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The internet is, after all, a physical presence. Its tubes cross the ocean. Its servers fill up deserts in Arizona. Too often we’re not prepared to visualize it in that way. The photographer Trevor Paglen has done an essential project where he dives into the ocean and tracks the cables snaking along the sea floor. He shoots portraits of Miami Beach

Damian Bradfield • The Trust Manifesto: What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet

As writer Jeffrey Kastner observed: “Attention to the world is the proper vocation not just of the artist but of anyone who imagines it as a place worthy of preservation.”

Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday

If the “State is the monopoly on violence,” as Max Weber once defined it, then the surveillance state (or surveillance capital) is the monopoly on identity. In this time of rising surveillance capitalism, entrenched surveillance states and, more recently, the plutocracy of blockchain networks, this monopoly has never been more important to break. D... See more

Divya Siddarth • An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained

The Stupidity of AI

James Bridle theguardian.com

“ping minimalism” ; small acts of digital resistance underpinned by the idea that attention is the most valuable asset we have, and must be protected at all cost.

Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk

As futurists we look for signals—small, often weird things. They are usually new technologies, new behaviors, new narratives that don’t fit into the mainstream, but that are often precursors of important transformations. We then try to discern the larger patterns that these signals herald to understand where they might lead ten or more years down t

walkerart.org • The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Brian Moore — artist / creative director

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David Teiger,

Sarah Thornton • Seven Days in the Art World

“basically an enormous eyeball floating around something, reporting what it sees.”