Examining a mutualistic relationship with artificial intelligence by throwing a party. Is it the social rules or the software that keeps order?

Finger, lips, arm, leg, your password, a file named IMG_7452.jpg. Lick, bend, whip, login, expose, delete. Your body, your mind, your hard drive, your hidden files, your mobile vulnerabilities. Intro   Audio of Cyberdominatrix   As I heard her voice […]

The country’s first attempt to develop a policy that addresses the true implications of algorithmic decision making

Adjacent 11: Sweat is an accentuation of our shifting labor conditions under technofascism and capitalism, however immaterial they may seem.

Nick Montfort’s The Future offers a vision of the future’s past and present.

Is technology good or bad for the future? Should we be excited or scared of new technological developments? Perhaps we’re asking the wrong questions. This is not an essay about technology, but an essay about systemic inequality.

The co-organizers reflect on the first-ever Afrotectopia, a conference focused on Blackness, art, and technology.

How do technological changes present new challenges and opportunities for artists seeking to engage with galleries, libraries, archives and museums?

An algorithmically-generated poem…read it out loud!

Persistence of Vision: Vannevar Bush’s seminal essay from 1945 is still worth a serious read today.

A proposal to embrace the early constraints of VR technologies.

Bauhaus and Code: A Tutorial Essay for the Digitally Alienated By Davíd Raphael Lockard Save humanity by messing around? 100 years after its founding, the Bauhaus school’s radical ideas on engaging with new tech are more useful than ever. A […]

Be All You Can Virtually Be by luming hao Illustrated by Gabriel Brasil and Sofía Suazo In the future which will come first, the war or the war game? A look back at video games from this century’s first decade […]

Man-made borders are neither seen nor respected by non-human actors. A meditation on ecosystems as political agents. In the summer of 2018, I wandered the mountainous border between Idaho and Washington State searching for evidence of the unique qualities that […]

The project “Bug Square” started in three days. Day one. It was summer break after my first year of ITP and I was learning Three.js1 for the first time. After hours of setup and debugging, I finally made it work […]

Written language evolved from purely practical functional uses into an expressive medium. Is there a similar future for code?

Consider Your Ears By Robert Krulwich Illustrated by Carrie Wang All the new realities in development–virtual, augmented, mixed–focus on our visual sense. But when it comes to a truly immersive experience, the ears have it! Picture yourself before you were […]

Engaging the impacted community in one’s research offers many benefits when dealing with environmental issues. A report from USA’s ‘ground zero’ of climate change

I: Disrepair In August of 2022, I installed my artwork Slow Response I (Drawings) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was about to begin my fifth and final year as a doctoral student. […]

My data knew before I did that the relationship was on the skids.

Death of The Hologram & The Life That Comes Next By Or Fleisher An exploration of recent innovations in 3D technology and how these developments will change our perceptions, our relationship with screen-based media, and what we call realistic The […]

Written by Dalit Shalom Illustration by Shira Seri Levi Every Friday my day starts on a high as I anticipate the transition at sunset into a moment of serenity—Shabbat. Shabbat is a concept that many are familiar with. In American culture […]

This article attempts to visualize the ways in which cyberfeminist artists approached the problem of corporeality in the U.S. It traces a line through 1st and 2nd wave cyberfeminism and post-internet artists, using three artists indicative of each wave to […]

Will there be a happy ending? Or are we deluded, lonely ducks who will never become glorious swans? On fairy tales, personal storytelling and the necessity of discomfort.

Preface What connects us? Rivers, bridges, minds, emotion, love, home—stories connect us. Humankind chose to live by the water a long time ago. 70% of the world’s population lives on coastal plains1, 11 of the 15 biggest cities stand on […]

From toy radios to data solutions for interstellar voyages–– enter the world of the amazing, eclectic, vast world of an inveterate inventor, explorer and tinkerer.

What if the idea of a singular identity—one brain, one POV—is a fiction? New tools may subvert this paradigm and expand the possibilities of who we could be in the world?

When do we use computers to accomplish our goals, and when do corporations use computers to have us accomplish their goals, through the covert extraction of attention and labor?

Intro Who has more power –– the fan, the idol, or the company? K-Pop idols work for their audience by performing on stage and off, but the audience also performs a service to the idol by maintaining a fanbase, boosting […]

It takes a lot of work to look this lazy. Having ADHD makes everyday tasks like tidying up and sending emails a challenge, taking extra time to complete. The extra time and effort put into completing these tasks are not […]

A Proposal for Collaboration as a Form of Resistance Since the 60s, but especially in the wake of the Syrian refugee crisis and the crisis of Western democracies in the 2010s, traditional designers are finding themselves operating outside of their […]

Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Algorithmic Generation By Alex Kauffmann Illustrated by Chengtao Yi A reflection on Walter Benjamin’s 1935 influential article on art, like photography, that could be easily reproduced. But at least they started with something real. […]

A collection of tweets and discoveries related to the 2016 election.

How can we build a machine learning library that’s approachable for people beginning to code?

Labor of Nature, Labor of Humanity Karl Marx defines labor as “exclusively human,” stating that “Nature’s material adapted by a change of form to the wants of man.” He dissects the relationship between nature and humans around use-value and exchange-value, […]

While pursuing his dream of a corporate-free, funkier, local Internet, the author learned some unexpected lessons.

A Cyborg Manifesto threw away the old modernist dichotomies to make space for the technological within feminism. What has been done with that space and what can we do with it now? “I don’t think there’s ever been a phenomenon […]

Mechanical Keyboards for a Human-Centered Future When I type on a mechanical keyboard, I can see the key lower, feel the switch actuate, and hear the keycap and switch bottom out on the board. A sentence echoes out into the […]

One of the ADJACENT’s designers reads between the lines to find links accross and within the first issue’s articles.

