By Antoine Catala In the beginning was the word. The word that opens the doors to every story. “Abracadabra”, or the pumpkin turns into a coach, “EMET” and the Golem comes to life. Today any word, thanks to a web search, can trigger the display of millions of images. With the use of 3D printers the […]
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Distributed Intimacies
By Inês Costa, Agorama A couple of months ago, one of my friends had her phone stolen whilst we were on holiday together. With no luck in retrieving it, she bought a new one and plugged it into her computer, to recover data from her last backup. The last time she did this was nine […]
#instant_nostalgia
Katharina Niemeyer Have you ever felt nostalgic for the future or ever published anything like #nostalgia, #nostalgic under a picture that has just been taken and directly posted on the Web? If your answer is NO you might still be interested in knowing what nostalgia and ‘new’ communication technologies have in common(?). It sometimes happens […]
Utopia’s Debris
Max Grau […] guess with all the sociopolitical chaos that’s been going on and the role social-media plays in it1 ,it’s easy to forget that at one point, the Internet used to be more than a perversely efficient delivery system for horror news and people putting each other through the emotional turmoil of shitstorms. For a […]
Being Full and Being Here – Real and Unreal Languages of Time
Prayas Abhinav We are always on the verge of connecting with our twin selves. Our twin self is an imagined entity to whom we are directing all the force of our expressive outputs. The imagined reader, the imagined listener and the imagined viewer are all part of our imagination of our twin self. We have […]
What can I do with those few seconds I get?
Interview by Esther Moerdler with artist Tamara Kametani Q: What was the first piece of art that really mattered to you? Has it influenced your work today? If so, how? I can’t quite remember what the first memorable work was, I didn’t have the most straightforward path into art. I remember reading Susan Sontag’s Regarding […]