My favourite art podcast interviews one of my favourite artists about the consequences of the Apartheid wall in Israel, the toxicity of photography that pretends to expose injustice while reinforcing its power dynamics, why cultural workers should platform the work of Palestinians, etc.

AI systems revisiting the colonisation of the Americas, migrant itineraries in the Mediterranean, dying for one's country and museums exercising censorship in the face of a genocide, etc. Politically-minded art at @ArtissimaFair we-make-money-not-art.com/artissima-a-...

Sonic Worldings: Crafting realities through artistic research. Call for proposals that engage critically or experimentally with worlding in music, including but not limited to composition, performance, historiography and transdisciplinary research. orpheusinstituut.be/nl/nieuws-en...

Realising they don't murder enough people already, the "only democracy in the ME" approves death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners in first reading www.bbc.com/news/article...

YouTube erased 700+ videos documenting Israeli human rights violations in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for war crimes against Palestinians. Meanwhile Google (owner of YT) signed $45m contract to amplify Israel's talking points www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

100 years ago, biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky argued that the main historical events followed the 11-year solar cycle. According to him, periods of high sunspot activity lead to increased mass “excitation” and brought about war and riots we-make-money-not-art.com/comrade-sun-... @hmkv_de

APPLICATION PLATFORM NOW OPEN! Call for Applications // Solitude Fellowship Program 2026–2028 Visit: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/solitude-fellowship/ or Application platform: https://application.akademie-solitude.de Deadline for the first stage: November 14, 2025 – 6 pm CET.

Artists Call to Boycott @Museo_MAXXI in Rome over alleged Israel ties & denounce the museum’s role in legitimising zionist propaganda and narratives that enable the systematic erasure of Palestinian culture, history and life hyperallergic.com/1053965/arti...

AI companies are building massive data centers near major gas-production sites, often tapping directly into fossil fuels. The trend is overshadowed by headlines about the intersection of AI and solving climate change), but it’s one that could reshape the communities that host these facilities.

Open call for KUBU exhibition in Finland. The theme for the year 2026 is water. Write a short free-form application in which you describe your proposal for the interior and/or exterior spaces of KUBU. Deadline: 19 October kubu.fi/call/ #kulturhuskubu

Like many health workers before him, Dr. Abu Safiya was detained while caring for his patients and carrying out his medical duties #FreeDrHussam #FreeThemAll www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

CommunicatingPalestine.org, a new and incredibly useful guide offering tools to write or talk about Palestine ethically and responsibly. From best practices for countering disinformation to fostering ethical reporting and centring Palestinian agency www.communicatingpalestine.org

The book argues that design and conspiracy theory mirror each other. They intersect in their practices and in their artifacts because they share a common ground at their fundaments. This common ground is Conspiratorial Design. we-make-money-not-art.com/conspiratori... @freeklomme.bsky.social

Support for Palestinian Students to Study Abroad (SPSSA). This fundraiser provides direct support to Palestinian students in Gaza, helping evacuate eligible photographers and filmmakers to study at colleges and universities across Europe chuffed.org/project/1520...

A member of the Flotilla: If they have been able to treat us like this, many of whom are Westerners, what will they do to Palestinian prisoners? The feeling of total impunity has been one of the great frustrations of all of us elpais.com/internaciona...

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #VisitIsrael

“At a time when Israel continues to escalate its genocide with the destruction and ground invasion of Gaza City, following months of enforced famine, the Biennale should be ashamed to be in dialogue with the cultural representatives of the Israeli occupation” hyperallergic.com/1044678/arti...

"We're looking for projects that fit 4 themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame & identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics) & Synthetic Agents (collaborating with other intelligences)"

In Milan, policemen are joining citizens protesting against the genocide in Gaza & the arrest of the members of the Gaza aid flotilla www.tiktok.com/@ggianni7/vi...

I am a lady, 2009, by Mary Sibande, South African artist who uses painting and sculptures depicting figures to explore the construction of identity in postcolonial South Africa #womensart

Its products ship from the Israeli port of Haifa but the journey is protracted. The vehicles must make detours to go through checkpoints, and the pallets need to be stacked far lower than capacity to allow sniffer dogs to jump over them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The artists selected for the #MarioMerzPrize explore various forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social inequalities we-make-money-not-art.com/mario-merz-p...

