DIS Collective Launches Video Streaming Platform dis.art

The DIS collective, founded in New York in 2010 by Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro, is shutting down DIS Magazine to launch a new video streaming platform at dis.art in January 2018. The platform, described as "PBS for Generation Z" and "an Art School you can stream," will exclusively host video content blending experimental cinema, video games, advertising, and viral aesthetics. Highlights include educational shorts by media theorist McKenzie Wark explaining philosophers as a "talking head," a piece by Darren Bader asking strangers "what is an egg?," a reportage on seasteading by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller, and a video essay by Aria Dean on blackness in internet meme culture. Historical magazine content will be preserved as net art by Rhizome. A preview exhibition, "Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network," is on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco through June 2018, presenting the project as a counter-strategy to the post-truth era of clickbait and disinformation.