Kinfolk • 22nd February 2024

Kinfolk: The history of 'Cringe'

A foray into the awkward.

Kinfolk • 22nd February 2024

Kinfolk: Distant Dreams

The ups and downs of a digital nomad.

Financial Times • 27th October 2022

Financial Times: The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It’s going to get weird

Tom Faber's deep dive on how software that can create almost any image from a few words will change human creativity.

New York Times • 4th August 2022

New York Times: What Should an L.G.B.T.Q. Museum Be? Approaches Vary.

An increasing number of institutions in Europe grapple with celebrating and institutionalizing marginalized cultures for the present, and the future.

Financial Times • 11th January 2022

Financial Times: The Matrix has always appreciated the power of video games

The Wachowskis, who directed the sci-fi series, developed innovative games to go with it.

Kinfolk • 18th May 2021

Kinfolk: Katie Paterson

The artist making work for other planets.

Kinfolk • 26th March 2021

Kinfolk: Elise By Olsen Interview

What does the world’s youngest editor-in-chief do when they turn 21? Tom Faber interviews Elise By Olsen—the publishing maven who’s forcing the fashion industry to actually listen to the young people it fetishizes.

Financial Times • 20th January 2021

Financial Times: Invented languages, from Tolkien and Star Trek to Assassin’s Creed

‘Conlangs’ are essential for world-building in fantasy and sci-fi — and fans can spend years translating them.

Kinfolk • 23rd December 2020

Kinfolk: Square Spaces

Why does everything on the internet look the same?

Kinfolk • 1st December 2020

Kinfolk: Memes of Communication

Are memes the ultimate expression of 21st-century folklore?

Financial Times • 18th November 2020

Financial Times: The futuristic visions of multimedia artist Lawrence Lek

The film-maker on melding video games, music and political theory — and exploring our anxieties about a changing world.

Financial Times • 2nd November 2020

Financial Times: Is virtual reality the way forward for museums?

The pandemic has seen cultural institutions flock to new technologies to try and access audiences at home. What can virtual reality offer curators and artists?

Financial Times • 16th April 2020

Financial Times: Netflix’s BoJack Horseman is an anti-hero for our times

How this smart tragicomedy reinvented animation while offering insightful satire of our slippery moment.

Warp.net • 28th March 2020

Warp: Abstracting Reality — The Future Worlds of Daito Manabe

Tom Faber interviews the futurist who blends art with bleeding-edge technology in music videos for Squarepusher, Arca, Björk and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Financial Times • 7th March 2020

Financial Times: Breeders and the dark side of TV parenting

A recent run of sitcoms have left behind cosy depictions of family life. Sky’s new show goes further still.

Financial Times • 18th January 2019

Financial Times: Does dancehall still have a homophobia problem?

Jamaica’s most popular genre of music was once infamous for its violent anti-gay lyrics, but things have changed for the better.

Financial Times • 10th June 2019

Financial Times: Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef — ‘Satire doesn’t change things’

Youssef was a star of Egyptian political comedy — but now he believes that laughter has limits.

The Face • 27th June 2019

The Face: Grindr has transformed gay life, but is it for the better?

Grindr has been championed as a cure for gay loneliness and a symbol of sexual liberation. In its 10th year, Tom Faber weighs in on the app that transformed the landscape of gay sex and dating.

Financial Times • 13th December 2018

Financial Times: Mark Ravenhill on the challenges of staying edgy

The one-time enfant terrible returns with a thorny drama that has echoes of #MeToo.

Financial Times • 15th May 2019

Financial Times: Why do directors prefer untrained actors?

From Stanley Kubrick and Agnès Varda to Shane Meadows’ The Virtues, non-actors can bring authenticity — and political authority — to a work.