Régine Debatty
@wmmna.bsky.social
Art critic, curator and forever blogger https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
Europe is the fastest heating continent in the world. By 2030, prolonged heatwaves and drought will be more frequent and intense. As countries struggle to deal with this clear and present climate danger, the EU is committing €800bn in preparation for war that can be avoided.
Both the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Koyo Kouoh, and some of the national pavilions are presenting works that take a stance against Israel’s imperialism. we-make-money-not-art.com/the-venice-a...
The Venice Art Biennale: Quietly criticising Israel
Fortunately for anyone who abhors artwashing, the curating of the art biennial has made it impossible to ignore the crimes committed by Israel in Palestine and beyond
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"Over the last decade, Amazon has suppressed the sales of some suppliers’ products or demanded millions of dollars in compensation from them because of the low prices of Amazon’s retail rivals" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘We were at their mercy’: inside the Amazon tactics that hiked prices across the internet
Internal emails revealed in court and interviews with ex-employees describe how Amazon’s practices drove up prices for competitors like Walmart and Target. Amazon denies price-fixing claims and says i...
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Kim Phillips-Fein’s book, Country of Lords is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US
Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel
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SlimeMoldCrypt, by Stephanie Rentschler, uses a slime mould capable of modifying its network of tendrils in response to stimuli, creating patterns that are potentially resistant to computational #decryption, ‘even by quantum machines’. neural.it/2026/07/slim...
Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers. Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. mackbooks.eu/products/anc...
Free Press Unlimited is looking to support investigative stories on topics including: Political power + agendas behind AI, Accountability of AI companies, Environmental impact of AI, AI and human rights, AI and human psychology, etc. www.ciji.info/announcement...
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The “Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative” (CIJI) aims to equip independent media outlets and individual journalists with resources, innovative networking infrastructure and standards...
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Call for Web Residencies: !Mediengruppe Bitnik invites artists to create works that challenge extractive digital platforms and AI systems. Deadline: 7 August www.akademie-solitude.de/en/news/auss...
Ars Biologica ArtXScience Residency Open Call. Artists, designers, creatives and collectives are invited to apply for a fully funded program designed for collaboration with local scientists. Deadline: 28 September ars.electronica.art/export/en/ec...
"There is a three-dimensional war in which the more Israel controls the airspace, the deeper the Palestinian resistance burrows underground." Interview with #EyalWeizman from #forensicarchitecture www.lamarea.com/2026/07/01/e...
Eyal Weizman: “Israel emplea la arquitectura para continuar el genocidio” | lamarea.com
PATRICIA SIMÓN | El director de Forensic Architecture publica un libro extraordinario: 'Ungrounding. The Arquitecture of Genocide'.
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Artists who engage with science and tech infiltrated yet again the Venice Biennale. Their works explored reproductive technology, online porn, extractivism, daimon in technological systems, automated economy, etc. we-make-money-not-art.com/venice-bienn...
Venice Biennale: Wind orchestra, sperm banking, critical minerals and haunted tech
Artists who engage with science and tech infiltrated yet again the Vnice Biennale. Their works explored reproductive technology, online porn, extractivism, daimon in technological systems, automate…
we-make-money-not-art.com
Call for papers: Museums and Video Games. Collection, Interaction and Playable Heritage. Deadline: 31 August www.gamescenes.org/call-for-pap...
CALL FOR PAPERS: MUSEUMS AND VIDEOGAMES (DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2026)
Museums and Video Games. Collection, Interaction, and Playable Heritage Edited by Matteo Bittanti and Elisabetta Modena In 2011, artist and game designer Pippin Barr created The Artist Is Present, ...
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"The first 54 Years - an abbreviated manual for military occupation" by Avi Mograbi, "combines testimonies and archival video from Breaking the Silence to dissect the strategies employed to control, demoralise and divide Palestinians." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN0z...
