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.
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Can you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene?
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
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The Net.art pioneers and media hackers talk about auctioning the votes of U.S. citizens, making DICK NFT and never suffering from nostalgia about the olden days of internet
In this episode, Nora Al-Badri talks about decolonisation, repatriation of cultural artefacts and why she used deepfake to make the directors of important Western museums admit “the truth about imperial plunder—confessing their crimes, speaking about healing, restitution, shame, or art as critical knowledge”
I interviewed artist and geographer Trevor Paglen about suspicious activities in the night sky, classified programmes and the weaponisation of human perception in the context of military and civilian influence operations
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What role do public spaces play in the “reputation economy”? How does your experience of a place change when you check only 1 star reviews on Google Maps?
Alana Hunt’s work makes visible the manifestations of Australia’s colonial mindset
The theatre performance is played for an ultra niche audience of 5 chickens. Humans are tolerated, but they are relegated to the periphery of the stage
Whether they are deployed in artistic performances or used as a tool to broadcast political messages, Kisic Aguirre’s works challenge the boundaries of our common understanding of the city and the spaces we share in it
How do you document, with honesty and integrity, a country where the wrong colour combination or the wrong friends can get you into trouble?
A systematic theory of DIY electronic culture, drawn from a century of artists who have independently built creative technologies
Whether they make the sky cry or celebrate the Constellation of Taurus, Nadal’s performances and sculptures play with atmospheric events and everything that is elusive and ethereal
The works exhibited suggest a new era of planetary and geological consciousness where we are asked to read, feel and listen to rocks in new ways
“The project contests the myths that sanitise the secondhand clothing trade – with its reassuring claims to charity, sustainability and reuse. In their place, it sets out to reveal the racist ideology that treats the Global South as a waste management solution”
Daniel Szalai uses animals to explore our relationship with nature and technology
The artists developed documented and fictional material of the Cyprus buffer zone, Varosha, and British military bases, as well as areas of bicommunal activity and farming. These spaces can appear extremely defined and frozen, in part through military and surveillance architecture…
The parallel the artists make between Russian imperialism and demonology is that, in stories of possession, a demon takes control of the body from within. It acts as a parasite that enters a body and gradually consumes all its resources from within…
Artistic freedom is a core human right affected by rising political extremism, economic collapse, threats from digitisation, environmental catastrophes, a global pandemic and the return of war within Europe
Empowering artists to develop critical practices that explore the socio-political potential of NFT technology
“With so many tears I started to wonder whether it is possible to cultivate some marine life in them,” the designer writes.
An investigation into the colonial logic at work in contemporary Russian warfare through the largely unknown history of Soviet military cybernetic research
Video games maker Pippin Barr talks about his mischievous and perverse works, about the gamification of work and about the place of games in contemporary art
In Data Garden, the artist imagines how a plant endemic to the Acropolis hill could one day secretly host our digital data in its DNA. Counting Craters on the Moon sparks a collaboration between a 19th century astronomer and an AI to calculate how many craters cover the surface of the moon…
Interview with a multimedia artist, engineer, educator and designer whose practice focuses on the practical and experimental applications of sustainable energy technologies, particularly photovoltaic solar power
What place did the African continent occupy in the development of discourses presented as narratives of the future? What remains of the utopias of the non-aligned futures?
Based on a collaborative and experimental approach, Robert’s projects attempt to translate sounds and rituals into tangible works of art that directly echo the traditions of the communities he meets
Maggie Kane: On the role of creativity when helping marginalised communities in capitalistic systems
“You have to be creative to operate in this capitalistic system. You have to find all kinds of walk arounds and work with pretty much no assistance from the government”
What make her works so compelling is that they go beyond confronting the audience with uncomfortable ethical questions about the history of museum collections. They also present new counter narratives and new strategies to examine issues of decolonisation
In Pre-Star Wars films not only was there a variation in the way different cultures visualized space, but that there were regional trends in the design of their soundscapes
If you click around Santamaria’s website and feel like you’re falling down the rabbit hole, that’s part of his plan. He wants you (and the data) to go to places where you’re not supposed to go
“The witch may be a technophile — she is, however, squinting skeptically at capitalism in everything that she does, and twisting technologies towards beautifully weird outcomes”
Hannah Fletcher is a photographer without a camera. She combines techniques from the past and experiments to innovate and improve photographic processes
Artists regard the “doomsday prepper” movement as the expression of a wider cultural anxiety and a loss of faith in governments capability to take care of their own citizens
The research project aspires to develop an alternative history of the rise of modernity and the spread of colonialism from the perspective of sugar itself. What if sugar was the actual engineer behind all of this?
Angela Washko actively seeks out new ways to facilitate or enter into conversation with individuals and communities who have radically different ideas and opinions in an attempt to create spaces for discussion, productive dissent and complexity
Interview with a photographer, bioartist and biology student whose works make visible the plight of endangered mammals in the Baltic sea, the drop in pollinator populations in the Arctic and other uncomfortable realities
I talked to the founder of a school where students learn new skills, manipulate new tools but also get to examine the political and human dimensions of technology
I could try and sum up Tim Shaw‘s practice by saying that it focuses on the relationship between […]
Artist and researcher Paul O’Neill takes Dubliners and curious tourists on guided tours of the HQs, warehouses, data centers and other infrastructures the internet relies on