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- #5: Advertising is broken. It’s time to move your brand inside the model. June 12, 2026“For the last couple of decades, brands have fought for visibility on surfaces like billboards, magazines, television, subway ads. “Clearly, people hate this. “So we're proposing a new model of AI native advertising for the generative era. “Not in the YouTube ad, not in the subway, not in the margins, inside the attention, inside the […]
- #1: To address the tech industry’s harms, we need to build the kinternet June 12, 2026This pairing brought together a theoretical case and a legal one. Nairobi-based litigator Mercy Mutemi is leading a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Meta for harms that it has caused to the public good in Africa, including forced labor, genocide, and human trafficking. The goal of the case is to set up a victims fund to […]
- #2: A container is not a vessel, but an interface. June 12, 2026Disintegrator (Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, Hugh Scott-Douglas) and 邊界BianJie (Elena Carbajal, Ian Margo and Alexandre Montserrat | 世然)’s collaboration resulted in a curious object—a black silicon wafer, laced with billions of cuts by a precision laser— which posed a set of inquiries. The etching of the wafer created two states on its smooth surface: […]
- #3: Home worlds encode intelligences June 12, 2026“I’m interested in the field of diverse intelligence. How do very different kinds of minds come to exist in a physical universe? How do they scale? How do they change?” These questions, framed by Dr. Michael Levin as a way of characterizing the purpose of some of the research done by his lab at Tufts, […]
- #4: The future of AI music is making your own instruments. June 12, 2026The contours of contemporary debate about AI music are probably familiar to most readers of this website. On the one hand, AI enthusiasts boast of new potential for music composition, unlocking new modes of composition for experts, and making creative sonic expression accessible to the masses, regardless of skill. On the other, critics find AI […]
- #7: Machine Unlearning through Small Language Models June 12, 2026Co-curator Neema Githere introduced collaborators Dr. Josiah Hester and Caleb Rimtobaye by suggesting that beyond their (impressive) bios, it was also their ancestors who shaped their encounter. “The collaboration itself is really co-authored by the sum of their kin and the sum of their nations, specifically Kanaka Maoli from the sovereign nation of Hawaii and […]
- #6: Distributed intelligence can be a model for storytelling and world-building June 12, 2026Zhang and Huang shared an interest in nonhuman intelligences, and how engaging with them can be a “radical act of witnessing and care.” The collaborators drew inspiration from Zhang’s work with slime mold and cuttlefish. In cuttlefish, one manifestation of a unique intelligence is the ability to camouflage. Slime mold are quite famous for their […]
- Seven Big Ideas from 7x7 2026 June 12, 2026Returning to the same room at the New Museum where the program began in 2010, this year’s 7x7 took place in a markedly different context: a world deeply shaped by the scale and ubiquity of the tech industry, alongside the reopening and expansion of the New Museum and its landmark exhibition, New Humans: Memories of […]
- Artist Profile: Morry Kolman May 28, 2026The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Isabella Haid: Our world is governed by standards. Defaults are prescribed, data is collected, rules are set, and yet you demonstrate ways we can still be ungovernable. Your project Traffic Cam Photobooth—first presented in Molly […]
- Artist Profile: Maura Brewer April 29, 2026The latest in a series of interviews with artists who make work that responds to network culture and digital technologies. Katie Lane: Your work often engages with questions of public disclosure, exposing, for example, how people launder money through art acquisition, or leverage fraudulently acquired property. In your 2020 video essay Jessica Manafort, you investigate […]