by goyo BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! — BEEP! What was that? Oh, it’s the alarm. I was up late last night and forgot to turn it off! Suddenly...
"Our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert." Kenneth laughs, quoting the prophecy of Donna Haraway. He wiggles his fingers limply as the cyborg pins him to the wall. "It's quite apt, don't you think?" He turns to me and grins. "Who knew...
The following is a response, or perhaps companion, piece to Olia Lialina's My Boyfriend Came Back from the War. I didn't go- none of us did. They thought we went, but we didn't. Here. We were here. They didn't think so, so they screamed at us and shot at us and wanted us...
Imagine that you could make a person suffer, and no one would ever know. Would you do so? Were you to pose that question in person, few if any would claim to exercise such a power. But wipe away any identifying factors, and give the...
When discussing the far reaches of the Worldwide Web it is easy to focus on the dark, dank corners- 4chan and its infamous /b/ board, Encyclopedia Dramatica, and those many, many shock sites. Misogyny, homophobia, and racism reign. Cruelty is the community standard, bullying is...
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context we cannot properly describe. --Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form ...
The long awaited Context Providers, edited by Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, and Victoria Vesna has just been released from Intellect Press! Context Providers explores the ways in which digital art and culture are challenging and changing the creative process and our ways of constructing meaning. The...
Ubermorgen's Clickistan is a wild ride. Designed as a web art extravaganza, and in part serving to fund raise for the Whitney Museum of American Art (a pretty credible cause, as causes go) Clickistan is a conceptual work that locates its work somewhere "between the...
a big big honor! Dartmouth Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Jodie Mack received a Jury’s Choice First Prize award at the 2011 Black Maria Film Festival for her animated film. Mack describes her winning 28-minute “Yard Work is Hard Work” as “an animated...
[caption id="attachment_1859" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="photo by Benedict Johnson."][/caption] Tiltfactor's Mary Flanagan is giving a talk this Wednesday in the UK at METAL, and participating in an arts pecha kucha this Thursday. METAL is the artist’s laboratory space set up by Jude Kelly OBE in 2002 to create...