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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 6d

A member of the Flotilla: If they have been able to treat us like this, many of whom are Westerners, what will they do to Palestinian prisoners? The feeling of total impunity has been one of the great frustrations of all of us elpais.com/internaciona...

El periodista de EL PAÍS en la flotilla de Gaza: “No hay médicos para animales como vosotros’, nos dijeron los guardias israelíes”

Carlos de Barrón narra las humillaciones, el maltrato psicológico, las agresiones y las intimidaciones que él y el resto de la tripulación sufrieron durante su cautiverio de tres noches en la cárcel d...

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 8d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #VisitIsrael

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 9d

“At a time when Israel continues to escalate its genocide with the destruction and ground invasion of Gaza City, following months of enforced famine, the Biennale should be ashamed to be in dialogue with the cultural representatives of the Israeli occupation” hyperallergic.com/1044678/arti...

Artists Threaten to Boycott Venice Biennale Over Israeli Pavilion

Plans to set up an “alternative pavilion” for Israel inside the historic Arsenale sidestep the issue of its continued inclusion in the storied art festival, activists said.

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 9d

"We're looking for projects that fit 4 themes: Network Commons (reimagining how we connect), Public Personas (navigating fame & identity in algorithmic environments), Narrative Systems (breaking free from traditional interaction mechanics) & Synthetic Agents (collaborating with other intelligences)"

Aksioma @aksiomaorg.bsky.social · 10d

this #Rhizome open call could catch a lot of you 👀 .. if you’re into that kind of thing. apply by 10 october !
> rhizome.org/editorial/2025/sep/15/open-call-microgrants-2025/

Open Call: Microgrants 2025

Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 9d

In Milan, policemen are joining citizens protesting against the genocide in Gaza & the arrest of the members of the Gaza aid flotilla www.tiktok.com/@ggianni7/vi...

Grande, anche loro non possono negare l’evidenza. Il governo Meloni una vergogna a livello mondiale.

TikTok video by ggianni7

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

I am a lady, 2009, by Mary Sibande, South African artist who uses painting and sculptures depicting figures to explore the construction of identity in postcolonial South Africa #womensart

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 10d

Its products ship from the Israeli port of Haifa but the journey is protracted. The vehicles must make detours to go through checkpoints, and the pallets need to be stacked far lower than capacity to allow sniffer dogs to jump over them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian food brand says UK sales up 50% as shoppers show solidarity

Zaytoun’s olive oil and dates provide a tangible way to help Palestinians, says the business’s managing director

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 11d

The artists selected for the #MarioMerzPrize explore various forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social inequalities we-make-money-not-art.com/mario-merz-p...

Mario Merz Prize. Forms of slow violence

The five artists selected for the prize explore different forms of slow violence: rampant mechanisation, oppression of trans bodies, legacy of colonisation, racial discrimination and rising social …

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 13d

Call 4 entries! The 2026 European Media Art Festival welcomes works in the categories Film, Installation (installative, interactive, spatial or sculptural media artworks) and Expanded (performances, live events, workshops)
Deadline: 22/12/2025.
www.emaf.de

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 14d

Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant. This year, the @rixcriga.bsky.social festival invites us to consider what vegetal life can teach us about sensing, adapting and coexisting on a changing planet festival2025.rixc.org #plantintelligence

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 14d

apologies accepted, my dear!

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 14d

Terms such as “climate change” or “global warming” do not express the urgency of the problem and the action needed. I generally use “climate breakdown” or “climate disruption”, but I love it when, in the process of collaborating with Matthew Hyland, new terms such as “global heat death” emerge.

Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 18d

New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler.

‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS
for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies
it promises the industry.'

Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Oliver Ressler, “Carbon and Captivity”, 4K video, 33 min., 2020. Courtesy of the artist;  àngels, Barcelona; The Gallery Apart, Rome © Bildrecht, Vienna.

https://www.ressler.at/carbon_and_captivity/

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 15d

In "The Hour of the Predator", Giuliano da Empoli explains that we have more information, yet are less able to predict the future. It is a situation that the “predators” help foment. Our abandoned future is the free open space they make their playground. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

How autocrats and tech billionaires are disintegrating history

A striking new political analysis by Giuliano da Empoli explores a threat so thoroughly novel that it has paralysed the old guard.

