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Who's Your Daddy? Arvida Byström's Orphaned AI and the Death of Digital Intimacy

At OK Linz, Swedish artist Arvida Byström interrogates AI, sexuality, and digital creation through mythology, examining our responsibility as creators of artificial beings in "Who's Your Daddy?"

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Immortality Trip: How Psilocybin Alters the Biology of Aging

Psilocybin, famed for psychedelic journeys, may hold remarkable anti-aging potential. Groundbreaking research reveals it significantly extends cellular lifespan and improves overall survival.

Wolfgang Tillmans Rethinks Photography and the Future at Centre Pompidou

Wolfgang Tillmans transforms the Centre Pompidou's library into a sweeping, poetic study of photography, knowledge, and utopia on the eve of the museum's five-year closure.

ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED by Levi van Gelder

In ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED, Levi van Gelder dismantles scientific narratives through queer storytelling, challenging historical conventions and repositioning Europe's oldest mummy within pop culture.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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Pieter Hugo's Solus: Atypical Youth, Singular Presence

In Solus Vol. I (2019–2021), Pieter Hugo disengages from the ornate trappings of editorial fashion to confront something more elemental: the face, the gesture, the asymmetry of youth.

The Call: Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, and the Ritual of AI

At Serpentine North, artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst transform AI training into a choral ritual—inviting us to reimagine machine learning as collective, participatory art.

Inside Harley Weir’s Garden of Memory and Mutation

In The Garden, Harley Weir turns photography into alchemy, merging fluid memory, feminist desire, and chemical revolt to explore the unruly terrain of womanhood, nostalgia, and care.

Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS and the Digital Afterlife

Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS at Ringsted Galleriet confronts the eerie allure of griefbots, blending digital resurrection with ritualized mourning in a simulated sacred space.

Myth, Memory, and the Street: Theodoros Gennitsakis’ ΧΑΟΣ

In ΧΑΟΣ, Theodoros Gennitsakis fuses myth, memory, and street culture into a raw, poetic archive of northern Greece.

Echoes in the Void: Alexander Gronsky’s 'Less Than One'

In Less Than One, Alexander Gronsky maps Russia’s sparsely populated frontiers, exposing haunting echoes of human life where the land itself becomes a spectral witness to abandonment.

Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr Reimagine Julie Bullard

In Julie Bullard, Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr conjure a parallel Britain—one laminated in nostalgia, hairspray, and Tesco-branded melancholy.

Tobias Spichtig's Taxi zur Kunst: A Painting Is a Taxi Is a Joke Is a Portal

Tobias Spichtig’s Taxi zur Kunst turns painting into a vehicle of eerie intimacy and estrangement—where nostalgia meets the void of social life.

Roosenberg Abbey by Dom Hans van der Laan

What happens when architecture doesn’t ask to be seen but to be inhabited, metabolized, absorbed like a silence too long to ignore?

Joanna Kuchta: From Tumblr Muse to Digital Mystic

Joanna Kuchta transforms internet nostalgia into a sacred ritual, remixing Catholic roots with code and club beats.

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