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FEATURES brings together articles and essays that explore art history, contemporary culture and global developments in politics and technology.

  • Features Posted on 30.09.19
    Creative AIs and Law: Hazardous Horizons

    With the field of AI developing by leaps and bounds, what legal rights are granted to autonomous non-human beings? In her new series, Giulia Trojano considers the present and future legality of AI. Her investigation began by examining content produced by creative AIs in light of existing and potential copyright protection in Part 1. Part 2 continued by questioning associations between authorship and personhood, posing the hypothetical situation of a runway collaboration between creative AIs. In Part 3, Trojano elaborates on the hypothetical: what happens when AI-caused accidents inevitably occur?

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    By Giulia Trojano

  • Features Posted on 17.06.19
    Art, the Anthropocene, and the grim, dark future of Warhammer 40K

    Gaming offers an imaginative space in which new worlds may be conceived or old worlds replicated. In light of the Christchurch shooting, many are examining video games and related subcultures to understand how the alt-right appropriates specific imagery, breeding ideology online. Tom Jeffreys, instead, looks at how contemporary artists re-appropriate this same material, specifically from Warhammer 40K, in order to potentialise freer, queerer futures.

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    By Tom Jeffreys

  • Features Posted on 25.01.19
    Creative AIs and Law: Future Models

    With the field of AI developing by leaps and bounds, what legal rights are granted to autonomous non-human beings? In her new series, Giulia Trojano considers the present and future legality of AI. Her investigation began by examining content produced by creative AIs in light of existing and potential copyright protection in Part 1. Now, in Part 2, Trojano questions associations between authorship and personhood, by posing the hypothetical situation of a runway collaboration between creative AIs. 

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    By Giulia Trojano

  • Features Posted on 30.11.18
    Creative AIs and Law: Copyright Protection

    With the field of AI developing by leaps and bounds, what legal rights are granted to autonomous non-human beings? In her new series, Giulia Trojano considers the present and future legality of AI. Her investigation begins by examining content produced by creative AIs in light of existing and potential copyright protection.

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    By Giulia Trojano

  • Features Posted on 28.09.18
    The Question of Human Genetic Engineering: The Future

    The field of human genetic engineering is on the brink of changing the world. But how did it get to this point, and what does the future hold? This week we are publishing the final part of the series, which considers new developments in genetic engineering in relation to ethics and bio-capitalism. Chatterjee's central question is not how this new biotechnology will be used, but how will it be regulated? With private companies and biohackers alike pushing for deregulation, albeit on different grounds, Chatterjee's urgent calls for governmental regulation of genetic engineering suggest that the fight for the future is already here.

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    By Allegra Chatterjee

  • Features Posted on 14.09.18
    Conversations on Art and Science: Part 4, Finding a Home

    When creative practitioners – and that includes artists, writers, scientists, academics etc – start to produce work that challenges existing disciplinary frameworks, certain questions always arise: where should this new work go? What should we call it? Who will offer it a home?

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    By Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys