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NM77: Novelist HARI KUNZRU on his life in cyberculture
NM77: Artist/Writer Calla Henkel on Art, Industry & “Scrap”
NM76: K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media
NM75: Heavy Traffic magazine w/ its editor and publisher Patrick McGraw
NM74: The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho
NM73: angelicism01’s Film01 w/ Lola Jusidman & Mateo Demarigny
NM72: Natasha Stagg on Artless: Stories 2019-2023
NM71: Silicon Age Mindset w/ Ribbonfarm’s Venkatesh Rao
NM70: Fantasm w/ Dorian Electra & Shumon Basar
NM70 (Bonus Track): Fantasm w/ Dorian Electra & Shumon Basar
NM69: Crude Futures w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch, Jake Colvin
NM68: Psyberspace w/ artist Trevor Paglen
NM67: Metaverse Pastoral w/ artist Simon Denny
NM66: Cannibal Corp w/ Cory Doctorow
NMXX: Joshua Citarella x Lil Internet re/ physics of social media
NM65: U Wasn’t There w/ artist & filmmaker Ben Solomon on inter-millennial NYC
NMXX: Joshua Citarella x Carly re/ media and the public sphere
NM64: Infinite Drake w/ artists Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
NM63: Loss of Distinction w/ art critic Ben Davis
NM62: How to Blow Up A Pipeline w/ filmmaker Daniel Goldhaber
NM61: Dubai’s Next Top Model w/ futurist Noah Raford & writer Shumon Basar
NM60: Code Couture w/ writer Olivia Kan-Sperling on the programming logic of style
NM59: 4-EVER-DIS w/ DIS’s Lauren Boyle
NM58: Public Access w/ artist Cory Arcangel
NM57: The Redescribers w/ political scientist Kevin Munger
NM56: The Para-Real w/ Cade Diehm of New Design Congress
NM55: Viral.rip w/ artist Kreayshawn aka Natassia Gail Zolot
NM54: Damn Nation w/ journalist James Pogue
NM53: Notes on Evil w/ artist Steven Warwick
NM52: Mallhammer 40K w/ artist Jon Rafman
NM51: Creator Core w/ artists Joshua Citarella & Rachel Rossin
NM50: Drug Update 2022 w/ drug & nightlife journalist Michelle Lhooq
NM49: GPT-Ditto w/ creative dir. Ben Ditto
NM48: Model Shock w/ art historian Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (author of Modern Art & the Remaking of the Human Disposition)
NM47: Mise en TV w/ artist Calla Henkel (author of Other People's Clothes)
NM46: Boomocracy w/ Kevin Munger (author of Generation Gap) on generational power in America
NM45: Shady Miladys w/ @holyyyycow & @davidy
NM44: Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll (author of The Modem World) on early net culture
NM43: After Dark w/ Shumon Basar & Dean Kissick on HSTRY2
NM42: Atomic User w/ Svitlana Matviyenko (co-author of Cyberwar & Revolution) on nuclear power & int'l security
NM41: Eco-Tomorrow w/ Sam Moore re/ his 2022 book, The Rise of Ecofascism
NM40: Now in 4-D w/ Nora Khan & Joel Kuennen re/ algorithms & deep time
NM39: Paintings by Numbers w/ @jerrygogosian's Hilde Lynn Helphenstein and Matthew Capasso
NM38: Universal Basic Planetary Services w/ Benjamin Bratton
NM37: Game Start w/ Highsnobiety's Thom Bettridge and Civilization's Lucas Mascatello, Richard Turley re/ gaming, fashion & the real
NM36: Happy Medium w/ architectural theorist Keller Easterling re/ her 2021 book Medium Design
NM35: Net Povera w/ artist Joshua Citarella
NM34: Let There Be Light w/ The Cobra Snake
NM33: Imagination Nation w/ Richard Beck on moral panics
NM32: Click, Click, Boom w/ Tim Hwang on attention, advertising
NM31: Power Strip w/ artist Simon Denny
NM30: Harm Reduction w/ Katharine Neill Harris on drug policy
NM29: Sad Frog w/ "Feels Good Man" (Pepe) filmmakers, Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini
