Walking with Teju Cole

The spiritual and the secular in art today

Man vs. machine

How social networks are changing the city

Hans Ulrich Obrist's collection Think Like Clouds highlights the logistical evolution of the curator’s role

Reading as information control: the poet Tan Lin talks to Sam Thorne

Did Philip K. Dick predict the future of surveillance?

The art of tiny revelations

With the sad news of the death of Stanley Brouwn, aged 81, revisiting this feature on the elusive artist, first published in issue 161, March 2014

The art world’s ambivalent response to surveillance

The Age of Anxiety

Soap-opera small talk and speech as a gesture

The politics of pants

Useful mistakes, ikebana and messy cultural assumptions in the work of Camille Henrot

Human bodies versus computer-based interfaces

GIFS as readymades; finding inspiration in Hollywood film

Muriel Cooper: a graphic design pioneer who anticipated the digital revolution

Salvador Allende's attempt to create a 'socialist internet, decades ahead of its time'

Oliver Laric uses memes, movable type, copies and collective agency to make art that is only partly ‘his'

Algorithms, Big Data and surveillance: what’s the response, and responsibility, of art? Jörg Heiser asked seven artists, writers and academics to reflect.

Q. What is art for? A. To keep our scepticism alive.

What would the NSA’s massive repositories of data sound like if a composer of electronic and computer music had access to them?