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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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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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Blackness, Glitch Feminism and Evasion
Tope Olufemi draws on personal experiences, Legacy Russell's 'Glitch Feminism' and a conversation with writer Lola Olufemi in locating Blackness, queerness and resistance at key points of online and AFK complication.
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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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Virtuality As Becoming
Zach Deocadiz, VR and XR designer, writes a personal reflection on finding self-identity and queer community through customisable web-based social media, and the technical similarities and experience design needs in VR social platforms today.
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Lascaux Cave in VR: Ancient Art Meets New Exclusions
An in-person VR experience of Lascaux Cave promises an immersive experience of prehistory. However there are still limitations and exclusions affecting the quality of public VR exhibits.
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Who’s Afraid of M3GAN? AI, Surveillance Horror and The Home
Looking at the 2022 horror comedy 'M3GAN' Oluwatayo Adewole thinks about the implications of critiquing AI and surveillance technology through idealised fantasies of The Family and The Home.
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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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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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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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The Sound of Intimacy
Exploring the simple technology of voice recordings, and their power to connect loved ones across the globe.
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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?
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Anonymous Accounts are Leading the Me Too Movement in Pakistan
As Pakistan grapples with the impact of the Me Too Movement, women are choosing the gift of anonymity online to make their voices part of the change.
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K-Pop Culture: The Power of 6.7 Billion Tweets
K-pop's global army of fans have used technology to connect with their favourite artists for the past two decades – and have changed the internet for everyone.
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Sound On: Exploring the Rise of Clubhouse and Audio-Only Apps
Chanté Joseph asks if Clubhouse can revolutionise social media without facing its own growing issues.
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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?