Religious practices have always been tightly connected to technological mediation. Just recall the stories of Old Testament’s Tabernacle, complex mathematics of Yoruba divination practices, Buddhist spiritual automation by prayer wheels, Japanese history of robotics...

The task of the research exhibition 'Technologies of the Sacred' is to rethink the boundaries between technology and religion or mysticism. The disenchanted world of the modern era is but a continuation of sacral tendencies by other means—magical thinking...

K Allado-McDowell co-leads the Artist + Machine Intelligence program at Google Research, facilitating collaboration between Google AI researchers, artists, and cultural institutions. Alongside twenty years of experience in software design and engineering, K also has an MFA in photography and regularly performs acoustic...

This is a book for those who lie defeated by history and by the present. It isn’t a manual to turn the current defeat into a future triumph, but a rumour about a passage hidden within the battlefield leading to a forest beyond it. I began to write this book in the late autumn of 2016, at the time when resurging fascism had joined environmental devastation and capitalist biopolitics, in the bleak Valhalla of worldmaking forces. In earlier...