Philip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine

By Nadine Khalil

DEC 20-JAN 21 | ArtSeen

As Mueller’s world is captured in a drunken disarray, the sense of an aftermath emerges—that still-raging afterparty.

Negroes in their prime

By Kevin Beasley

NOV 2020 | Critics Page

An Ali from ’63–’74. Vietnam and the will to survive outside of an imperialistic society, and even moreso, one that thinks too highly of itself. Not Ali because he knocked niggas out for it. But this machine that Black folks slaved over.

Seeing the Machine in Miranda Haymon's In the Penal Colony

By Jeremy O. Harris

JUL-AUG 2019 | Theater

Opening the third season of Next Door at New York Theater Workshop this July is In the Penal Colony, an adaption of Franz Kafka’s short story of the same name written and directed by Miranda Haymon.

Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen

JUL-AUG 2020 | Critics Page

A symbiotic organism in its own right, Anicka Yi’s work fuses multi-sensory experience with synthetic and evolutionary biology to form lush bio-fictional landscapes. Utilizing a “biopolitics of the senses” Yi challenges traditional approaches to the human sensorium, emphasizing olfaction as well as microbial and embodied intelligence. Through her “techno-sensual” artistic exploration, Yi is opening new discourse in the realms of cognition, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, introducing concepts of the sensorial ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and “biologized” machines.