We launched Imperica in August 2010 and finally got around to launching a "proper" magazine in 2017. It has an ISSN number and you can buy it as an EPUB. Yes, a proper magazine. For no other reason than a wanton, illogical yet burning desire, we're going to publish a second issue. Yes, we know that we have left it for quite a while. We'll try ...

 ... and deliberately so. Held at Project Space in south London, our fellow Oxfordian Dawn Parsonage has been collecting photos of people being generally bored for over 20 years. That, in itself, is boring. But, of course, there is much - SO MUCH - more to the exhibition than that. The aesthetics of people just sitting around, often in badly-f...

There is beauty in (almost) everything. Curators Bas van de Poel and Marina Otero believe this to be true with malware and viruses; so much so that they have created an exhibition all about then at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Malware: Symptoms of Viral Infection covers the cultural impact of such damage, as well as other impacts includin...

The governing party of Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Insaf led by Imran Khan, decided that it would be a good idea to run a live broadcast of the local government in session at north west region of Pakhtunkhwa. However, it added some... unforeseen value. In a video broadcast live to the region’s Facebook page, the device filming the session ac...

Pareidolia , for the uninitiated, is the principle of seeing shapes known to the observer, in other shapes - for example, with Karen Zack’s infamous picture quizzes of “ Chihuahua or muffin ” and the like. Pareidolia is also the name of a new exhibition at Space Station in the home of the fin, Hoxton Square. Featuring fourteen artists, th...

Central and Eastern Europe still seems to have an inferior reputation to many in the West. The old view of "somewhat downtrodden former Socialist state" seems to persist, even if it has been more recently augmented by "great place for stag weekends and cheap beer". The reality of such countries is considerably different and more advanced than these...

The creative powerhouse that is Birmingham’s Vivid Projects is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s paper Information Management: A Proposal , which spawned the creation of something called the World Wide Web. Vague But Exciting, which runs until 22/06/19, features a splendidly diverse range of works from both new and established a...

July's Manchester International Festival brings with it a new work from digital artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Entitled  ​Atmospheric Memory ​, the premise is a strong one: to consider the atmosphere as a library of everything ever said. The premise itself is not new; Charles Babbage considered air to be a 'spoken word library'. Lozano-Hemm...

JWT Intelligence has reported on a burgeoning concept in retail stores where every visible product is for sale. OK, well, the idea is a little more complex than that. High-concept (and presumably high-cost) retailers such as Merci in Paris have opened self-contained retail experiences which contain finished, showroom-ready installations where, inde...

Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of machine against human has helped make algorithms smarter and more efficient. But in order to tackle real world problems – such as automating complex tasks including driving and negotiation – thes...

STARTS, the European Commission’s science / tech / arts programme, has revealed its winners for another year. The Collaboration prize goes to the Barcelona district of Ciutat Vella, and the Exploration prize goes to  Bjørn Karmann and Tore Knudsen’s work Project Atlas. Ciutat Vella aimed to develop a new form of urban planning through big...

Professor Tim Congdon, a senior UKIP member and academic, in a short BBC online article entitled Brexit puts UK on new economic path , has probably written the clearest expression of the Leave campaign in terms of its economic ideas and plans post exit.  This is a critique of those ideas. In the wake of the Leave campaign winning the vote to e...

UNESCO and the EQUALS Skills Coalition have launched a report into gender divides in digital skills, and how education can overcome the divide. We’ll start by quoting the introduction from the report, which is entitled I’d blush if I could: The title of this publication borrows its name from the response given by Siri, a female-gendered voice assis...

The Kissinger Twins - Kasia Kifert and Dawid Marcinkowski - have remade their 2010 interactive masterpiece Sufferosa for Instagram. Using features including Instagram’s IGTV and Insta Stories, the new work comprises three acts over twenty-four episodes. This is the launch of the first act, with the second and third acts to be launche...

Ján Pernecký is founder of Rese Arch, an organisation which supports and teaches conceptual and generative approaches to architecture, and is also founding partner of Bratislava agency Subdigital. Ahead of his talk at Sensorium in June, we asked Ján ​about architecture, the "digital", and generative...

We are at a critical point of the climate change and mental health crises. We are the most connected 'on demand' generation yet seem to have lost touch with who we are and where we fit in the world. We mediate our life through technology and screens. Are we ever truly where we are and present? I have just finished the research and development of my...

Change is everywhere; after all, as we know, it is the only constant. The work of Sissel Marie Tonn reflects change. By allowing the viewer to concentrate on the sensory and perceptual impacts to environments undergoing some sort of change, her work allows for its own narrative and a very real, very special sort of anthropological history. We caugh...

The lovely Danube-banked city of Bratislava plays host once again to Sensorium , Slovakia‘s biggest festival of digital art and culture, in early June. Held at the Pisztory Palace in the city centre, the festival will host the usual luminaries of digital arts and culture but also, for the first time, have a public programme to be held across the ci...

HELLO EVERYBODY! So, er, it's been something of a trying week what with the news and the life and the fact that the Imperica website basically combusted last week, leaving Poor Editor Paul with bits of HTML all over his lap and leaving YOU (you POOR DARLINGS) without an email version of Curios last week ( you can still read it here on the website t...

A new series for BBC Radio 4,  Invisible Networks , starts today. Presented by James Bridle and featuring artists including our old friends  Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev , it "reimagines John Berger's Ways of Seeing for the digital age".  Also happening today is the very interesting-looking Glitches and Ghosts at Lancaster U...