Manifesto for the value of connectedness in notetaking combined with a tutorial on how to pursue it.

An exhibition of early computer art shows that artists working with early-stage technologies make their best work by combining old and new techniques.

A personal meditation on optimization culture.

Illustrated short story about a mother who explores Conway's Game of Life while mourning her daughter's death.

Clive McCarthy's generative painting slows the mechanisms of everyday visual perception and exposes them to conscious attention.

With extreme economy of movement, gesture, and form, Alan Rath conveys the development of consciousness through a choreographed encounter between two robot arms.

A conversation with gallerist Todd Hosfelt about the frontiers of contemporary drawing.

A conversation with Dr. Suzanne Livingston, curator of the Barbican exhibition "AI: More than Human."

Patricia Piccinini's imagined ecology demonstrates an aesthetic sensibility in harmony with radical genetic engineering.

Grotesquely beautiful objects offer opportunities to practice compassion and disgust.

A video installation of people making music throughout the rooms of an old house creates a hybrid virtual-physical soundspace which blurs the boundaries between experience and representation.

Jeremiah Jenkins memorializes the internet while Jenny Odell remembers the moment when humans became computers.

White-coated chemists with shadowed faces fabricate artificial body parts while society debates the promises and dangers of genetic engineering.

Camille Utterback offers a critique of the universal and transparent digital screen with a collection of glass surfaces whose form is intertwined with the content projected upon them.

Sohei Nishino's visual/spatial memories trouble the apparent truthfulness of maps and photographs.

teamLab's utopian vision for nonhierarchical spatial representation fails to acknowledge the centrality of linear perspective within Western visual culture and perception.

Sympathetic machines by Alan Rath and Paolo Salvagione.

Although Theaster Gates' artworks hang in prestigious museums around the world, his most important legacy is the infrastructure he has created to support Black artists on the South Side of Chicago.

Two familiar styles of Chicago dwellings show how changing public perception of the perils of city life shaped domestic architecture over the half-century between 1910 and 1960.

The American Folk Art Museum Building contained the seeds of its own destruction.

James Turell's intervention at the Guggenheim challenges and accentuates the most radical aspects of Frank Lloyd Wright's design.

Studio Gang's proposal for a dormitory at the University of Chicago responds thoughtfully to student and neighborhood needs.

Spaces of quiet twilight in the middle of a hulking hospital.