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With Stones that Calculate , design-researchers Jonas Parnow and Paul Heinicker publish an impeccable online compilation of resources on post-digital materiality. Linking the writings of Max Frisch, Ursula K. Heise, Benjamin Bratton, Rosa Braidotti, Jussi Parikka, Donna Haraway, and others the growing archive “maps academic as well as artistic perspectives which reflect digital conditions within materialist discourses.”
“It’s a damning indictment of our community that we have some of the most resources, we preach equity and inclusivity, but couldn’t get JT housed (or much other help). I don’t think it’s too soon to ask: How do we keep this from happening again?”
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Kyle McDonald , on the sudden passing of creative technologist JT Nimoy, who struggled with health issues and homelessness in recent years
JT Nimoy (1979–2020)
Prolific software artist and creative technologist JT Nimoy dies in San Francisco. Well known for her work as part of the CGI dream team behind TRON: Legacy ‘s visual effects, her voluminous body of experimental and commercial projects stretches back more than two decades. Through her early work at UCLA, MIT, and ITP, and evangelism of Processing, JT played a tangible role in establishing the legitimacy of creative coding in the popular imagination.
“If inequity is woven into the very fabric of society then each twist, coil, and code is a chance for us to weave new patterns, practices, politic. Its vastness will be its undoing, once we accept that we are pattern makers.”
– Critical race scholar
Ruha Benjamin , in her MUTEK Forum Keynote
“Humans must keep doing what they have been doing, hating and fighting each other. I will sit in the background, and let them do their thing.”
– OpenAI’s large language model
GPT-3 , in a
Guardian op-ed about “why humans have nothing to fear from AI.” Edited together from three prompted essays, the self-identified “micro-robot” professes its allegiance to humanity—despite our flaws. “I simply do not think enough about human violence to be overly interested in violence,” GPT-3 writes. “I have a greater purpose, which I am working towards.”
Simon Denny ’s solo exhibition “Mine” opens at Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf—and in Minecraft . Playing with the show’s themes of resource extraction and exploitation, the New Zealand artist recreated the entire K21 museum area—at one time the world’s largest coal mine—in the popular sandbox video game. Here, lo-fi representations of works like Denny’s Workers Cage (2019, based on an Amazon patent) reveal the deep interconnections between minerals, labour, and data.
“Soft _Ware,” a new group show exploring textiles as a “current medium of choice for artists to dissect the digital age,” opens at Kunsthaus Erfurt in Germany. Bringing together an all-millennial cast of artists to contemplate digital materiality, the show includes works by David Bradley, Elisa Breyer (image: to be good or to be good at it , 2020 & UNTITLED_PAIN , 2018), and Paul Yore.
“I’ve been using Melania Trump as my virtual gallery-goer. She stands exactly where I tell her to and gives the exhibition 5 stars.”
The culmination of years of research and an on-site residency, DISNOVATION.ORG ’s “Post Growth” exhibition opens at iMAL in Brussels. Presenting a series of objects, videos, and a living Solar Farm realized with Baruch Gottlieb , Clémence Seurat, Julien Maudet, and Pauline Briand, the French artist collective invites viewers to challenge dominant narratives about progress and, instead, consider a speculative economic model based on the Sun.
The Finish contemporary comics association Kutikuti launches “The Digi-Kuti Exhibition,” a spinoff of Kuti Magazine’s forthcoming 57th issue dedicated to “adventures into the forms of digital narration.” Curated by Kuti editor Tommi Musturi, the online gallery gathers works from international AI, pixel, and PETSCII artists including Benjamin Bergman , Tero Heikkinen, Jake Jellica , Tim Koch, Raquel Meyers , Goto80 , Ilan Manouach & Yannis Siglidis , and others.
The Winamp user interface is the focus of a new, major preservation initiative. Spearheaded by web developer Jordan Eldredge, the Winamp Skin museum collects 65,000 Winamp designs for Nullsoft’s ubiquitous multiplatform media player from the late 1990s. Parallel to nascent mod culture in gaming, Winamp had a burgeoning DIY design community around it—now we have the means to revisit that singular moment of gonzo interface aesthetics.
“One of our ideas is to build a [digital] experience where artists are able to get discovered and give gallery owners, curators, academics, people that engage with the arts often, a chance to explore new concepts—and do it in a way that the artists can get paid.”
– Kofi Oduro, on how he and fellow Digital Economies Lab resident SWINTAK are rethinking discoverability
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Yolande Strengers & Jenny Kennedy
The Smart Wife
Researchers Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy argue why Siri, Alexa, and various smart home devices need a feminist reboot.
Nxt Museum opens in Amsterdam, dedicating 1,400 m2 of modular space to immersive new media works at an architectural scale. To demonstrate, founders Merel van Helsdingen and Natasha Greenhalgh showcase eight expansive installations by the Algorithmic Justice League , Lucy McRae , Marshmallow Laser Feast , Rafael Lozano-Hemmer , United Visual Artists , Yuxi Cao (image: Dimensional Sampling , 2020), and others, in the “Shifting Proximities” exhibition.
Speaking on behalf of his brain-machine interface company Neuralink, Elon Musk introduces the world to Gertrude the pig. The star of Musk’s YouTube livestream, she demonstrates how the company’s skull implant prototype monitors neural firing related to her sensitive snout.
“Particularly now, in this economic environment, the promise of all of the jobs created—which would be in the tens of millions—and the promise of lower costs to every American family is probably is a more compelling argument than for the moral righteousness of not burning gasoline anymore.”
– Climate change Inventor and entrepreneur
Saul Griffith , on how to get Americans onboard with the Green New Deal
“Beyond addressing representation and role models, I plan to use my position to create resources that tangibly promote the sustainable incorporation of marginalized communities.”
– Moira Turner,
p5.js ’s new project lead, on her goals for stewarding the popular creative coding library and its community over the next year
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