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Outer Shores - One Seven Billion b2b Fartlek

A couple of weeks ago yours truly along with Fartlek had the pleasure and privilege of playing our first live set on Nomad Radio’s Outer Shores. Thank you to Jebbi and Esther for hosting us, hopefully many more to come soon <3

Nomad Radio · Outer Shores w/ Jebbi & Narae feat. One Seven Billion & Fartlek - 21.01.23

Tech

Meta’s Metaverse Doesn’t Get It

In this essay on Dezeen, Holly Nielsen outlines the ways and reasons that Zuckerberg’s tech-utopian dream misses the mark.

Meta’s strategy is to try and prepare its audience and customers for what is, in their eyes, the inevitable near future. One where our meetings, social gatherings and spare time are spent with headsets on in a low-poly interface. This preparation is clear from the outset of Meta’s rebrand. The company made it clear that it had no solid idea of what the metaverse would be yet but that it was coming.

Never mind that Meta’s expectations for justifying the metaverse’s existence seem to be based on the presumption that pandemic changes will remain permanent even though the recent wave of tech lay-offs demonstrate otherwise.

Meta’s ambitions are also being met by a small but significant wave of technological rejection. People considering lowering screen-time, quitting social media or smartphones altogether is increasing. Though it is far too early to say whether the rising interest in reducing technology is a permanent shift it is definitely safe to say that the last pitch people are likely to be receptive to is that we go further into the techno-utopian landscape.

Gemstones in Mars

It’s over.

Land Energy Electric Motorcycle

Design

Wang & Söderström

Artist and design duo based in Copenhagen is known for incorporating technology in their work to question our notions and relationship of data. One work that elegantly explores these themes is ‘Nest of You’, a physical and digital piece that harvests data from the audience and uses it to create a digital nest.

Mindy Seu on Cyberfeminism and her ‘Cyberfeminism Index’

In this Dazed interview, Mindy Seu goes over her trajectory in building the Cyberfeminism Index, an online index that started as a spreadsheet that compiles cyberfeminist works starting from the 1980s.

The aim of the works is to envision an inclusive techno-environment that is from the feminist perspective as a response to the canonical science-fiction ideas of technology that were typically dictated by science fiction written by men.

Mindy has now translated her index into the physical form with her new book, ‘Cyberfeminism Index’.