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The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture. Each year, the Walker Reader presents evolving series of original scholarly essays, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas reshaping us and our world.

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An editorial perspective on contemporary art: news links plus original interviews, essays, and videos.

Design
By Angie Weller

Type Meets Prototype: Kelli Anderson

How can the inner workings of technology be made more visible? Graphic designer and master paper engineer Kelli Anderson explores using pop-up books to reveal what is often hidden.

Moving Image
By Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

Evading Capture

As a part of her Cinema Residency at the Walker, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich conducted a series of interviews with Black women, including Rachel Scott, marion eames white, Ilze Wolff, and Sinnamon Love, to reflect on and extend themes in her work.

A scene of people in the park with WiFi text overlayed onto their upper torsos.
Design
By Angie Waller

Surya Mattu: Explaining the Unseen

How can artificial intelligence’s decision-making process be more visible to humans? Founder of the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University, Surya Mattu, discusses their art practice that explores how AI can be made more transparent, evaluated for bias, and the ways your devices are tracking you at home.