Any study of worldbuilding would be remiss without mention of Biosphere 2, the experimental facility constructed in Arizona for studying the feasibility of life in a manmade ecosystem. In 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo broke into the complex – or rather, attempted a break-out, and in the process brought the years-long experiment to an... See more
We're all participants in a cognitive economy that trades in attention, belief, and behavior. Shape the feed, shape the future. What happens when everything becomes an attention-speculation machine?
To try to “tell the news” as it needs to be told: poetically. From project to project, to swing between extremes, the soberingly real and the wildly imaginative – something I think our generation does with great skill.
“How do you exhibit that? Does that create a new economy for artists? Does that require new governance structures between the institution and the artists exhibiting that work? How do we show people how exciting this is?”
New work: All Media Is Training Data, a catalogue of works by @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst, curated by @eva__jaeger. THREAD: (1/) https://t.co/pVcUqSQ3Ln