Short Read
Élan Vitale: A Story Of Death
Resident artist Uma Breakdown's Élan Vitale is a short interactive fiction with a gothic sci-fi angle on death, experimental technology, and life at the edge of it all.
Index
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Audio
Podcast: From Cyber Punk To Time Hunting
Russel Hlongwane and Mark Mushiva talk hip-hop, cyber punk and finding new theories of creative technology for Africa.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Long Read
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.
Short Read
Poem.garden
Artist in residence, Harriet Horobin-Worley, explores how the garden is a way of reflecting on our own place in the ecosystem of technology
Audio
Podcast: Past, Present, Future
From pre-internet to the present day, Container speaks to artists who have been experimenting with technology from the beginning.
Long Read
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?
Video
Wild Ideas with Tangle Immersive
Harry and Chris share ideas they have been dreaming up, from murmurations in a dome to forests of ferns made from soft robotics.
Illustrated article
Reworking Technology
Artist Brian Gibson reveals the concealed architecture of domestic technology through a process of assemblage, print and photography.
Video
Eyes Shut: Dancing for your Body
What does it feel like to dance for yourself — and your body — rather than for an audience?
Audio
Podcast: Archiving Queer Erasure
An interview with Keval Harie, Director of GALA Queer Archive