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U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez draws a record-breaking 439,000 concurrent viewers when playing the video game Among Us on the streaming platform Twitch. An effort to bring out the (youth) vote, the stream lasted over three hours, garnered more than five million views in total, and at the time was the lead traffic driver to IWillVote.com . Ocasio-Cortez was joined by fellow Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and various Twitch personalities, who had talked her into setting up an account just a day earlier.
“In Indonesia, 60% of people under 30 don’t have a bank account and use their phones to pay for goods and services—that’s the direction we’re going. I think companies that innovate by melding precious metals and cryptocurrencies are going to lead the way.”
– Investor David Morgan, on how cryptocurrency could (digitally) return the general populace to the age-old practice of using gold and silver to store and exchange value
Martina Menegon ’s computer simulation when you are close to me I shiver (2020) opens at the MAK, Vienna, as the forth pop-up exhibition in the museum’s CREATIVE CLIMATE CARE series. In the real-time generated virtual environment, the Italian CGI and XR artist presents an apocalyptic vision of a future where people “gather in masses on the last remaining piece of land”—a reminder of the current planetary crisis and the limited capacity of our living habitat.
“But the truth is Facebook has always been a problem. There is no good Facebook that Facebook can return to being.”
– American writer
Joanne McNeil , revisiting early Facebook criticism published in Katherine Losse’s
The Boy Kings (2012), Alice Marwick’s
Status Update (2013), and Rebecca MacKinnon’s
Consent of the Networked (2012)
In It Takes More than the Past to Understand and Build the Archive (2020), a video essay commissioned for the 10th issue of Stedelijk Studies on “the Future of Digital Archives and Collections,” glitch artist Rosa Menkman tells the story of her renowned work A Vernacular of File Formats (2010). The video describes the historical, social, and chance contexts that instigated her research into image encoding and data syntax systems, and how our relationship to our own images and data have evolved since.
“For me, the issue is not self-acceptance. It’s that we don’t have other viable options. I don’t see why I should love the body I did not choose for myself.”
– Shanghai-based multi-media artist
Lu Yang , on the corporeality of
DOKU (2020), the digital avatar she created for the British band The 1975’s music video “
Playing on my Mind ”
OUT NOW :
Olia Lialina
Net Artist
A comprehensive survey of the net art pioneer’s creative practice,
Olia Lialina ’s first monograph zooms into user flows, URLs, and protocols, offering a media archaeological reading of the internet.
“A parasitic, coil-powered, perfectly camouflaged, city-wide distributed, Corona-proof netart show on e-scooters—what a concept!”
“Life as we know it,” a group exhibition that “erodes the human/nature binary by studying, collaborating with, and emulating nature’s forms and processes” opens at Toronto’s InterAccess. Curated by Megan MacLaurin, the show assembles work by Ananda Gabo & Anastasiya Yatsuk , Keeley Haftner , Robert Hengeveld , and others, that decentres anthropocentrism and foregrounds plant, animal, fungal, and bacterial knoweldge.
As programming partner of Digital Cultures 2020, HOLO expands on this year’s “Imagined Futures” theme by bringing together experts that imagine futures as part of their creative practice. Join us on Oct 18 at 5 pm CEST to hear
Anab Jain ,
Jorge Camacho ,
Ingrid LaFleur ,
Liam Young , and
Tim Maughan discuss narrative and worldbuilding as forms of cultural critique.
“The inscriptome is where the visual governance of COVID-19 is performed and the bodies of humans are administered under the regimes of #flattenthecurve and #opentheeconomy, and setting the #newnormal.”
OUT NOW :
Xiaowei Wang
Blockchain Chicken Farm
Researcher and designer
Xiaowei Wang examines rural China as a site of innovation shaping the future of technology, agriculture, and commerce.
“As the black hole spins, it warps space-time, causing further space warp and Doppler shift of light.”
– Ryan James Smith, game designer and Lead Technical Artist for Sony Santa Monica, on the ‘physically accurate’ simulation of a black hole he created with Unreal Engine
Mumbai-based studio CAMP is awarded the 2020 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize. Formed in 2007 by Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, and Sanjay Bhangar, the group joins past honourees Trevor Paglen, Blast Theory, and Haroon Mirza. CAMP describes their process as examining “thresholds of ownership and authority,” as realized in projects like Evening Landscape from the Control Room
“We work across disciplines and sectors because we have to: despite the best efforts of specialists in various disciplines and sectors, the problems of misinformation, radicalization, echo chambers, and abusive language persist.”
Humbly captioned “some of my favorites out of these new GPT paintings,” artist Sterling Crispin shares a fresh batch of GPT3 and GPT2-XL neural network derived plotter drawings , as part of a thread chronicling his progress on the series.
“[CAMP’s] commitment to the idea of art as a social sphere of questioning, to which collaboration and exchange is crucial to the challenge of hegemony and its tools, is not only present in their methodologies of making, but also in their critical neighborliness which embraces openness to all forms of consciousness.”
– Factory Contemporary Arts Centre Artistic Director
Zoe Butt contextualizes CAMP, recipients of the 2020 Nam June Paik Art Center Prize
In advance of the second Computer Mouse Conference, which is scheduled for next summer, artist and researcher Emma Rae Bruml Norton has launched The Mouse Sees “a series of discussions and research performances” that will take place in the coming months. Delving into the roots of human-computer intearction, Xerox PARC, and Apple’s early years, she promises to critically re-frame conversations around the pointing device —interaction design’s ground zero.
”God damnit, Tensorflow”
– Dan Woods, software engineer and author, illustrating the absurdity of Trump-era politics by sharing a snapshot of the popular
machine learning library misidentifying the fly that landed—and stayed—on Mike Pence’s head during the 2020 US vice presidential debate
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