Human Adventures
in Creative Technology

Art & Technology

Long Read

Can A Website Be A Garden?

Container resident Harriet-Horobin Worley reflects on reasons for choosing to tend and grow the internet alongside the soil in their garden.

Short Read

Élan Vitale: A Story Of Death

Resident artist Uma Breakdown's Élan Vitale is a short interactive fiction with a gothic sci-fi angle on death, experimental technology, and life at the edge of it all.

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SAVE ROOM

Morgan talks with Uma Breakdown about their exhibition 'Earth A.D. 2' at FACT Liverpool, discussing horror gaming, coffins as reparative care and the power of bio-mechanics and chaos.

Social & Climate Justice

Collage of slime call paper and map with the title of the piece

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Log(s/ging) for Slime

Ren Loren Britton presents logs from their SLIME.CALL, being a student of slime molds of the forest on matters of patience, research and computing cultures.

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Open and Closed Software: A Climate Concern

Janna Frenzel and lee wilkins write about the impact and implications of open licensing for software in the wake of the climate crisis, the use of software in resource extraction, and how developers are actively responding to the ethical concerns raised by this issue.

Short Read

Tuning in to Nature

Dawn Attride shares insights and audio from scientists across the world listening in to nature to understand its health status.

Long Read

a haunting at the cloud factory

Morgan Jennings visits planned demolition sites, tracking ghosts left behind by the UK's energy network and Northern 'regenerations', and hauntings yet to come.

Long Read

The Promise of Salvation from ‘Smart’ Borders

The UK aims to have “the most effective border in the world” by 2025. But how did we get to this situation, where border surveillance is a multi-billion dollar industry? And what does it mean for people seeking asylum, for whom crossing borders is a matter of life and death?

Long Read

Engineering Futures In Nigeria’s Rice Culture

Chidinma Iwu presents an investigation into the state of rice farming, bio-engineering, and traditional food culture in Nigeria's flood affected landscape, considering the future of the crop under climate and social pressures.

Extended Realities

Text: DIYORDIE over a collaged background

Short Read

DIYORDIE

Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma's short sci-fi fangame about homebrewed biohacking at the dead end of alien corpo-space.

Illustrated article

The Making of a Virtual Influencer

A peek behind the curtain at this million dollar industry. Can virtual influencers make a positive social impact or are they just a dystopian money-making tool from big marketing?

Audio

Podcast: Queering VR

This episode’s guests explore what it means to bring queer perspectives to the predominantly straight world of VR.

Short Read

Deep Nostalgia

To compensate for generations of lost family history, poet and writer Ashanti Anderson turns to deepfake technology to connect with three members of her family.

Data & Automation

Illustrated article

Window to a Betterverse

A 'preferred futures' narrative and vision for future online experiences. From the project 'MetaversEngine', a collaboration between Awarri and UWE Bristol - funded by MyWorld.

Long Read

The Promise of Salvation from ‘Smart’ Borders

The UK aims to have “the most effective border in the world” by 2025. But how did we get to this situation, where border surveillance is a multi-billion dollar industry? And what does it mean for people seeking asylum, for whom crossing borders is a matter of life and death?

Audio

Homecooking, by robots, with love

Many local food cultures in developing countries are feeling the pressures of modernity, but is automation the solution?

Digital Communities

Long Read

Blackness, Glitch Feminism and Evasion

Tope Olufemi draws on personal experiences, Legacy Russell's 'Glitch Feminism' and a conversation with writer Lola Olufemi in locating Blackness, queerness and resistance at key points of online and AFK complication.

Long Read

The Sound of Intimacy

Exploring the simple technology of voice recordings, and their power to connect loved ones across the globe.

Long Read

Virtuality As Becoming

Zach Deocadiz, VR and XR designer, writes a personal reflection on finding self-identity and queer community through customisable web-based social media, and the technical similarities and experience design needs in VR social platforms today.