technology
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
Slow Technology Reader
Slow Technology Reader gathers contributions from diverse disciplinary fields and knowledge traditions to consider technology through a ‘Slow’ lens.
ACC CREATORS 2026 Residency Open Call
The National Asian Culture Center invites artists, creators, and interdisciplinary practitioners to participate in a five-month residency program based in Gwangju, South Korea.
Orbital Temple – Reclaiming the Space Imaginary
Orbital Temple is an artwork and a functional satellite created by Edson Pavoni. Launching into space in January 2026, its memory holds billions of names, and anyone on Earth can send one.
Speculative Utopias / Dystopias (x3) – Visual Communication + Change
Visual Comm. + Change students built websites exploring utopias/dystopias. Narratives critique capitalism's failure, ecological decay (microplastics, melting glaciers), the loss of human senses, and the universal need for legacy / remembrance.
KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
A Non-History of Plants
The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Tracing a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science, through ...
Platform Brutality – Closing Down Internet Toxicity
From techno-feudalism debate, radical data critique, offline romanticism to questioning how to bring back social networks and design a new balance between analogue and digital, Platform Brutality offers critical analyses but also alternatives to t...
Elusive Sense – On The Fluid Boundaries Of Perception
In Elusive Sense, five artists propose a variety of perspectives on where we sit in the human-technology duality in the era and culture of the anthropocene.
File Festival 2025 – Synthetika
FILE returns for a another year, this time curated by Clarissa Vidotto, Paula Perisinotto and Ricardo Barreto exploring topics of synthetic technologies, algorithms and immersive realities as new aesthetic experiences.
AR(T)MISTICE Forum
Inaugural AR(T)MISTICE Forum on Digital Art Peacebuilding, a unique virtual event taking place on 23 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00 CEST / 10:00 - 12:00 EDT.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.
Enshittification – Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.
The Politics of Platformization
The Politics of Platformization peels back the layers of hype and techno-solutionism to reveal the complex, often invisible struggles unfolding behind our screens. This provocative collection brings together leading thinkers and bold new voices to...
Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
Summer 2024 – Design Art Technology at ArtEZ
Five students from the Design Art Technology (DAT) department at ArtEZ share their final semester research projects. DAT is a four year BA that helps students develop their own voice in a complex and technological world and find their place in (or...
International Symposium “Toward a Relativization of Art & Technology” Directed by Fujihata Masaki
CCBT is organizing a two-part symposium with media art pioneer Fujihata Masaki. Bringing together curators, philosophers, and producers from abroad, the symposium will revisit the relationships between art and technology: their historical developm...
Emergent Forms – AI conceptual shifts
This project uses iterative AI-generated imagery to explore model collapse, where AI drifts from original concepts over time. Reflecting on humanity's reliance on technology, it highlights ethical concerns and risks of losing authentic connections...
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it.
Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom
Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CP...
Sorn-Lai – Technosphere and post-singularity
"Sorn-Lai" is an immersive narrative set in a post-singularity world where biology and technology merge. In the White Forest, life fuses with AI and biotech. Through a researcher’s journey, it explores ethical and sustainable implications of our t...
Ecologies Of Becoming – Sougwen Chung
Ecologies of Becoming explores the entwined realms of art, technology, and the deep connections formed through human-machine collaboration. Authored by the visionary artist and researcher Sougwen Chung, this monograph fuses an extensive body of wo...
Toaster-Typewriter – An investigation of humor in design
Toaster-Typewriter is the first iteration of what technology made with humor can do. A custom made machine that lets one burn letters onto bread, this hybrid appliance nudges users to exercise their imaginations while performing a mundane task lik...
Hello from the Global Creative Laboratories! Vol. 2: Cultural Facilities Responding to the Times
On December 23, 2023, “Hello from the Global Creative Laboratories! Vol. 2: Cultural Facilities Responding to the Times” was held at Civic Creative Base Tokyo (CCBT), a hub for exploring creativity through art, technology, and design.
Invention and Innovation – Vaclav Smil
Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised, but also at those that turned disastrous.