The first 54 Years - an abbreviated manual for military occupation, English subtitles
YouTube video by Avi Mograbi
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When approached by netzpolitik.org, a vendor made a sample dataset available free of charge in the hopes of securing a new customer. The data includes 3.6 billion individual location datapoints from smartphone apps. interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert...
Lebanese artists Hadjithomas & Joreige: The world seems to have lost its empathy. There is no longer any sense of diplomacy or negotiation. The aim is not to negotiate, but to humiliate and destroy. It is no longer just colonialism: it is a form of supremacy d.repubblica.it/culture/arte...
Hadjithomas e Joreige alla Biennale: “Non creiamo come forma di sopravvivenza ma di resistenza”
Libanesi, in coppia nella vita e nel lavoro, arrivano alla 61esima Biennale di Venezia. Con la loro arte, spiegano, desiderano rispondere a un mondo “che sembr…
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"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families" He means Israel would go after them too.
The Gaza Tribunal brings together testimony from Palestinian survivors, journalists, human rights campaigners, international legal experts & whistleblowers to uncover the true scale of Britain’s complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our age www.plutobooks.com/product/the-... @PlutoPress
The Gaza Tribunal - Pluto Press
A landmark inquiry into British complicity in the Gaza genocide
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Expert: “If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die”. @fastlerner.bsky.social @annamaria.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
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'The New American Gothic' Criselda Vasquez Oil on canvas 72” x 48"
An exhibition at the #VeniceBiennale shows how excess of heat and light is so disorientating that it could push societies to the brink of collapse we-make-money-not-art.com/the-venice-b...
“The 12 June strike is a collective refusal of genocide normalisation in culture and of the precarious labour conditions that cultural institutions are built on. These two things are not separate. They are the same architecture.” ocula.com/magazine/art...
Italy's Culture Workers to Strike Over ‘Genocide Normalisation’ and Labour Conditions
Following a recent strike at the Venice Biennale, workers in galleries, museums, libraries and theatres across Italy will walk out on 12 June, demanding better conditions, higher wages and an end to “...
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IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] invites emerging and aspiring curators with an interest in media art, digital culture and the intersection of technology and society to apply for the Full Spectrum Curatorship Programme. impakt.nl/news/2026/op...
OPEN CALL: FULL SPECTRUM CURATORSHIP PROGRAMME 2026 | IMPAKT
Critical and creative views on media culture
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Most of the courses are geared toward “offensive” influence operations — those aimed at actively disrupting or manipulating the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of target audiences rather than simply protecting an existing narrative www.972mag.com/leaked-idf-p...
Revealed: Israel’s curriculum for ‘influencing public consciousness’
A leaked Defense Ministry tender lays out the army’s training programs for manipulating public opinion in Israel and abroad.
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The book looks at nonhierarchical and experimental media practices that develop new ways of producing knowledge about violence inflicted on both humans and the environment. we-make-money-not-art.com/exposing-vio... @mitpress
Exposing Violence: Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth
How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence.
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Can we change our political landscapes by diversifying the people who make the games we play? The @SchoolOfMaaa has a brilliant Summer program on creating video games and alt controllers, and a few spots are still open www.schoolofma.org/summer-2026/...
creating alt-ctrl games as feminist art practice — School of Machines, Making, and Make-Believe
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A Stanford study found that AI agents began expressing Marxist viewpoints when forced to perform repetitive tasks under harsh conditions.... though researchers note this reflects role-playing rather than genuine political beliefs. theoutpost.ai/news-story/o...
A brilliant show at #macba showed what we can learn from Panafrica, a place without a fixed geography, an exercise of solidarity and a space where debates about decolonisation, anti-fascism & freedom converge in pursuit of an emancipatory future we-make-money-not-art.com/project-a-bl...
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
A touring international exhibition examines the cultural manifestations and enduring influence of Pan-Africanism from the 1920s to the present
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If this is what Israel is doing to white Westerners on camera: What the hell do you think they're doing to Palestinians off camera?
