The soundscape of Yorkshire, AIs having fun with cucumbers, and a beat combo messing with your mind... Playful A/V for you
Touching bags as a form of love, a history of men shouting, and stagecraft under lockdown. Some stellar film-essays
"Humans are imaginative activists - all of them, and they have been so for millennia. But we now need to come into our powers", writes Bridget McKenzie
ARTISTS, ACTION, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, SPRINGpat kaneeco-art, cultural politics, museums
How do we make the shift to planet-friendly food systems attractive, even cool? Cooking Sections, using art and design, shows us how
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ARTISTS, INGENUITY, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kanefood, food politics, locavore
A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans. Here’s why this linguistic argument matters
Joe Pease's videos are ontological shocks - all the hidden processes of modern life brought to the surface
Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
Mirror molecules, the soul of a smartphone, and dismissive rave: more audio-visual to reveal what's beneath the surface
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“People used to be born into communities, then found their individuality. Today people are born individuals, then find their communities.” Here comes the Post-Individual
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
Rob Hopkins’ Ministry of Imagination has produced a manifesto of what-if policies - from the most starry-eyed to the costed and practical
BIG PICTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, INGENUITY, MANIFESTOS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGY, YES WE CANpat kaneimagination, rob hopkins, transition network
The public needs input, and consensus, on how they should shape AI in their lives. Belgium’s Citizen Panel on AI promises much
The "15 minute city" is toxic here - but in 50 other cities, they're removing "masculine desires" from urban planning
We need to think of "technics", rather than technology, said Bernard Stiegler - showing how they harm or heal us as humans
The domestic robot gets closer with Figure 01, powered by Open AI. But does automated servitude degrade our humanity? Or liberate it?
With K-Pop giants SEVENTEEN headlining Glastonbury, South Korea’s long-term soft power strategy is truly paying off
The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring