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• Netflix's 3 Body Problem Adaptation Sparks Global Interest in Chinese Science Fiction digital

  Netflix has released 3 Body Problem, a television adaptation of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past novel series, produced by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. The show…

• Digital Benin database launches amid restitution debates and institutional tensions digital

  Digital Benin, an online database documenting approximately 5,000 Benin Bronzes looted during the 1897 British military expedition, launched in Benin City on 13 November 2022. The…

• Bitsy Game Engine Celebrates 7th Anniversary with Exhibition and Online Jam digital

  The Bitsy game engine, created by Adam Le Doux, marked its seventh anniversary with Bitsy Fest, an online game jam and exhibition organized in collaboration with The Museum of…

• Chris Dorland's VR exhibition FLR-13 explores digital disorientation through glitch aesthetics and paranoia. digital

  Chris Dorland's VR exhibit FLR-13, showcased on Nicoletti Contemporary's digital platform, delves into the eerie realms of virtual environments and the uncertainties of the…

• John Akomfrah's 1986 film 'Handsworth Songs' resurfaces online amid renewed anti-racism protests digital

  John Akomfrah's 1986 documentary 'Handsworth Songs,' originally commissioned by Channel 4, examines the Handsworth Riots in Birmingham through interviews and archival footage. The…

• 2023 Video Games Reflect Global Anxiety Through Escapism and Ecofiction digital

  The year 2023 saw major video games like Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom offering players expansive freedom as a form of escape from…

• Matthew Burrows's Artist Support Pledge Generates £70 Million in Global Sales digital

  British painter Matthew Burrows launched the Artist Support Pledge on March 16, 2020, the first day of UK lockdown, creating an alternative economy for artists via Instagram. The…

• DALL-E Mini's Viral AI Image Generation Sparks Discussion on Art and Technology digital

  The AI image generation tool DALL-E Mini, launched by Hugging Face nearly a year ago, has recently gained viral popularity online. Users prompt the tool to create bizarre hybrid…

• 2022 Video Games Critique Capitalism Through Cosmic Dystopias digital

  Three notable 2022 video games—Citizen Sleeper, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and Signalis—presented cosmic dystopias that critically examined economic hardship and capitalist…

• Clubhouse's Exclusivity Model Mirrors NFT Aura in Digital Art Discourse digital

  Clubhouse, an iOS-exclusive audio app requiring invitations, has gained traction among Silicon Valley elites and artworld figures by fostering exclusivity similar to NFTs'…

• Mona Benyamin's film 'Moonscape' explores lunar land ownership as Palestinian displacement metaphor digital

  Mona Benyamin's 2020 short film 'Moonscape' examines the Lunar Embassy's sale of extraterrestrial property through a Palestinian lens. The 17-minute video features the artist's…

• CIRCA's Digital Art Platform Expands Global Screen Network with Circular Economy Model digital

  Founded in 2020 by Josef O'Connor, CIRCA is a London-based digital art platform that emerged during COVID-19 lockdowns. It transforms advertising screens into daily three-minute…

• ArtReview Hosts Online Roleplaying Game Set 8,000 Years in Future for Brent Biennial digital

  On 12 October 2020 at 6pm, ArtReview will host an online roleplaying game created by British artist David Blandy, set in Harlesden 8,000 years in the future. The event features…

• AI Collaboration in Art and Music Explores Humanist Values Amid Technological Change digital

  Holly Herndon, an American musician based in Berlin, released the album Proto in 2019 through collaboration with an artificial intelligence named Spawn. Developed with Mat…

• Anicka Yi's 'The Flavor Genome' video and research notes presented online by 47 Canal digital

  47 Canal is presenting Anicka Yi's 2016 video work 'The Flavor Genome' online for a limited time from 29 April to 29 May 2020. The video documents a journey along an Amazon-like…

• ArtRank's Anonymous Art Market Analytics Platform Sparks Debate on Market Influence digital

  A provocative website originally called sellyoulater.com, later renamed ArtRank, emerged in 2014, offering art market analytics using qualitatively-weighted metrics that generated…

• Apple's Vision Pro headset launches, raising questions about mixed reality's impact on public space and attention digital

  Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared outside the company's Fifth Avenue flagship store in New York on 2 February for the launch of the Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset priced at $3,500.…

• Mastodon rises as a Twitter alternative amid Musk's takeover, igniting debate on decentralized social media. digital

  Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter on November 17, 2022, sparked significant doubt regarding the platform's direction, leading users to consider alternatives such as Mastodon.…

• Prophetic Video Art from Beloufa, Phillipson and Zaman Gains Relevance During Pandemic digital

  Neïl Beloufa's 2014 interactive series 'Screen Talk' satirizes a hallucination-inducing pandemic through a website where viewers navigate glitchy story-paths and solve meme-like…

• Shezad Dawood's 'Concert From Bangladesh' streams mixed-reality music event on August 1 digital

