Positively Not
Eric Troncy’s text “Being Positive in the Secret of the 90s,” which appeared in Flash Art in 1992, focuses on…
Features
Cattelan Cover Story
In 1994, Maurizio Cattelan was featured on the cover of Flash Art for the first time. This was followed by…
Aspiring to Dissolution
“Ambivalent Witnesses,” Hou Hanru’s survey of Chinese contemporary art published in Flash Art in 1996, was among the first attempts…
Lonely Warriors Against an Authoritarian Regime
In 1977, Flash Art featured a survey of “non-aligned” Russian artists. Throughout the 1980s, the magazine continued to report on…
theanyspacewhatever
One World Charles left Paris when he was eight. It was in the late 1990s. He was moving to a…
Frontier Fears
Since 1979, Ars Electronica has served as a platform for discourse surrounding the convergence of art and technology within society.…
Automating Aesthetics
In the original 1950s vision of artificial intelligence, the goal was to teach computers to perform a range of cognitive…
Who Cares if You Listen: The Algorithm at 100
In March 2016 a rare board game event broke into the mainstream media: a computer had beaten a human Go…
Closed Circuits and Echo Chambers
When my own doors shut, I can freely enter whatever world I want. –– Amos Awe-inspiring concrete tower blocks, colossal…
Conceiving Autonomy
Loneliness lives on our net frontier. Even motherboards and Flash require touch. Think of passion each time you click me…
Homebrew Computer
Ever since the Renaissance, the most complex machines that humans have developed have been used as an analogy for the…
When the Painter Learned to Program
The whole of my history in relation to computing really has had to do with a change from the notion…
Age of Hybrids
Since the political upset of the American presidential election, journalists, academics and artists have been working to make sense of…
AI through the Technologist’s Eye
The semi-coherent shapes, blurred colors and disfigured face of Butcher’s Son (2017) misguide many an untrained eye in search of…
Immigration Made Easy
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) is the governmental enforcement agency responsible for the detention and…
All Systems Go
In 1997, the world watched with awe and trepidation as IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Russian world chess champion Garry…