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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.
Human Adventures
in Creative Technology
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Border Balloons
Taylor Miller follows balloons at the edge of and across occupied borders, charting flight paths in contemporary colonisation and liberation.
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Sustainable Sounds: Generating Change in Global Music Touring
Dawn Attride talks with the people working to make the music touring industry more sustainable.
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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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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.
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Are Multi-Sensory Maps Possible?
Madhuri Karak talks with indigenous elders and local researchers in Indonesia about community mapping projects using GPS, drones and sensory experiences to defend against encroaching palm oil acquisitions and government maps.
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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.
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We Cannot Walk Alone
Four people with lived experience of the UK's hostile environment towards migrants co-produce this fascinating virtual panel event.
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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?
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Mapping As A Defence Against Climate Crisis
Adetokunbo Abiola looks at a community mapping project in Makoko, a fishing district of Lagos excluded from official maps, now at risk of climate disaster.
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Podcast: Archiving Queer Erasure
An interview with Keval Harie, Director of GALA Queer Archive
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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.
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Podcast: Stream If You Wanna Die Faster
Exploring the environmental impacts of data streaming and who should take responsibility.
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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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Designing A Degradable Video Game
Prompts for thinking about the future of video game design, infrastructure and play, created by Everest Pipkin.
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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?