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...

Jordan S. Carroll's book "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction And The Alt-Right" (2025) documents the insidious recuperation of science fiction by racists and conspiracy nuts. artreview.com/space-racism...

The book Reversed Surveillance, by Marcel Top, is a visualisation of invasive surveillance technologies, challenging the prospect of automating crime detection during protests in France. phmuseum.com/photobooks/r...

The works selected for the #re_humanism exhibition in Rome challenge the profit-driven paradigms that guide the development of AI. They explore how complexity, resistance, unpredictability and friction can shape the future(s). we-make-money-not-art.com/timeline-shi... #re_humanism

If toxic propaganda narratives have conjured the climate breakdown, #JonasStaal suggests, then stories of regeneration can propagate new planetary futures for all. His book identifies narratives that seek repair & regeneration of a world in crisis @mitpress we-make-money-not-art.com/climate-prop...

Scam Cities: In Southeast Asia, urban clusters designed for online fraud are emerging: camouflaged, functional spaces where architecture becomes the real infrastructure of the dark side of the web. www.domusweb.it/en/architect...

Free E-Book for 48 hours! "A Public Service. Whistleblowing, Disclosure and Anonymity", by Tim SCHWARTZ. This whistleblowing guide offers strategies to counteract and hold governments and corporations accountable for unethical actions. www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-pu... thank you @orbooks !

Italian citizens and businesses boycott Israeli products as war in Gaza rages on 😍 👏🍉🍉🍉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IpD...

A few years before us, Roger Peet mapped the interconnection of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Euro-American colonialism, and the extracted colonized land, in particular in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Please donate! #Sa7ten is a Palestinian community-led initiative. "We decolonise aid by responding directly to our people's needs, serving with dignity (Karama) and fostering agency (Tamkeen) amidst the ongoing genocide and 77 years of Israeli occupation" www.sa7ten.org

Become an ethical art thief with an African Futurist heist game (and get a better understanding of how colonial history has affected people in African countries.) www.instagram.com/reel/DMDXfc9...

Reminder for Tonight! Please join us for a live interview with Marc Garrett on Monday, 28 July 2025. July 28th @ 7 PM UK Time, online: www.facebook.com/events/12723... Feral Class is a raw and resonant memoir of surviving and creating on the margins.

Data and visualisations are not neutral. They reflect the choices of those who produce them, from which data to analyse to how to describe and communicate it. Case in point: Israel's assault on Gaza. By @donatacolumbro & @LeilaBelMoh www.tispiegoildato.it/p/come-si-ra...

The exhibition explores war through the 5 stages that define every conflict: appearance of peace, alarms, war, ruins and resistance. Featuring Mohamed Choucair, Total Refusal, Monira Al Qadiri, Alfredo Jaar, Antonio Bermúdez Obregon and more we-make-money-not-art.com/de-bello-not...

Done! A bit of joy in my inbox every Monday will not hurt!

The Woman Who Lives in the Sun' (1960) by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak #ReframingWomenPrintmakers