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NEW WORLD ORDER 2025: The Return of Hard Power and Soft Beliefs New World Order is a 35-page research memo about what happens when power, infrastructure and ideology collide. Now available via @metalabel__ as a digital PDF, limited edition riso print and true believer t-shirt. Link in bio.
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9 months ago
*** Public Service Announcement *** We’re excited to host Vienna’s annual Creative Days on May 14-15 2025. Severin Matusek, co—matter founder and host of The Culture and Technology Podcast, will guide through the evening keynotes on both days. Talks, workshops & performances feat. @clairelevans , Sean Bidder, @eva__jaeger , @claudia_larcher , @michaelloebenstein , @rebi.me , Ursula Winterauer , @neverathome , @carmen_lael_hines , @nodemedialab , @mariyavasilyeva_official , SOAP, Daria Radu, @arvidabystrom and many more. Created by @wirtschaftsagentur_wien , the aim of Creative Days is to bring leading creative professionals together to explore how digital technology shapes the future of cultural experiences. Attendance is free, RSVP via website.
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1 year ago
How are you navigating your place in the network? Source - Networked Counterculture, link in bio.
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1 year ago
@gunseliiii on the way the internet organizes narratives in a non-linear way. Listen to The Culture & Technology Podcast, created in collaboration with @wirtschaftsagentur_wien , anywhere you listen to podcasts. Full video via link in bio.
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1 day ago
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era (2025)

 Essay for the launch of Nothing Personal, @mozillafoundation 's new editorial platform. 

In this essay we argue that the era of techno-optimism has ended. 

The new meta is about building digital infrastructure based on a different set of values, structures and ideologies to serve our communities, and establish new conditions for how things operate, are produced and circulated. 

Full essay via link in bio 🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️
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24 days ago
The Culture & Technology Podcast Season 6 / Episode 2 Günseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklore Günseli Yalcinkaya is an artist, curator and writer based in London. In this episode, @gunseliiiiii and @severindotcom discuss her concept of 'internet folklore,' which connects advanced technologies with cultural practices like folklore and mythmaking. The conversation delves into the ways internet culture influences society, the impact of AI on human interaction and creativity, and the emerging significance of quantum culture. The Culture & Technology Podcast is created in collaboration with @wirtschaftsagentur_wien Link to video & audio via link in bio 💅
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26 days ago
AI isn’t destiny. Governance is. The system shapes what AI becomes—and who it serves. The final chapter in Imagine Intel reframes AI as collective intelligence, not “artificial” magic. It spotlights artists building consent-based, participatory models (think choirs training public datasets) and asks the real creative question: who sets the constraints? Dig into Chapter 8, link in bio.
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1 month ago
We’re excited to co-curate and host the (un)conference and opening keynotes at this year’s Creative Days, taking place from May 20-21 2026 in the former broadcasting headquarters of Radiokulturhaus in the centre of Vienna. Building on our research on the Post-Naive Internet Era, the (Un)conference is an intimate one day gathering where creatives, cultural workers and critical thinkers come together to re-imagine the media, communities and platforms shaping our lives. Evening keynotes by: ➮ Shumon Basar @shumonbasar (LDN, Dubai) on the evolution of the “extreme present” and how to make sense of a rapidly shifting world. ➮ Günseli Yalcinkaya @gunseliiiiii (LDN) on how emerging technologies shape myths, ideologies and digital folklore. Talks and workshops by: ➮ Nadia Piet @nadiapiet (AMS), founder of @aixdesign.co on the future of AI-driven media beyond mainstream tech-driven views. ➮ Calum Bowden @calsbot (BER), co-founder of @trust.support , on designing new aesthetics, governance models, tools, and digital commons to prototype alternative futures. ➮ Christie Morgan @xt_projects (LDN), creative director at @softer.global , on re-imagining how values such as care, empathy, community, collaboration and multiplicity are the path towards equal opportunities to learn and practice digital tools for the future. ➮ Merve Sahin @mervxshn (VIE) on using architectural and digital representation techniques as a medium for visual storytelling. ➮ Total View @sensingsinicization (VIE) on developing digital strategies to investigate state repression and cultural assimilation. The (un)conference and opening keynotes are co-curated and hosted by Severin Matusek @severindotcom , founder of @comatter , together with Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör and Heinz Wolf @heinzwolfster from Vienna Business Agency @wirtschaftsagentur_wien . Both are free to attend. Apply & RSVP via link in bio. Photo credits: Radiokulturhaus by Thomas Ledl (CC 4.0), all other portraits © by its authors.
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1 month ago
Imagine Intel, Chapter 7: an unofficial love letter to friction. The good kind of friction: the struggle, the iteration, the breakthrough. This chapter makes the case that friction is part of the art—and that context + intention are what separate culture from kitsch. Dig into Chapter 7 and download the zine in its entirety, link in bio
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If art is “algorithmic,” it’s easy to mimic a style. That’s the point, and the problem. Chapter 6 of Imagine Intel asks for ethical AI in art: transparency, consent, and credit. It spotlights creators using AI openly—training on their own work, naming the tools, owning the process. Download Mozilla Foundation's zine, Imagine Intel, link in bio⚡
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1 month ago
AI isn’t only a tool, it’s a business model. One that can devalue skilled work, shift power upward, and call it “disruption.” But Chapter 5 of Imagine Intel isn’t nostalgia or doom, it’s a pivot: If we can’t opt out, we can organize, build, and demand better rules. Which is why there is nearly nothing more important than choice and transparency. Dig in and read the zine front to back, now available for download at link in bio.
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2 months ago
The Culture & Technology Podcast is back. To kick off this season Severin met with Dr Mercedes Bunz @mrsbunz to discuss how AI represents a fundamentally different technological shift from previous digital revolutions. Mercedes is Professor of Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London, co-founder of The Creative AI Lab and a member of the Interdisciplinary Network for the Critical Humanities Terra Critica. This conversation is available as a podcast everywhere including Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube. Link in bio 🏄‍♂️ Big thanks to @wirtschaftsagentur_wien for continuously enabling these conversations. Host: Severin Matusek @severindotcom Production & Editing: @aesmth Project lead: @heinzwolfster @carina_dala Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör Theme music: @hellmutang
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2 months ago