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MÉTACONTEMPORAIN Synthetic media & digital critique. linktr.ee/metacontemp (Remote). Art discourse Neocontemporaries®

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04/06/2026

Listen: Irrational Decision author Benjamin Recht speaks with Mark Hurst for WFMU's Techtonic about optimization: https://hubs.ly/Q04jXV8h0

   Credit  Jan Robert Leegte has worked with the internet as an artistic medium since 1997, placing him among the pionee...
23/05/2026


Credit Jan Robert Leegte has worked with the internet as an artistic medium since 1997, placing him among the pioneers of net art. Scrollbars, selection marquees, Google Maps interfaces, raw code — the overlooked grammar of digital life, treated as material in its own right. In 2002, before post-internet became a movement, he was already bringing the logic of digital infrastructure into physical gallery space. We’re proud to present work this June at as part of Zero 10, Art Basel’s curated initiative for art of the digital era.

Jan Robert Leegte
Art Basel | Zero 10
Presented by OFFICE IMPART and Upstream Gallery.


upstreamgallery officeimpart

03/05/2026

Forging Better Futures for You and AI

Professor Matt Jones* works to wake us from the AI as Overlord spell. We will explore other possible futures, looking first look at the potential of AI fitting in with us: things we can chat to; humanoid robots; or even devices that draw on understandings of pets to make them more palatable and pleasing.

Book free in-person ticket or watch live online: https://gres.hm/ai-futures

*also of Swansea University

30/04/2026
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15/02/2026

In-person tickets open: The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives

https://gres.hm/price-pixels

Our world's convenience masks a heavy environmental cost. Visitng Professor Ian Mudway explores the destructive rare earth mineral mining powering our devices, the vast energy consumption of data centres fuelling climate change, and the toxic e-waste contaminating our environment and harming human health.

From resource extraction to digital consumption, we'll uncover the environmental trade-offs of our tech-dependent lives and discuss pathways towards a sustainable digital future that minimizes degradation, protects health, and mitigates climate change.


*also of Imperial Medicine

03/02/2026

Breaking news: Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI group xAI, furthering the billionaire's ambition to develop powerful tools powered by data centres in space. https://ft.trib.al/bdy2GV1

02/02/2026

Join us this Thursday for ‘Governing the Future: Ethics, Power and Responsibility in Archaeological AI’ with Alphaeus Lien-Talks from the University of York

📅 Thursday 5 February 2026
⏰ 4pm

👉 More info and how to join online: https://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/127276

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