I wrote about digital archeology and early Bitcoin inscriptions for @outland.bsky.social. Featured: time travel, vikings vandalizing Hagia Sophia, the doodles of a 13th century Russian boy. outland.art/bitcoin-graf...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗪𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗚 & 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 The mainstream perception of technology largely places it in direct opposition to the human. Both Sougwen Chung & Operator explode this binary. New in, for our special #performance issue ~ 📰: outland.art/sougwen-chun...

𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 Bright Moments proposes that the revelation of the output of a generative artwork is a special occasion that artists and their audiences can share. On the occasion of “The Finale,” a deeper look w/ founder Seth Goldstein ~ outland.art/bright-momen...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗛 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚 Last week we paid a virtual visit to the studio of Sarah Rothberg. In recent years, the artist has used virtual reality to make humorous performances that deconstruct the absurdities of self & software. Watch our convo in full ~ 📺: outland.art/sarah-rothbe...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗭 & 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜 + 𝗞𝗘𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗢𝗕𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗞𝗘 Artists have always performed online—but, as the internet has changed, so too have artists’ approaches. Now online for our special issue on performance, a conversation between David Horvitz and the Obadikes. outland.art/david-horvit...

“Dorian Generatives (Lime),” 2020 by ROBNESS. In the collection of the Centre Pompidou. outland.art/centre-pompi...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗔 A few weeks ago we sat down for a virtual studio visit with the 'girl from the internet', herself—Molly Soda! The artist discusses her urge to archive the constantly changing ways that we represent ourselves on the internet, watch now ~ 📺: outland.art/molly-soda/

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 Hot 🔥 from our PERFORMANCE issue ✨🎭 by Maya Man 🎀 The pressure to maintain a personal brand is higher than ever, but the history of digital performance shows this is a rich space to explore. 📰: outland.art/maya-man-dig...

Thinking about the Utah teapot today 🫖☕️

“y2k love,” 2021 @katecursed.bsky.social ❤️📞❤️ watch our virtual studio visit: outland.art/kate-the-cur...

𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗣𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗢 Performance is a tricky art form to sell & collect—might blockchain technology offer a solution? This is the question that drives The Sphere DAO, which has been creating & collecting live art since 2020. Read on ~ 📰: outland.art/the-sphere-d...

In 2021, Lauren Lee McCarthy minted ‘Good Night,’ a NFT performance work in which the artist sends a text to the token’s holder every night before she goes to bed. What do you think it’s like to hold a work like this? To participate in a performance with no end date? outland.art/good-night-p...

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗬 Get to know our current guest editor 💕 In her new solo show, Lauren Lee McCarthy takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and equally radical politics of care. In focus: Bodily Autonomy, cur. by Ceci Moss outland.art/lauren-lee-m...

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 | 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 Introducing the next #OutlandGuestEditor 📯 ✨ We're thrilled to welcome Lauren Lee McCarthy! 🥳 The 'Saliva' artist is currently leading us through a new special issue on #Performance. Now online, read her opening note: outland.art/spilling-out...

New writing from me!A special issue of @outland.bsky.social focusing on 🖼️🕹️Art Games 🎮 🏀 kicks off with this essay I wrote about why I think games are an 👏essential👏 medium for contemporary art. outland.art/art-games/

Happy to have written this piece about one of my favorite genre-bending artists, @chan.gallery . outland.art/mitchell-cha...

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 | 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 This month we embarked on our special issue on #GAMES 👾🎮 ICYMI, Outland Guest Editor @chan.gallery introduces the issue with a discussion of agency as an artistic medium. 📰: outland.art/art-games/

I just published a new piece of criticism. It's about a series by DEAFBEEF commissioned by LACMA, inspired by Eadweard Muybridge. You can read it now on @outland.bsky.social outland.art/deafbeef-lac...

“There is a looming question here: do the blockchain and NFTs have an intuitive use case outside of commerce? Since museums are unlikely to display a project with a financial aspect, NFTs as digital postcards for exhibitions could remain the dominant manifestation.” Tom Mouna on Gabriel Massan~ 🔗👇

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 What role will NFTs and the blockchain find within the established art world? Serpentine Galleries are testing the waters w/ a new show by Gabriel Massan. Tom Mouna reviews new video game artwork ~ 🗞️: https://outland.art/gabriel-massan-serpentine/

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪, 𝗩𝗢𝗟. 𝟮 The Outland Review is back! 🎉 Volume Two features: 📍Jonah Goldman Kay on @ertdfgcvb.xyz & Sidi Vanetti 📍Gabrielle Schwartz on @feralfile's “N=12” exhibition cur. by Aaron Penne 📍Benoit Palop on Takakura Kazuki 📍Jason Isolini on Mark Fingerhut 📰🔗👇

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗔 & 𝗔𝗖𝗜 This month we journeyed through the wild west of #AI from the perspectives of artists & thinkers working w/ the tech. To close out his guest editorship, Mark Amerika spoke with his Artificial Creative Intelligence: https://outland.art/mark-amerika-aci/

"The true object of sublime wonder has shifted to the infrastructural conditions of sensation, and in particular to the invisible filtering operations of AI." Shane Denson considers the tactile power of Refik Anadol’s large-scale, AI-driven installations. A thread...🧵👇

I think it’s good to listen to the weirdos and misfits. Who’s making interesting things in the spaces that are widely rejected?

