Essay

Examining the desire to recreate controllable environments that fit within our own scales and bounds.

Black people are the dependent variable in the progression of civilization, not a function of it.

Before the Internet, hypermedia projects explored open frameworks for moving through a body of knowledge

On two webzine anthologies and publishing an “oral history of the internet.”

What if software wasn’t designed to capture attention, but instead to promote presence?

Fifty years after Vermont's billboard ban, Facebook’s ad strategies prove a threat to American democracy. How did we get here?

In the summer of 1968, Vermont was about to publish a statewide billboard ban, courtesy of environmentalist and eccentric Republican Theodor Riehle.

Dedicated to an object that’s ubiquitous yet already nostalgic, the conference held equal space for history, futurity, and somewhere-else’s.

Designing for better channels of intimacy is as important for privacy protection as security protocols

Lessons from our workshop with The Creative Independent on building a healthy relationship with the web

In the 1970s, an analysis of Earth’s finite resources coincided with hundreds of thousands of Americans going off-grid. As we begin to see the limits to online growth, what’s the digital equivalent?

An unchronological search for the soul through time.

A walk through Are.na reveals the tangled assemblages connecting human and non-human life

From survival guides to string stories to quipu, every knot is a set of instructions crystallized.

Collecting, archiving, and printing a body of research for this week's multi-site exhibition on video culture in NYC.

Cory Arcangel on pragmatic Norwegian music festivals, our "always on" economy, and EDM stars as the ultimate just-in-time, carbon-guzzling cog.

A collection of notable years, frozen in digital amber

A collection of channels on systems of notation in performance and visual art