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“These periodic bursts are something that we’ve never seen before—it’s a new phenomenon in astrophysics.”
– MIT Physicist
Kiyoshi Masui , about the 16-day repeating rhythm of fast radio wave bursts from an unknown source, occurring over 500 days of observations
Exhibiting digital art in sticker form, the Zentrum für Netzkunst -curated group show “stick.t.me” opens at Berlin’s panke.gallery . 19 artists including Nadja Buttendorf , Carla Gannis , Rosa Menkman , Lorna Mills , and Igor Štromajer harness the sticker feature of the Telegram messenger app for creating net art collectibles. Produced during an ‘in-app’ residency, the stickers can be gathered in a dedicated scrapbook available at the gallery; their digital counterparts are available in Telegram.
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Suad Garayeva-Maleki & Heike Munder (ed.)
Potential Worlds
The survey of 36 ecocritical works by, among others,
Carolina Caycedo ,
Mary Maggic , and
Pınar Yoldaş expands on the eponymous
two-part exhibition at Zürich’s Migros Museum with texts from Benjamin Bratton, T. J. Demos, Jussi Parikka, and others.
“The influx of bots and bot mafias has had a complicated impact on the WoW Classic economy. Some items are worth less because bots are working 24/7 to achieve them; others are worth more because bot mafias have hogged goods.”
– Tech reporter Cecilia D’Anastasio, on Blizzard Entertainment suspending over 74,000 World of Warcraft accounts, as bots upend the game’s economy
“We can’t yet confirm or deny our participation in Sony’s reveal.”
– A producer of Russian media and CGI artist
Maxim Zhestkov , in response to
The Verge ’s inquiry about the striking similarities between the artist’s work and the slick graphics used in Sony’s
reveal of the PlayStation 5
“Direct input from the public can also help infuse AI ecosystems with nuanced ideas, values and beliefs toward the equitable distribution of resources and mutually beneficial systems of governance.”
– Transmedia artist
Stephanie Dinkins on Afro-now-ism, and how infusing AI with a multiplicity of perspectives
could offer emancipation from America’s “infinite loop of repression and oppositional thinking”
In announcing this year’s Golden Nica winners, the Prix Ars Electronica jury notes that, for the first time in the prize’s 33-year history, an anonymous citizens movement—that of Hong Kong protesters—has been awarded while all other winners—another first—are women. Among them are Miwa Matreyek (Computer Animation), VALIE EXPORT (Visionary Pioneer), and Lauren Lee McCarthy (Interactive Art +), whose 2019 piece SOMEONE (image) had gallery visitors become human versions of smart home assistants.
“There are no supervillain tech bros in her account, no evil cabals of trolls launching denial-of-service strikes from the Dark Web, no innocent bots corrupted by the inherent evils of Twitter. There’s just prejudice and its pernicious adaptability.”
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Stephen Kearse , on the sharpness of Ruha Benjamin’s
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019)
Rhizome announces that its free web archiving service Webrecorder.io, launched in 2015 as an R&D project, will fold into the organization’s digital preservation program as Conifer while Webrecorder’s software development continues independently.
Using 3D modelling, data mining, photogrammetry, and VR, London-based investigative group Forensic Architecture reveals that 2011 police shooting victim Mark Duggan was, contradictory to official reports, not holding a gun or posing a threat when he was shot. His death triggered the biggest riots in modern English history.
“If the court finds that Internet Archive ‘willfully’ infringed copyright, the library could be on the hook for up to $150,000 in damages—per each of the 1.4 million titles.”
– Journalist
Jeff Benson , on five major book publishers suing the non-profit for removing lending restrictions during the COVID-19 crisis
“I’ve heard horrifying anecdotes of audio speakers left unplugged for the duration of an exhibition, dimmed projector bulbs, and VR headsets in permanent Kiosk mode.”
“My work as a cultural connector and public programmer was being used to distract funders, donors, and constituents from seeing where the real issues lie in the museum: in its overwhelming white permanent collection, in its ongoing harmful colonial narratives, and worst, its tokenistic approach to community partnerships.”
– Rea McNamara, in an open letter to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum, where she worked for three years
“Limeflower Heterodoxy,” Sharona Franklin’s new exhibition opens at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Centred around the decomposition of one of her “bioshrine” gelatin sculptures, Franklin’s installation centres the experience of rural illness, and “embodies tensions and contradictions held for those whose treatments include both natural medicine and—sometimes ethically controversial—biopharmaceutical care.”
“This work was so timid and discreet I’m ashamed of its quietude today. We can do so much better. First, the statues, symbols, then the cultural heritage, then the actual wealth, in the form of reparations, together with education about our actual history. Nothing less will do.”
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James Bridle , on the anniversary of his Victoria and Albert Museum installation
Five Eyes (2015), a piece that “uses objects and archive files from the V&A’s collections to explore the nature of structural and institutional power”
Canadian artist and architect Andrea S. Ling is awarded the 2020 STARTS prize for Artistic Exploration for her project Design by Decay, Decay by Design (2019). Acknowledging the inevitability of waste in her practice, she proposes to “design waste that I can live with, garbage that retains some desirability,” as yielded from a custom material palette of a biocomposites of chitin, cellulose, and pectin, derived from the exoskeletons of shrimp, tree pulp waste, and fruit skins.
The geolocation of Bristol’s statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston is changed to the Bristol Harbour mere minutes after protesters dumped it there.
A satellite image shared by Planet Labs Inc. reveals that the words “Black Lives Matter” that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had painted in giant yellow letters along a street leading to the White House on June 5th are visible from space.
“I guess [they] were unaware or decided to ignore Dutch precedents like V2, Montevideo, The Waag, Steim, TodaysArt, and NMAI (NIMk). It’s dumb to continue to pretend that new media is new.”
– Mexican-Canadian media artist
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer , blasting
The Art Newspaper for heralding the forthcoming
Nxt Museum in Amsterdam as the Netherland’s first venue for new media art
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