A visual essay that reveals the power and beauty of a daily ritual.

Why does a player cheat? Because winning is better than playing. Animal Crossing used to be a heavily played game. But at its peak number of players, play took on an entirely different connotation. The initial release of Animal Crossing […]

A look at the creation of India-by-Numbers, a set of interactive maps aimed at bringing forgotten parts of Indian history to life. Hector If this were a movie, it would start on a thunderous night of looming skies, as the […]

In Hong Kong, civilians modernize resistance with a decentralized – and digitized – mass protest against extradition. As the movement takes shape, so does a new semblance of national identity.

In this article I share my thinking process and results of my recent self-portraiture art pieces. While crafting these works, I reappropriated technological tools for art marking and created new ways of  exploring my identity in public. As I logged […]

As IRL experiences become increasingly absorbed into the digital, we find ourselves fighting against becoming consumed by the simulation as well.

A video essay that imagines a future museum of the present that casts a critical eye on the way we live now

Sufficiently Advanced Technology by Hayk Mikayelyan Hayk Mikayelyan is a multidisciplinary artist exploring intersection between technology and magic, illusions and perception. Magicians change the perception of the world of their audiences. So does technology. When you combine technology and illusion, […]

An interview with Mattia Casalegno, Italian interdisciplinary artist playfully searching for beauty in a world of anti-sentimental machines

Daniel Rautenbach in conversation with Bogosi Sekhukhuni  Theme for this issue is Rituals so let’s start there. Do you have any personal rituals in your daily life, change of seasons or new year? the last sculptural study i worked on […]

This exhaustion is vivified by certain micro-trends emerging on TikTok in contrast to the previously ascendant aspirational ones. Whereas previously-dominant modes of viral content saw influencers attempting to position themselves as “That Girl” — a sleek, toned object of admiration […]

The Adjacent Interview: Heather Dewey-Hagborg By Adjacent Editors Illustrated by Nathier Fernandez and Azalea Vaseghi Adjacent Editors talk to artist and activist Heather Dewey-Hagborg about her idea-driven, research-based, cutting-edge work –– the questions she asks and how she tries to […]

Written by Rosalie Yu  +  Artwork by Rosalie Yu In my practice I explore slow rituals of quantifying and archiving. I find something meditative about a lengthy and repetitive gathering process. Data is my working material.  I sculpt and transform […]

“What will a human being be like who is not concerned with things, but with information, symbols, codes and models? There is one parallel: the first Industrial Revolution.” —Vilém Flusser Software ate the world. We, humans, are in the digestive […]

In a world with no narrative continuity, the existential dilemma of times past has turned into a series of clicks. What sort of hero can emerge from the eternal present of our feed?

A critical essay on today’s most hyped media sensation: Virtual Reality

McLuhan posited a universalized body. That might work in theory, but in the world, we are particular and diverse

A pernicious new form of redlining lurks in Facebook’s hidden algorithms, excluding African-Americans and other minorities.

PT Barnum was the world’s greatest salesman and purveyor of bunkum… until now!

the rite of computing (la consagración de la computadora) By lengua partida Illustration by Sofía Suazo & Nathier Fernandez, interactive by Sofía Suazo & Guillermo Montecinos An epic poem for our age celebrating the beauty of computational theory, while lamenting […]

Revisiting the definition of reality and the flexibility of its shapes during a time of insecurity. Perception is learned—spatially, culturally, psychologically— narrative is directed, truth has never existed at just one point in space.

A suite of tools, perspectives and surprises for a research and evidence based artistic practice

In a world where to-do lists symbolize the endless demands of late capitalism, perhaps the most radical act is to “do nothing.”

A vision of biological systems that will augment our bodies not just with data but also with through enhanced senses that might produce an awareness of the ephemeral and the invisible. Awareness in what you wear.

Trick it. Break it. Make it do nothing. Make it do something it’s not supposed to do.

  FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATION ONLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Clearance: Level 1 containing MNPI If you believe you have received this communication in error, please contact Eleanor Morgan, emorgan@tetraterracomms.com Scanned transposed excerpts from the found letters of Doctor Thompson addressed to […]

We’ve given computers our minds. We now need to lend them our bodies.   Computers are ubiquitous. Aided by the internet, they have infiltrated our individual, social, and political lives. With the expansion of artificial intelligence and machine learning, they […]

It was pitch dark when the alarm pierced through my room, yanking me out of the sweet nothingness of deep sleep. I pressed ‘ACK’, noticed the time (3:29am), filled a glass of water, moved to my desk, read the issue […]

Superfans, enabled by the Internet, are changing what we buy and who we are.

Until we honor and value the embodied knowledge that comes with time spent as a human, we will always fall short as designers.

A critical look at how computer algorithms are increasingly altering our perception of truth

Reflections of the artist and beloved ITP professor on making interactive mirrors in trash, plush balls and trolls.

She meant to take a break from her job as a designer, but maternity leave turned into a hands-on UX design lab.

Gil: There is a game aspect to protests. I saw it as a sort of game, too… Interviewer A: Until you got shot. Gil Naamati is a game designer living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. This text refers to […]

    Our categories of identity are increasingly hard-coded in menus and checklists. Must we accept a world of this or that, with no space for in-between or none of the above?   We usually think of national borders as […]

You are now By Andrew Schneider Illustrations and video by Nick Gregg Are you living in reality?  Or are you in someone else’s dream?  Does any of this matter? Find out in this article. Or not. Hello.   Let’s assume […]