Using static as a tool of resistance, multidisciplinary artist, instrument designer, and 2025 Media Arts Prize Finalist, Aliyah Aziz audibly extends the hidden sonic textures that exist underneath the perceived smoothness of our machines.

2025 Media Arts Prize Finalist Marko Cindric reflects on how digital artists can mount effective critique of, and resistance to, tools with roots in the military-industrial complex and contemporary entanglements with control, surveillance, and extractivism.