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The Field Guide to Digital and/as Public Space
Toronto foresight studio
From Later and
The Bentway team up to explore place making, people, and protocols
Lauren Lee McCarthy ’s latest interactive performance Womb Walk premieres as part of her Surrogate installation at IDFA DocLab , the Amsterdam documentary film festival’s new media program. As the American artist strolls the city wearing a prosthetic belly (image), participants ‘become’ McCarthy’s baby. “You control my movements by triggering small internal kicks to the sides of my belly directing me when to turn,” she writes on Instagram . “Together, we navigate the city, with imagined baby as interface.”
“The science is now clear that decapods and cephalopods can feel pain and therefore it is only right they are covered by this vital piece of legislation.”
– UK Animal Welfare Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith, on the extension of the country’s
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill to include lobsters, octopus, and crabs. The bill, however, will not affect any existing legislation or industry practices.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley ’s solo exhibition “SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE” opens at London’s arebyte. Subverting the language of the first-person shooter, the game asks players—armed with a hot pink firearm—to NOT shoot Black Trans people, and then witness the results of their (in)action. Inverting the standard logic of the shooter genre, the installation creates a space to “capture, preserve and archive Black Trans existence” and reflect on personal responsibility.
“Telepathy becomes a puppet concept, intensifying surveillance by allowing private interest to become less conspicuous, while rendering the consumer more accessible.”
– Writer
Dolly Church , rejecting Big Tech’s notion that “conceptual telepathy”—or “mindspeak,” a term coined in Ursula K. Le Guin’s
Left Hand of Darkness —is the “natural conclusion of digital communication”
DOSSIER :
HOLO Annual (HOLO 3) editor
Nora N. Khan shares insight into searching for meaning
beyond words in the forthcoming issue’s third chapter. “I found I needed to rescind the position I’m entrenched in as a critic—that of the capacity for language as the primary medium through which we understand the world,” Khan writes about working with choice contributors
Francis Tseng ,
Nick Larson , and
K Allado-McDowell .
“The characters experience their various BOB plugins through a hallucinatory interface; their neural guides are represented by red worms with up to three heads, each tipped with eye-like shapes, as if they can see the future.”
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Marie Foulston
The Grannies
Foulston ’s documentary follows a group of players—the Grannies—beyond the boundaries of the videogame
Red Dead Online (2018) and into “an ethereal space that reveals the humanity and materiality of digital creations.”
Featuring 12 international artists including Memo Akten , Ralf Baecker , Ryoichi Kurokawa , Anna Ridler , Tomás Saraceno , and Theresa Schubert , “New Elements” opens at Moscow’s New Tretyakov Gallery. Organized in thematic sections—“The Autographic World,” “Material Computation,” and “Digital Materiality”—the works curated by Laboratoria Art&Science Foundation remind viewers of the physical dimension of information and “how to close the gap between data and the world.”
“If everything goes according to plan and Peng! sells NFTs worth 628,453 EUR, a family of five from Afghanistan will be able to start the visa process in Portugal.”
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Dani Ploeger
Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences
Drawing on field research in conflict and disruption zones, the Dutch
artist and cultural theorist examines “everyday technologies in extreme circumstances”
The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan, announces the acquisition of the Lillian F. Schwartz collection. Comprising films and videos, 2D artwork and sculptures, personal papers, and computer hardware, the material documents the “expansive and inquisitive mindset” of the Bell Labs veteran. Born in 1927, Schwartz was “present at the birth of digital art” and pioneered “computer-based work at a time when artists had to defend it as a viable medium.”
“It’s very Newtonian thinking: if you know how it started, can you predict where it may go? And I think every single location in latent space resonates with how we perceive what happens in our lives.”
– Media Artist
Refik Anadol , on the affective quality of the AI ‘hallucinations’ that shaped
Unsupervised , an NFT series on Feral File in which the Turkish-American artist trained an AI to make images based on MoMA collection metadata
“Now we’ve defined the entire choreography for web building, which has never been done for any animal architecture at this fine of a resolution.”
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Andrew Gordus , behavioral biologist at Johns Hopkins University, on using AI and night vision to study spider leg positions during web construction. The resulting model, published in
Current Biology , can predict web-building stages based on leg posture—a first step towards recording how tiny spider brains can support such complexity.
Mary Bauermeister (*1934), whose experimental practice helped shape the Fluxus movement, is announced the first recipient of a new art prize issued by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The award honours Bauermeister’s legacy of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations that explore entanglements in science, music, and mathematics. “She has always worked transdisciplinary long before this became a category,” said Hendrik Wüst, the state’s Minister President.
“In 1788 the Constitution became the law of the land when it was ratified by 9 of the 13 original states. In keeping with this tradition, the Constitution DAO multi-sig wallet requires 9 of 13 signatures to approve transactions.”
–
ConstitutionDAO , in an FAQ post explaining how the
multisignature wallet at the heart of their project requires consensus. The DAO is currently crowdfunding $20M in ETH to (attempt to) buy a first-edition copy of the U.S. Constitution in a
Sotheby’s Auction .
“Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota,” the first major survey of the work of the pioneering artist in Japan in three decades, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT). A fixture in Fluxus , Kubota made pioneering contributions to video sculpture, exploding the screen into scenes and structures bathed in shapes and colour. “Viva Video!” includes the triumphant Skater (1991-2, image), the cascading Niagara Falls (1985), and her signature Duchampiana
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