NFT television is the latest attempt to manufacture token utility
The failure of Seth Green’s ‘White Horse Tavern,’ starring a Bored Ape NFT, exemplified the risks of pairing investment with media creation
At Freshii, your ‘virtual cashier’ is actually a person working for $3.75 per hour
Public debate around a Canadian franchise’s experiment raises questions about automation, labor laws, and the ignorance of the Western consumer
The dangers, and benefits, of mobile health apps in a post-Roe world
Period tracking apps are marketed as a tool to empower users with information—but with abortion rights under fire, many worry that the data they collect...
Fairchain imagines an art market that centers the artist
The founders of the blockchain-based platform meet with Renee Cox and gallerist Hannah Traore to discuss collaboration, royalties, and why creatives can’t work for free
Teen hackers are wreaking havoc on the world’s biggest companies
LAPSUS$ collective recently breached Microsoft and Samsung, calling the motivations and power of cyber gangs into question
AssangeDAO imagines the social justice potential of online collectives
The community bought an NFT for $53 million, with the aim to fund the WikiLeaks founder’s legal fees
Academic journal fingerprints PDFs to prevent free use of its materials
When primary sources are paywalled, the public is cornered into taking secondary interpretations at face value
Who does your voice belong to? For musician Holly Herndon, the answer is ‘everyone’
For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the musician envisions the future of intellectual property in the era of vocal deepfakes
New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us?
Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large
Can a pizza-making robot remedy restaurant disparities?
Robotics company Picnic seeks to better the situations of owners, workers, and consumers in the restaurant industry
Inside the incelosphere, where the lonely get lonelier
SergeantIncel, founder of incels.co, joins Document to discuss the nuances of the internet's most despised subculture
Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education
Salome Asega is bridging the gap between technology and tradition
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education
From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature
In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future
Lee Burridge shares six songs for musical meditation
The DJ has signed on to collaborate with MEYA, an app that harnesses the power of dance music for mental health
Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures
Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui
Ekene Ijeoma reveals the revolutionary potential of data-based art
Driven by an activist spirit, the artist and MIT assistant professor creates participatory installations that reveal urgent truths about our unjust world
Why the Pentagon’s Soviet bear meme was destined to fail
Recently released documents outline the Department of Defense's attempt to make Russian hackers look uncool
Everything you need to know this week, from Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos to Anna Delvey’s return to Instagram
An essential roundup of the week’s buzziest topics of varying importance and consequence
In a warming world, an engineered climate edges towards reality
Four environmental experts weigh in on the peril and promise of a 'geoengineered' Earth
Everything you need to know this week, from robot companions to the raffle that might send you to space
An essential roundup of the week’s buzziest topics of varying importance and consequence
Blueprints for a better world: Messages of hope
For Document’s F/W 2020 issue, Tao Lin, Rhea Dillon, and Rachel Rabbit White reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed
Sophia the Robot is being mass produced for a world plagued with loneliness
The pandemic has complicated human interaction, and Hanson Robotics thinks they’ve found the solution. But is technology really equipped to solve this inherently human problem?
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
Blueprints for a better world: Rethinking the role of community
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue, we invited a selection of the culture’s most compelling creative minds to envision a new way of living
Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyberpunk magazine that gave us a glimpse of the utopian future that never was
The magazine's founder R.U. Sirius talks with Claire L. Evans about internet culture's psychedelic early days and its clusterfuck present
Freddie Gibbs and Moxie Marlinspike decrypt the modern American Dream
The rapper and founder of Signal on the luxury of privacy, the future of community, and their radical visions of the future
Time and space: Nelly Ben Hayoun harnesses science and technology to help us empathize
The designer of experiences looks to the intergalactic to design better futures
The Gospel of Chris Korda: a techno-punk preacher for civilization on the brink of collapse
Nearly 30 years after founding the Church of Euthanasia, Korda remains environmentalism's most controversial figure. But she’s only trying to save humanity from itself.
Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human
The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics
POWRPLNT, the mutual aid space bridging the digital divide
Bushwick's best-kept secret: Between Narcan trainings and online workshops, how POWRPLNT continues to serve community through the pandemic
Caroline Calloway is the unlikely antihero of the corona era
Come for the chaos, stay for the charity: the art of spinning personal scandal into media gold
Before DNA kits and deepfakes, Nancy Burson used morphed images to reveal fundamental truths
Burson’s photographs of missing children and powerful dictators helped us see things we otherwise couldn’t imagine. 50 years later, her work is still unsettling.
AI is coming for your questionable fashion choices
A new visual recognition system will give you sartorial tips—a chance to channel your inner Cher Horowitz or the end of individuality?
Anti-surveillance makeup could be the future of beauty
With facial recognition technology on the rise, Document presents a fashion story exploring makeup for the panopticon.
The secret world of images not meant for human eyes
In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings.
Dior’s Kim Jones and Apple’s Jony Ive predict what our future will look like
The pair dissect the enduring design needs of the tech and the tactile for Document’s S/S 2019 issue.
Iddris Sandu, the tech wunderkind bringing AI to the people
The 21 year-old who has already created work for giants such as Instagram and Uber speaks on exposing the youth to new technology, and why...
Tabitha Soren sees America’s collective anxiety in our fingerprint-stained screens
In her new project ‘Surface Tension,’ Tabitha Soren suggests our digital-era anxiety can actually bring us closer together.
Autonomous cars are set to change how we have sex
As the development of self-driving cars continues to build, drivers will suddenly have a lot more down-time. Will sex be there to fill the void?
Consent-based brothel wants to fix problem of bad robot sex
Sex dolls can be made to do anything the user desires—both in and outside the realms of morality.
Technology is tracing your every move
Devices are measuring your every move, and with all our usage, they can paint a picture of our daily lives.
Swipecast founders Peter Fitzpatrick and Matthias Wickenburg on how the app is disrupting the fashion industry
Swipecast allows models to book jobs, producers to coordinate shoots and castings, and more—in an efficient, cost-effective, and timely manner.
Rising entrepreneurial star in China turns out to be social media catfish
A middle school student is behind the identity of Shi Runlong, an alleged entrepreneur whose Weibo account was full of photos of global dignitaries.
Russian scientists speed up the internet
A group of Russian scientists, in partnership with an American university, created an algorithm that can increase internet speeds by one-and-a-half times.
France wants to end snobbery, democratize culture, through multimillion-dollar app
The $496-million-a-year plan will target 10,000 18-year-olds, giving them €500 ($577) in credit to spend in the app.
The complexities of getting off in the age of technological pleasure
Access to sexual pleasure has never been greater than in the present—but has that increased satisfaction?
Information overload: When everything is everywhere, how do we understand what’s important?
Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explores where the democratization of information and freedom of choice turn sour for Document's Spring/Summer 2017 issue.
In the laboratory where the future of flight is being born
One photographer's close look at Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics department where the future of drone flight is being hatched.
