Performing Lectures
When public speaking becomes art, the digital and physical apparatus of the performance are made visible.
Outland is a new platform dedicated to fostering critical conversations around emerging digital technologies and their connections to contemporary art.
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Sarah Rothberg
The artist talks about using avatars to highlight the power dynamics and performative aspects of everyday technologies.
David Horvitz & Mendi and Keith Obadike
The artists discuss how the performances they staged online have impacted their approach to working in public space.
Molly Soda
A virtual studio visit with the artist, whose work investigates the performance of identity in online spaces
The Artist is Online
The history of digital performance shows how the obligation to maintain a personal brand online can offer space for experimentation.
The Sphere DAO
Might blockchain technology offer new ways for artists working with performance to sustain their practices?
Tactical Homebrewing
The movement to queer and decolonize fantasy roleplaying games has found inspiration in familiar methods of vernacular game design.
Juliette Bibasse
What is it like to own an NFT by Lauren Lee McCarthy that requires the artist to text you "good night" every night before she goes to sleep?
Spilling Out of the Screen
Outland’s guest editor introduces an issue about performance artists who create relationships of intimacy and care to shore up the gaps left by technology.
Shock Therapy
Lauren Lee McCarthy’s art takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and an equally radical politics of care.
Text Analysis
The written word is distorted beyond all legibility in Robert Alice’s latest NFT collection, released to promote a book about art on the blockchain.
Artists on Games
Mitchell F. Chan interviews artists to understand how games have influenced their work.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley & R.I.P. Germain
The two artists discuss their use of gameplay as a strategy to make the viewer engage with the difficult questions raised by their work.
Almost Normal
The latest edition of Art Dubai Digital looks more like a regular art fair than its predecessors, but still has subversive and experimental work.
Chia Amisola
A virtual studio with the artist, who has been making games, tools and archives on the web since they were seven years old.
Outland & Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Outland's team discuss the metaverse in a chapter from On NFTs, a survey edited by Robert Alice and published by Taschen
Games in the Expanded Field
What exactly is a game? For Sarah Friend, leaving this question unanswered may yield more insights than a clear set of criteria
The Museum of Modern Art
Collecting digital objects often means fostering conversations across departments and disciplines.
Metaverse Not Found
As the metaverse falters, Manny Palou’s open-source body scan turned game anticipates other ways of making bodies virtual.
Calum Bowden & Risa Puno
How can play become a form of critique? How can it be used for research?
Special Issue
Glitch Art
There are as many stories of glitch as there are practitioners and individuals experiencing or working with the glitch. This issue illustrates and unpacks a few fragments of glitch art's complexities, cycles, genealogies, and turns.
Lenses on Glitch, Part 1
Four artists share the tools and approaches they have developed for working with glitch.
How to Glitch AI
Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.
Re-wilding the Algorithm
The hacker folk art of esoteric programming languages yields insights into glitch as a practice that hijacks existing algorithms to emphasize plurality and freedom.