This is a dark pool party

Michael Connor

Hannah Black reads from her new book.

Custom-Produced for Imbeciles of Some Sort: An Interview with John Russell

Cameron Soren

John Russell on active forgetting, bad theory, squirrel pink, and speculative medievalism.

An Interview with Philippe Morel

Alessandro Bava

Wavelength: "The Paris, Texas of the Second Empire" by Lawrence Kumpf

Ceci Moss

Time and Revolution at the 12th Istanbul Biennial and ISEA 2011

Ceci Moss

The biennial exhibition was especially attentive to the Arab Spring, and the effect this has ...

Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism (July)

Joanne McNeil

RECOMMENDED READING: Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior

Rhizome

Excerpt from Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior by Chad Birch on GameInternals:

Radical Ethology: Jussi Parikka's Insect Media

Jacob Gaboury

In "Insect Media" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), Jussi Parikka traces an archaeology of non-human ...

Required Reading: After the Screen: Array Aesthetics and Transmateriality by Mitchell Whitelaw

Ceci Moss

1. Glowing RectanglesFor all the diversity of the contemporary media ecology - network, broadcast, games, mobile ...

The Search for a Center: Vito Campanelli's Web Aesthetics

Greg J. Smith

A review of Vito Campanelli's new book Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture ...

Required Reading: Ever-Changing Chains of Work: An Interview with Constant Dullaart by Franz Thalmair

Ceci Moss

For Constant Dullaart the Internet serves as a medium as well as a subject of ...

Something In The Air: Post-Industrial Ambience And The Control Society

Thomas Bey William Bailey

But what, exactly, was "post-industrial music"? With the folding of Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records ...