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“Every day you wake up in this country and you have a new problem. It isn’t our fault our governments are enemies. It’s already hard enough for us to survive.”
– An Iranian cab driver, on escalating cyber attacks between his country and Israel. Last month, Iran’s fuel distribution was hacked by Israel—causing massive disruptions; Iranian hackers responded by posting the personal data of 1.5 million Israelis on Telegram.
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Disruption Network Lab
Whistleblowing for Change
29 luminaries including
Os Keyes ,
Trevor Paglen ,
Joana Moll , and
Charlotte Webb reflect on exposing systems of injustice and whistleblowing as an act of dissent in politics, society, and in the arts
“With crypto we’ve decided to do the most American thing ever, to commoditize our rage at the financial system into a financial product. After all, we’re just temporarily embarrassed millionaires and the only problem with CDOs wasn’t the moral hazard, but that you didn’t have a piece of the action.”
– Software engineer
Stephen Diehl , linking crypto to the trauma of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
“Taskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it” opens at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) in Oshawa, Canada. Curated by Missy LeBlanc , the show features Joi Arcand (image: ekawiya nepewisi , 2017), Susan Blight , Tsēmā Igharas , and four other artists working in languages representing the seven major geographic regions of the land now known as Canada, ”celebrating and centering Indigenous language revitalization.”
“Past attempts to colonize space were spurned by civilization for being too boring. My goal is not only colonizing Mars, but entertaining everyone along the way.”
– Co-writers
Daniel Rourke &
GPT-3 , invoking the world’s richest man in
WHY I WANT TO FUCK ELON MUSK , a text for the upcoming “
All of Your Base ” exhibition at Aksioma (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The Fall, a site-specific installation by Susan Philipsz , opens at Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk. Building on the former church’s acoustics and legacy, the Scottish artist has derived a ‘sonic tribute’ to composer and organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , who was buried on site in the 17th century. Philipsz’ installation adds her voice to Sweelinck’s music, and suspends organ pipe forms in space, creating “descending scale sounds, which swell and evoke a sense of collapse, fragmentation, and absence.”
“You will still have your heart broken in a world without capitalism, but maybe you don’t have to have that and also be stressed out about your loan debt.”
– Artist and writer
Ingrid Burrington , discussing the merits (and nuances) of utopian narratives with science fiction writer
Tim Maughan at Oddstream’s “
Goodbye Internet ” mini-festival. “To me, any dystopia is hopeful,” notes Maughan. “Because it’s presenting something as being wrong.”
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Bugniot, Dubačová, Hoppan
Stockpiling Food for Thought
“Imagining New Sensibilities During Quarantine,”
Sensorium Festival ’s Lucia Dubačová, Juraj Hoppan, and Célia Bugniot parse the pandemic through the lens of art and digital culture
“CAMP After Media Promises,” the 7th Nam June Paik Art Center Prize Winner’s Exhibition opens in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. To celebrate their recognition CAMP ’s Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, and Sanjay Bhangar present Moving Panorama (2021, image), an urban megamix spanning eight screens and five acts. Drawing on CCTV footage from their native Mumbai, Manchester, Jerusalem, and Kabul, the installation ”redefines the categories of observer, subject, network, database, image, and sequence.”
“Perhaps, there is more common ground between the hackers and the witches, the programmers and the psychics. As Tolbert put it: ‘What is technology, if not a way for an individual person to uncover answers?’”
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. An experiment in planetary self-defense, in fall 2022 the rocket will reach the Didymos asteroid system, impact its moonlet altering the asteroid’s motion—and the results will be observed from afar. ”This test will help prove out one viable way to protect our planet from a hazardous asteroid, should one be discovered that is headed toward Earth,” states NASA’s Bill Nelson.
“Given that MoMA’s 1977 acquisition of Kubota’s Nude Descending a Staircase was their first of a video sculpture, it seems ironic that they waited so long to give her such a modest tribute. That ‘Liquid Reality’ is the artist’s first US solo exhibition in 25 years only adds to this sad testament.”
The Smithsonian ’s 175th anniversary exhibition “Futures” launches at the reopened Arts + Industries Building, displaying 150 objects—iconic collection pieces, industrial prototypes, and art installations—that invite “all dreamers, makers, and change makers” to imagine a better world. Among the touted highlights is architect and artist Suchi Reddy ’s rotunda piece me + you (image), a towering AI (and Amazon) powered light sculpture that reflects “society’s collective conscious.”
OUT NOW :
Sofian Audry
Art in the Age of Machine Learning
A critical examination (and historical positioning) of the use of machine learning across art and new media
DOSSIER :
“There’s much more self-reflection and embrace of doubt in this issue than I’m used to seeing in the art, science, and technology discourse space. Contributors reflect on what systems they are unwillingly contributing to, regardless of their criticality.”
Adam Basanta ’s mixed media installation “Possible Futures” opens at Maison des Arts de Laval in Laval, Quebec, confronting viewers with three “oblique thought-experiments” comprised of discarded domestic objects, biological and artificial ecosystems, and techno-cultural artifacts. Future balanced (Chesterfield) , for example, combines a discarded sofa with a miniature, fully-functioning, aquaponic farm. It’s a living sculpture that makes “tentative proposals and uneasy predictions.”
“Clickbait actors cropped up in Myanmar overnight. With the right recipe for producing engaging and evocative content, they could generate thousands of US dollars a month in ad revenue, or 10 times the average monthly salary—paid to them directly by Facebook.”
–
Karen Hao ,
MIT Technology Review ’s senior AI editor, on how Facebook and Google not only amplify but fund disinformation
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