Between the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of “fake news,” living in the 21 st-century can sometimes feel a bit surreal. That is why there is perhaps no better time to revisit ...

Recently, on one of the trawls through YouTube I engage in as a substitute for doing something constructive, I ended up watching clips of bad game AI – moments where an event or behaviour in a video ...

To be on the internet today is to confront unsettling images—of war, climate change, humanitarian crises. Weird visuals crop up too. A YouTube algorithm provides me, for instance, with videos of a ...

Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free. André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his ...

The first misconception – and I’m fairly certain the narrator would agree with me here – is that “Inception” is a surrealist film. It is not. Nolan’s film does, in fact, examine various levels of ...