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  29 June
  The Chanting Machine by Yu Yin reworks the 唸佛機 (nianfoji): a mass-produced player looping Buddhist chants since the 1990s. As it travels from factory to temple to my mother's living room, it drifts from where it came from. Two installations open it back up. "My mother never turns hers off. For (…)

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  29 June
  counter-tools.xyz is a (b)logbook on alternative graphic design tools by @chrissy. As a counterpraxis to proprietary software, it takes a process-oriented, anti-capitalist approach. It is fed by memes created using these counter-tools in response to heartbroken practices in graphic design to (…)

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  22 June
  A Familiar Materiality is a project by @martina, which explores the merging of the material worlds of traditional craft and communication technology, specifically DIY radio wave receivers. By applying familiar handicraft techniques to the making of radio receivers, the project investigates how (…)

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  21 June
  VisunovOS is a playful web-OS developed by Alexandria van Eekelen. Born out of a growing obsession with the web and a background in game-making, it gleefully plays with and misuses web-standards. Make a CSS-styled fractal, paint with divs, construct a multimedia slideshow and upload it onto (…)

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  17 June
  XPUB2026 IS GRADUATING! Join us for a convivial weekend at Agnes Circulaire Maakplaats in Rotterdam: from July 3rd to 5th we will be exhibiting our graduation projects, alongside a program full of workshops, performances, panels and a radio marathon. Full schedule on our website! When? Friday (…)