NM28: Take It, It's Yours w/ Joshua Clover on looting & protest
NM27: Trend Consoloing w/ Thom Bettridge
NM26: Remote Learning w/ Nora Khan
NM25: Life Go Brrr w/ Venkatesh Rao
NM24: It's All Possible w/ TrueAnon's Liz Franczak
NM23: Disease & Metaphor w/ Mariam Ghani & Marisa Mazria Katz
NM22: Real Magick w/ Alex Kazemi
NM21: Elliot Rodger Plays Himself w/ Mike Crumplar
NM20: Guest List w/ Natasha Stagg
NM19: The Flourishing w/ Tom Krell, aka How to Dress Well
NM18: Yung Matrix w/ Trevor McFedries of Brud on AR & marketing
NM17: Nonfood [+Bonus] w/ Lucy Chinen & Sean Raspet on food futures
NM16: E Pluribus Zuck w/ Mat Dryhurst & Kei Kreutler on FB's Libra coin
NM15: Remote Port w/ Benjamin Bratton on Earth's systems
NM14: Shift Alt Right Clique w/ Joshua Citarella on Irony Politics & Gen Z
NM13: Je Refuse w/ Jenny Odell on Attention and Refusal
NM12: Black Socialists w/ Z from Black Socialists of America
NM11: Downstram w/ Liz Pelly on cultural production, platforms, independence
NM10: Loose Climate Change w/ Christine Lariviere
NM9: Stack Attack w/ Cade on digital dark patterns
NM8: Manplay w/ Ed Fornieles
NM7: Authenticity Dungeon w/ Toby Shorin
NM6: Teenage Radicals w/ Joshua Citarella
NM5: Unrealestate w/ Mat Dryhurst, Martti Kalliala, Michelle Lhooq
NM4: Psy-Trans Synth & Baselines w/ Anke Dyes, Steven Warwick, Ziúr
NM Pod 3: Lying Gods of Digital Tribes
NM Pod 2: Incels Modeling Agency
NM Pod 1: Feedcrafting w/ Carly Busta, Daniel Keller, @LILINTERNET
NM EDITORIAL ISSUE 3
(FEB 2021 - TK)
ABOUT
NEW MODELS is a media channel and community addressing the emergent effects of networked technology on culture. Est. 2018, Berlin.
NM pods are hosted by Caroline Busta, Lil Internet, & Daniel Keller.
The NM community is a digital local distributed worldwide via Discord with light leaks to the dark side of newmodels.io and maintained by Leïth Benkhedda
In summer 2021, the NM community published the NM Codex Y2K20 and the NM Webdex.
Join via: Patreon or Substack
Join: Channel
Contact: desk(at)newmodels.io
Advertising: ads(at)newmodels.io
Website design: Jon Lucas
Logo: Jon Lucas & Eric Wrenn
SELECTED PRESS / INTVWS / ETC
2021
HIGHArt by highsnobiety, What Does the Internet Smell Like? (w/ Philip Maughan)
Index Magazine, Online Futures: What's Next for the World Wide Web — New Models (Caroline Busta, Lil Internet), Trust (Arthur Röing Baer, Joanna Pope), and Other Internet (Toby Shorin) in conversation with Anna Dorothea Ker
Kaleidoscope, American Memetics (Joshua Citarella, Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, Lil Internet)
KW's Open Secret, Losing Yourself in the Dark (Caroline Busta)
Document, The Internet Didn't Kill Counterculture—You Just Won't Find it on Instagram (Caroline Busta)
CTM 2021, Possible Futures of Music Valuation — Cherie Hu, Jean-Hugues Kabuiku, Trevor McFedries; mod. New Models (Caroline Busta, Lil Internet)
2020
Kaleidoscope, Influencing the Void: How the Art World Lost the Thread (Caroline Busta)
HIGHTech by highsnobiety, Club Future: A Tour of Posisble Worlds with Berlin's New Models (w/ Philip Maughan)
2019
Shure.24, Interview with New Models
Novembre New Models (feat: photography by Ilya Lipkin, text by Ida Eritsland, design/layout by Betty Wang)
2018
TANK Magazine, "A podcast and anti-algorithm media platform covering contemporary topics at the bleeding edge of art, politics and culture"
FAST Company, New Models is the Intellectual Drudge Report for Critical Theory (Cale Guthrie Weissman)
ART News, Aggregate This!: Caroline Busta and Lil Internet on New Models, Their Art-Tech Answer to the Drudge Report (John Chiaverina)
WHAT IS CHANNEL?
