ChatGBT.
25 December 2024 e-flux.com
Mi You offers a sweeping analysis of how a multipolar political orientation can open up new pathways for art.
24 December 2024 e-flux.com
Max Grünberg on politically radical role-playing games.
23 December 2024 The Dirtyverse
Daisy Alioto in correspondence with Anu Atluru on taste in tech.
22 December 2024 The Baffler
In Gabriel Smith’s debut novel, “Brat,” aesthetic flatness and empty provocation dominate.
21 December 2024 The Dirtyverse
Meg Miller on the brain-computer metaphor.
20 December 2024 hfg-karlsruhe.de
Graphic limbo is an ambiguous presentational space, normally somewhere in-between the diagrammatic and the pictorial, where a contradictory suspension of disbelief occurs.
19 December 2024 Joel on Software
There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP…
17 December 2024 Creative Destruction
Re-humanizing technology and our way of living
16 December 2024 Artforum
Claire Bishop on the superabundance of research-based art
15 December 2024 Artistcommunityknowledge
Entire digital collections are hidden behind a search box. The paradox of the search box is that while 'everything' is accessible, without knowing what is the scope of the collection it is hard to know what to search. This fact limits the experience of discovery, browsing, and learning.
14 December 2024 Eva Decker
Your digital UI can come from the physical world.
13 December 2024 Contraptions
Personhood appears to be simpler than we thought
12 December 2024 Contraptions
A diagram that explains everything
11 December 2024 Dark Properties
An interview with Agnes Cameron on satellite imagery, and ways of seeing that go beyond the human eye.
10 December 2024 Byline
Maya Man, artist and internet anthropologist, and Tinx, The New York Times bestselling author and digital pioneer, talk about life online, what it means for girlhood, and how to lead a career online while maintaining sanity.
9 December 2024 GLITCH Magazine
Explore the resurgence of Internet Nostalgia and Y2K-inspired style, as early-age Internet aesthetics make a comeback. Discover the Heaven by Marc Jacob x Blumarine collection and the influence of Internet nostalgia on fashion and web design. Embrace the rebellion against homogenization and the desire for freedom and authenticity in this cultural zeitgeist.
8 December 2024 The Baffler
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community-most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
7 December 2024 E-flux
Affects, contemplations, stimulations, and struggles happen in and through the lap, this site that accumulates the contexts of motherhood (associated ...
6 December 2024 Overland literary journal
Early internet culture, its openness and penchant for performativity—found on the French Minitel, Tumblr, and even the Buffy chatroom—is innately queer. It is important for us to call on this past, to understand its performative nature, and to reckon with its unrealised potential.
5 December 2024 The Paris Review
What if plants are smarter than we think — a lot smarter?
4 December 2024 Contraptions
Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world
3 December 2024 ribbonfarm.com
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Thinkability
2 December 2024 Contraptions
Rebooting into Contraptions mode
1 December 2024 frankchimero.com
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
30 November 2024 Schema Acquisition
An evolution of personal portfolios over the years and brutalism as resistance
29 November 2024 e-flux.com
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28 November 2024 Duplicate Screenshots
Vaporous Modernity
27 November 2024 Verso
This is a revised extract from Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore. W. E. B. Du Bois interviewed Harriet Tubman late in her life. For a while in the mid twentieth century, a small but rather raucous scholarly competition developed to “prove” how many (which is to say how few) people
26 November 2024 Combinations
Balaji Srinivasan’s vision of Network States has influenced Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and the “New Right” movement. However, he fails to grasp that networks are more a worldview than a technology—a view that runs contrary to the simplistic logic of exit he finds invigorating.
25 November 2024 jacobin.com
The failure of the American left to engage more substantially on environmental issues at home has real consequences for the expansion of neoliberalism worldwide.
24 November 2024 Transnational Institute
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal.
22 November 2024 coldbacon.com
21 November 2024 Tumblr
This is a beginner-level advice essay for people just getting started with building generators. It’s also for practiced experts who want a way to organize their knowledge. The advice is meant for a…
20 November 2024 The Atlantic
The earliest computers were human. And, more often than not, female.
19 November 2024 sourcetype.com
The text that follows originally appears in the book Image RIP by Geoff Han, published by Source Type. Read more about the book here.
