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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.
Long Read
Human Adventures
in Creative Technology
Art & Technology
Long Read
Living Archives: Myth, Truth and the Version at FACT Liverpool
Recent artists at FACT Liverpool, Hope Strickland, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ashley Holmes talked to Container about the part archival technologies and methods play in their work.
Long Read
Long Read
What happened to performance post-pandemic?
In 2020, Container published a long read on the pandemic's effect on live performance. Two years on, we're going back to ask how things stand. What was temporary and what's permanent? Has access to events changed for good? What was learned along the way?
Long Read
Video
Eyes Shut: Dancing for your Body
What does it feel like to dance for yourself — and your body — rather than for an audience?
Video
Short Read
Beyond Submergence: Fragile Immersions in Event Art
Visiting Beyond Submergence at Propyard, Oma Keeling thinks about the human factors that affect experiences of immersive art.
Short Read
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.
Short Read
Social & Climate Justice
Short Read
Designing A Degradable Video Game
Prompts for thinking about the future of video game design, infrastructure and play, created by Everest Pipkin.
Short Read
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
Audio
Podcast: Archiving Queer Erasure
An interview with Keval Harie, Director of GALA Queer Archive
Audio
Long Read
Resonances: Cyberfeminism in Electronic Music and Sound
Fran Pope presents a reading of cyberfeminist continuity in contemporary electronic music and sound art, via Sadie Plant's 1997 book Zeros + Ones, sound archives and community projects.
Long Read
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
Video
Taking Up Space: Conversations About Digital Activism
A brilliant panel of artists and activists explore the mainstreaming of allyship and how it impacts radical changemaking.
Video
Extended Realities
Long Read
Lascaux Cave in VR: Ancient Art Meets New Exclusions
An in-person VR experience of Lascaux Cave promises an immersive experience of prehistory. However there are still limitations and exclusions affecting the quality of public VR exhibits.
Long Read
Audio
Podcast: From Cyber Punk To Time Hunting
Russel Hlongwane and Mark Mushiva talk hip-hop, cyber punk and finding new theories of creative technology for Africa.
Audio
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?
Illustrated article
Audio
Podcast: Queering VR
This episode’s guests explore what it means to bring queer perspectives to the predominantly straight world of VR.
Audio
Illustrated article
Life After Death: Should Virtual Reality be used to help us Grieve?
Jacklin Kwan takes a personal look at the therapeutic potentials of VR and explores how, when used in the right way, it can help people rediscover relationships with themselves and with lost loved ones.
Illustrated article
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.
Short Read
Data & Automation
Long Read
Who’s Afraid of M3GAN? AI, Surveillance Horror and The Home
Looking at the 2022 horror comedy 'M3GAN' Oluwatayo Adewole thinks about the implications of critiquing AI and surveillance technology through idealised fantasies of The Family and The Home.
Long Read
Illustrated article
The Fight for Data Rights
Many of us are alarmed at reports of data abuse but it’s easy to feel that – as ordinary citizens – we have no control. What can we do as a creative tech community to improve data privacy?
Illustrated article
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
Audio
Homecooking, by robots, with love
Many local food cultures in developing countries are feeling the pressures of modernity, but is automation the solution?
Audio
Digital Communities
Audio
Podcast: Digital Nostalgias – Anemoia Online
Hannah Uguru explores digital nostalgia, interviewing John Koenig about the phenomenon as an extension of his concept of anemoia - nostalgia for things not experienced.
Audio
Long Read
K-Pop Culture: The Power of 6.7 Billion Tweets
K-pop's global army of fans have used technology to connect with their favourite artists for the past two decades – and have changed the internet for everyone.
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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.
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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
Long Read
Anonymous Accounts are Leading the Me Too Movement in Pakistan
As Pakistan grapples with the impact of the Me Too Movement, women are choosing the gift of anonymity online to make their voices part of the change.
Long Read
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.
Long Read