A brazen challenge to four-cornered, high-gloss, post-war consumerism jump-started by customizing muscle cars has morphed into a career-long demolition of gender.

Back when she was still called Phil, Garner worked as a combat artist in the Vietnam War, before returning home to design ironic products for an unreal future. Several decades and one transition later, she talked to Fiona Alison Duncan about living in willed alienation for Spike #57.

Join us at Spike Berlin at 7pm on Friday, 24 November for the release of the 5th installment of Roman Schramm’s occasional magazine Skulpi. With a live cello performance from Schloss Mirabell.

In New York, lavish acrylics, plush sculptures, and soft-skinned poems by Jonathan Lyndon Chase re-style Artists Space as a neighborhood barbershop and the barber as a consummate artist.

Is artificial intelligence natural, perhaps even inevitable? Drew Zeiba tabulates how K Allado-McDowell, Hito Steyerl, and ricky sallay zoker use predictive tech to pry open or close off our ecological futures.