Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological. — I am so mad I had to write this, the world’s most self-evident take: but here is the article you can send to people when they say “but the environmental issues with cryptoart will be solved soon, right?” I suppose, first, if you haven’t seen those “environmental issues”, and aren’t…

What do Facebook’s secluded servers reveal about the internet’s military roots? — Prineville, Oregon. 2011. In August of 2011, Jay Parikh, the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook, received a call. As Parikh recounted to The Register in June of 2013, he remembered the conversation going something like this: “Jay, there’s a cloud in the data center,” “What do you mean…

This interview originally served as research for the March 1st article that appeared in Hyperallergic- A Video Game Immerses You in an Opera Composed by Dogs. The full text of the interview is below. Everest; Hi David! I just wanted to start with a bit of background information at first…

This is a transcription of a talk originally given at Wordhack, a monthly event at Babycastles exploring the intersection of language and technology. When talking about generative text, there is often a predilection to start with its histories. This is perhaps an impulse towards humbleness, an important recognition that although…

Visiting Chris Marker in Second Life — I never really lived in Second Life. As an artist working in digital spaces this is patently uncool. But it is true; by the time I stumbled onto the massively multiplayer simulation it was already empty, a shrinking economy and user-base spread across a vast and often-private landscape leaving the…

This is a considerably-expanded version of the talk I gave at Botsummit 2014. The video of that talk is viewable here. Very Long Ago When we talk about technology, it is so often in the rooted in the Short Now, but I would ask you to cast your thoughts backwards…