Are.na Blog

Nate Pyper on the parade as an 'other' space of sociality, perpetually in motion.

A guest Are.na podcast, brought directly to your eyes and ears by artist Jeffrey Alan Scudder and the refugee organization and techno rock band GP&PLS.

A collection of channels on the origins of digital pictograms.

A collection of resources on learning, pedagogy, and cooperative education.

Woodcuts, tribal imagery, suns, curvy figures, aroma swirls, and earth tones: Evan Collins defines the look of the 90s.

A collection of channels feeling out our relationships with non-human beings.

On the ground at the second Internet Archive summit for preserving the open web.

A collection of screenshots from Instagram Stories documenting the interiors of people's homes.

The founder of the Internet Archive surveys the metaphors and images artists have used to understand the Internet and its short history.

Expanding on Benedetto's talk at SYPartners on archival practice and knowledge management.

Ways of seeing belong not just to individuals but to fields and subcultures. The best way to understand the state of a discipline can be to pay attention to what...

The Creative Independent's Willa Köerner writes about how to thoughtfully and responsibly illuminate private knowledge-building in a public space.

On putting together their annual cooking competition house party in Queens, NY.

At Xerox PARC in the 1990s, poet Judy Malloy and researcher Cathy Marshall began a collaborative hypertext project through correspondence.

Artworks exploring the nexus of queerness, the body, and technology.

Refresh is a home gallery run by Natalia Panzer out of Sunset Park.

Journalist and musician Claire L. Evans shares the stories of unsung women who shaped the development of the Web.

Graham Johnson revisits the 3x5 card, which played a crucial role in documenting, linking, and indexing information throughout the 20th century.

How to know a place as large as L.A. County, five thousand square miles and population eleven million, if not through triangulation?

A conversation with Elliot Rander and Laurel Schwulst on Radner’s digital “green pages” for artist websites.

Tracking the weird and wild worlds of modern loneliness, affective politics, and digitally mediated sentimentality.

Rounding up a list of browser extensions that present visions of a better Internet and world.

The commonplace book is a notebook style with roots in the Enlightenment, where thinkers could log the best quotes and insights from their readings.

Editor and sociologist Jenny L. Davis joins us for the third installment of our roundtable on the state of the web.

Keaton Venture and Mike Spreter of Film Fun talk movies and pop culture.

Researcher and academic Grant Wythoff joins us for the second installment of our roundtable on the state of the web.

This week's collection rounds up channels that build around a unifying visual aesthetic or 'vibe.'

We kick off our new roundtable on the state of the web by talking to Drew Austin, blogger at Ribbonfarm and Kneeling Bus.

This week's collection rounds up channels with distinct visions for the future.

Researcher and designer Kei Kreutler talks satellite observation, augmented reality, and her new project Patternist.

Recapping the Cybernetics Conference, held November 15-18 at Prime Produce, NYC.

Let’s use the agency we have to build an Internet that better serves us all.

Visible Speech is an alphabet designed by Alexander Melville Bell, one of several 19th C attempts to produce a universal language.

Designer Paul Soulellis talks archival practices, artist publications, and his current studio Counterpractice.

This week's collection focuses on movement, gesture, and the body, from art practices to competitive sports.

We're pleased to announce the recipients of our inaugural Are.na Grants program, a new initiative to support research, writing, and creative projects developed on Are.na.

Sara Cwynar is a Canadian artist living in Brooklyn who previously worked as a designer for The New York Times Magazine.

If you’re looking for horror, the real world is scary enough.

Experimental comics are works that acknowledge the traditional framework of comics but, rather than adhere to it, tend to tilt, twist, and warp it into other things.

What might a platform like Are.na mean for librarianship?

Rachel Rosenfelt is a co-publisher of The New Inquiry, the creative director for Verso Books, and a 2017-2018 member of NEW INC.

We're pleased to announce the Are.na Grants program, a new initiative to support research, writing, and creative projects developed on Are.na.

About a year and a half ago, a friend on Are.na suggested my channel Wild Animals vs. Manmade Materials would be better without the pets.

Two nights after the September 11 attacks, Gavin Brown’s West 15th Street art-bar Passerby re-opened to the public.

This week's collection focuses on public databases, resources for self-education, and research techniques.

Wilner and Smart discuss the subjectivity of authenticity and fakeness, and the efforts of their label Fake Music to preserve artificiality.

Participatory channels are open for anyone to add to, creating an experimental environment that encourages play.

Tools shape the way we behave. We point, swipe, skim, type, click, send. How can we reconsider the actions we perform in our daily interfaces?

Revisiting three twentieth-century thinkers who imagined computing technologies as a way to expand and explore the interconnectedness of human knowledge.

Permutation in the work of Samuel Beckett and Robert Grenier.

Taeyoon Choi talks the School for Poetic Computation, diversity in tech, and what it means for a practice to be poetic.

Gossip is a historically maligned form of communication, frequently cast as idle, feminized chatter in contrast to the masculine public sphere. Might that reputation speak to its power?

We're making a space on the Internet where we can think clearly and collaborate openly with others on shared interests.

This week's collection of channels highlights the mediating aesthetics of Google apps from Street View to Image Search.

Founders Wysocan and Tiven talk through how Library Stack is creating a space for alternative publishing.

More and more, companies are capitalizing on post-election liberal guilt—using the current political climate as a means to increase monetary gains.

Lisa Smith of Areaware makes the case for thoughtful product design.

This collection focuses on channels related to the place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other.

The continuity of menial housework, the circuitousness of tidying up a city that will inevitably get dirty again, the everlasting quality of tasks that are done almost instinctually, begrudgingly but...

Artists from the studio HAWRAF interview each another about transparency and inclusion.

Artist Margaret Lee talks the origins and mission statement of the group Art Against Displacement.

One of my first memories of being online is also one of my first memories of laughing.

Introducing David Bohm’s philosophy of dialogue, a methodology for examining and refining thought in a group setting.

Thomas Traum is a visual artist and designer who works primarily in motion graphics and 3D illustration at his studio Traum Inc.

Memes are credited with an increasingly important role as political propaganda, solidifying in-group identity and disseminating ideas in forms that are disarming in their unexpectedness or humor.

Kat Su, designer for Calvin Klein Underwear, talks her research and design process.

This post is the first in a series highlighting channels we’re paying attention to on Are.na. A Whole New World focuses on channels related to geography, spatial studies and mapping.

This post is the first in a series of extrapolations on what inspires and influences us at Are.na.

In the 60’s and 70’s, many people had utopian ideas about what personal networked computers could do for culture and education. Not all of them turned out.

In the Summer of 2013, a few close friends and work colleagues in Austin got together one weekend and decided to start a tiny art school called Sunday School.