The Blizzard of ’26, which New York endured this week, is already a fading memory. We have fresh chaotic news every day, keeping everyone off-kilter, with purpose – some would say.
If you were in the room Friday night at The New School, you caught Matteo Pasquinelli throwing down ideas that lit up the crowd with his keynote “AI and Madness: On the Disalienation of the General Intellect.” It kicked off the Vera List Center Forum 2025: Matter of Intelligence—a weekend asking who gets to define intelligence and what happens when machines, bodies, and institutions all start claiming a piece of it. Later, over a community dinner, we met artists, curators, journalists, researchers, and assorted brainiacs who traded stories about neural nets, algorithms, kimchee, pulled pork, and tarot card readings that were available at many tables.
The rest of the weekend unfolded in forums with titles that could’ve doubled as concept-album tracks: “Embodied Intelligence: The Art of Sensing,”“Artificial Agency and Autonomy,”“Collective Intelligence and the Politics of Data,” and “Unlearning Intelligence.” If the weekend has a takeaway, it’s that intelligence isn’t something we own; it’s something we’re swimming in. Like all the street art and graffiti that city dwellers are surrounded by daily on walls, trains, doorways, and fences – it’s not exactly organized by algorithm, but patterns do emerge if you care to decode them.
So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring CKT Crew, Dain, Dmote, Dream, Famen, King157, KNOT!, Luch, Mr. Cenz, OptimoNYC, Phetus88, SHOCK, Skulz, Staino, Stevie Dobetter, and Sweater Bubble.
Sharp tongued and defiant, that’s the way we like our young people, and Gen Z has a lot of loud mouthed articulate and savvy ones who are not going to be fooled out of gun control, if yesterdays marches in NYC and hundreds of cities are any indication. As Spring officially arrived in New York on Thursday, we are expecting even more action in the streets from artists and activists each passing day now.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets (and elsewhere), this week featuring Adam Fujita, Anthony Lister, Balu, Banksy, Baron Von Fancy, Bifido, Dain, Dede, Gane, GlossBlack, Hoxxoh, JerkFace, Kuma, Lacky, Nitzan Mintz, Paper Skaters, Pussy Power Posse, Ratanic, RESP, Shock, and Texas.
BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
