‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’
(Groys 2018, p.174)
Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March …
Tag: Digital
To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …
Radical Immersions Conference
This conference was organised by the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and looked at the impact new (and not so new) technologies are having on the ways art is produced and received by audiences. Speakers also explored concepts …
Hannah Arendt and Digital Thinking
I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …
Operation Black Antler Project
I’m currently researching identity and the far right for a project I’ll (hopefully) be starting soon on Blast Theory and Hydrocracker’s piece ‘Operation Black Antler‘. I just finished ‘The Road to Somewhere’ by David Goodhart and am now …