18 November 2024 032c.com
What happens when we lose faith in images? PHILLIP PYLE tracks the emergence of a hybrid online-offline aesthetic paradigm he calls the “text image” in the first installment of his column ALL NETWORKS LEAD THROUGH KANSAS. Equally considering the recent use of Charli XCX’s Brat album art, he wonders if that which the text image first promised has already dissipated, too.
17 November 2024 WIRED
I used to consult oracles with a superstitious fervor, though my trust in divination has become tempered over time. But, reality being a savage entity, I still like to get occasional metaphysical bearings. Lately, I’ve been letting my humble Mac do my divining for me with Cyber Tarot and Virtual Tarot software. What do these […]
16 November 2024 sandpoints.org
The fundamental tension of the archive is between shard⁄exuberance and shard⁄compression. Exuberance is not a consequence of hoarding, an accumulation of junk. Only a naive understanding of archiving prioritizes scale over information, after all, a lot of the same is not much at all. Analogously, compression is not merelythe manipulation of symbols as to find a denser representation of information.
Some representations may be compact for a first-order of meaning, yet fail to capture a latent space of possibility hidden in the source.
15 November 2024 Spike
The digital era is synonymous with flat, persona-driven fiction. How can literature transcend celebrified Tweets and respond innovatively to the web’s decentered form?
14 November 2024 cristobal.space
I think of these as folk interfaces, akin to the jigs one makes in wood-working. Divorced from grandiose ambitions of building comprehensive systems, it leads the programmer to directly engage with data.
13 November 2024 laurelschwulst.com
Laurel Schwulst
12 November 2024 e-flux.com
Irmgard Emmelhainz uncovers the connections between our devastated environment and our devastate microbiomes.
11 November 2024 Vox
It all starts with a Voltron ship war, because of course it does.
10 November 2024 On Looking
🤖 If you worry your clients might replace you with an AI, change clients.
9 November 2024 BBC
Most current data storage systems eventually stop working. Could storing digital information in DNA be the answer?
8 November 2024 Citation Needed
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
7 November 2024 Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo
Notes on self-portraiture in the digital age
7 November 2024 Tender Buttons by Rebecca Mqamelo
Notes on self-portraiture in the digital age
6 November 2024 e-flux.com
5 November 2024 rorykingetc.com
Contemporary Movement (Nomadic Design)
4 November 2024 Byline
We had no idea what we were doing. We were trying something new. And we loved it.
3 November 2024 urbigenous.net
First, before I begin to bore you with the usual sort of things science fiction writers say in speeches, let me bring you official greetings from Disneyland. I consider myself a spokesperson for Disneyland because I live just a few miles from it — and, as if that were not enough, I once had the hono…
2 November 2024 Eva Decker
Your digital UI can come from the physical world.
31 October 2024 Wesley’s Notebook
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms. It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
31 October 2024 Wesley’s Notebook
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms. It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
30 October 2024 Real Life
The timeless, futile effort to fix circadian rhythms with tech
29 October 2024 E-flux
Dao is not a thing. It is not a concept. It is not the différance. In the Cixi of YiZhuan (易傳‧繫辭), Dao is simply said to be "above forms,...
26 October 2024 pleiadesmag.com
25 October 2024 e-flux.com
24 October 2024 Bzogramming
80 Brief Predictions for the Future
23 October 2024 Phkule
With another Marcos presidency inching closer, civilians and volunteer groups work together to guard our history through archival efforts.
22 October 2024 postcapitalist.computer
Software design for disassembly and decomposition
21 October 2024 patriciamou.com
As more people transition from survival to self-actualization and face crises of meaning, it becomes vital to create spaces that can meet them where they are. In adulthood, we often find ourselves in spaces defined by fixed identities and values, yet we yearn for spaces where we can experiment, wonder, and play with unbridled curiosity.
20 October 2024 e-flux.com
Kristin Ross outlines the history of main features of the commune form.
19 October 2024 hamsterrepublic.com
Hamster Republic ->
James ->
Technomancy
18 October 2024 kening zhu
last week it was stormy, zombie apolocalypse weather inside me — and in berlin, too — occasionally interspersed with five seconds of sunshine — like the worst kind of torture — and I did basically nothing but stare at the ceiling and stew in mild anxiety about life, and love. but this week I’m somet
17 October 2024 every.to
How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
16 October 2024 Vogue Adria
15 October 2024 panmodern.com
By Mark Bloch
14 October 2024 christophlabacher.com
With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.
