“Is this disconnect from our bodies the way we should be living? This flesh now feels like it is just another thing I have to take care of, like a plant. I just live in my mind now, but I feel like I’m somehow incomplete, artificial, a kind of...

I first heard Laurian Anderson’s album Big Science in about 1983 and have been hooked to her ever since. Her storytelling is very important…...

The Screen Media Reader edited by Stephen Monteiro (Goodreads) -pg. 1 Screens are in our hand or close by for all manner of everyday activity, shaping and reshaping what we do and how we do it. Over the course of a day we may have more face-to-face encounters with...

Timotheus Vermeulen is a professor of media, culture and society at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the co-founder of the now defunct webzine Notes on Metamodernism and a regular contributor to frieze. His research and teaching are primarily in the disciplines of ‘screen studies’ and ‘critical and...

The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard (Goodreads). This bit really jumped out at me. When Baudrillard wrote this- published in 1968 – he was obviously not aware of how the web would change how people conceptualise themselves and other people. We DO now feel like we are able...

Social Warming by Charles Arthur (Goodreads)...

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Goodreads)...

We are in this feedback loop, we condense our life into a trite tweet or a ‘pretty’ picture while constantly searching for ‘likes’ and ‘friends’ and ‘followers’. If we post about #Red and it gets more interaction than if we post about #Blue, we’ll end up posting more about...

This blew my mind when I first read it in the late 90s. It still blows my mind now....

I’m continuing to avoid doing anything for my MA…. which isn’t great… Instead, I’ve been reading (currently ‘Remainder’ by Tom McCarthy) and learning how to darn socks. If you were given cashmere socks for Christmas, you should learn how to darn socks, too, cos those things will have holes...

I love how this weird, momentary glitch in the live in-camera translation of Google translate shows you two worlds in one image… Yet they have taken on the characteristics of their opposite. The real world appears ordered and the digital world is chaotic…...

Peter Tscherkassky’s films are amazing. I love his technique (see below) and the result. Outer Space- is made with footage from The Entity (1982) by Sidney J. Furie, starring Barbara Hershey. Christa Blümlinger at Senses of Cinema on Outer Space. LUFF.tv “Peter Tscherkassky gives us a brief userguide of...

I learned about ‘metamodernism‘ when I was in my second year at Chelsea. I honestly don’t remember how I came upon it, but it blew my freakin’ mind and spoke to me in the deepest way. It suddenly made everything I’ve been increasingly feeling over the past 15 years...

“What art is in reality is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I like this idea and even if it’s not true I accept it for the truth.”[1]http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/infrathin (Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel...

This piece has been an ongoing inspiration for several years now- the repetition until destruction and a creation of something new and other-worldly… Wikipedia I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier’s best known works. The piece...

Journals, articles, websites, online videos, etc A-ha, 2010. A-Ha – Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914. Abramson, S. (2014). Metamodernism: The Basics. [online] HuffPost. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metamodernism-the-basics_b_5973184. [Accessed 4 Feb. 2022] Abramson, S. (2017a). What Is Metamodernism?. [online] Huffpost.com. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-ismetamodernism_b_586e7075e4b0a5e600a788cd?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006 [Accessed 4 Feb....