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Soundboard: How Can Artists Reenvision the Internet?

March 22, 2019

For creative people, online platforms are spaces where we find inspiration, collaborate, and learn from one another. But they are also businesses that increasingly police the boundaries of our experience, extracting information from our expressions and manipulating our behavior without consent. How can artists contend with the current state of the Internet, which has been massively influenced by corporate interests despite the utopic ideals that made up its foundation? Guest edited by Are.na, this new edition of Soundboard—Walker Reader’s sixth to date—invites Furtherfield's Ruth Catlow, artist Mimi Onuoha, writer/product leader Bo Ren, Danielle Robinson (Code for Science & Society) and designer Andy Pressman, and artist/writer Gary Zhexi Zhang how to best go about it.

In editorial strategy Tags Are.na, Wal