Channel is a decentralized media organization and platform that allows creators to use Web 3 tools to work collectively, bundling content while maintaining distinct communities.
For the purposes of New Models, Channel is a membership and distribution meta-layer shared with two creators that we greatly respect and that have been central to our thinking since NM's inception: Joshua Citarella and Interdependence (Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon).
WHO IS BUILDING CHANNEL?
Interdependence (Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon), New Models (Caroline Busta, Daniel Keller, Lil Internet), and Joshua Citarella - working in partnership with Duncan Wilson, Cullen Miller, and James Geary.
IS THERE MORE INFORMATION?
https://channel.xyz
Twitter: @channel
SOME LEGACY LINKS (from prev. site)
LEARN: 📈How big is a BILLION?
LEARN: 📡Time-lapse of the Future. Journey to the End of Time
LEARN: 🌍Time-Lapse History MAP of the WORLD
SURF: 💻Society of Control
SURF: 💻What's on 🇨🇳Weibo ...
SURF: 💻A scatter-plot visualization of every music genre Spotify recognizes
SURF: 💻Art collector 🎨database, http://organic.software
SOME LEGACY SOURCES (from prev. NM site)
032C, Berlin
AAAAARG
AFFIDAVIT
AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
ART AGAINST ART, Berlin
ART in AMERICA
ARTFORUM
ART NEWS
ARTNET
BAFFLER
BIDOUN
BOMB, New York
BRAND-NEW-LIFE, Zürich
BROOKLYN RAIL
CIVILIZATION, New York
CREATIVE INDEPENDENT
COMMUNE
CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY
CONTEMPORARY ART WRITING DAILY
DIS.ART
DOCUMENT
DRUDGE REPORT
ECONOMIST
E-FLUX
DISSENT
FAST COMPANY
FILM COMMENT
FINANCIAL TIMES
FAILED ARCHITECTURE
FLASH ART, Milan
FRIEZEGALAXIA Y2K
GREY ROOM
HACKER NEWS
INTERVIEW
JACOBITE
KALEIDOSCOPE
LA REVIEW of BOOKS
LIBRARY STACK
LOGIC
LONDON REVIEW of BOOKS
MAY REVUE, Paris
NEO-METABOLISM
N+1
NEW INQUIRY
NEW YORKER
NY REVIEW of BOOKS
NOĒMA
NOVEMBRE
OCTOBER
PARIS REVIEW
PIN-UP
POINT
QUIETUS
REAL LIFE
REDDIT
RHIZOME
RIBBON FARM
SELVA
SMALL PRESS
SPEX, Berlin
SPIKE, Berlin/Vienna
STARSHIP, Berlin
STRELKA MAGAZINE, Moscow
TANK, London
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Berlin
TOPICAL CREAM, New York
TRIPLE CANOPY, New York
UBU WEB
VESTOJ
VIEWPOINT
X-TRA, Los Angeles
NM78: Novelist HARI KUNZRU on his life in cyberculture
NM x Heavy Traffic: Keller Easterling, “NON_2”
NM77: Calla Henkel on Art, Industry & “Scrap”
NM76: K Allado-McDowell on Neural Media
NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick
NM Short: Lil Internet's VICE interrupted
NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price, "Machine Time" (Parts 1 & 2)
NM Short: Jordan Wolfson’s “Body Sculpture”
NM75: Heavy Traffic magazine w/ editor and publisher Patrick McGraw
NM74: The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho
NM73: Angelicism01’s Film01 w/ Lola Jusidman & Mateo Demarigny
NM72: Natasha Stagg on Artless: Stories 2019-2023
NM71: Silicon Age Mindset w/ Ribbonfarm’s Venkatesh Rao
NM70: Fantasm w/ Dorian Electra & Shumon Basar
NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq
NM69: Crude Futures w/ Richard Hames, Beau-Caprice Vetch, Jake Colvin
NM68: Psyberspace w/ artist Trevor Paglen
NM67: Metaverse Pastoral w/ artist Simon Denny
NM Dispatch: America Diaries 12/2023 by Lilinternet
NM Communiqué: Notes on War 23.11.2023 by Lil Internet & Carly Busta
NM Dispatch: Dubai Diaries 2023 by Lil Internet & Carly Busta
