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The Benefits Panopticon

Amid the UK government's proposed intensification of technological surveillance for benefits claimants, Kai Charles talks to privacy experts, disability advocates and claimants to present the already dire violence of state scrutiny.

By Kai Charles | March 31, 2025

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Computing in 2025

Jazz Mickle composes a reflection on the idea of 'computing' in the year of 2025

By Jazz Mickle | March 5, 2025

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Immersive Access: Experiences with Accessibility in Immersive Production

Caroline McGlone talks to local and national creative producers about accessibility in immersive productions and writes about her own experiences in the field.

By Caroline McGlone | February 10, 2025

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F*ck the Algorithm: Online Collectives Building Community IRL

Emily Cook talks to Ever Glowing and Cute Cartel, two dance based performance collectives who've formed in person groups for addressing confidence in sensuality, support and resisting normative narratives.

By Emily Cook | December 2, 2024

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Scene Versus System: How DIY Software Scenes Can Resist

niall t.l. looks at how direct resistance can come from the inside workings of video games, the digital and DIY art scenes in response to atrocity.

By niall t.l. | November 13, 2024

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RE-MASTER: Prototyping Decolonial Fighting Styles in Video Games

Tobéchukwu Onwukeme and Mark Mushiva of the Institute of Decolonial Technology propose a digital remixing of decolonial fighting styles via Tekken and capoeira, from the position of acknowledging radical anti-racist history.

By Tobéchukwu Onwukeme and Mark Mushiva | October 29, 2024

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Sick Socials: Designing Against the Infinite Feed

Bailey Miller proposes a new form of social media for connecting before doctor's appointments, inspired by the deep dissatisfaction around current communications tech.

By Bailey Miller | October 8, 2024

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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.

By Ren Loren Britton | September 17, 2024

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Archiving the Ephemeral: Guerilla New Media Art Preservation

File Menu Eater covers DIY efforts to archive the transient art objects and culture of the internet looking for ways to remember information technologies

By File Menu Eater | September 9, 2024

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DIYORDIE

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

By Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma | August 28, 2024

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Human Adventures
in Creative Technology

Art & Technology

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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.
By Harriet Horobin-Worley | January 13, 2023
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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.
By Uma Breakdown | June 12, 2023
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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.
By Morgan | December 12, 2023
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Social & Climate Justice

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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.
By Janna Frenzel | January 15, 2024
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Tuning in to Nature

Dawn Attride shares insights and audio from scientists across the world listening in to nature to understand its health status.
By Dawn Attride | January 31, 2024
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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.
By Morgan | September 6, 2023
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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?
By May Abdalla | November 4, 2021
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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.
By Chidinma Iwu | December 4, 2023
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Extended Realities

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DIYORDIE

Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma's short sci-fi fangame about homebrewed biohacking at the dead end of alien corpo-space.
By Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma | August 28, 2024
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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?
By Wendy Lawn | March 12, 2021
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Podcast: Queering VR

This episode’s guests explore what it means to bring queer perspectives to the predominantly straight world of VR.
By Eliza Lomas | November 16, 2020
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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.
By Ashanti Anderson | June 17, 2021
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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.
By Ren Loren Britton | September 17, 2024
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Data & Automation

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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.
By Vincent Baidoo-Lowe | January 17, 2024
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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?
By May Abdalla | November 4, 2021
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Homecooking, by robots, with love

Many local food cultures in developing countries are feeling the pressures of modernity, but is automation the solution?
By Jacklin Kwan | November 4, 2021
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Digital Communities

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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.
By Tope Olufemi | June 6, 2023
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The Sound of Intimacy

Exploring the simple technology of voice recordings, and their power to connect loved ones across the globe.
By Jenna Kunze | March 8, 2022
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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.
By Zach Deocadiz | May 17, 2023
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