Spring 2023
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...
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...
Neo Muyanga: A Mass of Cyborgs
A Mass of Cyborgs, Neo Muyanga’s first solo, is a fitting inaugural exhibition for the Center for Art, Research and...
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...
Not The Only One (N’TOO)
Not The Only One (N’TOO) is the multigenerational memoir of a Black American family told from the perspective of an...
Heritage Algorithms and Other Letters to the Future
Over twenty years ago, the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The...
Morehshin Allahyari: A Jinn Rather than a Cyborg
An oddity of much recent algorithmically generated art is that, while it traffics in the rhetoric of hyper-novelty, it often...