NM Dispatch: America Diaries AW2023 (mini-bonus ep) by Ian Beckman Reagan
NM Dispatch: America Diaries AW2023 (Pt. 2) by LILINTERNET
NM Dispatch: America Diaries AW2023 (Pt. 1) by Carly Busta
NM Dispatch: America Diaries (Pt. 2 of 2) by Lil Internet
NM Dispatch: America Diaries (Pt. 1 of 2) “Real Engine” by Carly Busta
Elon Musk: 2040 / 69 (2023)
Ricky Backtrace, Private Trend Consultant - Ep 3 (2022)
Ricky Backtrace, Private Trend Consultant - Ep 2 (2022)
Ricky Backtrace, Private Trend Consultant - Ep 1 (2022)
Baddieverse (2022)
NFT Dreams (2021)
A Meditation on FOMO (2020)
NM Special Report: Ye and the Future of Content w/ Dean Kissick
NM Special Report: Burning Man Blockade w/ Michelle Lhooq
NM Special Report: NYScene Update w/ Madeline Cash, chloé waifmaterial, David Yoakum
NM Special Report: Paradigm Trilogy II w/ Kat Korbjuhn
NM Special Report: Bonn After Hours w/ artists Dena Yago & Joshua Citarella
NM Special Report: Pret-à-Panique w/ Dean Kissick on Balenciagagate
NM Special Report: documenta 15 w/ Paige K. Bradley, @abe1x, Felix Ansmann
NM Special Report: Digital Resilience & War w/ Cade Diehm
NM Special Report: Open Source Intelligence & Ukraine w/ @pdthorn
NM Special Report: Kyiv Update (8. Feb.) w/ Anastasiya Osipova
NM Special Report: NM UX w/ NM's web designer Jon Lucas
NM Special Report: The Wedding Album w/ Carly & Lil Net <3
NM Special Report: Ambient Value w/ James Whipple (M.E.S.H.) re/ art NFTs
NM Special Report: Capitol Hill Insurrection w/ filmmaker Tomi Faison re/ Jan. 6th riots in Washington DC
NM Special Report: Uncanny Rally w/ Jak Ritger, Clack Auden re/ techniques of crowd-staging and opinion manipulation
NM Special Report: George Floyd, Minneapolis Unrest w/ journalist Steve Marsh
NM Special Report: Black Socialists launch Dual Power Map w/ Z from Black Socialists of America (2019)
NM Special Report: Revolution in the US Democratic Ranks w/ Mike Pepi (2018)
NM Short: Lil Internet's VICE Interrupted (2024)
NM Short: Carly & Lil Internet on Jordan Wolfson’s “Body Sculpture” (2024)
NM Short: Out of the MUD by Lil Internet (2023)
NM Short: Lil Internet’s Notes on Belly (1998, dir. Hype Williams) (2023)
NM Short: Indie Sleaze w/ fashion editor Taylore Scarabelli (2022)
NM Short: Cryptoverse w/ artist Bjarne Melgaard (2022)
NM Greenroom: Dances With White Girls aka Frog (2022)
NM Greenroom: ADR aka Aaron David Ross (2021)
NM Greenroom: Paradigm Trilogy w/ Katharina Korbjuhn (2021)
NM Greenroom: Lyra Pramuk (2020)
NM Greenroom: Steven Warwick (2019)
NM EDITORIAL ISSUE 2
(MAR 2020 - FEB 2021)
NM Y2K20 Codex, 2021
NM Y2K20 Webdex, 2021
Astroturfs of Offense glossary, 2020
Decade Brain - The New Models 2010s, 2020
NM Y2K20 Codex Compression Map
• Olivia Kan-Sperling, Island Time (2022, Expat Press)
• Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition (2021, Chicago)
• Kevin Munger, Generation Gap (2022, Columbia)
• Keving Driscoll, The Modem World (2022, Yale)
• Sam Moore, Alex Roberts, The Rise of Ecofascism (2022, Polity)
• Calla Henkel, Other People's Clothes (2021, Sceptre/Doubleday)
• S. Basar, D. Coupland, HUO, The Extreme Self (2021, Penguin)
NM x Heavy Traffic: Keller Easterling, “NON_2”
NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price, "Machine Time" (Part 1)
NM x Heavy Traffic: Seth Price, "Machine Time" (Part 2)
Kevin Munger on Vilém Flusser's Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations?
