Juergen Berkessel

Juergen Berkessel

United States
Artist, musician, and digital strategist in Bradenton, Florida, and founder of Polymash. Juergen writes The Intersect on the reciprocal influences of technology and the arts.
20
Oct
Who Gets to Say What Something Is?

Who Gets to Say What Something Is?

We outsourced aesthetic judgment to suspicion, and the artist pays the fine.
8 min read
13
Oct
The Courage Gap

The Courage Gap

The loudest protest reaches the already convinced. The quiet one gets inside the frame.
8 min read
22
Sep
The Stupidest Way Is Sometimes the Best Way

The Stupidest Way Is Sometimes the Best Way

Four people picked the hardest path on purpose, and found something worth keeping there.
6 min read
15
Sep
Artists on the Architecture of After 9/11

Artists on the Architecture of After 9/11

The emergency ended twenty-five years ago. The cameras never got the memo.
8 min read
02
Sep
Built to Last, Designed to Vanish

Built to Last, Designed to Vanish

Your work will outlive the hard drive it lives on, if you're lucky.
6 min read
26
Aug
Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)

Prove You're Human (And Dumb It Down to Do It)

The detectors were supposed to catch the bots, not the people who never used one.
7 min read
11
Aug
Already Somewhere Else

Already Somewhere Else

While Christie's guesses what art tech billionaires will buy, some artists are using their technologies against them
10 min read
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