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Technology, Society, and Critical Making (since 2008). Updates from the team only. For latest projects + publications, see ↓
Alt-network → More connected, less isolated, equitable future! creativeapplications.net/support-join/
Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!
Introducing: Activity – Networked Permaculture (2025) by CAN → creativeapplications.net/news/introduci… 'Activity' is a whole new way to interact with content, ideas, and each other on CAN.
We now also have a weekly newsletter for our Members. No bells 🔔, No whistles 💨, No CSS/BS 💩, No Tracking 🐾. Only links to things you might've missed. ✔️ (Tick ✔️newsletter in /edit-profile/ if you'd like one every Monday)
Impossible to overstate the value of the unique vault of creative works meticulously catalogued in the archives of CAN. We are beset by bottomless feeds, but this is human content lovingly filtered by human curation, entirely unsullied by algorithm or slop.creativeapplications.net/archives/
this reads and sounds urgent and fascinating, thank you for writing and making the book available on CAN!
The path to resisting AI becomes clear only when we acknowledge it as an intensification of extractive and exploitative capitalist logics —machinic instantiations arising from, and in service of, the hyper-concentration of Capital. creativeapplications.net/theory/predict…
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it won't work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: 404media.co/the-medias-piv…
The Restroom Archive (2025) by Jake Welch creativeapplications.net/news/the-restr…
Creative Technologist at RLMG / Watertown, MA #Jobs creativeapplications.net/jobs/creative-…
