"The Art World's Favorite Mind-Altering Substances: A Sociological Study"

"In the past few years there have been radical transformations within internet subcultures. For many of us who grew up online – as nerds, gamers, or introverted artists – the internet was a place you could go to “be a loser with your _...Read More_

"How will our lives be when AI rules the world? Back to Back Theatre’s new play at the Wiener Festwochen provides a theory. "

"Tongo Eisen-Martin is today’s leading revolutionary poet. His unflinchingly militant and aesthetically bracing poetry has continued to evolve from his debut, Someone’s Dead Already (2015), through the 2018 American Book Award winner Heaven _...Read More_

"To celebrate Disorganisation and Sex, Jamieson Webster’s last book on why we should let psychoanalysis reduce everything to sex, we publish an excerpt on Adorno’s obscene dreams. Celebrity-filled parties, sodomy, fraudulent finance, and _...Read More_

"What was net art and what can we learn from it? In the 1990s, the Internet offered a chance to redefine the relationship between art, theory, politics, and the public. Mostly overlooked by the art world at the time, this art movement is _...Read More_

"In the frame of the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal on view at Gropius Bau, AWC publishes an excerpt from the conversation between curator and writer Sonja Borstner and artist Johanna Hedva on the Western relationship between time and _...Read More_

"Only three months on from the arrival of open source A.I. image generator Stable Diffusion, its creator, Stability AI, has released an updated version."

"Stuck on the platform? ➠ In der Plattformfalle, Plädoyer zur Rückeroberung des Internets (Transcript Verlag, 2022), Buchpräsentation mit Geert Lovink im Gespräch mit Anna-Verena Nosthoff und Felix Maschewski (Ko-Direktor:innen des _...Read More_

"Even if the art market escapes these types of catastrophic losses, the interconnected nature of the insurance industry is why policy premiums are expected to rise and the breadth of coverage will still change, according to data detailing _...Read More_

"Today, technologies that record, repeat and multiply the human voice offer anyone with access to an iPhone the possibility of creating not just new audio recordings, but whole barbershop _...Read More_

"Pirated ebook site Z-Library was the bane of many authors’ and publishers’ existence, however Alison Rumitt – herself an author – isn’t celebrating its loss"

"Mastodon has emerged as a possible new home for online community, but can it really change anything?"

"Users flocking to the platform will need to shift their expectations for social media and become engaged democratic citizens in the life of their networks."

"Robbed us of our memory, orgasms, and imagination, machines seem to make human faculties obsolete. But we are still the ones performing manual labor in sweatshops. Can comedy help us make sense of technology’s calculated tragedies?"