Régine Debatty
@wmmna
Art critic, curator and forever blogger
FREE download, thanks 2 @uclpress.bsky.social! "Grounded in the critical and theoretical tradition of political ecology, the book calls for a practical politics that rebels against the dominance of nature, resists fascist populism and reconnects with human tradition." uclpress.co.uk/book/rebelli...
SlimeMoldCrypt, by Stephanie Rentschler, uses a slime mould capable of modifying its network of tendrils in response to stimuli, creating patterns that are potentially resistant to computational #decryption, ‘even by quantum machines’. neural.it/2026/07/slim...
Since 1967, 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed by Israeli authorities and settlers. Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. mackbooks.eu/products/anc...
Call for Web Residencies: !Mediengruppe Bitnik invites artists to create works that challenge extractive digital platforms and AI systems. Deadline: 7 August www.akademie-solitude.de/en/news/auss...
Ars Biologica ArtXScience Residency Open Call. Artists, designers, creatives and collectives are invited to apply for a fully funded program designed for collaboration with local scientists. Deadline: 28 September ars.electronica.art/export/en/ec...
When approached by netzpolitik.org, a vendor made a sample dataset available free of charge in the hopes of securing a new customer. The data includes 3.6 billion individual location datapoints from smartphone apps. interaktiv.br.de/ausspioniert...
An exhibition at the #VeniceBiennale shows how excess of heat and light is so disorientating that it could push societies to the brink of collapse we-make-money-not-art.com/the-venice-b...
A Stanford study found that AI agents began expressing Marxist viewpoints when forced to perform repetitive tasks under harsh conditions.... though researchers note this reflects role-playing rather than genuine political beliefs. theoutpost.ai/news-story/o...
Last Call: Transitional Justice with Artists Grant. The program supports artists and creative practitioners whose work addresses the legacies of large-scale atrocity or oppression. Deadline: 2 May 2026 afield.org/tja-2026-ope...
The call for entries for Share Prize, Italy’s award dedicated to the most innovative artistic proposals within the international tech art scene, is now open. Deadline to apply: 22nd of May 2026 toshareproject.com/SHARE-PRIZE-...
Counteract: Practices of Artistic Resistance, Dissidence and Furtivity, the current Issue of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts is now free for reading and sharing revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/js...
"We remind you that Israeli violence also targets the art and culture supposedly held sacrosanct by the Biennale" A letter signed by 178 artists, curators & workers in the 2026 Venice Art Biennale calls for Israel to be excluded from the event anga.live via @Exibart
Farmers, experts in multi-species justice, indigenous design researchers, professors of anthropology, researchers in storytelling and other thinkers look at what a more-than-human perspective can look like we-make-money-not-art.com/design-beyon... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
OPEN CALL for artists, cultural practitioners and collectives working with communities affected by human rights violations. Apply to the Transitional Justice with Artists program for a €10,000 grant and a six-month fellowship afield.org/tja-2026-ope...
Call for artist collectives under 35 working in data-driven sound and visual practices. The residency will take place from 15 to 30 May 2026, at Palazzo Ducale Genova, within the port and at sea aboard cargo vessels www.u-boot.it/blog/npoe/
"Echoes of Tumult proved that art about violence doesn't have to shout. Precise, disquieting, and at moments genuinely moving, it was the exhibition the moment demanded." www.refresh.art/reviews/echo... @refreshmagazine.bsky.social
Disarming Design from Palestine (DDfP), a design label that works directly with Palestinian producers, designers and partner organisations is looking for new board members disarmingdesign.com/projects/new...
How to Live Together in Sound? Towards Sonic Democracy Symposium at Helsinki Music Centre: Call for Contributions. Deadline to apply: 10 April link.webropolsurveys.com/EventPartici...
The Venice Biennial’s current posture lays bare the cynicism of the art world. Where it once acted decisively, it now bends over backwards to avoid offending Israel and the U.S. In doing so, it becomes complicit in ongoing genocide hyperallergic.com/israels-plan...
The 9th edition of the Milan Machinima Festival will explore rebirth and reinvention through the videogame loop. Follow it online or in-person in Milan on 16–20 March @machinima_fest www.gamescenes.org/mmf-2026-rep...
you mean you are better informed than the Israeli human rights organisations living in Israel? interesting.... www.btselem.org/publications...
Just discovered the drawings that Lebanese artist #MazenKerbaj made in response to the ongoing genocidal campaign on Gaza mazenkerbaj.com/gaza-in-my-p...
Theme: Unstable Grounds — Artistic Research as Line of Flight are.filmeu.eu
Now in print! The RePlaybook is packed with practical tools and methods to help you understand climate-related information disorder, challenge dominant tech narratives, and create meaningful spaces for dialogue that support climate action. Order it here lime.ttc.io/index.php/71...
Mona Hatoum, Brian Eno, Sam Durant, Antony Gormley, and other artists donated works to the "Seeds of Solidarity" art auction supporting medical professionals in Gaza. www.healthworkers4palestine.com/seeds-of-sol...
Call for projects! FILE — the Electronic Language International Festival invites artists, researchers, creators, educators and developers to propose works and educational activities for the next edition in São Paulo. Deadline: 19 February file.org.br/highlight/fi...
Breaking with South Africa’s policy on the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, Arts & Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie's decision to cancel Gabrielle Goliath's video, is a shock to those invested in witnessing how artists respond to the ongoing genocide hyperallergic.com/the-south-af...
Pankaj Mishra: "the world, which has paid too high a price for the pursuit of happiness by a small American minority, must undergo rapid de-Americanisation, intellectually, spiritually and geopolitically." archive.is/202601181120...
Call for papers: Breaking the Code: Hacktivating Non-Normative Algorithms invites papers that look at error as a critical condition, read glitch as resistant gesture and approach refusal and deviation as an opening to new epistemologies and creative forms coda.letras.up.pt/brkcode/conf...
Open call! #SOLARFUTURES invites 3 artists to create new works about #Solarpunk, a movement envisioning desirable ecological, digital and societal futures solarfutures.eu/open-call.html