Ido Nahari

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Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6 , 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

Mak2, Home Sweet Home: Love Pool 6, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas in three parts, each: 205 x 122 cm; overall: 205 x 366 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Peres Projects

8-Bit Intimacies

In triptychs of hot-and-heavy bodies at Peres Projects, Berlin, Hong-Kong-based artist Mak2 materializes the tensions of synthetic desire and our urges to gawk and look away.

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View of “Ian Cheng: Life After BOB,” LAS (Light Art Space), Berlin. © 2022 Ian Cheng. Presented by LAS (Light Art Space). Photo: Andrea Rossetti

View of “Ian Cheng: Life After BOB,” LAS (Light Art Space), Berlin. © 2022 Ian Cheng. Presented by LAS (Light Art Space). Photo: Andrea Rossetti

Empathy Is an Open Circuit: An Interview with Ian Cheng

Ian Cheng speaks about his latest film shown at LAS in Berlin and about what is left for human selves to do.

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Bluetooth microphone with noise cancellation designed by Mutalk

Bluetooth microphone with noise cancellation designed by Mutalk

Laugh Against the Machine

Machines make human faculties obsolete but we are still the ones performing manual labor in sweatshops, writes Ido Nahari. Can comedy help us make sense of technology’s calculated tragedies?

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Rendering of Zaha Hadid Architects' Liberland

Rendering of Zaha Hadid Architects' Liberland

Disregarding Digital Real Estate

A new digital city designed by Zaha Hadid Architects promises to realize “the old dream of cyberspace” — but whose? What remains genuinely public sphere when the rhetoric of open access only serves gentrifying the metaverse?