The contours of contemporary debate about AI music are probably familiar to most readers of this website. On the one hand, AI ...

But after telling moving stories of tech’s harms, Mutemi argued that it may not be enough. “while justice in the court ...

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If a pattern can serve as a home world for a synthetic organism—if the environment an organism inhabits is, at base, a ...

DEMO is NEW INC’s annual multi-day festival of art, design, and technology. Anchored by NEW INC’s five tracks—Art & Code, Extended Realities, Creative Science, Cooperative Studies, and Social ...

“Imagine if we could begin our little life all over again. Imagine if it was all nothing more than some electronic game. Imagine if I knew then what I know now.” —Deus Ex Machina, Automata, 1984 If ...

We're thrilled to announce the 17 recipients of our 2025-26 Microgrants, selected from an open call encouraging experimentation with alternatives for digital culture. This year's awarded projects ...

In this third segment of our genealogy we begin to form a connection, and to examine those lesser-known but foundational figures that radiate out from Turing's early work. Perhaps appropriately, given ...

This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a history that are ...

I first began to realize the potentiality of my glitch body at the age of thirteen. If not thirteen, maybe even a few years younger—eleven, even—when I signed up on Yahoo! under the handle of ...

For nearly 30 years, Rhizome has supported digital art that has helped to shape contemporary conversations about technology and culture. In an era of platform monopolies, algorithmic manipulation, and ...

Pete Jiadong Qiang, Queer Maximalism HyperBody (2020). Game level Pinkray, Pinkray plush dolls, VR gameplay screenshot. Courtesy of the artist and CheeseTalk. The latest in a series of interviews with ...