Newsletter 47
👋 Welcome
Welcome to #47
We hope everyone is enjoying the sun
Reminder: The Monthly Meetup is happening this evening at 7pm over on the Digital Artists Ireland Discord. Drop in and say hi!
For now, enjoy the read!
📖 Articles
What is Life?
Antikythera x MIT Press
In collaboration with the MIT Press, the Antikythera book series publishes unique titles by writers from diverse disciplines: computer science, philosophy, history, architecture, physics, science fiction, and more. These books investigate the creative and curious uses of our computational tools—or what we might more precisely call artificial computation. With those tools it is revealed that otherwise imperceivable building blocks of our reality and of our own flesh are themselves computational. The planet discovers itself through computation, and computation discovers itself through us.
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
Brian Dillon
The article reviews the Tate Modern exhibition Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, exploring how artists from the 1950s to the early 1990s engaged with emerging technologies both conceptually and materially; reflecting optimism, curiosity, and unease about the digital future.