[Christine Paul at Archive 2020 / photo: Anne Helmond]

I haven't been paying that close attention to my feeds of late but the following content has caught my eye:

• Anne Helmond posted a great series of articles summarizing the Archive 2020 conference that took place in Amsterdam two weeks ago. Christine Paul's presentation on the problems faced by the Whitney Artport provided a snapshot of the perils of digital preservation.
• Not new but new to me - an interview with Constant Nieuwenhuys from a 2005 issue of BOMB Magazine.
• Fabien Girardin provided a thorough overview of the World Information City Conference that recently took place in Paris, it includes summaries of talks by Stephen Graham, Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour and many others. An idea tabled by Latour: "oligopticon - a system or network that sees very little information but is very good... partially intelligent, temporarily competent and locally complete."
• Ctheory.net strikes again! Seb Franklin's On Game Art, Circuit Bending and Speedrunning as Counter-Practice: 'Hard' and 'Soft' Nonexistence - once you move beyond the generic (but applicable) reading of Cory Arcangel's work there is some good discussion here that unpacks recent writing by Alexander Galloway, hardware hacking and the significance of speedrunning in gaming.

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