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Immersive Access: Experiences with Accessibility in Immersive Production
Caroline McGlone talks to local and national creative producers about accessibility in immersive productions and writes about her own experiences in the field.
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F*ck the Algorithm: Online Collectives Building Community IRL
Emily Cook talks to Ever Glowing and Cute Cartel, two dance based performance collectives who've formed in person groups for addressing confidence in sensuality, support and resisting normative narratives.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.