Régine Debatty
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Art critic, curator and forever blogger
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
The "Climate Biennial: Art, Industry and Territory" not only showcases but also implements respectful and imaginative ways to inhabit the planet. An art event that practices what it preaches: now that’s revolutionary! Interview w/ its artistic director
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Uncertainty as a field of action. An interview with Amanda Masha Caminals
The subtitle of the first Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, captures the biennial’s central idea: learning to navigate moments like ours, when the present is shaky and the future uncerta…
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/uncertainty-as-a-field-of-action-an-interview-with-amanda-masha-caminals/
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State of the ART(ist): international Open Call aimed at artists whose livelihoods and working conditions are severely affected by political repression, war, restrictions on freedom of expression, environmental crises, or economic and systemic exploitation
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State of the ART(ist)
Café Kuba, David Shongo (CD), Photo: David Shongo "State of the ART(ist)" focuses on artists who face threats to their existence. These threats may come in the form of repression or political persecut...
https://ars.electronica.art/stateoftheartist/en/
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The Hirbawi factory and its artisans from Hebron have restocked their
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kufiyas. "As always, availability reflects what our workshop has been able to produce under the conditions, and quantities remain limited."
www.kufiya.org/collections/...
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Latest Restock
Shop the latest restock of authentic Hirbawi Kufiyas and authentic products proudly made in Palestine. Limited quantities available, don’t miss out.
https://www.kufiya.org/collections/restock
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Last Call: Transitional Justice with Artists Grant. The program supports artists and creative practitioners whose work addresses the legacies of large-scale atrocity or oppression. Deadline: 2 May 2026
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The programme includes classes such as "Data Cyborg Stories: Investigative Storytelling for Liberation using Data and AI", "Creating Alt-Ctrl Games as Feminist Practice", "Performative Media as Art Practice, Research and Public Action."
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Maen Hammad’s work, including his more recent work of Palestinian steadfastness amidst a worsening repression in the West Bank, offers a powerful counternarrative to dominant representations of Palestine.
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Ones to Watch 2025 - Maen Hammad - 1854 Photography
Born in Jerusalem and brought up in Detroit, Maen Hammad feels a responsibility to document life in Palestine – from skater culture to prisoner releases
https://www.1854.photography/2026/04/ones-to-watch-2025-maen-hammad/
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The book "A Soil Turn" offers a survey of creative practices that engage with soil. From a floating food forest to hidden soil soundscapes, decomposing SUVs, experiences within damaged soil ecosystems, etc.
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Soil Turn—A Field Guide to Artistic Earthly Engagements
The book offers a survey of creative practices that engage with soil in all its dimensions. While I expected land art and pottery, I encountered edible soil, a floating food forest, hidden soil sou…
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/soil-turn-a-field-guide-to-artistic-earthly-engagements/
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Pro-Israel group CRIF attacked Yto Barrada, because she, along with hundreds of artists and art workers, called for the ejection of Israel from the Venice Biennale. Fortunately, the Institut français told CRIF to sod off
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BIENNALE DE VENISE 2026 : LA POLÉMIQUE YTO BARRADA
BIENNALE DE VENISE 2026. YTO BARRADA, L’ARTISTE DU PAVILLON FRANCE DE LA 61e EDITION, ATTAQUÉE PAR ISRAËL APRÈS QU’ELLE AIT SIGNÉ UNE PETITION DEMANDANT L’EXCLUSION DE L’ÉTAT BELLICISTE DE LA …
https://inferno-magazine.com/2026/04/06/biennale-de-venise-2026-la-polemique-yto-barrada/
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The Milan @machinima_fest has opened the call for submissions for its 2027 edition, marking 10 years of curatorial engagement with machinima, game-engine cinema and moving-image practices shaped through virtual worlds. Deadline: 30 December 2026
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CALL FOR ARTWORKS: MILAN MACHINIMA FESTIVAL OPENS THE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR ITS TENTH EDITION
The Milan Machinima Festival has opened the call for submissions for its 2027 edition, marking ten years of curatorial engagement with machinima, game-engine cinema, and moving-image practices shaped ...
https://www.gamescenes.org/milan-machinima-festival-opens-the-call-for-submissions-for-its-tenth-edition/
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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦
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With only the slightest apology for my language: Who the fuck actually wants these damned data centres?
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported
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The @BozarBrussels show examines the consequences of our drive to self-optimise, the role of technology in enforcing standardised ideals and the creativity of those who promote less mainstream ways of being an interesting human being
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Picture Perfect. Challenging dominant Western beauty standards
The exhibition delves into the political, ethical and cultural facets of the ideas and practices surrounding beauty
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/picture-perfect-challenging-dominant-western-beauty-standards/
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The call for entries for Share Prize, Italy’s award dedicated to the most innovative artistic proposals within the international tech art scene, is now open. Deadline to apply: 22nd of May 2026
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Once again, the magazine makes me realise just how much I still have to learn about digital arts!
