specialist radio
deepweb://dark.forest
The state of the internet as we enter 2025 is a far cry from the internet of 1999. The promise of a “town square for the global village of tomorrow”, as Bill Gates put it that same year, has long since succumbed to the pressures of platform capitalism, bad-faith actors, and surveillance. The walls between enshittifying platforms grow ever higher and relentlessly decontextualising data scraping accelerates us into a dead internet full of bots and AI slop. The self becomes commodified, fragmented, post-individualised. What does this mean, how does this feel for artists? For music makers and music lovers? Where is the future for us on the internet?
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notes on pixel affection for Sleepless in Sydney
Pixel affection is sad, beautiful, dangerous, confusing. Pixel affection is alienating, augementing, powerful and pathetic. Ugly, ugly beauty, yearning. The pain of trying to be human and the humanity of trying through the pain. Euphoric, cursed, artificial, and all too real. To effect and be affected, by/through technology. This is pixel affection.
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