Richard Kennedy's Fubu Fukú, Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin, 2020
What Does the Internet Smell Like? (NM x High Snobiety)
NM Lecture: Understanding Predicting Media — Global Art Forum, Dubai, 4 Mar 2023
NM Lecture: Do You Know Where You Live? — "Future of Criticism" Congress, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 18 Nov 2022
NM Lecture: Clearnet vs. Dark Forest: Notes on the New Psychogeoraphy of Art — UCLA Design Media Arts, 12 Mar 2021
NM TopSoil 86: URBEXIT
NM TopSoil 85: Meta Daze
NM TopSoil 84: Art Basilisk w/ Alex Scrimgeour
NM TopSoil 83: Radio Active w/ Most Dismal Swamp
NM TopSoil 82: Kayfabe Capital
NM TopSoil 81: Palanpilled
NM TopSoil 80: Public Goods w/ Dan @ eth.denver
NM TopSoil 79: Dapp Rig w/ @chorist
NM TopSoil 78: Lootstrap
NM TopSoil 77: aka Topsoil 76 pt.2
NM TopSoil 76: pt.1 Read All Over w/ Cathal of NEWS/ACC
NM TopSoil 75: Flightmare w/ Jöran Mandik of Radio Spätkauf on BER Airport
NM TopSoil 74: Back to the Land w/ Stephanie Wakefield
NM TopSoil 73: Meta Mindset w/ Hazmat Raheem
NM TopSoil 72: Swift Update
NM TopSoil 71: Keep on TRUC'n
NM TopSoil 70: Fulfilled by Taliban
NM TopSoil 69: Copening Ceremony
NM TopSoil 68: Danifest Destiny
NM TopSoil 67: No Whippits in Paradise
NM TopSoil 66-X: Earth Flatteners
NM TopSoil 66-X: Gram-Boss w/ @moma.ps5
NM TopSoil 65: Super League Prostate Exclusive
NM TopSoil 64: Prime of Life
NM TopSoil 63: Cargo Cult
NM TopSoil 62: Manicherial
NM TopSoil 61: Gate Analysis w/ Andrew Russeth
NM TopSoil 60: Cringe Core w/ Taylore Scarabelli
NM TopSoil 59: Ghost Face Shillah w/ @davidy
NM TopSoil 58: Virtue Signal
NM TopSoil 57: Capital Insurrection
NM TopSoil 56: Miami Based
NM TopSoil 55: Gloria
NM TopSoil 54: Capitol Gains w/ special report by Thomas Faison on Jan. 6th capitol attack
NM TopSoil 53: Stevia Jobs
NM TopSoil 52: Power Broker
NM TopSoil 51: Crashocracy
NM TopSoil 50: Build Back Best
NM TopSoil 49: American Vibes
NM TopSoil 48: A Contest of Swords
NM TopSoil 47: Zapf Dingbats Are Real Life
NM TopSoil 46: Spiritual America
NM TopSoil 45: Mani/Pedo
NM TopSoil 44: Eternal Log
NM TopSoil 43: 3G Towne
NM TopSoil 42: Death by Exposure
NM TopSoil 41: Slide to the Left w/ Michell Lhooq
NM TopSoil 40: Mount Trashmore
NM TopSoil 39: Black Bloc
NM TopSoil 38: The German Dream
NM TopSoil 37: Querty
NM TopSoil 36: Sour Dough
NM TopSoil 35: Doral Futures
NM TopSoil 34: Sabbath Year
NM TopSoil 33: Escape From Moscow w/ Chiara Di Leone, Philip Maughan, Pierce Myers, Bryan Wolff
NM TopSoil 32: Silent Carry (MIAMI/LA/DFW/NYC/METAVERSE) pt. 1 w/ Stephanie Wakefield, Sean Monahan, Jean-Luc Vila, Natasha Stagg, Cade Diehm
NM TopSoil 32: Silent Carry (MIAMI/LA/DFW/NYC/METAVERSE) pt. 2 w/ Stephanie Wakefield, Sean Monahan, Jean-Luc Vila, Natasha Stagg, Cade Diehm
NM TopSoil 31: Corona Sands
NM TopSoil 30: Hole Adjacent w/ Eric Schwartau of Talk Hole & Lilnet's Mom
