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From “The Tree of Life” at Bitforms Gallery, curated by Claudia Hart Auriea Harvey & Michaël Samyn The Endless Forest, 2006/2020-ongoing Online multiplayer game

When Jennings Brown exposed a viral fake doctor whose “expertise” on suicidal ideation, necrophilia, and “butt-fisting” departed from best practices. Extremely.  When Janet Burns tracked the birth of brittle, vulnerable, and world-altering spreadsheet software. (“…a computer game for executives.”)

When Whitney Kimball interviewed mp3-hoarding teens, internet archivists, and Myspace mourners on the impermanence of the digital self. 

When Henry Giardina talked to the builders of the early trans internet, from community forums and censored AOL chatrooms to Tumblr and further.

When Maddie Stone assessed the hype, “purity”, and social/environmental impact of “lab-grown diamonds.”

When Ryan Mandelbaum profiled the physicists in search of an almost mystical material. (“By then, we had all become quite exhausted breaking all these diamonds.”

When Victoria Song told the world about her father (a spy?), his secretive visits to North Korea, and her warped relationship with surveillance. 

When Jed Oelbaum dove deep into an early internet conspiracy theory, to the woods of New Jersey, in search of an inter-dimensional portal and true believers in “The Egg.”

Jesse Darling, Gun1 (detail) 2014/2016 

“...as a failing body I joined the collective failure of all bodies, and from this position full of holes I stream out towards the holes in others and in this way, we might breathe one another, feed one another, flow through one another and sometimes fill up.”