Monthly Archives: July 2021

Performing the Archive: On Carla Gannis’s wwwunderkammer. By Natasha Chuk

By Geert Lovink, July 27, 2021

I click on a weblink that prompts me to join a room. The room is dark and drenched in a purple hue: blue and red hexagonal tiles rotate along the perimeter. Large text reads “WELCOME TO THE WWWUNDERKAMMER.” Up ahead is a massive VR headset with portals in the place of apps revealing a map [...]

Out Now – Pandemic Exchange: How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis

By Agnieszka Wodzińska, July 19, 2021

Theory on Demand #41 Pandemic Exchange How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisis Edited by Josephine Bosma News reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal lockdowns affect artists. A lively circuit of cultural events, meetings, and exhibitions has come to an almost complete stop, leaving artists often not just with [...]

Unveiled, a Mask Theory in Covid Times

By Klara Debeljak, July 13, 2021

During the first lockdown in March 2020, my whole family freaked out. We thought it was the end of the world. My brother traveled home to Europe from California where he was studying and for the first days, he wore a mask that I had never seen before. It was shaped like a bird’s beak, [...]

Silicon Valley just moved in next door-And this is why it matters. By Natalie Dixon

By Natalie Dixon, July 1, 2021

In this blog series I explore a burgeoning intimate surveillance culture in neighbourhoods across the world.  At the core of this research is a flourishing network of surveillance technologies produced by Silicon Valley and perfectly tailored to a vigilant and paranoid home-owner. This matters. Because being watched by the state is one thing, but being [...]