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A taste of global media, technology and visual storytelling.

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High Resolution: Conversations You Watched Most

From questioning our relationship with technology to rethinking well-being in our lives online and IRL, here’s a roundup of interviews that drew your attention in 2026 so far

Your Most-Read Bytesize Essays This Summer

A summer encore: the three essays Bytesize readers returned to most—now open to everyone for a limited time

CCTV Chic, Surveillance Aesthetics and Your Front Door

The visual language of surveillance has migrated from critical and experimental art to luxury campaigns via social media. How did the front door becomes a fashion runway?

Made You Look: Documenting America at 250, Part II

Documentary photography can still teach us something about mutual responsibility, human connection, and systems of capture. Dispatches from the opening reception of Expand and Contract at the Los Ange

High Resolution with Dr. Jacqueline Nesi

Watch now | Bytesize welcomes the psychologist and creator of Techno Sapiens for a conversation about teens, technology, mental health, and the culture produced in between

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Artmaxxing to the Minimum

The forces of optimization are seeping into the art market, further complicating ideas around success and creative accomplishments

Erase the Finish Line: How Artists Should Reconsider Success in a Fractured Art World

When the financial system obscures the goalposts of making it, the rules need to change

Why Gen Z is Falling in Love with Film Photography: Guest Essay for The Conversation

Young people’s turn to analog darkrooms is a rejection of life defined by algorithms and a demand to experience intentional human connection through technology and media

Something for the Weekend

If you're in LA, come hang at Ali LeRoi's walkthrough, plus a lovely review of a recently juried exhibition

Eyes Wide Shut: Michals, Hockney and the Intimacy of Vision

Notes about two beloved artists, breaking norms, shifting points of views, and enduring creative legacies