13 October 2024 blogspot.com
A couple of months ago, Trixter of Hornet released a demo called “8088 Domination”, which shows off real-time video and audio playback on t…
12 October 2024 Ribbonfarm Studio
11 October 2024 Slow-media
(see original Manifesto in German) The first decade of the 21st century, the so-called 'naughties', has brought profound changes to the technological foundations of the media landscape. The key buzzwords are networks, the Internet and social media. In the second decade, people will not search for new technologies allowing for even easier, faster and low-priced content production.
10 October 2024 dantaeyoung.com
Hello.
9 October 2024 fruitful.school
7 October 2024 stay-in-touch.org
By Julia Boog-Kaminski
6 October 2024 The Baffler
Website of The Baffler, est. 1988, a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism.
4 October 2024 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. Computer vision, unlike photography, does not mirror reality but instead interprets and misinterprets it, overlaying statistical assumptions of meaning.
3 October 2024 UX Collective
2 October 2024 New Left Review
The leading iconoclast of Internet euphoria recounts his path from schooling in Belarus through training in Bulgaria to NGO work in Central Europe and fame as author of The Net Delusion in the United States. A radicalized view of the transformations required in the information infrastructures of the…
1 October 2024 Design Systems International
A visual design systematization exercise based on diagrams from Byrne’s The Elements of Euclid.
30 September 2024 alttextselfies.net
29 September 2024 journalofdigitalhumanities.org
28 September 2024 On Archivy
Tantek Çelik has some strong words about the use of JavaScript in Web publishing, specifically regarding its accessibility and longevity:
27 September 2024 Columbia Journalism Review
Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s found on the Web can also be modified, moved, or entirely vanished. The fragility of the Web poses an […]
26 September 2024 uts.edu.au
Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2018 ISSN 1837-8692 | Published by UTS ePRESS | http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/index
25 September 2024 tomcritchlow.com
On the architecture of blogging
24 September 2024 Distributed Web of Care
The first public event of Distributed Web of Care was presented as a part of Rhizome’s Ethics & Archiving the Web conference at the New Museum, NYC, March 24, 2018. The workshop offered resources for getting started with the Distributed Web, and invited computer scientists and domain experts to host an open conversation on counter-narratives to the mainstream internet.
23 September 2024 Medium
This talk is about hypertext and how it can influence the practice of everyday living. As is the nature of hypertext I found myself…
22 September 2024 e-flux.com
The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or reducing carbon over there. The means is, of course, commodification. Offsets privatize planetary metabolism.
21 September 2024 Aeon Magazine
20 September 2024 e-flux.com
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19 September 2024 lwn.net
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18 September 2024 e-flux.com
But no matter how we choose to do it, internet measurement—like all data-centric disciplines—inevitably bumps into questions: what are we trying to measure? What does it mean for the internet to be working the way we want it to? And who is we?
17 September 2024 MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
16 September 2024 Aeon Magazine
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest
15 September 2024 Emergence Magazine
14 September 2024 Varia
This website is built with a static site generator. This article delves into the implications of both ‘static site’ and ‘generator’ for its design process.
12 September 2024 e-flux.com
11 September 2024 Generative Identity
If the modern ‘problem of identity’ was how to construct an identity and keep it solid and stable, the postmodern ‘problem of identity’ is primarily how to avoid fixation and keep the options open. (Bauman 2011)
10 September 2024 Culture.pl
The Korean word ‘sound’ means sledding in Japanese. For me, who was born, grew up in Korea, studied, and produced artworks in Japan, the word ‘so-ri’ reminds me of a scene of a sled running through the snow in a distance on a dim morning. I think about how I can feel the sound of the exhibition hall through the seven-hour time difference between Poland and Korea and Japan with my whole body.
9 September 2024 Outland
Mindy Seu argues that when public speaking becomes art, the digital and physical apparatus of the performance are made visible.
8 September 2024 bonkerfield
7 September 2024 MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
How often do you address your soul? Or the soul an object? Or piece of fruit? Do wood chip remnants have a soul? There is something to be said about […]
6 September 2024 The Dirtyverse
5 September 2024 The Atlantic
4 September 2024 digitale-grafik.com
(1.1) In remembrance of teen-angst escapism
3 September 2024 otherinter.net
What does it mean to read (or misread) the artifacts of internet lore? Unraveling memes and idioms doesn’t just reveal complex stories, but new mechanics behind how we form and use language on the internet.
