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IN SEVERAL EARTHS
A photographer tells the story of disaster survivors on a trek through a North West buried in red weed, searching for alien technology. A science-fiction story written and photographed by Morgan.
Index
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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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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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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.
Audio
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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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DIYORDIE
Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma's short sci-fi fangame about homebrewed biohacking at the dead end of alien corpo-space.
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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.
Audio
Ideas in their Becoming: On Low Quality Video Edits
An audio essay by Tam Lines on the affect machines of social media and the low quality videos that draw their attention to a potential rebirth of all knowing.
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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