1,576 days, 2,409 entries ...
Newsticker, link list, time machine: HOLO.mg/stream logs emerging trajectories in art, science, technology, and culture––every day
OUT NOW:
Madhumita Murgia
Code Dependent
The intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, Indian-British journalist and Financial Times tech correspondent Madhumita Murgia compiles the stories of marginalized people—BIPOC women, war refugees, gig workers, tribal communities—“living in the shadow of AI.”
OUT NOW:
Tristan Perich
Pseudorandom
Composer Perich complements his new conceptual circuit album Noise Patterns, Pseudorandom with a hefty 1024-page printout of the 16,777,215 numbers that comprise one complete cycle of its central 3-byte random number generator.
OUT NOW:
Eleanor Drage & Kerry McInerney
The Good Robot
Building on their eponymous podcast (2021-), Cambridge University researchers Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney explore “why technology needs feminism” with leading feminist thinkers, activists, and technologists.
OUT NOW:
Yanis Varoufakis
Technofeudalism
Maverick economist Varoufakis puts Silicon Valley in the crosshairs, arguing Big Tech has supplanted traditional capitalism and hoovered up much of the World’s capital to “construct private cloud fiefdoms and privatize the Internet.”
OUT NOW:
D’Souza & Staal (eds)
Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes
Law scholar Radha D’Souza and artist Jonas Staal present their climate tribunal project. Drawing on their 2022 Amsterdam hearings (against the Dutch government and energy multinationals) and subsequent stagings, the duo make a case for climate justice.
OUT NOW:
Yuk Hui (ed)
Cybernetics for the 21st Century
In the first volume of a new series, Hong Kong philosopher Yuk Hui revisits the origins and 20th Century geopolitics of cybernetics with texts by Brunella Antomarini, Slava Gerovitch, Daisuke Harashima, Katherine Hayles, and others
Z
OUT NOW:
Neural 73
Negotiating Values
Reflecting on the Oscillations sound artist exchange program, guest editor Matteo Marangoni explores the politics of collaboration. Of note: interviews with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Kexin Hao, Pei-Ying Lin, and Vivian Caccuri, and essays by Nicholas Norton and Paul Prudence.
OUT NOW:
Kyle Chayka
Filterworld
Drawing on years of reporting, New Yorker staff writer Chayka broadly surveys how algorithms shape culture and perception, exploring how they are simultaneously “engineered for seamless consumption” and “a source of pervasive anxiety.”
OUT NOW:
Branch #7
Gentle Dismantlings
Branch and DING editors Kit Braybrooke, Julia Kloiber, and Michelle Thorne teamed up for inviting Gayatri Ganesh, Padmini Ray Murray, Georgina Voss, Eva Verhoeven, Iryna Zamuruieva and others to report on kinship, worlding, and more-than-human feminisms around the globe
OUT NOW:
Ó Murchú & Janša (Eds)
A Short Incomplete History of Technologies That Scale
A reflection on recent programming, transmediale and Aksioma curators Nóra Ó Murchú and Janez Fakin Janša invite Asia Bazdyrieva, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Anthony Downey, FRAUD, Chris Lee, Jussi Parikka and Laura Tripaldi to expand on “scalar thinking.”
OUT NOW:
Joanne McNeil
Wrong Way
Erudite tech critic Joanne McNeil debuts as a novelist, exploring Silicon Valley hubris, self-driving cars, and the “treacherous gaps between the working and middle classes wrought by the age of AI.”
OUT NOW:
Joy Buolamwini
Unmasking AI
Emerging from her influential Masters and PhD research at the MIT Media Lab, activist Buolamwini challenges the ‘defaults’ in algorithmic culture and makes the case for ethics and equity in automated system design.
OUT NOW:
Zara Rahman
Machine Readable Me
Technology and justice researcher Rahman argues that the surveillent database, biometric, and social platform regime is ill-equipped to “fully capture our complex, fluid identities over decades of our lives.”
OUT NOW:
Deb Chachra
How Infrastructure Works
Engineer and materials scientist Chachra makes the case that the pipes, cables, and power lines that make civil society possible should not only be functional and well maintained, but more “equitable, resilient, and sustainable.”
OUT NOW:
Himmelsbach & Magrini (ed.)
Algorithmic Imaginary
House of Electronic Art (HEK) curators Sabine Himmelsbach and Boris Magrini expand on the institution’s current arc of Web3-centric exhibitions with essays from Ruth Catlow, Primavera De Filippi, Penny Rafferty, Tina Rivers Ryan, and Marina Otero Verzier.
OUT NOW:
Neural 72
Machine Transparency
Digging into the hidden logics and politics of algorithmic systems, neural editors engage artists Vivian Xu, Ani Liu, Stephen Cornford, Timo Toots, and Egor Kraft in conversation. A HOLO highlight: the review of Mirror Stage, our 2022 periodical edited by Nora N. Khan.
OUT NOW:
Brian Merchant
Blood in the Machine
On the heels of ‘hot labour summer,’ Los Angeles Times tech columnist Merchant reframes the 19th century Luddite rebellion that set the standard for workers organizing against profiteering, deskilling, and unchecked automation.
OUT NOW:
Kashmir Hill
Your Face Belongs to Us
New York Times tech reporter Hill chronicles Clearview AI, the facial recognition company with far right ties that emerged during the Trump era and whose technology has been at the centre of numerous privacy and civil liberties controversies.
To dive deeper into Stream, please or become a .
Daily discoveries at the nexus of art, science, technology, and culture: Get full access by becoming a HOLO Reader!
- Perspective: research, long-form analysis, and critical commentary
- Encounters: in-depth artist profiles and studio visits of pioneers and key innovators
- Stream: a timeline and news archive with 1,200+ entries and counting
- Edition: HOLO’s annual collector’s edition that captures the calendar year in print