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 16d

"The results show a clear decline in expressive freedoms over the past decade, a trend echoed by Freemuse, which recently flagged artistic freedom as “at its lowest point.”" hyperallergic.com/1043369/new-... #censorship

New Reports Expose the Global Toll of Censorship

Two dossiers paint an urgent quantitative picture of the rapidly growing suppression of free expression and artistic freedom.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19d

A study has found that AI 'workslop', where coworkers use AI and their colleagues have to spend time fixing it, is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable."

www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

www.404media.co

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 19d

Madeline Schwartzman's book aims to expand our views of what it means to be alive in a world where hybrid beings are being manufactured, engineered or bred we-make-money-not-art.com/alive-synthe... @ThamesHudsonUSA

Alive. Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI & the Design of Radical Life

Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology, and art, this survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it mea…

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday, during Italy’s nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestine, protesters in Rome brought traffic to a standstill by blocking the city’s ring road. Motorists showed their support and applauded 😍🇵🇸🇮🇹 video.corriere.it/roma/corteo-...

Corteo pro Pal occupa la tangenziale a Roma: applausi dagli automobilisti

Solidarietà ai manifestanti delle persone in coda per il sostegno a Gaza

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 20d

"From attention-sucking algorithms to AI-generated slop, the book explores how our information environment is shaping & influencing opinion on climate and offers strategies to decode disorder, challenge tech paradigms, and counteract division. Download a PDF copy for free or order a printed version

info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social · 20d

⭐ We are thrilled to announce “The RePlaybook: A Field Guide to the Climate and Information Crisis”, a first-of-its-kind toolkit by 30+ experts, journalists & NGOs to decode disinfo, challenge tech & counter division in climate comms.⬇️Must-have! Download: tacticaltech.org/replaybook/

Cover of the Replaybook a fieldguide to the climate and information crisis

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 21d

When it comes to fighting techno-fascism, we’ve lost the battle of imagination. “On the other hand, it seems to me that the Marxist toolbox offers strategic possibilities that are worth revisiting”, says Nastasia Hadjadji in #ApocalypseNerds www.faketech.fr/p/apocalypse...

"Apocalypse Nerds" : le technofascisme dans tous ses états

Entretien avec les journalistes Nastasia Hadjadji et Olivier Tesquet autour de leur dernier essai, Apocalypse nerds, qui parait aux éditions Divergences.

www.faketech.fr

Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · 22d

Love is Resistance: a collection of 77 posters from Michael Rakowitz, Aya Haidar, Brian Eno, Dima Srouji, Emily Jacir, Larissa Sansour, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Adam Broomberg, Jeremy Deller and other artists standing in solidarity with Palestine www.loveisresistance.art

LOVE IS RESISTANCE

www.loveisresistance.art

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 13

Early US suffragists were inspired by the equality they saw in the indigenous
Haudenosaunee matrilineal society. In contrast to European women of the era, Haudenosaunee women owned property in addition to holding leadership positions in their communities #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a standing woman facing forwards in an interior in tradicional embroideted dress

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Sep 13

Mahmoud Khalil talking to Nan Goldin: "nothing will make up for the lost lives. But I just don’t think we have an option. We shouldn’t lose hope, because that’s how they think they will defeat us: if we feel that we are against this big machine" www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Mahmoud Khalil and Nan Goldin in conversation

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention for his part in the pro-Palestine campus protests at Columbia was a chilling watershed moment for free speech in the US. Here, he talks to Nan Goldin about his ordeal, advoc...

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Sep 12

For its 25th anniversary, iMAL Brussels asks, "Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?" we-make-money-not-art.com/woven-antenn...

Ghostly energies, primitive spears and electric gardens at iMAL

Big Tech monoculture promotes consumerism while obfuscating its social and ecological impact. What does that mean for artists working with digital media ?

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Sep 11

The announcement of an all-woman artistic team was celebrated by many. But cultural workers, such as women, people of color and individuals from other traditionally marginalized groups, have long been used as Trojan horses for the German cultural ministry hyperallergic.com/1040816/the-...

The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”

The consensus of the German art world is aligned with the status quo of the State of Israel: Anything goes, except Palestine.

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Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Are You a Software Update? explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments."

Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · Sep 2

New podcast season!
𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗔 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲?
aksioma.org/podcast/are-...

With 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀&𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲#𝟭𝟲 𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗦𝗨? we explored how software systems influence human actions, participation and behaviour. Now Neja Berger delves deeper into the topic with this series of conversations...
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