Exhibitions, Research, Criticism, Commentary
A chronology of 3,585 references across art, science, technology, and culture
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Mousse 94
Mousse’s winter 2026 issue features Forensic Architecture on counter-forensics and their ongoing Gaza Atlas plus Shumon Basar offering an autobiographical reflection on two decades of curatorial work via “The Only Way Out Is Through” at The Third Line, Dubai.
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Digital Theory
Media theorists M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby position ‘the digital’ not as an object of study but as a mode of thought entangled with logic, signs, and dialectics.
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Benjaminsen & Casey
Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas
Artist-researchers Eline Benjaminsen and Dayna Casey decode the ecological slang of traders—dark pools, whales, poison pills—to expose the “absurd (super)natural fictions” that govern the global economy.
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Rita Ouédraogo
How We Made Noise
Buro Stedelijk founding curator Rita Ouédraogo presents contributions from Tina M. Campt, Wayne Modest, Christina Sharpe, and others reflect on efforts to reimagine Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum from within.
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Carolyn F. Strauss (ed)
Slow Technology Reader
Slow Research Lab founder Carolyn F. Strauss gathers perspectives from contributors including Silvia Federici, Jaron Lanier, and Kite to propose alternatives to dominant tech discourse through feminist, Indigenous, and ecological lenses.
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Non-Playable Characters
Eight thinkers and tinkerers, including Kyle Chayka, Günseli Yalcinkaya, 2girls1comp, Nora O’Murchú, LAN Party, and Angela Washko, examine NPC-ification creep in today’s networked society, where AI, surveillance capitalism, and the emotion economy turn people into data serfs.
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
THE DELUSION
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s first monograph is a “bible for emotional processing” that expands on her eponymous Serpentine exhibition about polarization, censorship, and social exclusion. Contributors include Rebecca Allen, Legacy Russell, Mindy Seu, Helen Starr, and Mckenzie Wark.
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
Private I: A Memoir
Media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson chronicles five decades of experimenting with film, video, AI, and bio-art to probe identity and surveillance—from a decade-long performance as a fictional persona to interactive works that anticipated networked culture.
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Goeting & van Neck (eds)
Algorithmic Imaginations
Researchers Marijke Goeting and Maaike van Neck invite artists and designers including Sofia Crespo, Soyun Park, and Anna Ridler to cut through AI hype by exploring how machine intelligence impacts creativity, embodiment, and social inequality.
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Jonathan W. Y. Gray
Public Data Cultures
Exploring how data is made public in the digital age, researcher and internet activist Jonathan W. Y. Gray nurtures critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation, and as site of transnational politics.
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Suzanne Treister
Prophetic Dreaming
The catalogue of Suzanne Treister’s retrospective at Modern Art Oxford (UK) is a major survey of the British artist’s investigative work connecting technology, power, belief, and futures. It spotlights seminal works and includes new essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Patricia Domínguez, and Val Ravaglia.
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Daniel Temkin
Forty-Four Esolangs
Artist and programmer Daniel Temkin surveys esoteric programming languages—from divine invocation to synchronized pair programming—that position computation as conceptual art practice versus functionality.
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Eva Fotiadi (ed)
Exhibiting for Multiple Senses
Researcher Fotiadi and contributors including David Bobier, David Gissen, and Elke Krasny examine how artists and curators are challenging the visual dominance of art spaces through touch, sound, and smell to create more inclusive exhibition experiences.
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Planetary Peasants
Agriculture, Art, Revolution
The companion publication to Werkleitz’s “Planetary Peasants” exhibition expands on the theme of “enlightened planetarism” with eco-critical texts and a transdisciplinary glossary that recognizes “the polyphony of life.”
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Alyssa Battistoni
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been.
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Claudia Hart & Natasha Chuk
The First Circle: Radical Humanism
Intermedia artist Claudia Hart and media theorist Natasha Chuk compile “computer origin stories” told by 40 pioneering artists who, between 1995 and 2005, integrated computers into their practice and theoretical frameworks to create art that is, above all, humanistic.
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Iris Long & He Zike
Under the Cloud
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Bo, Franceschini & Li
Scam
Researchers Mark Bo, Ivan Franceschini, and Ling Li expose Southeast Asia’s cybercrime industry, revealing the prisonlike compounds where victims are forced to perpetrate romance cons and investment fraud.
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Pietroiusti & Ramos (eds)
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
Curators Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos assemble 100 artists and researchers including Anna L. Tsing, SUPERFLEX, Jenna Sutela, and Elvia Wilk to “explore the minds of animals, plants, fungi, and machines.”
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