Short Read
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
Index
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
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Illustrated article
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Short Read
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.
Audio
Podcast: Digital Nostalgias – Anemoia Online
Hannah Uguru explores digital nostalgia, interviewing John Koenig about the phenomenon as an extension of his concept of anemoia - nostalgia for things not experienced.
Long Read
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.
Short Read
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.