Features
Three Case Studies in Ecological Protest
At the time of this timeline’s original publishing in our Fall 2023 issue, Counter Ecologies, in Atlanta, the Stop Cop...
Stubborn Materialism: Stoppages, Blocks, and Piles
Art in urban public space contends with human patterns of attention and distraction, just as monuments, buildings, and advertisements do....
Marking Time: Willie Birch’s The Roofers
Willie Birch, The Roofers, 2022, triptych, 84 x 60 inches [© Willie Birch; courtesy of the artist] The figures in...
Making Time: Mildred Thompson’s Magnetic Fields
Color, line, form move toward an undefined but perceived center—by moving out of it. Density builds, decimates, then replenishes. There’s...
Radical Radixes—On Lili Dujourie’s Mimesis
The work consists of an upright, kinked, and broken cylinder, from the base of which protrude zigzagging, forked rods; the whole evokes a barren tree trunk, its roots growing down the sides of its plinth, clinging to it. Two of the roots reach the pavement and one touches the steps, mimicking the way that some trees survive on rocks or walls by rooting around them.
Alison Nguyen’s Andra8 and the Gig Workers of the Data Economy
Sitting in front of a wrinkled sea-green backdrop is Andra8, the protagonist of Alison Nguyen’s 19-minute film my favorite software...
WangShui: Uncertainty in the Network
One of my earliest memories of the artist WangShui is of cats. Cats were the focus of their undergraduate thesis...
different ways to describe the ends of things
notes on Laurie Anderson
ID: A video still of artist Laurie Anderson, cropped against a light blue-and-white background. Anderson, a White woman in her...
Behavior Conditioner: The Narrative Imagination of Ian Cheng
The inscrutability of the universe is quite enough for us to think about. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet After...
Some Questions Surrounding Robots and Rivers
Media artist and theorist Mark Amerika engaged in a conversation with GPT-2 (generative pre-trained transformer)—an open-source language model released in...