2 September 2024 e-flux.com
Francisco Nunes on the new struggle of the hacker class against the vectorialist class.
1 September 2024 x-traonline.org
31 August 2024 The MIT Press Reader
Pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown looks back at the creative battle behind a book that redefined architectural thinking.
30 August 2024 Distill
Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualization.
26 August 2024 BlockScience
By Michael Zargham and Ilan Ben-Meir
25 August 2024 homintern.soy
24 August 2024 itsnicethat.com
23 August 2024 Wild Information
Are they really so different?
22 August 2024 viznut.fi | highlighted via Readwise
21 August 2024 Internet Society
Introduction Vint Cerf In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols which would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks.
20 August 2024 Rhizome
This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a history that are often neglected, erased, or forgotten, and an effort to question the assumption that the technical and the sexual are so easily divided.
19 August 2024 walkerart.org
“For me, an ideal is to move freely across different kinds of borders—disciplinary, structural, and intellectual,” writes educator Kristina Ketola Bore. “But when endorsing such an ideal, what happens when faced with radical and hateful opinions or image-making?”
19 August 2024 walkerart.org
“For me, an ideal is to move freely across different kinds of borders—disciplinary, structural, and intellectual,” writes educator Kristina Ketola Bore. “But when endorsing such an ideal, what happens when faced with radical and hateful opinions or image-making?”
18 August 2024 speculative.hr
From the modernist perspective, design has been primarily regarded as a problem-solving practice, usually dealing with problems detected by other professions. In this sense, the mission of design is closely linked to the needs of the industry or, in a broader sense, the creation of a better living standard. From such modernist perspective, design is seen as a service activity that primarily addresses clients’ needs. However, as graphic designer and publicist Dejan Kršić points out, design has always been a signifying practice that generates, analyses, distributes, mediates and reproduces social meaning, especially nowadays, in the context of the new social, technological, media and economic conditions.
17 August 2024 github.io
1969 or 1989?
16 August 2024 taeyoonchoi.com
15 August 2024 Nielsen Norman Group
45 years of hypertext’s history: from 1945 to 1990, including survey of major early systems. Chapter 3 from Jakob Nielsen’s book, Multimedia and Hypertext, describes the major milestones for hypertext, the internet, and the world wide web, including Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Doug Engelbart’s landmark demo of the online system (NLS.)
14 August 2024 schmud.de
Why isn’t the internet better at engendering conversations?
13 August 2024 Real Life
Conversations around major video games serve oppressive labor practices, lazy design, and the intolerant minority of gamers
12 August 2024 Alex Murrell
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
11 August 2024 The Baffler
10 August 2024 Branch
Michelle explains what building a humane web means to her and how notions of perfectionism can stand in the way of developers building it.
9 August 2024 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
8 August 2024 Are.na
Music is a lifeline.
7 August 2024 Collective Transitions
How to host spaces — online and in person — that are meaningful, nurturing and supportive.
6 August 2024 Modes of Criticism
5 August 2024 artima.com
Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
4 August 2024 sourcetype.com
3 August 2024 The Dirtyverse
2 August 2024 thecreativeindependent.com
For TCI x Are.na’s Library of Practical and Conceptual Resources, Lucy Siyao Liu shares a collection of drawing instructions.
1 August 2024 Aeon Magazine
31 July 2024 Ribbonfarm Studio
31 July 2024 Ribbonfarm Studio
30 July 2024 worksinprogress.co
29 July 2024 Dan Gillmor
Suppose you could write in your personal blog and have a summary of your post show up on popular social-media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Facebook – and then have responses on those s…
28 July 2024 Calibre
If the Internet is to be a place for good, we all need to confront what it’s become.
27 July 2024 Manifesto for a Humane Web
We need to build a better web. A web by and for humans.
26 July 2024 polymathematics
In an ongoing exploration for digital weirdness on the internet, I’ve been pondering the ways we represent ourselves in digital space. Here is a thread of cool digital spaces I am compiling: …
25 July 2024 evalapply.org
This primer is for people like me, who long dreamed of lovingly hand-crafting our own home on the Internet. We begin our quest by seeing, feeling, and harnessing pure HTML.energy.
