The Dark Inquiry leadership consists of Rachel Rosenfelt, founder and co-publisher of the New Inquiry; Francis Tseng, co-publisher of the New Inquiry; and Maddy Varner, founding member of the feminist security collective Deep Lab, and contributing researcher at ProPublica, with a focus on algorithmic accountability.
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Though he's an integral member of the notorious new media collective F.A.T. Lab (short for Free Art & Technology Lab), technology seems almost like an afterthought in much of Bartholl's work.
In particular, a talk on the transformation of Hong Kong's creative culture with Cantonese pop-singer Anthony Wong and an amusing presentation from new media art collective Meatmedia Lab had crowds lining up round the block.
If you're familiar with brilliant innovations like Shaved Bieber, Facebook ID cards, Google Alarm, the Free Universal Construction Kit, or QR_HOBO_CODES, then you're familiar with the work of the hacker provocateur collective F.A.T. Lab.
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Hosted by NEW INC, the New Museum's co-working space, and a cyberfeminist research collective, Deep Lab, the event urged patrons to sketch strangers, scan in the images using their cell phones, and submit them to a collage of work being projected onto the museum's wall in a grainy, and slightly psychedelic style that matched the scratchy beats played by EMA.
To learn more about art collective Phenomena Labs, visit their website here.
The digital and organic, the familiar and impossible, the figurative and the abstract: these dualistic concepts are the subject of a new series of computer-generated artworks, called Orthographics, by artist and founder of art collective Phenomena Labs, Ronen Tanchum.
They gathered work by all-female art and tech collective Motherlode Labs, creative VR duo The Endless, botanical MIDI tinkerer Data Garden, and VR "auto-shaman" David Lobser with the goal of creating what Pridgen calls, "The most satisfying art show in Brooklyn".
A soft robotic device powered by popcorn, constructed by researchers in Cornell's Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab.
