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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the recipients of the 2023 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, an initiative that supports artists working with innovative approaches to technology and new media. Administered by United States Artists, the fellowship awards five artists annually with unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. Since 2021, the fellowship has been supporting artists who utilize new and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, augmented and virtua...

"To see and understand the countryside is a crucial part of moving towards a more livable future for everyone," says coder, artist and organizer Xiaowei R. Wang. They've observed that some of the most careful, thoughtful innovation is happening in the world's rural communities, like Chinese chicken farmers using biometrics tracking and blockchain to improve supply chain transparency. In this talk, they advocate for a new perspective on the countryside: not as places lacking in tech or digital media literacy but as centers of humble innovation that emphasize community and su...

"To see and understand the countryside is a crucial part of moving towards a more livable future for everyone," says coder, artist and organizer Xiaowei R. Wang. They've observed that some of the most careful, thoughtful innovation is happening in the world's rural communities, like Chinese chicken farmers using biometrics tracking and blockchain to improve supply chain transparency. In this talk, they advocate for a new perspective on the countryside: not as places lacking in tech or digital media literacy but as centers of humble innovation that emphasize community and su...

© Alice Neale. Courtesy of Ned Beauman London-born Ned Beauman is the author of four novels, each of them published to critical acclaim. Released in 2010, Boxer, Beetle, its protagonist a hapless Londoner with an unfortunate medical condition that lends him the smell of rotten fish, won The Guardian First Book Award, and its successor, The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. Glow, published in 2014, updates the thriller for a new generation, its characters spread out over several continents but converging on a dentist’s office not far from Charing C...