24 July 2024 Futuress
Apr 20, 2023 | 6 pm CEST | online | with Iskander Guetta
23 July 2024 matthewstrom.com
How interfaces, incentives, emergence, and second-order thinking make platforms a unique design opportunity
20 July 2024 Veros Cartoon World
We’ve yet to see social media platforms that allow us to show up whole, but we are being empowered to imagine them.
17 July 2024 Bzogramming
80 Brief Predictions for the Future
15 July 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.
13 July 2024 The Baffler
An internet linguist dives into the sludge of gesture and easily reproduced half-thought that we speak through online.
11 July 2024 MARCH
Where oral histories have long been anchored in practices of repetition and versioning, systems of publishing are still learning to trust and fully incorporate these dynamics, finding room for changes that are not based in the singular but in the collective.
10 July 2024 rybakov.com
Nobody actually wants to use a web browser. It becomes evident the second you open your browser and notice that you don’t have internet connection.
What we like about browsers is what they offer on the other side. What they connect us to. In that sense, browsers are transitory spaces - similar to ai…
8 July 2024 matthewstrom.com
How interfaces, incentives, emergence, and second-order thinking make platforms a unique design opportunity
7 July 2024 springerin.at
Issue 3/2021 - Digital Ecology
5 July 2024 ali-alkhatib.com
I’ve been struggling to articulate this idea, and maybe the problem is that it’s actually kind of simple once you put it out there, and there’s really no good reason to unpack a whole case for it once you put the thought on paper.
4 July 2024 Tate
Had Hans Haacke 's proposed Guggenheim show of 1971 gone ahead, gallery visitors would have been confronted with the following: A white cube. A black bird with bright yellow stripes around the eyes sits in a chrome cage. It rocks gently on its perch. Silence. Occasional scrabbling sounds as the bird readjusts its footing.
3 July 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.
2 July 2024 A Working Library
Drive your feelings home.
1 July 2024 The Dirtyverse
30 June 2024 cabinetmagazine.org
Theodor Nelson and the creation of hypertext
29 June 2024 tomcritchlow.com
An ongoing journey in using the web in new ways
28 June 2024 otherinter.net
Investigating the art of association in the digital age.
27 June 2024 The Atlantic
Internet addresses are places. Most of them have been deserted.
26 June 2024 maxbittker.com
River is an exploration engine, allowing you to navigate rapidly through slices of visual culture via machine learning based connections. Try it out ↗
25 June 2024 Lux Magazine
Is online girl culture more than a sludge of marketable microtends?
24 June 2024 e-flux.com
Boris Groys explores the gap left in the near-disappearance of the critique of ideology, where conspiracy has rushed in.
23 June 2024 e-flux.com
Irmgard Emmelhainz on the cybernetic episteme.
22 June 2024 Rhizome
Rachel Baker discusses the network experiments of Heath Bunting.
21 June 2024 BISA
Uygar Baspehlivan discusses the key points from his new RIS article.
20 June 2024 Are.na
More than a literary form, Poetry is the essence of inner feelings and thoughts as they relate to the external world.
19 June 2024 Remains of the Day
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops.
18 June 2024 Care Harder
This excerpt on postage stamp politics is from an article I wrote for The Black Sheep Agency. Read it all, friend - give it a click for more philatelic propaganda musings. Let us celebrate tiny sheets of beauty, patriotism + philatelic propaganda we might take for granted everyday.
17 June 2024 The Dirtyverse
16 June 2024 lifewithalacrity.com
A number of my posts have been about integrating different domains of knowledge in order to better understand how human behavior should be incorporated in the design of social software. I found The Dunbar Number in sociology, and both Four Kinds of Privacy and Progressive Trust come from my work in…
13 June 2024 Dark Properties
Benedetta Piantella on creativity as a tool for emergency response, and prepping your go bag.
12 June 2024 Dark Properties
Yasaman Sheri invites you to walk and ferment as a way to feel more embodied in the living world.
11 June 2024 Aeon Magazine
10 June 2024 Issues in Science and Technology
Policymakers want to make decisions based on clear data, but important factors are lost when we rely solely on data. A philosopher writes:
9 June 2024 subpixel.space
Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.
8 June 2024 dssresources.com
Spreadsheets have been used by accountants for hundreds of years. Computerized or electronic spreadsheets are of much more recent origin. Information Systems oral history and some published newspaper and magazine stories celebrate Dan Bricklin as the “father” of the electronic spreadsheet. In 1978, Harvard Business School student, Daniel Bricklin, came up with the idea for an interactive visible calculator (see email from Frankston, 4/15/1999a). Bricklin and Bob Frankston then co-invented or co-created the software program VisiCalc. We can look back and recognize that VisiCalc was the first “killer” application for personal computers.
