The Intersect
The Intersect examines the reciprocal influences of technology and the arts.
Built to Last, Designed to Vanish
Latest issue · No. 86

Built to Last, Designed to Vanish

Your work will outlive the hard drive it lives on, if you're lucky.

There's a hard disk sitting on my desk right now with a bunch of old work on it, but the hard disk is broken and I cannot restore it. Coming to think of it, I have a drawer full of hard drives from old Macs and Windows systems, and they have my early music experiments from the 1990s, a lot of…

Read this issue →

Latest

08
Jul
The Satellite Is the Camera - Issue #83

The Satellite Is the Camera

Every generation of artists quietly steals the tools that were never built for art.
7 min read
30
Jun
Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else

Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else

Naturalized in Brooklyn, looking everywhere but here for once
8 min read
24
Jun
Credibility Is the New Craft

Credibility Is the New Craft

What if the hardest thing to generate turns out to be belief?
9 min read
15
Jun
Contrast Is Meaning, Not Just Style

Contrast Is Meaning, Not Just Style

When everything is technically correct and tonally identical, who's left to tell you what matters?
7 min read
09
Jun
What the Building Knew First

What the Building Knew First

The best work in this issue couldn't exist anywhere else.
8 min read
18
May
Going Backward to Go Somewhere New

Going Backward to Go Somewhere New

Every upgrade leaves something behind, and someone eventually goes back to fetch it.
8 min read
11
May
The Same Sky, Two Feelings

The Same Sky, Two Feelings

Wonder and surveillance use the same propellers.
8 min read