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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?