Author Archive
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Optimism has its precedents: situating the rise of NFTs by Nina Dyer
In the space between the publication of The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader in 2008 and the writing of this text, significant global developments in the marketability of born-digital art have taken place. Unlike earlier forms of dematerialised art production such as Conceptual Art, digital art has largely managed to avoid institutional recuperation through its resistance […]
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Tech Object Seminar: Arduino with Kim Newall
Held online, on the 15th October 2021, Kim Newall discussed Arduino’s controversial history and shares his experience working with this platform within his cross-disciplinary practice. As their complexity increases, the objects of technology that we use everyday become more and more mystifying to the average user. Most of us are able to competently operate our […]