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The artists discuss how their performance-rooted practices dissolve the boundaries between technology and the human body.
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Conversations | 25/4/2024
The artists discuss how their performance-rooted practices dissolve the boundaries between technology and the human body.
Conversations | 23/4/2024
The Vienna-based artist and researcher talks about their ongoing work exploring molecular biopower.
Collections | 18/4/2024
Founder Seth Goldstein looks back on three years of activity as the art production DAO prepares for its final event.
Commentary | 16/4/2024
When public speaking becomes art, the digital and physical apparatus of the performance are made visible.
Conversations | 11/4/2024
The artist talks about using avatars to highlight the power dynamics and performative aspects of everyday technologies.
Conversations | 9/4/2024
The artists discuss how the performances they staged online have impacted their approach to working in public space.
Conversations | 5/4/2024
A virtual studio visit with the artist, whose work investigates the performance of identity in online spaces
Criticism | 2/4/2024
The history of digital performance shows how the obligation to maintain a personal brand online can offer space for experimentation.
Collections | 28/3/2024
Might blockchain technology offer new ways for artists working with performance to sustain their practices?
Commentary | 26/3/2024
The movement to queer and decolonize fantasy roleplaying games has found inspiration in familiar methods of vernacular game design.
Collections | 21/3/2024
What is it like to own an NFT by Lauren Lee McCarthy that requires the artist to text you "good night" every night before she goes to sleep?
News | 19/3/2024
Outland’s guest editor introduces an issue about performance artists who create relationships of intimacy and care to shore up the gaps left by technology.
Criticism | 15/3/2024
Lauren Lee McCarthy’s art takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and an equally radical politics of care.
News | 11/3/2024
The written word is distorted beyond all legibility in Robert Alice’s latest NFT collection, released to promote a book about art on the blockchain.
Commentary | 7/3/2024
Mitchell F. Chan interviews artists to understand how games have influenced their work.
Conversations | 5/3/2024
The two artists discuss their use of gameplay as a strategy to make the viewer engage with the difficult questions raised by their work.
Commentary | 2/3/2024
The latest edition of Art Dubai Digital looks more like a regular art fair than its predecessors, but still has subversive and experimental work.
Conversations | 28/2/2024
A virtual studio with the artist, who has been making games, tools and archives on the web since they were seven years old.
Conversations | 26/2/2024
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Outland's team discuss the metaverse in a chapter from On NFTs, a survey edited by Robert Alice and published by Taschen
Commentary | 23/2/2024
What exactly is a game? For Sarah Friend, leaving this question unanswered may yield more insights than a clear set of criteria
Special Issue
There are as many stories of glitch as there are practitioners and individuals experiencing or working with the glitch. This issue illustrates and unpacks a few fragments of glitch art's complexities, cycles, genealogies, and turns.
Commentary | 24/10/2023
Four artists share the tools and approaches they have developed for working with glitch.
Commentary | 26/10/2023
Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.
Commentary | 1/11/2023
The hacker folk art of esoteric programming languages yields insights into glitch as a practice that hijacks existing algorithms to emphasize plurality and freedom.