NM TopSoil 29: Quack is Whack
NM TopSoil 28: Of Froth & Virtue
NM TopSoil 27: Casino World
NM TopSoil 26: Wuhan Swimp Bod
NM TopSoil 25: One Night in Davos
NM TopSoil 24: Roger Stone's Intern
NM TopSoil 23: Left Pill
NM TopSoil 22: Kim Bong-Un
NM TopSoil 21: This Machine Kills Algorithms
NM TopSoil 20: Collective Paranoia w/ Bjarne Melgaard
NM TopSoil 19: Ref Herring
NM TopSoil 18: Voluntourism
NM TopSoil 17: Kokopelli's Girlfriend
NM TopSoil 16: Luckey Strikes w/ Duncan Wilson
NM TopSoil 15: Unhack The Planet
NM TopSoil 14: Anna Got Me Clickin w/ Anna Khachiyan
NM TopSoil 13: Enlightenment Dan
NM TopSoil 12: Doomsday Dan
NM TopSoil 11: Epstein Smile
NM TopSoil 10: Big Face Saddams
NM TopSoil 9: The Real Housewives of Elysium w/ Dean Kissick
NM TopSoil 8: Valley of the Bros
NM TopSoil 7: Centrixxfuge
NM TopSoil 6: The Weirdening
NM TopSoil 5: Eastern Promises w/ Nik Kosmas
NM TopSoil 4: Buried Alive
NM TopSoil 3: Lawful Good
NM TopSoil 2: Confusion
NM TopSoil 1: Internet Primacy Syndrome
NM EDITORIAL ISSUE 1
(MAR 2019 - FEB 2020)
Civilization Magazine | €10.00
Kaleidoscope Magazine | €24.00
Novembre Magazine | €19
Anke Dyes, A Substantive Theory of Harm, 2019 (DE) | €10.00
Bernadette Corporation, 2000 Wasted Years, 2014 | $1,407.27
Document Journal F/W 2020 / #17 | €25.00
HighART by Highsnobiety | $25.00
HighTECH by Highsnobiety | $25.00
032c Winter 20/21 #38 | €15.00
NM HISTORY
TL;DR
NEW MODELS was founded in Berlin in 2018. It’s initial aim was to create a media space outside of the "physics" of Web 2.0 platforms by hand-aggregating links and seeding a community beyond the feed. In the time since, we have built an international member network and Discord server, staged many IRL and digital/physical events, published swarm-generated content with Highsnobiety, Kaleidoscope, and Novembre; released an album’s worth of unhinged radio plays by Lil Internet, created an Internet perfume with Society of Scent, and facilitated the creation of an interactive digital glossary (NM Webdex) and a physical book (NMCodex)—both collectively-authored by the NM community—indexing the experience of being online together during the extremely online year of Y2K20.
EXTENDED VERSION
NEW MODELS was founded in Berlin in 2018. Its initial aim was to think outside of Web 2.0 feeds by hand-aggregating a cache of information relevant to the culture sector ...
... particularly the ways in which networked technology was impacting the publishing, art, and music industries. We first used https://newmodels.io, as a kind of alt Drudge Report, with a contuously updated list of links and original commissioned NM content. / Search the NM archive: here.
We also hosted several physical events (many with Berlin's Trauma Bar und Kino, including NM Sim Society on world building and online identity formation and the premier of Richard Kennedy's 2020 opera Fubu Fukú.