7 June 2024 computationalculture.net
Introduction
6 June 2024 lerandom.art
Lauren Lee McCarthy, celebrated artist, UCLA professor and creator of p5.js, spoke with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony) about Seeing Voices, her first long-form generative art project. They also discuss collaborating with AI and inclusive community building, while questioning the inherent values embedded in software.
5 June 2024 Eva Decker
Your digital UI can come from the physical world.
4 June 2024 The Verge
“Accelerated Mobile Pages” succeeded in speeding up publishers’ mistrust of the search giant.
3 June 2024 culturedmag.com
Mindy See and Yasaman Sheri discuss the shifting material reality of the digital world.
2 June 2024 bryanlehrer.com
A story about what happens when you try to fix the internet
1 June 2024 Vox
Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.
31 May 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…
30 May 2024 glitch.me
via [Jina Hyun](https://jinahyun.glitch.me/)
29 May 2024 viewsource.info
reflections on view source by Garry Ing. the html review, spring 2024
28 May 2024 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!
27 May 2024 disorientations.org
My friend Varoon recently shared a link to Stanford SLAP’s Disorientation Guide, pointing out what a great resource it is.
25 May 2024 Cabinet of Wonders
Embracing Errors in Technology
24 May 2024 Reboot
Against the reification of artificial intelligence
23 May 2024 Blackbird Spyplane
A profound Spyplane reckoning
22 May 2024 syntaxmag.online
‘The Digital Occupation of Palestine’ by Mara Cavallaro
21 May 2024 scale.com
Roon guest-authors a post on large language models and the future of computing.
20 May 2024 Eye on Design
Let's start with the truth: Eye on Design is not a sustainable website. By nearly every standard, the site you're reading right now makes environmental tradeoffs for the sake of user experience and aesthetics. The big beautiful images you're seeing? Those add a little extra bloat. Our custom typefac
19 May 2024 untappedjournal.com
Building with basic mediums, from HTML to 2x4s, can be a way to assert autonomy and longevity.
18 May 2024 Public Knowledge
The past year was full of revelations; we learned, as many have long suspected, that criminal risk assessment and online search algorithms reinforce racial biases, and that our phones are always tracking our locations.[i] We learned that, for years, Palantir secretly tested its predictive policing p…
17 May 2024 Disconnect
We’re being told to pick between US and Chinese tech. What if we don’t choose either?
16 May 2024 Aeon Magazine
15 May 2024 pietrorea.com
14 May 2024 thecreativeindependent.com
Times like these are difficult, but they’re also an opportunity to organize efforts to lift up our communities.
13 May 2024 untappedjournal.com
Building with basic mediums, from HTML to 2x4s, can be a way to assert autonomy and longevity.
12 May 2024 maxbittker.com
River is an exploration engine, allowing you to navigate rapidly through slices of visual culture via machine learning based connections. Try it out ↗
11 May 2024 Reboot
Against the reification of artificial intelligence
10 May 2024 soulellis.com
How can typography resist and loosen power? From stylistic considerations to political activism to issues around legibility, authority, failure, and control, this talk presents an incomplete survey of typography, designers, and practices that agitate and refuse normative definitions of typographic s…
8 May 2024 ethnographicmind.com
The Power of Fictionalization and how to Handle it
6 May 2024 Gaian Systems
Planetary science and cybernetic art
5 May 2024 maxbittker.com
River is an exploration engine, allowing you to navigate rapidly through slices of visual culture via machine learning based connections. Try it out ↗
4 May 2024 logosfoundation.org
3 May 2024 The MIT Press Reader
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
2 May 2024 Design Systems International
How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back
1 May 2024 e-flux.com
Boris Groys on the difference between the museum public and the internet public.
29 April 2024 E-flux
In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga writes that "civilization arises and unfolds in and as play." According to Huizinga, almost every human activity, whether political, economic, or cultural, was originally conceived in play. In the past, labor was accompanied by play and festivities. Scholarship grew out of puzzles in which sages dueled with their sagacity.
28 April 2024 Salman Ansari
27 April 2024 NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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: [email protected] Georgina Kleege Lecturer, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley Email: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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
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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
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