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Exploring disciplinary interstices and entangled knowledge as epicentres of critical creative practice, radical imagination, research, and activism.
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New Dossier: Future Festivals Field Guide
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Upgrading our cultural infrastructure: How can festival makers simultaneously build resilience, expand accessibility and inclusion, while minimizing the environmental footprint of event production?
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Festivals are vital nodes in the cultural nervous system. But running them is a constant struggle. Beyond perennial concerns like programming, funding, and relevance in the ever-changing cultural landscape, there are existential questions about virtuality and sustainability raised by the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis.
Over the next 18 months, a MUTEK-led task force of seven festivals from Canada, Germany, and Mexico will prototype tomorrow’s modes of cultural production. HOLO’s Future Festivals Field Guide will document the group’s progress, identifying key challenges and possible solutions. From immediate, easy-to-implement measures to ambitious, long-term proposals—we’ll compile the most exciting ideas and expand on them.
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The 2023 Prix Ars Electronica recognized projects addressing Colombian soil degradation and censorship in China, Trevor Paglan lamented that we “Hide the Real, Show the False,” Bitcoiners dismissed as cultists, Mario Klingemann unleashed robot dog that ‘poops’ art critiques, an indie game invited players to train—and frustrate—AI, HEK Basel celebrated “Collective Worldbuilding,” Sarah Rothberg parsed post-LLM discourse, Tina Rivers Ryan examined early computer art’s expanded canon, NEW NOW Festival conjured “Hypernatural Forces,” Émile P. Torres critiqued ‘AI safety’ open letter, Carla Gannis’ decolonized the “WWWunderkammer,” Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg sounded sweet AI-generated birdsongs, Seoul MMCA surveyed post-videogame “Game Society,” Emily Watlington derided Jeff Koons’ Moon sculptures, and intense chatbot backlash forced an influencer into hiding
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Serials: What Just Happened?
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Read the latest entries in our ongoing interview series with artists, authors, and curators about timely topics and projects that ‘just happened.’
Past conversations can be found here. HOLO Readers enjoy full access!
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Akil Kumarasamy Parses
Quantum Plotlines and Large Language Models
Total Refusal Collective
Casts NPC Workers in Critique
of Contemporary Labour
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HOLO 3 made the 2023 ADC Germany shortlist of outstanding publications, sharing space with titans like Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine. We’re thrilled! Still missing out on our latest print edition on challenging AI and algorithmic power? Get your copy of Mirror Stage: Between Computability and Its Opposite now!
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On view: Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings
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Last year, HOLO followed JUNGE AKADEMIE’s AI Anarchies Autumn School at Akademie der Künste (AdK), Berlin, with a dedicated Tracker. On June 1st, 2023, the eponymous fellowship program culminated in a major exhibition: “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” presents ten new artworks by the AI Anarchies fellows that counter extractivist logic, algorithmic violence, and techno-solutionism. Themes range from deep-sea cables as historical power conduits to Indigenous technologies and cosmologies, queer and decolonial computing, and questions about digital immortality. On view at AdK through July 9th, find out about tours, artist talks, and performances here:
AI Anarchies: Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings
Stay tuned for new entries to HOLO’s AI Anarchies Tracker where we will expand on the participating artists and their contributions.
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Upcoming: HOLO Collector's Edition
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Proudly independent since day one, HOLO couldn’t exist without your support. To thank our most devoted patrons, the 2022 HOLO Collectors, we are working with generative artist and plotter virtuoso Marcel Schwittlick on a limited HOLO edition. Schwittlick is translating HOLO’s 2022 news archive into a stunning data visualizaton, capturing the entire year in print. Stay tuned for the release this summer!
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