Long Read
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.
Index
Short Read
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.
Short Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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
Short Read
DIYORDIE
Uma Breakdown & Belladonna Paloma's short sci-fi fangame about homebrewed biohacking at the dead end of alien corpo-space.
Long Read
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
Long Read
Wormwood: A Nuclear Plant
Morgan Jennings and Oma Keeling present a reflection on the start of their current working research project on the histories and alternative realities of nuclear power, its potentials, and precarity, in the North of England.
Audio
Sustainable Sounds: Generating Change in Global Music Touring
Dawn Attride talks with the people working to make the music touring industry more sustainable.
Long Read
The Continued Devaluation of Voice-over
Phoenix Simms links precarity for voice-over artists in video games and beyond due to automation to historical trends in the voice-over industry.
Illustrated article
[computing in 2024]
virtual gallery/collection/collage on being a user/hacker/engineer in 2024
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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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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.
Short Read
Tuning in to Nature
Dawn Attride shares insights and audio from scientists across the world listening in to nature to understand its health status.