5G is being rolled out literally across the world – with thousands of satellites launched into the ionosphere to blanket the planet with millimetre microwaves. What are the environmental and public health impacts of this technology? Who is regulating it, and who stands to benefit? Do we really need 5G?
An Eichelhäher visited our street yesterday. I’d never seen one before, and it took a while to identify it.
I’ve just finished reading Ellie Harrison’s inspirational book, The Glasgow Effect, which has the byline “a tale of class, capitalism and carbon footprint”. It tells the story of Ellie’s one-year project to “not travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year.”
Today is the day of the big world-wide climate strike. I was going to join the march at Königsplatz here in Munich, but I’ve got the flu. So instead, I’m marching on the inside, writing this blog post, and modelling what we need to do to help the planet: do less; say no; slow down; STOP.
Congratulations to neural.it, editor Alessandro Ludovico and the many contributors on 25 years of bringing critical discussion on new media art, electronic music and hacktivism to the world!
Recently I attended the Libre Graphics Meeting in Saarbrücken, and I have blogged about it here. So much else has happened in the last monthRead More
A few months go, the Munich artist Tommy Schmidt invited me to be part of his project “Weltreise München“. The concept, he explained over aRead More
How often do you encounter an image captcha when logging into a website? I probably meet one or two a week, instructing me to “clickRead More
For some time now, I’ve been experimenting with projecting animated text onto mirrors – either with small flexible mirrors that allow the projection to beRead More
Five or ten years ago, when I made comments about capitalism being broken, having failed or being dead, my friends would dismiss it as aRead More
