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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.
Human Adventures
in Creative Technology
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Abstraction in the Lab: Science Art, Collage and Communication
Oma Keeling talks to three artists engaged in science centred art research practices and looks at the common threads of communication in their work.
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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.
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Eyes Shut: Dancing for your Body
What does it feel like to dance for yourself — and your body — rather than for an audience?
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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.
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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.
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Issue 5 Residency
Chetana Pai's project will be an experiment with technology that plays with the nature of dance as an art form.
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The Future of Performance Post-Pandemic
2020 will be known, amongst other things, as the year culture went online. How are individuals and organisations in the live sector adapting and evolving, and can technologically mediated live events save an industry from collapse?
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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?
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[computing in 2024]
virtual gallery/collection/collage on being a user/hacker/engineer in 2024
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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.
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Podcast: Past, Present, Future
From pre-internet to the present day, Container speaks to artists who have been experimenting with technology from the beginning.
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Inside An Accessible Virtual Studio Production
Caroline McGlone continues her work looking at accessibility in virtual studios, getting a deep dive on behind the scenes work with Glass Shot Productions and Distortion Studios.
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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
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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.
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Dragging the Digital: Tech Revolutions and Drag Performance
Oluwatayo Adewole goes in deep on drag's technological overlaps, looking at the technical, ethical and sexual ties of the artistry with the boom in performance technologies and online streaming.
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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.
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Building a Different Kind of Video Game Festival
Matteo Lupetti and fellow organisers guide us along the route of Zona Warpa, a travelling video game festival, community focussed event series, and alternative vision for games, which took place across Italy in 2023.
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Reworking Technology
Artist Brian Gibson reveals the concealed architecture of domestic technology through a process of assemblage, print and photography.
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all these collective spaces: visiting GI Fest 2024
interactive collage diary of Container Magazine's trip to the Glasgow International 2024 and Common Ground Festival
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Poem.garden
Artist in residence, Harriet Horobin-Worley, explores how the garden is a way of reflecting on our own place in the ecosystem of technology
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Computing in 2025
Jazz Mickle composes a reflection on the idea of 'computing' in the year of 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.
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Wild Ideas with Tangle Immersive
Harry and Chris share ideas they have been dreaming up, from murmurations in a dome to forests of ferns made from soft robotics.