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Support The Palestinian Independent Film Festival (PIFF), a grassroots, non-profit cultural initiative dedicated to Palestinian cinema. PIFF was created to reclaim Palestinian images and narratives at a time when they are continuously censored, erased or distorted
4fund.com/n5847t
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Independent Palestinian Film Festival – Donate on 4fund.com
English belowSupport the Palestinian Independent Film Festival (PIFF)The Palestinian Independent Film Festival (PIFF) is a collective, non-profit grassroots cultural initiative dedicated to Palestinia...
https://4fund.com/n5847t
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Counteract: Practices of Artistic Resistance, Dissidence and Furtivity, the current Issue of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts is now free for reading and sharing
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Interview with
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about an art show that examines the role of technology in the intensifying state of crisis shaping our world
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collapse: data.models.worlds. What role does technology play in the intensifying state of crisis shaping our world?
An interview with Katerina Gkoutziouli and Daphne Dragona about a show that examines the escalation and multiplication of crises shaping the contemporary world
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/collapse-data-models-worlds-what-role-does-technology-play-in-the-intensifying-state-of-crisis-shaping-our-world/
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What a brilliant theme! Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on. The internet is broken, but was it ever whole?
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Open Call — Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable
Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projec...
https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable
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Interview with historian Naghmeh Sohrabi who has been sourcing and translating texts published inside wartime Iran — in local newspapers, online platforms, and Telegram channels — and offering thoughtful contextual introductions.
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The True Things
I call it the mini-skirtification of Iranian discourse
https://bidoun.org/articles/the-true-things
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AI is not neutral, it is a terrain of power. And progressive grassroots organizers need to wield its ability to build people power instead of only panic. Disengagement does not protect us. It just reinforces the systems we are trying to dismantle.
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Power, Not Panic: Why Organizers Must Engage with AI to Build the Future We Deserve - The Forge
Arguing that disengagement from AI is not a strategy but a surrender, this piece challenges progressive organizers and funders to reclaim the technology, using frameworks like Afrofuturism to build pe...
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/power-not-panic-why-organizers-must-engage-with-ai-to-build-the-future-we-deserve/
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"We remind you that Israeli violence also targets the art and culture supposedly held sacrosanct by the Biennale" A letter signed by 178 artists, curators & workers in the 2026 Venice Art Biennale calls for Israel to be excluded from the event
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OnCurating ignores the instrumentalization of women’s and LGBTQ+ rights as a tool to promote Islamophobic agendas... “queer” and “feminist” identities are used to mark migrants as the carriers of an atavistic hatred of difference
hyperallergic.com/on-curating-...
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On Curating Carnage
By draping the tattered banner of feminism and anti-racism over state machinery, a Berlin publication parrots liberal talking points that demonize the Palestinian cause.
https://hyperallergic.com/on-curating-carnage/
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This is shocking reporting. We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step. How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive?
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Off-grid Dublin data centre fuelled by own power plant
Work has been completed on a data centre in Dublin that is not connected to the national electricity grid and instead runs off its own on-site power plant.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0312/1562943-dublin-data-centre/
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The campaign is plastered on billboards and bus stop posters, carrying messages like “The Youth Mental Health Crisis – Sponsored by Meta”, “Misery starts on TikTok”, and “We’re more lonely with Meta”
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Activists hack London billboards to call out big tech harm
Tax Big Tech : With UK youth mental health services under strain, guerrilla billboards across the capital accuse social media companies of profiting from…
https://www.huckmag.com/article/activists-hack-london-billboards-to-call-out-big-tech-harm-mental-health
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Farmers, experts in multi-species justice, indigenous design researchers, professors of anthropology, researchers in storytelling and other thinkers look at what a more-than-human perspective can look like
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Michelangelo's masterpiece has been coated with a "cataract" of dried sweat from its many visitors.... With tourism reaching record highs and the city heating up due to climate change, this process has only been accelerated in recent years.
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Sistine Chapel Mural Restoration Tackles Layers of Sweaty Residue
As part of a landmark restoration of Michelangelo's epic in the Sistine Chapel, specialists have been scrubbing away layers of dried sweat.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sistine-chapel-restoration-last-judgement-sweat-2749692
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Farmers are at risk of being locked into a globalised system where, instead of growing locally adapted crops, they are forced to buy seeds manufactured by industrial companies that come bundled with machinery & chemical inputs from other parts of the world
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Tech firms and AI farming tools ‘playing with the food system’, warns thinktank
Google, Microsoft and Amazon among companies using algorithms and AI to influence what crops are grown and how, say critics
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/03/tech-firms-ai-farming-tools-food-system-security
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OPEN CALL for artists, cultural practitioners and collectives working with communities affected by human rights violations. Apply to the Transitional Justice with Artists program for a €10,000 grant and a six-month fellowship
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Call for artist collectives under 35 working in data-driven sound and visual practices. The residency will take place from 15 to 30 May 2026, at Palazzo Ducale Genova, within the port and at sea aboard cargo vessels
www.u-boot.it/blog/npoe/
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"Echoes of Tumult proved that art about violence doesn't have to shout. Precise, disquieting, and at moments genuinely moving, it was the exhibition the moment demanded."
www.refresh.art/reviews/echo...
