Dread Scott’s 2021 NFT project, White Male For Sale, consists of a 1minute 10second looped video of a typical middle-class man standing atop an auction block in Brooklyn, and the NFT was then auctioned live at Christie’s. This substitution of the historical Black body auctioned into slavery was inspired by Scott’s uneasy reaction to seeing the “F” in “NFT” bloom over the past years. As Scott puts it: “I heard the term fungible in connection with its use by scholars of the history of slavery.” He

S4RA are a New Media artist currently taking their MA in Multimedia Art at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. S4RA confess they’ve spent endless hours fighting monsters and strolling through mazes — a love of gaming, which shines through in their use of old-school graphics, glitch-aesthetics and the recurrent motif of the role-play. Take a look at their work and you’ll find everything from floating flip-phones to Putin riding a My Little Pony, often set against the dyn

Perhaps you’ve been made aware of Non-fungible-tokens recently, or maybe you know nothing about them. To summarise *briefly*, NFTs (Non-Fungible-Tokens) are really anything digital. A video, a meme, or a piece of digital art which is embedded with a code that shows its uniqueness, kind of like a trading card – but more on that later. The exciting thing for the art world is that NFTs are finally moving into the mainstream, and there’s a lot of hype around them. “Natively Digital”, an NFT sale by

I’ve been thinking about magic recently, and where we can find it during the pandemic. In part I of this series, I looked back at my childhood spell book and realised that I used (what I thought was) magic, in order to make sense of the world and try to take back some control over it. In this instalment, I spoke with the absolutely ethereal Grace McGrade on what practising witchcraft is really like, and how we could all benefit from a little more magic in our lives. W2W: Hi Grace! Can you tell

Like many kids, I used to believe in magic. I believed in fairies and trolls, and looked for evidence of pixies in my garden; I used to think the tree spirits would talk to me if I could only figure out how to hear them, and I left notes under rocks and studied where the rain smudged the letters, in the hopes it would reveal a fairy-message. I absolutely, unequivocally, believed. My conviction for magic extended to myself, and I believed whole-heartedly that I was a witch. I don’t know where thi

On the surface, university culture does not seem well suited to meditation. It’s full of all-nighters, parties, fleeting relationships, emotions, and high-stress work routines. Additionally, I am a university student who is filled with anxiety and of the type to think they never have enough time. I am in my final year and am making time for meditation for the first time in my life. This week is particularly stressful for work, but I am hoping to push past my resistance and practice meditation e

Dazed Digital profiled influencer Sophia Hadjipanteli, for their editorial on 2021 beauty trends, as the founder of the #UNIBROWMOVEMENT. Though her unibrow is natural, Sophia is white (born in Cyprus) and Dazed has, since, been critiqued for white-washing. The reality, for many South Asian and Middle-Eastern bodies, is that the unibrow is not a trend but something steeped in cultural history and stigma. Kurdish model, Deba, articulated the all-too-familiar patterns of appropriation – where some

Online activism is at its height, But insta-activism is inextricably interwoven with the worse side of Instagram. Is a healthy relationship with your socials achievable?

Zelda Solomon discusses the problems of digital discrimination and the racist underpinnings of algorithms, through the incident with An Nguyen, a Vietnamese curator due to exhibit at the Affordable Arts Fair, only to be rejected because of the Covid-19 pandemic and its associations with ‘Asianness’. One of the first examples I saw of anti-Asian discrimination in response to corona-virus was that of An Nguyen, who is a Vietnamese curator that was due to exhibit an installation at the Affordable

In the age of technological naivety, robots and artificial intelligence were seen as raceless and objective machines. However, as anthropomorphic technology has advanced and more and more robots are being designed, a critical question has emerged: why is AI so white? Most AI is racialised as white, from the white humanoid Sophia of Hanson Robotics; the blonde-haired blue-eyed Cindy Smart Doll, to the dawn of AI Kismet, with its white colour, blue eyes, and light eyebrows. We see it in popular c

Dash & Lily is the new Netflix series starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis, and I am not ashamed to say I absolutely fell in love the first time I watched it. Based on the book by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the eight episode series follows the relentlessly cheery Lily and the satirical holiday-hating Dash as they run around New York, writing each other clues in a red notebook. It’s about young love, getting out of your comfort zone, and Christmas magic. Its exactly the type of escapist

My mum picks up a peach and says, “in English, this is a beautiful peach. In Japanese, this peach is a thing of beauty”. I can see the thing of beauty, but I see it in English. I see and feel Japanese through the eyes, ears, and hands of my mother who has abandoned the language. I tell her that even though my attempt at learning failed, I still feel close to Japanese. Laughing, she says, “because you are Japanese!”.

One of the most popular Asian stereotypes is the doctor. Often depicted as calm, collected, with robotic-like intelligence, the Asian doctor swoops in to save the day. However, even when 20% of total National Health Service health occupations in the United Kingdom are BAME (Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic), and the 44% of BAME medical roles specifically are mostly Asian and Chinese, the stereotype of the Asian doctor has not prevailed in the fight against the Coronavirus. Far from celebrated, Asi