Monthly Archives: March 2021

NFTS First IMPAKT TV episode on blockchain and art

By Chloë Arkenbout, March 29, 2021

What is this new NFT blockchain craze everyone is talking about? The first IMPAKT TV programme on Thursday 8 April will be looking at the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Unlike such popular cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and Ethereum, these digital collector’s items cannot be traded. Blockchain technology makes each non-fungible token unique and uncopiable, and [...]

Collection of 1990s Art & the Net Manifestos (in Spanish)

By Geert Lovink, March 25, 2021

Paz Sastre (ed.). Manifiestos sobre el arte y la red 1990-1999. EXIT Libris. (Texto en español a continuación) During the 90s, manifestos devoted to exploring the relationships between art and the ever-expanding net abounded. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of the World Wide Web, the era of the “pioneers” of [...]

Zijn digitalisering en verduurzaming het antwoord op de transitie naar een weerbaar cultureel landschap tijdens én na corona?

By Chloë Arkenbout, March 25, 2021

Dat de coronacrisis de culturele en creatieve sector volledig op haar kop heeft gezet is evident. Wat speelt er momenteel op beleidsniveau? En hoe spelen digitalisering en verduurzaming een rol in de transitie naar een weerbaar cultureel landschap – zowel tijdens als na de coronacrisis?  In de EU heeft de sector vanwege de pandemie in [...]

Freedom of Face: Nxt Museum Q&A with “Coded Bias” director Shalini Kantayya

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 24, 2021

Who wants a ‘perfect’ algorithm? On March 23 2021, the Nxt Museum hosted a Q&A with filmmaker and activist Shalini Kantayya. She is the director of the investigative documentary “Coded Bias” (2020) which exposes and explores the biases of artificial intelligence technologies prevalent yet mostly invisible in daily life. During the event moderated by filmmaker [...]

Tune in on PlotkaTV

By Chloë Arkenbout, March 22, 2021

PloktaTV unravels the relationship between people and technologies, in all their different forms. The films are not just about gears, valves and switches, but mostly about people and about how we are connected through technologies. About what part they play in our mental lives. In our surroundings. In our societies. Plokta’s program approaches these questions [...]

YOU SAY I DO NOT EXIST: Theory of the Chrono-Ghettos

By Klara Debeljak, March 20, 2021

You are unable to comprehend me rationally, because you harbor deep emotions about me without even being aware of them. You are always a little afraid I will take things from you, and you believe I am the source of your suffering. You think above all that I expose your impermanence, which is the quintessential [...]

Resting in Pixels: One year of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons”

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 19, 2021

Growing up, my friend had a Nintendo Entertainment System knock-off called Pegasus. I think it was only sold in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. I spent a few summers in her attic, playing a variety of side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling pixelated games. It was fun to see each other get better at different levels and challenges, [...]

Imagining Possible Worlds with “Aesthetics of the Commons”

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, March 5, 2021

Part of a series by the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at the Zürich University of the Arts, Aesthetics of the Commons investigates the fruitful intersection between the idea of the commons, and the aesthetics of practices that relate to the concept. Overall, the publication ponders how to enact a shift in academia, arts and [...]

Ulises A. Mejias: Alternate Realities and the Logic of Data Colonialism

By Geert Lovink, March 4, 2021

Remember Alternate Reality Games? As some observers have pointed out, QAnon definitely feels and functions like an ARG. It’s got open and collective storytelling, multiplatform content, puppet masters, die hard players, hidden clues… a blurry boundary between fiction and reality. Conservatives and progressives like to accuse each other of deficient skills when it comes to [...]

What Is the ‘Great Reset’ Really About? A Public Debate in Posters

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, March 4, 2021

‘Will the post-corona universe be just another future or something new “to come”?’ – Slavoj Žižek Corona is a reset. A chance to learn. An opportunity to grow. After all: never let a good crisis go to waste. True enough, there’s plenty of injustice in the world to justify a thorough reset. But the question [...]