Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles — PREORDER

PREORDER — SHIPS IN JUNE

ISBN 978-1-953189-25-7
June 2026, English, 7 x 9.5 in., 408 pages, color, softcover, spiral-bound
Edition of 150
Design: Sadia Quddus

Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a catalogue and reader emerging from the exhibition of the same name that took place at Human Resources in Los Angeles as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. The artists and thinkers in this volume consider what it means to live with and through the internet. Edited by Chandler McWilliams and Audrey Min, Conscious Tether offers various nodes of inquiry: materiality and labor, revisionist histories, and radical epistemologies of computing. 

The catalogue features works by Ahree Lee, Alice Yuan Zhang, American Artist, ann haeyoung, Danielle Dean, Devin Kenny, KCHUNG Radio, LA Cryptoparty, Romi Ron Morrison, Tiny Tech Zines, and Xin Xin. The paired reader collects texts submitted by the artists from Birgit Schneider, Cait McKinney, Franco Piperno, Jason W. Moore, Joey Cannizzaro, Jussi Parikka, Kate Donovan, Mara Cavallaro, Nathan Schneider, RAMMELLZEE, Shen Kuo, Simone Browne, Tung-Hui Hu, and Will AllStetter.

Matter, energy, and labor assert their presence amidst conditions of obfuscation, control, and waste. Contested substrates are built, hijacked, and repurposed. Conscious Tether shares strategies of resistance that we can enact upon as networked, digitized subjects to renegotiate the terms through which we access the world.