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The voice of the audience is dispersed by the system, encouraging them to listen to what surrounds them rather than to themselves. The artist has designed this system to use interaction as a pretext to cultivate contemplation and silence rather than self-affirmation.
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“Americans are very fortunate, because wherever they go to export freedom... they find oil.”
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“Gli americani sono molto fortunati, perché dovunque vanno per esportare la libertà… trovano il petrolio”. - Michele Serra a #CTCF #davedere
TikTok video by Che Tempo Che Fa
https://www.tiktok.com/@chetempochefa/video/7612373396801850646
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The book argues that buildings based on fear of bacteria, which is to say fear of life itself, must give way to buildings that learn from models of coexistence based on bacteria themselves. @LarsMullerBooks
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We The Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
This book offers an alternative history of architecture from the point of view of microbes
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/we-the-bacteria-notes-toward-biotic-architecture/
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Disruption Network Lab, a non-profit organisation exploring technology and social injustice, needs to raise a further €400 to complete the challenge grant and receive $10,000 from the Logan Foundation. The deadline to reach the total is tomorrow evening (28 Feb)
www.disruptionlab.org/donate
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Support us — Disruption Network Lab
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OPEN CALL – Mentorship Programme for Activists and Cultural Practitioners (under 25)
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OPEN CALL - Mentorship Programme for Activists and Cultural Practitioners (under 25) - European Alternatives
REGISTER NOW February 2026One session. Your questions. A real conversation. There is a moment – usually quiet, often confusing – when activism stops being an idea and starts becoming a question. How d...
https://euroalter.com/open-call-mentorship-programme-for-activists-and-cultural-practitioners-18-25-yo/
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The symposium explores the legacy of Wikileaks, why its work mattered, and how society and politics shifted as its global releases exposed systems of power.
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Disarming Design from Palestine (DDfP), a design label that works directly with Palestinian producers, designers and partner organisations is looking for new board members
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The project explores the representation and material dimension of data circulation on the Internet, as well as the speculative aspect of an object that is real, but impossible to perceive in its entirety. The object in question is the 8,700 km long Medusa Submarine Cable System
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How to Live Together in Sound? Towards Sonic Democracy Symposium at Helsinki Music Centre: Call for Contributions. Deadline to apply: 10 April
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"The no-State solution is thus a provocation to think of what Indigenous sovereignty can look like without reproducing these structures, in particular the violent dichotomy of citizenship and its absence."
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Altamente raccomandato: Simone Pieranni, giornalista e saggista esperto di Cina, e il neurobiologo Stefano Mancuso in un dialogo che mette in discussione gli stereotipi occidentali e riflette sul legame tra sviluppo, natura e responsabilità globale
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Ep.9 - Un’altra Cina
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3bcWc3PRDOHVsG1Gyi48kA
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Please sign the petition: The @britishmuseum's decision to remove the word “Palestine” from several displays is not supported by historical evidence and contributes to a wider pattern of erasing Palestinian presence from public memory
www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...
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Sign the Petition
Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum
https://www.change.org/p/erasing-a-word-erases-a-people-reinstate-palestine-in-the-british-museum?recruited_by_id=7bb41050-0da1-11f1-80ef-2bd321c72ee8&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&share_id=pmTW5v98F6
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A new low, even for a government that doesn't respect agreements: "Palestinian Muslim worshippers banned from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem pray outside at the end of the first day of Ramadan"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses
Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/status-quo-collapsed-prayer-jerusalem-al-aqsa-mosque-ramadan
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"Ten applicants will be selected for this 2-day training school that seeks contributions from academics, artists, creative technologists, activists, theorists and researchers who have developed or are developing ideas, frameworks and/or projects."
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"WikiLeaks transformed journalism by changing how public information is created and accessed. This symposium explores its legacy, why its work mattered, and how society and politics shifted as its global releases exposed systems of power"
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The Venice Biennial’s current posture lays bare the cynicism of the art world. Where it once acted decisively, it now bends over backwards to avoid offending Israel and the U.S. In doing so, it becomes complicit in ongoing genocide
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An interview with Alice Smits from
#Zone2Source
about the challenges of running a cultural space where animals, fungi, plants and other life forms are active participants
we-make-money-not-art.com/zone2source-...
#artinamsterdam
#zoopamstelpark
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Zone2Source, a testing ground for art and ecology
Zone2Source, a “testing ground for art & ecology” in Amsterdam, is exploring a new form of democracy where not only the voices of people are heard, but also those of trees, animals, fungi and …
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/zone2source-a-testing-ground-for-art-and-ecology/
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The 9th edition of the Milan Machinima Festival will explore rebirth and reinvention through the videogame loop. Follow it online or in-person in Milan on 16–20 March @machinima_fest
www.gamescenes.org/mmf-2026-rep...
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Creative Applications Network has a new app! It's only for iPhone and i don't have an iPhone but I applaud their dedication to support the creative technology community 👍🥳👏
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Just discovered the drawings that Lebanese artist
#MazenKerbaj
made in response to the ongoing genocidal campaign on Gaza
mazenkerbaj.com/gaza-in-my-p...
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Theme: Unstable Grounds — Artistic Research as Line of Flight
are.filmeu.eu
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