• Gatekeeping (photo: Lars K Jensen/Flickr).
    Short Essay
    How to run an independent web platform without being too much of a «gatekeeper»? AQNB co-founder and editor about the platform’s struggle to archive a depicted scene by entering a cycle of mutual influence rather than (mis-)using curatorial power to make top-down statements.
  • The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: the route where the artistic community of San Francisco has been pushed across as an effect of the Silicon Valley tech explosion (photo: Wikimedia Commons).
    Short Essay
    «The reason why tech workers were attracted to San Francisco was because of everything that the artist class brought to SF», says one of the artists in Norient’s «Timezones» Bay Area episode. An essay on the long and tangled interrelation of art and technology in the region.
  • Filmstill: «Journey Through a Body», Camille Degeye, 2019.
    Short Essay
    Steph Kretowicz is struck by the power of the creative impulse exhibited by Camille Degeye’s protagonist in her short film «Journey Through a Body».