Who’s Afraid of Surveillance Capitalism?
What if I told you that your new Samsung TV’s microphone is always on and it records everything you say all the time, and then it sends t…
Imagination against climate death: An interview with Oliver Ressler
The Austrian visual artist Oliver Ressler deals with contemporary social issues, most recently with the climate crisis. In his current pr…
Google, borders, crises, and Tamara Kametani
At the beginning of the period of self-isolation, I came across a video by Tamara Kametani on Facebook about her work Total Security Life…
The Social Unconscious Among Videogame Suburbs
The book Ideology and the Virtual City shows what role games play in the process of coping with the pressures of capitalist modernity.
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Folk hero of the Internet age
Duchamp Is My Lawyer, a new book by the poet, critic and founder of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith, is an avid treatise on perhaps the most fam…
Speaking in the first person: interview with Chloé Galibert-Laîné
Chloé Galibert-Laîné is a researcher and filmmaker interested in contemporary online filmmaking that can be studied in a broader ethnogra…
Ambient togetherness: an interview with Mark Fell and Rian Treanor
Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rotherham (UK). His practice draws on electronic music subcultures, experimental film, c…
Surfing the livestreams: an interview with Matthew Biederman and Pierce Warnecke
Their strange distorted visual soundscapes filled with noise, whispers, omnipresent frames, cuts, glitches, and beauty emerging where you…
Capitalism fails artists: An interview with Renick Bell
Algorave ambassador Renick Bell works with sound, image and code. After several years in Tokyo, he’s now based in Taipei, though he can b…
Jennifer Walshe: I’m a composer and artist rather than a philosopher
Jennifer Walshe is one of the most original composers of contemporary music. Her works prove that music doesn’t have to be only about sen…