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Fostering cultural exchange and institutional collaboration, Screen Walks aims to engage with discourses and practices generated by a wide range of practitioners. All live-streamed events are freely accessible, regularly archived and openly. +
Images are no longer passive reflections; they are active agents, manipulated and distorted by the flows of capital and power, reshaping reality in their own fractured, pixelated image. +
Soft Tech is a term we’ve used and defended since the late sixties. Soft signifies that something is alive, resilient, adaptive, maybe even lovable. +
Autotheory—the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography—as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism. +
It is obvious enough why a clothing company might align itself with art or theory: to spritz its all-too-worldly wares with the air of intellect. +
If Ursula K. Le Guin described technology as the “active human interface with the material world,” I also attempt to become a technology myself. +
“Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense. +
There is no place for self-actualisation like the Internet. To put on and take off identities, personalities, interests, and styles with no cost at all and by simply lifting a pointer finger. This has generally been considered an advantage of the Internet. I’d argue it is not. It feeds an instinct that has been trained in us from marketing executives. You can create a “self” and a “space” for that self, with none of it being real at all. +
In the world of recommerce, virtual shopping is the new consumerism that everyone can afford. [..] Virtual shopping exists within a liminoid space, what cultural theorist Rob Shields defines as a meeting point of the imaginary and the material. +
As human agency erodes, faced with singularity and extinction, the figure of “the girl (on the internet)” is on the rise. In the new issue of Šum we explore how this surrender of agency mediates (human) history itself. +
If World building has become a central mode of cultural production today, then what kind of subjectivities and bodies will it demand? +
Being online means the possibilities are endless. It makes the edit different too, because a page count is irrelevant, but there’s still a permanence and a relevance +