“The signal cultural condition of the present is that every experience is always competing with trivially available, infinitely new, super-cheap digital content, dragging the value of everything it touches toward zero.” The Ben Davis review is spot on: news.artnet.com/art-world/ne...

'New Humans' and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It | Artnet News

The New Museum reopens with "New Humans: Memories of the Future," a show that's a disguised manifesto for what a museum has to be now.

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Very interesting conference by the Anthropocene Sediment Network last month, thank you @anthrosednet.bsky.social for the opportunity to participate! Recordings can now be seen here: youtu.be/2m2h0sjiaX8?...

Thin Natures, Speculative Cores, and Rumors of The Regenerative Turn - Dev Harlan

YouTube video by The Anthropocene Sediment Network

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Currents 2025 opening this week! Excited to be participating with a screening of moving image work ‘Afterlives II’

CURRENTS New Media@currentsnewmedia.bsky.social · last yr.

CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival @ El Museo Cultural from June 13th - 22nd! This ten-day festival will feature works exploring the evolving intersections of art, technology, and digital culture. currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/cu...

Great exhibit up at New Inc’s Demo 2025, on view in lower Manhattan until June 22: demofestival.org DEMO2025

Helheim Glacier, Greenland. Images from Landsat, panchromatic band, June & July 2023. Notice the large, dark colored icebergs breaking off en masse in the July '23. Ice calving does not normally happen this way at Helheim and may be due to excessive thinning of the glacier.

Newest acquisition to the collection "Five Body Problems #3, (Afterlives)" @devharlan.bsky.social I adore this piece "... of global resource extraction and the myth of limitless consumption. I depict technological decay and disruption as it is not clear if a stable solution exists..."

Skimming some relevant readings from David Golumbia's thoroughly researched book "Cyberlibertarianism" see thread 🧵 🔽

36 views on technostalgia, just to get you started: brooklynrail.org/2025/02/art-... Appreciate the mention in this excellent article on the Brooklyn Rail by Charlotte Kent @lucyscribbles@threads.net!

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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An interactive map from @ncdp.bsky.social compiles data from official sources (FEMA, CAL FIRE, NOAA, NASA, EPA, ESRI, more) to track California wildfire perimeters, air quality, evacuation orders/shelters, damage assessments, disaster recovery centers, demographics/social vulnerability, and more.

CA Wildfires of 2025

NCDP has assembled official data sources that track wildfire perimeters, damage, individual assistance, weather, and demographics.

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"The aesthetic nod to early computing isn’t just nostalgic; it underscores how tech culture has historically dismissed or sidelined environmental urgency." --Verse

"These interactive works examine the ethical entanglements of tech and climate science — mapping where we stand (“You Are Here”) amidst hypothetical trajectories of apathy, denial, and systemic inertia." -Verse

Been losing sleep on this for weeks! Happy to announce auction goes live today on Verse, 1PM EST, 7PM CET "The Dithering (You Are Here)" verse.works/exhibitions/... Thanks so much @fakewhale.bsky.social for curating. Enjoy the work and happy bidding!

The Dithering (You Are Here) | Verse

The series *The Dithering* extends Dev Harlan’s work with emulated desktops to contextualize climate apathy within the history of techtopian imaginaries which have largely been dismissive or hostile t...

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'Late Stage Capitaloscene' part of the exhibit 'The Dithering (You Are Here) coming to verse.works 12/11, presented by @fakewhale.bsky.social: verse.works/exhibitions/...

‘You Are Here’ Strange Attractors, AppleScript, 1992 IPCC Climate Report, OS 7.1, generative graphics in C Coming soon on Verse.works

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Cthuluscene CO2 Proxy Now live on Verse.works, Part of the solo exhibition "The Dithering (You Are Here)" Curated by @fakewhale.bsky.social verse.works/series/cthul...

Cthuluscene CO2 Proxy by Dev Harlan | Verse

The series *The Dithering (You Are Here)* extends Dev Harlan’s work with emulated desktops to contextualize climate apathy within the history of techtopian imaginaries which have largely been dismissi...

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On the reading list, just published this month and so relevant right now! Also highly recommend Golumbia’s 2016 book, The Politics of Bitcoin: firestorm.coop/products/161...

Impressed with the care and attention that went into this show at the Institute of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia, thank you so much @dianedrubay.bsky.social and Ana Aguirre for including me! Here are a couple views of the work "Afterlives, Vignettes" from the exhibit which closed last weekend:

A 1990 climate projection from the IPCC AR1. I dropped a pin for 2024 atmospheric C02 concentration -- we're basically at Business-As-Usual 🫠

Here's to growing something new.