To unpack the themes articulated through the aggregation and editorial, we started an audio stream — the public New Models Podcast, featuring conversations with artists, academics, and other experts. We soon began subscription-gating some of our content via Patreon, introducing the NM TopSoil show for more free-form discussion about current events and radio plays by Lil Internet.
This small barrier (€5 / month) created a subscribing New Models Community... which in turn led to us to start a Discord server. Suddenly, New Models was no longer just a creator-to-audience stream, but a mainframe for processing information free from the extractive properties of Clearnet spaces. We began referring to this ecosystem as a "dark forest." (For more on the interplay of different digital realms, see Caroline Busta's Internet/counterculture text for Document Journal.)
Within the NM Discord, a local language formed — as well as initiatives aimed at "devirtualizing" traces of NM's digital enclave into something physical and therefore less vulnerable to erasure. In 2021, the NM community produced the NM Codex and the NM Webdex.
But throughout the wider sub-Web 2.0 strata, many more online enclaves were emerging. In part this was because the Clearnet space was growing ever more untenable: random account deading, feeds organized by algorithms optmizing for target-margets, wide fluctuations in access and reach. For NM, the problem to solve was no longer exiting legacy media or Web 2 but establishing a new, more resiliant network beyond them.
In late 2020, New Models, in collaboration with Joshua Citarella and Interdpendence Pod (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon), began working with Duncan Wilson, Cullen Miller, and James Geary to develop web3 tools allowing creators to do just that.
Channel, which pre-launched in Jan 2022, is rethinking how content is valued, distributed, and consumed. MVP arriving late 2022.
Jak Ritger, illustration of interconnected dark forest, creator communities spilling into each other, sharing flows of content, 2021.
In equal parts, New Models creates content, community, and the structures that facilitate both. As media evolves, so too will New Models. <3
• NM PATREON
• NM SUBSTACK
• CHANNEL 🌌
• YT: @newmodelsTV
• IG: @newmodels_io
• TW: @newmodels_io
• SC: @newmodels
SOME LEGACY LINKS (from prev. site)
LEARN: 📈How big is a BILLION?
LEARN: 📡Time-lapse of the Future. Journey to the End of Time
LEARN: 🌍Time-Lapse History MAP of the WORLD
SURF: 💻Society of Control
SURF: 💻What's on 🇨🇳Weibo ...
SURF: 💻A scatter-plot visualization of every music genre Spotify recognizes
SURF: 💻Art collector 🎨database, http://organic.software
SOME LEGACY SOURCES (from prev. NM site)
032C, Berlin
AAAAARG
AFFIDAVIT
AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
ART AGAINST ART, Berlin
ART in AMERICA
ARTFORUM
ART NEWS
ARTNET
BAFFLER
BIDOUN
BOMB, New York
BRAND-NEW-LIFE, Zürich
BROOKLYN RAIL
CIVILIZATION, New York
CREATIVE INDEPENDENT
COMMUNE
CONTEMPORARY ART DAILY
CONTEMPORARY ART WRITING DAILY
DIS.ART
DOCUMENT
DRUDGE REPORT
ECONOMIST
E-FLUX
DISSENT
FAST COMPANY
FILM COMMENT
FINANCIAL TIMES
FAILED ARCHITECTURE
FLASH ART, Milan
FRIEZEGALAXIA Y2K
GREY ROOM
HACKER NEWS
INTERVIEW
JACOBITE
KALEIDOSCOPE
LA REVIEW of BOOKS
LIBRARY STACK
LOGIC
LONDON REVIEW of BOOKS
MAY REVUE, Paris
NEO-METABOLISM
N+1
NEW INQUIRY
NEW YORKER
NY REVIEW of BOOKS
NOĒMA
NOVEMBRE
OCTOBER
PARIS REVIEW
PIN-UP
POINT
QUIETUS
REAL LIFE
REDDIT
RHIZOME
RIBBON FARM
SELVA
SMALL PRESS
SPEX, Berlin
SPIKE, Berlin/Vienna
STARSHIP, Berlin
STRELKA MAGAZINE, Moscow
TANK, London
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Berlin
TOPICAL CREAM, New York
TRIPLE CANOPY, New York
UBU WEB
VESTOJ
VIEWPOINT
X-TRA, Los Angeles
• NM PATREON
• NM SUBSTACK
• CHANNEL 🌌
• YT: @newmodelsTV
• IG: @newmodels_io
• TW: @newmodels_io
• SC: @newmodels
'sending', 'expressing', 'giving them'?
