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Error 404: System Working as Intended — How Artists Are Making Glitches Speak
Art & Activism

Error 404: System Working as Intended — How Artists Are Making Glitches Speak

A growing movement of artists and hackers is turning digital malfunction into political statement, weaponizing the bug, the crash, and the corrupted file against the seamless perfection of corporate tech culture. From circuit-bent toys to deliberately broken data visualizations, glitch art isn't just aesthetically interesting — it's a form of dissent. Here's why the error message might be the most honest thing on your screen.
Showing Up: How Mutual Aid Became the Most Experimental Art Practice in America
Experimental Organizing

Showing Up: How Mutual Aid Became the Most Experimental Art Practice in America

Across the US, mutual aid networks are doing something that no gallery or grant-funded residency quite managed — blending survival with creativity in ways that refuse to separate the two. These aren't charity projects with an aesthetic twist. They're living experiments in what community can look like when people stop waiting for institutions to show up. We talked to organizers, artists, and neighbors about what that actually feels like from the inside.
Five Ways Organizers Blew Up the Rulebook (And Built Something Better)
Experimental Organizing

Five Ways Organizers Blew Up the Rulebook (And Built Something Better)

Forget the nonprofit industrial complex — some of the most effective community organizing and cultural intervention of the past decade happened entirely outside established institutions. We rounded up five genuinely unconventional strategies that worked, broke things, and opened up new possibilities for grassroots movements. Plus: what it actually takes to adapt them for your own context.
Quiet as a Weapon: How Artists Are Using Emptiness to Fight Back
Art & Activism

Quiet as a Weapon: How Artists Are Using Emptiness to Fight Back

In a media landscape drowning in noise, a growing number of artists are choosing silence, restraint, and negative space as their most powerful tools. From gallery walls stripped bare to protest posters with almost nothing on them, minimalist aesthetics are emerging as a serious — and seriously underestimated — form of political resistance. We dig into who's doing it, why it works, and what it means for art as a vehicle for change.