art commissions
Farzané & Arash: Embedded/Embodied
essay
Dasha’s Kitchen: My magical grilled cheese sandwich recipe
Dasha Ilina tricks the search algorithms that might read her essay about algorithmic surveillance into thinking it’s just a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Dasha's Kitchen: My magical grilled cheese sandwich recipe
A grilled cheese sandwich is sometimes used as a metaphor for an algorithm. Making a grilled cheese sandwich is so easy! It only takes a few simple steps, just like a basic algorithm.
fiction
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic.
essay
The Image of an Image is a Memory: Clash of the Imperial Gaze
Today, a walk in the museum is a walk with a camera. Is the hegemonic narrative of the exhibition questioned by the camera? Or does the camera become an accomplice to the museum?
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Farzané & Arash: Artificial Acoustemology
"The question that piques my curiosity is not whether machines can exhibit human creativity, but rather to explore how human-machine interactions can lead to the development of aesthetics or epistemologies that are based on the combined agency of both entities."
music
Singing To The Machine: Orpheu The Wizard
This mix by Orpheu The Wizard consists of a selection of songs loosely revolving around the themes of Mystics of the Chthulucene. First up in a new mix series, where artists, selectors, and music geeks connect sounds to a broader and recurring artistic research theme that weaves through The Couch.
fiction
I Become You
“I love your face. I guess if I had to look at it every day, it wouldn’t be the worst.”
feature
Under the Spell of the Sensuous: What David Abram’s Environmental Philosophy Can Teach Us
“We can navigate the intricate workings of the planet without the need for absolute mastery, embracing uncertainty and opening ourselves to unexpected insights and interlocutors, be they human or more-than.“
essay
Thinking through the supermarket
Ilaria Obata takes a fresh look at the vast environment of the supermarket chain in this analytical essay.
podcast
Future Artefacts Episode 4: David Blandy
For the fourth episode of our collaboration with Future Artefacts FM, hosts Nina and Niamh talk with David Blandy. While revisiting his work, they explore the ends of multiple worlds, from family illness, the foundations of a political system shattering and the end of a 17 year old magical gaming world, Asheron’s Call.
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Androids Dream
A temporary screening of a work by British artist David Blandy, the guest on the fourth episode of our collaboration with Future Artefacts FM.
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Directors Commentary: Rabbit 314 by Hsu Che-Yu
Hsu Che-Yu secured the body of a dead rabbit from the animal research facility where his grandmother used to work in her youth. Together with scriptwriter Chen Wan-Yin and a glove puppeteer, they made the rabbit come alive– as imagined by humans.
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The distant bungee jumper, a dangling herring
Charlie Jermyn was on a mission to discover the history of the North Sea resort town of Scheveningen. The essay tracks Charlie’s disorientating pilgrimage through a haze of mystical sea creatures, marshland, beached whales, kibbling, hungry gulls, and bungee jumpers.
poetry
The horizon shifts as I do
Did you know that sequoia trees can grow taller than data centres can?
In the outskirts of Amsterdam, there are many of the latter, corrupting the horizon.
art commissions
Asa Horvitz: Ghost
essay
In The Door Opening of The Bedroom
'The bedroom is the locus of a becoming, spread out across multiple dimensions. Every night, as I close my bedroom door behind me, this process is set in motion, and every morning, just as it is about to become actualised, it disappears.'
fiction
The New Build: A Companion Haunting
That was the top-rated post on Raising, the occult AI forum where Nessa had found the instructions to build Robin 3. Raising was an “occult” group as in secret and illegal uses of language models, not as in black magic, Nessa was pretty sure.
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Directors Commentary: DEADPAN BUSTED by Aukje Dekker
For this Director’s Commentary, Aukje Dekker reads the e-mail she wrote to Steve McQueen in 2016, and dives into McQueen's Dead Pan (1997), which in turn is a remake of Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) by Buster Keaton, of which her own DEADPAN is an reenactment.