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗟? We're not quite ready to leave our bodies behind. AI art leaves much obscured; when algorithms are invisible, our senses perceive their outputs. 👁️ Shane Denson (author of “Discorrelated Images,” 2020) argues for a phenomenological perspective~ 🗞️🔗👇

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗙𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s algorithmically designed gardens 🌸 cater to the needs of insects & plants, rather than preferences of humans—💪 but we still have a role to play. 🌱Gabrielle Schwarz reporting in from the garden ~ 🗞️: https://outland.art/alexandra-daisy-ginsberg/

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗜 Did you know that @connie.bsky.social was trained as a biomedical engineer? #ICYMI: last week we visited the 'digital shaman' & artist experimenting with AI. New technologies meet ancient mythologies ~ Watch now 👇 📺

The piece is illustrated by artworks by @ganbrood.bsky.social 💖 whole worlds within ‘technical images’ to fall into…

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗦 Images have always tempted people to produce more of them. According to Ruby Justice Thelot, generative AI ushers in the ultimate freedom of the image from human agency. Now online in the magazine ~ 📰: https://outland.art/generative-ai-and-technical-images/

𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 | 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗜 She’s a self-described “digital shaman,” exploring posthuman identity narratives through tech, lore, and ritual 🔮✨. You guessed it—our next virtual visit is with @connie.bsky.social ! 🗣️ Tomorrow, 7/18, 11AM PT/2PM ET ~ on the bird app 🐦‍⬛!

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗺 | 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘 Now online, a more critical lens: @saintsoftness.bsky.social writes on K. Allado McDowell’s AI assisted writing. According to Marraccini, they can be read as spiritual texts for a new tech-sponsored post-rationalism. 📰: https://outland.art/k-allado-mcdowell/

What’s the most interesting way you’ve seen AI used by an artist? 🤔🤖

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘 Choose your fighter: in the magazine, It’s human vs. AI! 🤺 Outland critic @kevinbuist.com and Mark Amerika’s ACI (Artificial Creative Intelligence) debate: Is prompt engineering w/ AI a valid artistic practice? 📰: https://outland.art/prompt-engineering-debate/

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗨𝗘 Crits of large language models like ChatGPT rely on a logocentric metaphysics of presence—a worldview debunked by poststructuralist theories of language. Why is that? David Gunkel investigates: https://outland.art/chatgpt-post-structuralism/

What do you wish that AI could do, that it can’t currently do?

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗜𝗥𝗔 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚 & 𝗜𝗩𝗢𝗡𝗔 𝗧𝗔𝗨 Artists push the boundaries of their tools; but, their tools also inform how they create. For our AI issue, Ira Greenberg & Ivona Tau discuss how computational processes have impacted their work. 📰: https://outland.art/ira-greenberg-ivona-tau-ai-art/

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗦 🤖 From guest editor Mark Amerika for our special issue on AI: Science fiction has been anticipating (& imagining) the death of the author lfor quite some time. ✍️ Matthew Kirschenbaum investigates ~ 📰: https://outland.art/ai-writing-science-fiction/

GM :) Mr. Doodle’s take on Da Vinci’s classic—we give you: “Vitruvian Doodle,” 2019

Editor-in-Chief @bdroit.bsky.social writes: “If the classical monument structures the flow of movement through public space, the digital nonmonument mimics and augments this flow.” -𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧- 📰: https://outland.art/the-digital-nonmonument/

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗨𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 Unobstrusive, ephemeral, embedded in rhythms of everyday life—digital art is finding felicitous ways to migrate from personal screens to public space that bypass museums. 🎆 These monuments leave no trace. 📰: https://outland.art/the-digital-nonmonument/

𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿 | 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗔 Right now, we’re in the middle of a special issue on AI guest-edited by Mark Amerika! In the first published piece, we asked Amerika’s ACI (Artificial Creative Intelligence) to take a stab at introducing the special issue. 📰: https://outland.art/the-hybrid-mind/

Hey, we’re new here. Thought it might be a good idea to introduce ourselves ~ We’re Outland :) a platform dedicated to fostering critical conversations around emerging digital technologies and their connections to contemporary art. But we’re so much more than just that… 🧵👇

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | 𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗧 As we embark on this new platform, it felt fitting for the first story we post to relate to protocol in new spaces. @kevinbuist.com considers emerging curatorial decentralization models: 📰: https://outland.art/the-jpg-protocol-curation-under-constraint/

Hello world :) we’ve made it!