A dispatch from the creative frontier by the Blackbird Foundation. Observations and artefacts from the creative projects we funded in 2025 including artworks, essays, photography and more.

E-Angels is a visual exploration composed of vibrant colors and textures designed to evoke emotions and sensory experiences. Influenced by kawaii aesthetics, the fanzine creates a mini-world of pixelscapes born from feelings and thoughts through AI image generation and processing.

The World is Yours is a zine by Ambessa that brings together the most optimistic and brilliant minds we know, from educators to artists and designers, to reflect on education and agency. 100 limited hardcover die-cut copies on Metalabel.

A blueray disk of Glitch Art pioneer Michael Betancourt's movies, including all 6 episodes of Going Somewhere, The Kodak Moment, and the Dark Rift. This is an unnumbered limited edition of 100 copies that comes shrink wrapped with a "Broken By Design" sticker on the package. Universal encoding — plays in zones A, B and C.

Transparency as design, obfuscation as content. Complete Transparency: A Zine of the Epstein Files, Vol. 1 archives the first Epstein document drop—redactions, fragments, and all.

46 cards, 46 questions built around music and memory. Designed for Alone Together, where strangers used them to talk to each other properly. A prompt about a song is never really about the song — it's about what was happening when you heard it. Now yours to use anywhere. At dinner, on a drive, with someone you've never really talked to.

Reading theory is important. But have you considered reading screenshots of other people explaining theory? Inspired by Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, this book collects the tweets, memes, posts, and comment-section bangers that have been radicalizing people between shifts, during lunch breaks, and while pretending to work.

Alfred Muszynski (1998) is a visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. This is the artist's first publication. The volume features multimedia paintings created between 2022 - 2025. 68 pages, 8.5×11 in

Shipping label sticker prints for the Cybernetics Image Library. Designed for the Neuromantics show.

A consideration of the unquantifiable parts of being alive, what eludes the machine.

How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective.

"All That Surrounds Us" is a collection of creative writings from fifteen members of NEW INC’s Y12 Social Architecture cohort.

We are a cultural collective of artists, activists, and scientists standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse. We’re starting a new creative movement. Join us.

Cómo la inteligencia artificial se volvió la infraestructura de los ecosistemas musicales x Nicolás Madoery.

Channel Surfing is a web series deep-diving into digital collections. CS003 will reflect on all things WIKI: rabbit holes, hyperlinks, online communities, free information, folksonomic classification, and the usefulness of useless knowledge.

Four week intensive course delving into the core ideas and questions explored in the foundational stages of DNR. We will examine artworks, texts, and internet media covering topics: internet-informed identity, political futures, & post-internet art. Facilitated by artist Theresa Tomi Faison via Discord, SUNDAYS AUGUST: 9, 16, 23, & 30 1-3pm EST

Our fourth anthology book. DNR began as a private chat server gathered to discuss memetics and emergent political trends.

The Emergency Was Curiosity is a book report gone wild; an exhibition and event series; a pandemic diary; an ongoing response to Jenny Odell’s book How to Do Nothing. The project invites you to cultivate your attention, to explore your own weird, category-resistant projects, and to treat your curiosity as a matter of urgency—an emergency, even.

The PDF edition is currently unavailable. Seven signed and numbered copies comprise the first print edition. Additional editions may follow.

Service and Sacrifice tells the true story of a disabled American soldier taken into ICE custody at a citizenship interview—and the family and community who refused to let the Republic forget its own ideals. A love story, a constitutional reckoning, and a call to action to make the promise of America and the protection of the Constitution real.

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

Economic precarity is up. Market demands are too. People are drowning in digital overload. Political threats loom. The second Anonymous Creative Futures survey shares what 300+ anon artists and creators feel about this moment, their words 100%.

A collection of writing on the destructive and generative potential of the car crash.

I noticed today, this wasn't published. Not new. Short text with thoughts about IRL events and how to use this label for now. Which is for non-regular writings.

Football belongs to the people

A zine about the Afro-Palestinian freedom fighter Fatima Bernawi. Prints double-sided with a poster on one side.

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Lyssa is part summer novella, horror screenplay, greek tragedy, psychoanalytic essay, and travelogue into the unconscious. 🩸

"A Few Essays on Taste" is a collection of essays on fashion, trends, and culture written by Ruby Justice Thelot in 2024.

The story of Mimi Mimica, and how she went from center stage to the magical world of Annualia

Our Annualian trio wanders into the cornfield of the deadly Hektor Scareborough, and they play a game for their souls.

After chasing a lost penguin, Mimi and her friends wind up in a quaint village named Evergreen Town in the winter region of Annualia.

a zine on the trans experience

Eleven and a half minute tune composed for images from an MRI scan.

The curtain call is the decision to break the cycle. be here be now.

As we accelerate into the future, it's vital that you learn how to protect your energy. This is a field manual that will help you do so. Available to early readers and design partners for the paperback and hardcover editions.

Chronicles five years of lectures, exhibitions and art work from Uncensored New York.

The 5th Industrial Art Biennial [catalogue]

Mean Hand is a typeface made from the average of thousands of individual samples in the EMNIST dataset: 814,255 handwritten characters gathered by the US government in the early 1990s to automate Census form processing. The font covers the full alphabet and digits across nine weights.

a rumination on why small things need to make a big comeback

"Legal Structures for Creative Practices" is an illustrated zine designed for creative entrepreneurs that unpacks the pros, cons, and nuances of various legal structures to help choose the one that will best suit their unique practice. View the digital zine at: AThousandForests.com

A hi-fi design inspired by a technological coincidence bridging hundreds of years of history: the form of a Morningstar (a medieval spiked mace weapon) is an acoustically optimal design for a speaker.

Cosmic Sans Software is the first zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Born from a workshop, it brings together collages made collectively as playful, critical detours into how AI is pictured and imagined and how we see, feel, and unlearn with machines.

je lis trop is a literary newsletter by Monika Repčytė. The limited edition magazine showcases each issue released during the 2020-2023 time period and documents the evolution of both the project and its writer.

Last winter, I held three dinners about Miranda July’s All Fours. These are the conversation prompts. Feel free to print them for your dinner, about All Fours, or any books for that matter.

Temporal Tactics is a set of provocation cards designed to help us imagine conscious and equitable futures. Digital cards are available immediately. Physical decks are available for pre-order and will begin shipping March–April 2026.