Feeling Smartly: In the dust motes
16 Jun, 2026
Text by Sarah-Jane Field SMART, when applied to devices – phones, home automation hubs, or robot carpet cleaners – connotes complex, algorithmic and seamless functionality.
Text by Sarah-Jane Field SMART, when applied to devices – phones, home automation hubs, or robot carpet cleaners – connotes complex, algorithmic and seamless functionality.
Text by Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano There is a persistent assumption built into the concept of visibility that being visible means being relevant, accounted for, and enfranchised.
Text by Ruba Al-Sweel The following monologue is excerpted from ‘Plastic Pilgrims’ (2025), a film by Ruba Al-Sweel, which is written from the perspective of
Text by Hannah van den Elzen We are living in turbulent times. The present feeling haunted by catastrophe: genocide, ecocide, the violence of Big Tech,
Text by Belén Vera During the last decade, climate crisis has gradually shifted from being a recurring subject within contemporary art to becoming one of
Text by Sabina Oțelea Could a grain of sand be investigated independently of its encompassing totality? Could its origin be traced, its future mapped? The
Text by Joey Holder Social media platforms have become the primary infrastructure of public discourse, increasingly shaped by AI-driven systems whose logic operates beyond public
Text by Dom Stevensson There’s a particular joy to walking through Braga. Its compact streets and layered architecture encourage a slower mode of attention, recalling
Text by Eddie Lohmeyer Field Report [03.001]: Post-Appalachia The following transcript and field observation serve as the initial entry in an ecological survey [03.001] of
Text by Irem Erkin Materia Prima, in Latin ‘raw matter‘ or ‘first material,’ is the theme of the second issue of Tekhnē journal. Materia Prima
Text by Jacobo García There is a building in Gijón that has experienced several lives. A Francoist vocational school, an emblem of post-industrial reconversion, a
Text by Tuçe Erel Recent curatorial practices in art, science, and technology increasingly foreground questions of mediation, accessibility, and public engagement, yet their outreach often
Text by Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano In the first part of this article, I discussed the origins and evolution of Backslash at Cornell Tech, from its early
Text by Jonathan Stein The banality of evil is now a well-known concept, developed by philosopher Hannah Arendt, to express how ordinary people can commit
Text by Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano In 2023, I visited the exhibition Between Performance and Documentation: Contemporary Photography and Video from China [1], curated by Nancy Lin
Text by Davide Bevilacqua & Martina Pizzigoni In times of AI-aided war, what are the cultural forms that help us understand and perhaps challenge the
Text by Leonardo Gabriel do Amaral Sometimes, when I’m feeling kind of down, I come back to Jason Farago’s opinion piece in the New York
Text by Nam Huh The Architecture of the Already-Decided We exist within a strange temporal paradox where the future has never been more loudly discussed,
Text by Dom Stevenson What begins as necessity – working without access, infrastructure, or permission – becomes something else: a way of engaging with tools,
Text by Maya Elimelech We were herded into a pitch-black room, and the door shut behind us. We will begin by listening to 4’33” by