  On Sunday, August 1, 2021, at 6 PM, a mixed-reality music event named 'Concert From Bangladesh' will be available for streaming in Dhaka, London, and New York. This innovative…

• Louvre and Uffizi sue Pornhub over unauthorized erotic art virtual tour digital

  The Louvre and Uffizi museums are pursuing legal action against Pornhub for copyright violations related to the adult website's virtual guide to erotic art history. Last week,…

• Google Doodle honors Kuroda Seiki, Japanese painter who championed Western techniques digital

  Google's Doodle on August 9, 2022 commemorated Japanese painter Kuroda Seiki, recognized for introducing Western art theory to Japan. Born in 1866 in Takamibaba, Satsuma Domain…

• Webb Telescope Reveals Star Formation in Pillars of Creation digital

  The 'Pillars of Creation,' located in the Eagle Nebula within the Serpens constellation and about 6,500 light-years from our planet, have been newly photographed by NASA's James…

• Uffizi Galleries Launches Cooking Show Inspired by Art Collection digital

  The Uffizi Galleries in Florence has launched a cooking show titled 'Uffizi da Mangiare' (The Uffizi on a Plate), featuring recipes inspired by artworks from its collection.…

• Sarah Gillett's digital artwork Not only; but also explores anatomical history through virtual reality digital

  Sarah Gillett's web-based artwork Not only; but also, presented by Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts, is accessible online as a digital museum blending virtual reality with historical…

• David Lynch Releases 2015 Animated Short 'Fire (Pozar)' During Lockdown digital

  Filmmaker David Lynch, staying at home in Los Angeles, has released an animated short titled 'Fire (Pozar)' this week, created in 2015 with composer Marek Zebrowski. The…

• Three video artworks explore dreams and idleness in online screenings digital

  Three video works are available for streaming this week, each engaging with themes of dreams, reality, and creative idleness. Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's 2006 video…

• Google Doodle Celebrates Metropolitan Museum of Art's 151st Birthday with Animated Tribute digital

  On 13 April 2021, Google released a Doodle honoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 151st birthday, featuring an animation that explores the museum's collections, including…

• Arthur Jafa Directs Kanye West's 'Wash Us in the Blood' Music Video with Police Brutality Imagery digital

  Arthur Jafa has directed a new music video for Kanye West's song 'Wash Us in the Blood' (2020), which serves as a preview for the rapper's forthcoming album 'God's Country'. The…

• National AIDS Memorial launches complete digital archive of AIDS Memorial Quilt digital

  The entire NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt has been made available online by the National AIDS Memorial. This digital launch coincided with the 23rd International AIDS…

• Meta's Threads Launch Sparks Debate on Microblogging's Future and AI Data Harvesting digital

  Meta introduced Threads on July 5, a microblogging platform linked to Instagram, aiming to attract users with a less contentious environment than Twitter. Instagram CEO Adam…

• Pace Gallery Launches NFT Platform Pace Verso with Social Justice Project digital

  On November 22, Pace Gallery unveiled its bespoke NFT platform, Pace Verso, created in partnership with the Palm Network. The debut showcases digital pieces by Lucas Samaras,…

• TRLab Animates Chris Burden's Unrealized Sculptures as Digital Artworks digital

  TRLab has unveiled a collection of digital artworks inspired by unexecuted concepts from Chris Burden, created in collaboration with the Chris Burden Estate. These pieces are…

• Random International and Wayne McGregor Discuss AI and Humanity in Online Conversation digital

  On 28 January at 5pm GMT, an online discussion featuring choreographer Wayne McGregor and the experimental art studio Random International will delve into the themes of automation…

• Random International and Studio Wayne McGregor premiere AI-human exploration 'No One is an Island' digital

  Random International and Studio Wayne McGregor have launched 'No One is an Island,' a digital artwork premiering in three chapters online until January 2021. The work examines the…

• E-flux expands .art domain partnership after losing bid, while founders maintain individual art practices digital

  E-flux, the hybrid commercial-academic organization led by artists Brian Kuan Wood, Julieta Aranda, and Anton Vidokle, has entered a new phase with its .art domain initiative.…

• Winklevoss Twins Shift Nifty Gateway Strategy Amid NFT Market Competition digital

  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Olympic twins from the Ivy League who took legal action against Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 regarding Facebook's inception, have become key players…

• Feral Atlas: An Interactive Anthropocene Platform Launches Online digital

  Feral Atlas, which kicked off in October 2020, is an interactive project that explores the Anthropocene via feral entities. It's curated by a talented team, including…

• Rijksmuseum releases 717 gigapixel AI-stitched scan of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' digital

  A 717 gigapixel digital image of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' (1642) has been published by the Rijksmuseum, marking the most detailed scan ever created of an artwork. The Dutch…

• Jacob Broms Engblom's Brain Nursery Egg TV Offers Algorithmic Disruption digital

  Artist Jacob Broms Engblom created the YouTube channel Brain Nursery Egg TV, which features algorithmically fragmented children's content with melting grids, morphing blobs, and…