Carlo Bramanti finds the connections between design and conspiracy theory so compelling that he coined a term for the common ground that they share: Conspiratorial Design
Author: Regine
The five artists selected for the prize explore different forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social inequalities
Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology, and art, this survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it means to be alive has dramatically changed. Where do we draw the new lines?
advertising
Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?
The contributors of the magazine convoke Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This year, the Triennale di Milano examines the global issue of inequality through an impressive inquiry encompassing architecture, design, technology, bioscience and data
social
Giovanni Aloi delves into the history and representation of plants in art, advocates for a change in our relationship with the botanical world, and presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants
Through a deep reflection on artificial intelligence, the exhibited projects challenge the Western conception of time, as linear, progressive and productivity-oriented, offering instead a plural, synchronic and ritualistic reinterpretation
A liberal might argue the crisis is the result of individual consumer behavior, whereas a libertarian sees an opportunity for geoengineering markets. A conspiracist might not believe the climate is at risk, whereas an ecofascist sees a chance to double down on the argument about who has the superior racial right to survive extinction….
The exhibition explores war in all its dimensions, cycles and emotional impacts. The artworks presented are distributed over what the curators have identified as the five stages that define every conflict: appearance of peace, alarms, war, ruins, resistance.
The Latvian Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice asks: What does it mean to live on NATO’s external border in times of geopolitical conflict?
The compilation of essays explores the tensions between, on the one hand, the promise of neutral and emancipating AI models and, on the other, the colonialist, prejudiced and extractivist nature of the technology
Sheng-Wen Lo’s show examines interactions between human and nonhuman worlds. Across three works, Lo reveals how ‘sustainable’ solutions can themselves be fraught with contradictions
The book explores the development of telecommunications infrastructure and its impact on the architectural and urban culture of the modern age—from poles, wires, and cables, to “micro-architectures,” such as the théâtrophone and the telephone booth
An exhibition of artworks that use video game, AI, deepfake technology, CGI and speculation to investigate concepts of veracity in the era of image generators
How contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits, render transactions opaque, maximize anonymity, and circumvent all kinds of regulations hindering the smooth circulation—and ultimately the accumulation—of capital. As such, the present publication can be seen as a tactical manual for the art of evasion.
The performance and installation explore death from a more-than-human perspective, embracing overlooked stories of transformation in post-wildfire environments
A look at filmmaking that fight for land rights and against environmental injustice, that resist neocolonial domination, economic and political exploitation, that offer a counterpoint during low intensity or drawn-out armed conflicts, that invent strategies of counter information and representation and that strive for visibility.
This year’s edition of Art City Bologna featured shows about the persistence of neo-colonial impulses, crimes in a desecrated church, irony against a reactionary society, poetry on posters and too many mediaeval gates for a walking woman
Conceived as a reaction to police violence in the U.S.A., A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday bears a warning that travels uncomfortably easily through history and space
Massanari explores the ways that the far right uses memetic humor and geek masculinity as tools both to create a sense of community within these leaderless groups and to obfuscate their intentions
Adrián Balseca investigates the relationships between economy, ecology and memory, as well as the power dynamics linked to extractivism and the exploitation of nature
This image-led history of global digital art from the 1960s to the present day links the digital art scene to wider art and design histories, and to their social, political and technological contexts
In his book, Nicolas Nova explains how trolls, ghosts, Trojan horses, Shoggoths, sprites, daemons and other creatures have left Mount Olympus, legends and Scandinavian forests to enter our mobile phones and laptops, showing us that modernity coexists with the otherworldly
This year’s edition of IDFA DocLab questioned the twofold power of technology. On the one hand, VR, AR, AI and other technologies can produce virtual life-like creatures, immaterial wealth and absorbing software constructs. On the other hand, those same technologies can bring about physical experiences and authentic feelings. And none of those experiences are simulated
The massive Venice Biennale talked about forced migrations, colonialism and its stubborn influence, climate (in)justice, exile, indigenous voices feeling like foreigners on their own land
Reconsidering the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, natural and artificial
Sensing machines mapping the Arctic, hormone-altering vapour, sweating bacteria, songs from the swamps…. This year’s Open Fields Conference was packed with mind-blowing discoveries
In this episode, Maja talks about her research into human/dog/wolf co-evolution; the possibility to create a hybrid of the human and the dog species; her experiments with biologically manipulating her own body so that she could breast feed a puppy; taboos around the female body and more
An artist, performer and LGBTQ+ rights activist, La Chola Poblete explores themes such as the branching of the Inquisition, the heritage of colonization and the permeating influence of global capitalism
In this episode, the conversation goes from “Wouldn’t it be fun to have extra sexual organs?” to “Why wouldn’t a loving and cute robot be better at ruling over the lives of citizens than human high-ranking officials?”
Risk Landscape is inspired by new technologies that attempt to predict, simulate and monetise possible futures
Can everything – including vision, flexibility, imagination and other skills often associated with creative practices – be turned into data? Can you automate artistic processes and gestures? And how does socially applied AI enable a transition towards authoritarianism?
From early robots to toys like the iconic Speak & Spell to Apple’s Siri, Vox ex Machina tells the fascinating story of how scientists and engineers developed voices for machines during the twentieth century
In this episode, Carmen and Doma talk about the need for social autonomy, the emergence of new grey zones, police confiscating bots, excellent customer service on darknet markets. And more.
Evan Roth talks about his adventures to find and film the coastal sites where the internet submarine cables reach the land, the beauty of sharing and connecting in online space without interacting, slowness and speed, ideologies embedded in landscapes, etc.
The anti-military tactics and subversive procedures presented in the show range from sabotage to deconstruction of military symbols, from desertion to grassroots resistance against economic macrosystems that feed military culture
Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene?
The book analyses how the remnants of utopias and ideologies of the 20th century continue to influence and interact with contemporary culture, capitalism and the environment
During the conversation, we talked about her adventures with the Dutch secret service, with the New York City Police Department, CCTV operators in Liverpool and the art historian who hid Luis Barragán’s professional archives in a Swiss bunker. But we also discussed surveillance, censorship and the privatisation of culture