Call 4 entries! The 2026 European Media Art Festival welcomes works in the categories Film, Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media artworks) and Expanded (performances, live events, workshops) Deadline: 22/12/2025. www.emaf.de

Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant. This year, the @rixcriga.bsky.social festival invites us to consider what vegetal life can teach us about sensing, adapting and coexisting on a changing planet festival2025.rixc.org #plantintelligence

Terms such as “climate change” or “global warming” do not express the urgency of the problem and the action needed. I generally use “climate breakdown” or “climate disruption”, but I love it when, in the process of collaborating with Matthew Hyland, new terms such as “global heat death” emerge.

In "The Hour of the Predator", Giuliano da Empoli explains that we have more information, yet are less able to predict the future. It is a situation that the “predators” help foment. Our abandoned future is the free open space they make their playground. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

"The results show a clear decline in expressive freedoms over the past decade, a trend echoed by Freemuse, which recently flagged artistic freedom as “at its lowest point.”" hyperallergic.com/1043369/new-... #censorship

A study has found that AI 'workslop', where coworkers use AI and their colleagues have to spend time fixing it, is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable." www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Madeline Schwartzman's book aims to expand our views of what it means to be alive in a world where hybrid beings are being manufactured, engineered or bred we-make-money-not-art.com/alive-synthe... @ThamesHudsonUSA

Yesterday, during Italy’s nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestine, protesters in Rome brought traffic to a standstill by blocking the city’s ring road. Motorists showed their support and applauded 😍🇵🇸🇮🇹 video.corriere.it/roma/corteo-...

"From attention-sucking algorithms to AI-generated slop, the book explores how our information environment is shaping & influencing opinion on climate and offers strategies to decode disorder, challenge tech paradigms, and counteract division. Download a PDF copy for free or order a printed version

When it comes to fighting techno-fascism, we’ve lost the battle of imagination. “On the other hand, it seems to me that the Marxist toolbox offers strategic possibilities that are worth revisiting”, says Nastasia Hadjadji in #ApocalypseNerds www.faketech.fr/p/apocalypse...

Love is Resistance: a collection of 77 posters from Michael Rakowitz, Aya Haidar, Brian Eno, Dima Srouji, Emily Jacir, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg, Jeremy Deller and other artists standing in solidarity with Palestine www.loveisresistance.art

Early US suffragists were inspired by the equality they saw in the indigenous Haudenosaunee matrilineal society. In contrast to European women of the era, Haudenosaunee women owned property in addition to holding leadership positions in their communities #WomensArt

Mahmoud Khalil talking to Nan Goldin: "nothing will make up for the lost lives. But I just don’t think we have an option. We shouldn’t lose hope, because that’s how they think they will defeat us: if we feel that we are against this big machine" www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

For its 25th anniversary, iMAL Brussels asks, "Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?" we-make-money-not-art.com/woven-antenn...

The announcement of an all-woman artistic team was celebrated by many. But cultural workers, such as women, people of color and individuals from other traditionally marginalized groups, have long been used as Trojan horses for the German cultural ministry hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-...

"Are You a Software Update? explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments."

Me robé esto de la cuenta de marianapordios en tuister. #PalestinaLibre

A distressing sign for tech investors & CEOs who "have held that enterprise AI — stuff that would prop up powerful companies in tech, finance and beyond — was the key to building a sustainable business model off of AI development." futurism.com/ai-hype-auto...

"We invite submissions for new media works that critically respond, engage, explore, or even question the phenomenon of the digital itch." Deadline: 12 September www.creativeapplications.net/news/call-fo...

"With this conference we want to address the role of direct action, art and activism in producing evidence in the context of war conflicts, border regimes and the systematic and strategic targeting of minorities for security purposes at the city level. "

For its 60th issue, @thefunambulist.bsky.social commemorated the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by convoking Indigenous perspectives from lands that have been exploited for these two massacres we-make-money-not-art.com/the-colonize...

"Other activities lumped in as sabotage include entering company information into non-approved gen AI tools (27%), using non-approved gen AI tools (20%), and knowing of an AI security leak without reporting it (16%)."

This year's edition of #TriennaleMilano demonstrates that inequalities are not just political, economic and social; they are also biological we-make-money-not-art.com/triennale-di... #ArtInMilan

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

What happens when Black and Indigenous artists intervene not just with content, but with form, temporality, and ownership models that defy the art market’s rules? amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/no...

On @radiowebmacba.bsky.social‬: Lara & Stephen Sheehi walk us through the day-to-day reality of psychoanalysis under occupation, Zionist psy-ops and (anti)oppressive praxis. They talk about psychological warfare and about Sumud—or the reverie of resistance... rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/...

Giovanni Aloi delves into the history and representation of plants in art, advocates for a change in our relationship with the botanical world, and presents an alternative history of art that foregrounds the truly indispensable contributions of plants we-make-money-not-art.com/botanical-re...