Dev Harlan

Dev Harlan

@devharlan.bsky.social

Artist, Researcher, NYC Earth Science, Columbia DEES '25 www.devharlan.com

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Michael Neff begins this work with a prompt: "THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DELETED." The resulting 1400 image outputs are then randomly served up inside a hacked eBay listing. You receive a print of the image in the listing at the moment of purchase: ebay.io/m/e7bQwj

Benton C Bainbridge is an analog wizard and early friend in the NYC video art performance community. In his last ever eBay auction, he will explain why he is quitting eBay for good and send it to you on VHS tape. 10 bids so far and ending soon! ebay.io/m/aZwK9Z

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“The signal cultural condition of the present is that every experience is always competing with trivially available, infinitely new, super-cheap digital content, dragging the value of everything it touches toward zero.” The Ben Davis review is spot on: news.artnet.com/art-world/ne...

news.artnet.com'New Humans' and the Strange End of Contemporary Art as We Know It | Artnet NewsThe New Museum reopens with "New Humans: Memories of the Future," a show that's a disguised manifesto for what a museum has to be now.

Currents 2025 opening this week! Excited to be participating with a screening of moving image work ‘Afterlives II’

CURRENTS New Media@currentsnewmedia.bsky.social

CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival @ El Museo Cultural from June 13th - 22nd! This ten-day festival will feature works exploring the evolving intersections of art, technology, and digital culture. currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/cu...

Helheim Glacier, Greenland. Images from Landsat, panchromatic band, June & July 2023. Notice the large, dark colored icebergs breaking off en masse in the July '23. Ice calving does not normally happen this way at Helheim and may be due to excessive thinning of the glacier.

"For example, according to Elon Musk in 2021, 'government is simply the biggest corporation, with a monopoly on violence and where you have no recourse'. All talk of 'legitimacy' and 'right' has been removed and replaced with a wholesale, a priori rejection of the basic premises of democracy."

“It uses words like "liberty" and "tyranny" to characterize political power in deceptive ways, relying on a willful misreading of the sociologist Max Weber …that ‘a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory’"

"...it is democratic governance that cyberlibertarian dogma puts squarely in its sights. ... it closely follows the anarcho-capitalist view that all governments are inherently authoritarian, regardless of their claims or the actual appearance of democratic consent."

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An interactive map from @ncdp.bsky.social compiles data from official sources (FEMA, CAL FIRE, NOAA, NASA, EPA, ESRI, more) to track California wildfire perimeters, air quality, evacuation orders/shelters, damage assessments, disaster recovery centers, demographics/social vulnerability, and more.

ncdp.columbia.eduCA Wildfires of 2025NCDP has assembled official data sources that track wildfire perimeters, damage, individual assistance, weather, and demographics.

"These interactive works examine the ethical entanglements of tech and climate science — mapping where we stand (“You Are Here”) amidst hypothetical trajectories of apathy, denial, and systemic inertia." -Verse

Impressed with the care and attention that went into this show at the Institute of Fine Arts, Cali, Colombia, thank you so much @dianedrubay.bsky.social and Ana Aguirre for including me! Here are a couple views of the work "Afterlives, Vignettes" from the exhibit which closed last weekend:

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