I’m pleased to share that I received the Artist Fellowship in Digital Arts from the Illinois Arts Council (IAC) for 2024. According to the Executive Director of the Arts Council, Joshua Davis-Ruperto, “IAC Fellowship Awards acknowledge, support, and celebrate the … | Continue reading
Next week I’ll give a talk at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen titled “Your perspective is quite insightful”: Deconstructing the Endless Engagement Aesthetics of AI Platforms. I’ll be sharing some in-progress work I’m looking at … | Continue reading
I recently spoke with ABC (Australian National Radio) for a Real Vision show about TikTok and China, where I talked about the manipulative role of the TikTok interface, how its algorithmic feed both does and does not understand us, and … | Continue reading
While in residence as a guest professor at Aarhus University last fall, I gave a talk that (re)frames my art practice and artworks as establishing and enacting an aesthetics of degrowth. Titled From Forever More to Degrowth Aesthetics: Tactics of … | Continue reading
Recent books discussing and/or citing my projects include (in no specific order): Zylinska, Joanna. The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI. Cambridge: MIT Press Paul, Christiane. Digital Art. 4th Ed. London: Thames & Hudson Myers, Rhea. … | Continue reading
I recently spoke with Mark Hurst, the host of Techtonic on WFMU Radio in NYC. We talked about Silicon Valley’s obsessions with growth, their war against sustainability and ethics, and artistic counteractions that invert big tech’s growth-obsessed capitalist logics. After … | Continue reading
My work Computers Watching Movies (2013) is part of the exhibition AI: Artificial Intelligence at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona. This ongoing traveling exhibition, which began at The Barbican as AI: More than Human in London in 2019, … | Continue reading
My work ORDER OF MAGNITUDE is part of the exhibition The Irreplaceable Human at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art north of Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the curators: “…this large-scale, interdisciplinary exhibition seeks to define the phenomenon of creativity from … | Continue reading
This Friday I’ll give a lecture at Aarhus University in Denmark, speaking about software, the unified logics of capitalism and computing, and artistic tactics of bounding that employ degrowth aesthetics as a countering practice. Title: From Forever More to Degrowth … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that’s led to so much exploitative toxi … | Continue reading
As part of my recent fellowship with the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University, I wrote about some of my preliminary findings in an article titled Minus: Radically Finite Social Media and Alternative Futures. This text stems from … | Continue reading
La Presse (Montreal) wrote a feature about my work in a piece titled Ben Grosser, l’antinumérique, and also quoted me in another, titled À la recherche du réseau social idéal (In search of the ideal social network). (Note: both are … | Continue reading
My social network Minus was featured in yesterday’s New York Times. In an article titled The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social, journalist Brian X. Chen writes about the increasingly impersonal nature of big social platforms, and … | Continue reading
In fall 2020, I gave an online artist talk with Telematic Media Arts in San Francisco as part of its exhibition of my work ORDER OF MAGNITUDE. Telematic recently posted this talk on YouTube, and you can now watch it … | Continue reading
On 15 March I’ll be on a panel at the Data and (Dis)Obedience Conference at Northeastern University, talking about artistic approaches to data surveillance. Keynote is by Marek Tuszynski from Tactical Tech. Conference is organized by Jen Gradecki, and is … | Continue reading
I’m running this hybrid workshop at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard on March 23, framing and guiding some collective thinking on social media alternatives to the status quo. If you’re interested, please join! You can … | Continue reading
Recent books discussing my projects include: Mulgan, Geoff. Prophets at a Tangent: How Art Shapes Social Imagination. Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press Ganyet Josep M. La democràcia mor al núvol. Barcelona: La Magrana (Penguin) Sicart, Miguel. Playing Software: Homo Lude … | Continue reading
CBC Radio (Canada) featured me in the opening segment of its recent 16-year retrospective of the tech/culture show Spark, looking back at interviewees who had been “eerily predictive” about the future of social media, algorithms, etc. The segment starts after … | Continue reading
Geert Lovink will be performing his work We Are Not Sick at REDCAT in Los Angeles. I’m excited to be a part of the event, giving a short presentation on my own platform resistance projects and then moderating a dialogue … | Continue reading
My work Platform Sweet Talk is currently installed at Near Now in Nottingham, England. The show is part of a series of exhibitions that make up Privacy Techtonics, a exhibition that features myself, Tara Kelton, Forensic Architecture, Yuri Pattison, Libby … | Continue reading
This year I’ll be a fellow at Harvard University with the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. I’m looking forward to expanding my artistic efforts to decouple online sociality from big social … | Continue reading
My work Tokenize This is part of The Byzantine Generals Problem at distant.gallery. Curated by Domenico Quaranta and produced by Aksioma, it’s an online exhibition focused on artworks which, while not avoiding to engage with blockchains and crypto culture, do … | Continue reading
As part of the public events with my exhibition Software for Less at Aksioma, I gave an artist talk titled Less Metrics, More Rando: Techniques of Resistance in a Platform World. | Continue reading
My solo exhibition Software for Less is now on view at the Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia! It is Aksioma’s fourth and final installment in their New Extractivism series, which also featured solo exhibitions by Joana Moll, … | Continue reading
My works Minus, Go Rando, and ORDER OF MAGNITUDE will be part of Living by Protocol at the Harvard Art Museum. Curated by Kim Albrecht and Sarah Newman, “Living by Protocol queries the contemporary reflections of artists and artistic researchers … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, 29 March at 12pm CDT / 19:00 CET I’ll speak about social media demetrication, Zuckerberg supercuts, and radical platform alternatives with Cornelia Sollfrank and Martin Warnke. Please join! Details here | Continue reading
A finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life. | Continue reading
Examines the engagement romance behind social media notifications | Continue reading
An interactive installation that tests our inclinations toward subtraction | Continue reading
A supercut that reimagines Mark Zuckerberg through one of his least favorite words | Continue reading
An automated confusion system for TikTok | Continue reading
An epic supercut that examines what Mark Zuckerberg focuses on and what he hopes to attain. | Continue reading
A browser extension that obfuscates your feelings on Facebook. | Continue reading
Facebook Demetricator hides all the metrics on Facebook. Friend, like, and comment counts---anything that enumerates your social activity---is all hidden from view. The app invites you to try out Facebook without these numbers, to see how your experience is changed by their absen … | Continue reading
Facebook without the content | Continue reading