i want to know what was actually written instead of [communicating to employees]
Are you guys ever going to address head on the channel thing? and why DK sort of sulked out the back of the project?The idea that there is a "Channel thing" has become a kind of spinning mirror, like the kind inside of nightclub lasers that refract the beam into patterns projected on a wall. There is no "Channel thing." Is there a "Channel thing?" Different narrative shapes appear on the surfaces of Discords and groupchats... When it comes to the most naive narratives, the "rug" and "cash grab" ones hardly deserve a response and are basically the same anyways. A successful rug and / or cash grab requires a small group of anon founders building nothing and committing tax fraud to maximize personal profit. With [at the beginning] nine doxxed founders who built what was promised and paid a ton in time and funds to not commit tax fraud, Channel would be the most backwards, idiotic attempt at a rug / cash grab in crypto history. The best paid of all were those in the businesses that have sprung up around crypto - those who sell pick-axes to the gold prospectors, ie the specialized lawyers and accountants who attempt to bridge the rigid laws of tradfi with the complex fluidity of crypto. They only accept fiat. We started Channel not as a speculative project but as a sincere attempt to build an alternative platform for organizing subscription based communities and podcasts — we achieved a proof of concept. Of course, a sincere project that takes a ton of time and work without much speculative potential or financial reward isn't for everyone... There were also sad and strange events with early founders that severely affected the project and that perhaps, one day, we will talk about. But the Channel site remains up and serving episodes to token holders and looks and runs clean, and if you bought a Channel token at launch, the value of the subscriptions received will start to exceed the price paid for the token early next year. Channel has outlasted countless web 3 projects with big ZIRP-era VC checks, without a VC check. We will keep it running until it morphs into something else or we open source it for others. Channel's metabolism has slowed, but it certainly very alive. Cullen - who has selflessly been the true rock in this project - wrote his own Channel summary in the Trust server a while back in response to this same question. I don't want to repost it publicly without his permission, but if you are in the Trust server you can find it there. He did include the Github to the project, which you can find here if interested: GitHub - channeleng/Channel: Web application for creating, browsing...
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For ardent readers of art, architecture, film, pol-theory, decolonial theory, art'n'tech intersectionalyzmm, anthropology, capital t Theory, & teh Zeitgeist, i've been working on this project which brings two months’ worth of e-flux's commissioned content into one tidily laid-out and edited pdf. Limited edition print issue soon to follow. The first issue of many more to come is free to download here: https://www.e-flux.com/index/FAO Berliners, the printed edition of this will launch (w copies zu verkaufen) @ KW May 10th ✌.ʕʘ‿ʘʔ.✌ e-flux Launch – KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Hello, does anyone here know anyone working in (or close to) conservation at any of these institutions:
Van Gogh Museum
The Met
Wadsworth Atheneum
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Happy to discuss the nature of the request over dm before receiving contact details, if it makes you more comfortable sharing.
TY @ozuhjntcvx
Don’t know where to put this, any chance any of this will be recorded?
It will not be recorded but the syllabus (and I believe the materials as well) will be made public.
From the producers of angelicism01’s *Film01*, **Dissolution Seminar (AMOC Shutdown: School’s Out)** is accepting applications — deadline April 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g--0rZzTUt40UHE68tPjlYx99pIw1OcT/view?pli=1
Don’t know where to put this, any chance any of this will be recorded?
i really liked the sounds from Tyler's 2021 release Long Live the Lost Ones so i asked him for the source samples he made for it and we made Tyler's experimental techno jam into a darkwave pop track instead
new release from my darkwave band Liminal Shade today, a collab with fellow NMer @pwnrjhsvgx
So cool! Will there be an open call for writing about networked worlds?
the publication will be written internally, the open call is for creative projects to be invited to join our research & to serve as case-studies :))