Ben Valentine
Art
3D Printing vs. ISIS
Countering the destruction of ISIS with impermanent sculptures and undeletable files.
Ben Valentine
5.25.15
Tech
The Untapped Creativity of the Chinese Internet
So in love, will never feel tired again, an online exhibition by Chinese net artist Ying Miao, serves as a counterpoint to the West's view of the Chinese internet as bland and heavily censored.
Ben Valentine
11.5.14
Art
Our Robot Artists Are Malfunctioning
The time is night to artfully use robots to explore a robot-filled world. So where are they?
Ben Valentine
10.24.14
Tech
Artists Are Using Algorithms to Create Superhuman Amounts of Work
Sam Newell wrote a bot that produced 5,000 images in two months. Some of them are even interesting.
Ben Valentine
10.22.14
Features
The Pirate Party's 'Poetician' Plans to Make Iceland a Data Haven
Birgitta Jónsdóttir wants to make Iceland the 'Switzerland of bits.'
Ben Valentine
9.18.14
Tech
The Googlization of Art
Spanish artist Mario M. Santamaría scours Google's Art Project for glimpses of the hardware behind the service.
Ben Valentine
7.23.14
Art
Why You Should Leave Facebook And How To Actually Do It, According To Artist Nick Briz
New media artist, Nick Briz, recently made a video piece "How To/Why Leave Facebook," offering more insight on social media than recent news coverage.
Ben Valentine
7.17.14
Tech
Nick Briz: How to/Why Leave Facebook
Net artist Nick Briz made some easy scripts to save all of his data, untag himself from everything, delete all of his images, unfriend everyone, leave all of his groups, and delete all of his activity. He shows you how to do all of this in an easy...
Ben Valentine
7.16.14
Art
Talking Technological Prejudice And Anti-Surveillance Protests With Artist Zach Blas
In 2011, taken by the emergence of mass protest movements around the world, artist Zach Blas began making his "Facial Weaponization Suite," a series of community workshops that discuss and resist biometric facial recognition technologies.
Ben Valentine
7.11.14
Tech
Weaponizing Our Faces: An Interview with Zach Blas
In 2011, taken by the emergence of mass protest movements around the world, artist Zach Blas began making his "Facial Weaponization Suite," a series of community workshops that discuss and resist biometric facial recognition technologies.
Ben Valentine
7.10.14