We’re very excited to announce the latest in the Future Human events series, Instant Art, where we’ll be looking at how the mobile Internet is changing the contemporary art world. From apps that allow you to remotely gazump fellow auction bidders, to curated online art marketplaces that allow work to have a global reach, the day-to-day operations of the contemporary art machine are fundamentally changing. Meanwhile artists are engaging with the Internet on a deeper, more conceptual level, as they try to represent our interconnected lives in their practice.

We’ve got some of the UK’s finest digital art theorists convening to discuss these changes and your questions. Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, and the author of a number of books on the relationship between art, commerce and the Internet; and Ruth Catlow is the co-founder of Furtherfield, the online art community and North London gallery devoted to fostering collaboration and creativity on the Internet. For more information on them and the event, and to buy tickets, click here.

Also, Future Human is going on holiday for two months in June and July, as everyone will be off downing sangria rather than sitting in a Shoreditch basement listening to us. But rather than show off our new bikini to the paps, we’ll be hunkering down and putting the finishing touches on our forthcoming iPad app. It’s looking very sleek, and it won’t be long until we unveil it, with a host of audiovisual content and long-form literary journalism. We’ll also be back in August for another four months of Future Human events, looking at everything from modern China to micromanufacturing.

But before all that, we’ll hopefully see you at Instant Art on May 11 – it’ll be a fascinating event for anyone interested in the art world on either the aesthetic or market sides, as well as creatives looking for new ways to engage with the Internet.