Kagami review: Mixed-reality gig brings dead headliner back to life
19 July 2023
Kagami, a mixed-reality concert at this year's Manchester International Festival, shows the fresh challenges and possibilities of state-of-the-art tech
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Like, Comment, Subscribe review: Inside track on YouTube's success
14 September 2022
Over 17 years, YouTube has transformed from a place to share home videos to a cultural juggernaut that helps elect presidents. A new book from Mark Bergen gives unparalleled insights into the platform's rise
Escape review: An account of the internet's intimate early days
7 September 2022
Escape, a thoughtful book by Marie Le Conte, recalls a time when people tended to organise themselves into small communities around blogs and other online hangouts. Should we go back?
Electronic: a trip through the history of music
31 July 2020
With many of the world’s dance floors currently empty, the latest exhibition at the Design Museum, London, which evokes some of the same experiences, is very welcome.
How an artist made a concert from five 40-year-old Commodore computers
9 June 2020
Soaked in the iconography of 1980s computing, the glitchy beats and green, text-based displays of Robert Henke's show, CBM 8032 AV seem an unlikely concert piece for today, but amongst today's hi-resolution graphics and sound, it's surprisingly refreshing.
Code 8 review: A crime and sci-fi mash-up that's actually pretty good
6 May 2020
Code 8, a film about people with special powers that have been shunned by the world, is both a cracking crime caper and a comment on society, says Simon Ings
Network Effect review: A glorious thought-provoking Murderbot tale
29 April 2020
Martha Wells's action-packed novel Network Effect puts you inside the head of a Murderbot. It raises fascinating questions you will think about for a long time, says Sally Adee
The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change
27 November 2019
Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books
Can scanning books really reveal if the US is becoming more tolerant?
28 January 2019
An analysis of books shows that cultural norms are loosening in the US, but it may be missing the views from underrepresented groups in publishing
Reddit’s megapixel masterpiece illustrates how culture evolves
5 September 2018
Over a million users battled for control over a virtual canvas, one pixel at a time. Now, researchers are studying the process to examine the forces that shape cultures
