ON SKIBIDI is the first in-depth critical examination of Skibidi Toilet. Based off a 3M+ view TikTok series analyzing the YouTube Shorts, this pamphlet seeks to ground Skibidi within its historical moment and use it to illuminate the uncanny configurations of self and screen that define digitality today.
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Boom and Dust depicts a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa, Texas. This roadway serves as the backbone of the extraction industry in the Permian Basin. We made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of the unrelenting scroll of mancamps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters collectively known as the "Petroplex."
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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.
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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.
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In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era. This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download.
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Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.
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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.
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Join for updates on all future Garbage releases.
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A community-driven zine with essays, interviews and poetry commenting on contemporary dance music culture in the UK and Europe. Dreamland believes that the intimate club setting is irreplaceable and Issue 01 sets out to highlight, celebrate and preserve that space.
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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.
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An archive of the TechnoMirage event series, bringing together exhibitions, talks and artist interviews that examine the illusion of progress projected by AI and exploring how creative practitioners can reclaim agency through exhibitions, discourses, and practices that shape more equitable relationships with emerging technologies.
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Compositions playing with themes of nostalgia, crisis, and reality shifting towards the astrological triplicity of air.
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A blend of IRL ritual and AI prompt, this spell is designed to transform your fears into fresh fuel for your creativity.
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BOOK of HOURS is a free 236-page PDF intended to be viewed in 2-page format on a handheld digital device. Taking the idea of the medieval prayer book into the virtual age, it provides light but also underscores our vast separation from the natural and spiritual worlds.
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Welcome to the Sporesight meditation. You are invited to connect with the world of fungi and experiment with how it feels to be a little bit more like a mushroom. Don’t worry, this is an exercise with no substance involved other than your own imagination. Shall we begin?
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It was the [REDACTED] of times. It was the [REDACTED] of times.
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'Non-Playable Characters' is a collection of essays, short stories, interviews, and visuals that explores the figure of the NPC as a cultural symbol, internet trope, social mirror, and conceptual vessel. ★ PRE-ORDER NOW. Shipping January 2026. ★
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ANIMALATION consists of one-of-one, 10-second moving image works composed of 300 frames from IF NOT NOW. Each exists as motion and residue, with latent stills that can be isolated or archived. The project unfolds across six volumes, released sequentially over time.
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"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
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Circulation is an experimental journal exploring the movement of concepts and research in contemporary art. Issue 1 features primary information in draft form, including The Artist's Contract for Decentralized Art (ACDA), an open source legal agreement for use in the transfer of decentralized art, and a draft definition of decentralized art itself.
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FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT presents the JavaScript-based, generative art collection of the same name by artist Maya Man.
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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.
$13+
In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.
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CMYK is an asemic poetry book published by Swedish press Timglaset. It was their blackest book ever and simultaneously one of their most colorful. Now out of print, it was originally published in an edition of 99 copies, and was a winner in The Society of Typographic Arts 45th STA100 in 2024
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Easy Money, No Sweat is a staged conversation between a human and an AI about making a living without working. It’s a real guide, a satire, and a performance that plays the passive-income game while quietly dismantling it.
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Find order in a chaotic world with whatdoyousee.nyc, a participatory web-based archive composed of curiosity, code, and hundreds of photos of everyday New York City.
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Save your clothes and learn how to bring them back to life with this instructional zine and mending kit.
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Risograph print from the Videogame N:I:T:E:F (Nostalgia Is The Extended Feedback) where the character searches for the sea in a cybernetic flooded world ∿∿∿ A3 blue ink 170 g/m rough paper, 25+ cascading figures asking: where is the sea when everything is already underwater? ¯(ツ)/¯
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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.
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“To quote Alessandro Sbordoni: ‘as the end gets nearer, more is yet to come'. So maybe we already live (in) the end of the world, an end which stretches on endlessly, with no possible resolution." — Slavoj Žižek
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Sticker prints for the Cybernetics Image Library.
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Our debut issue traces LAST HUMAN’s roots, from eerie prototypes at Lincoln Center to glitch-laden mobile rituals. Dive into neurothrillers, post-cinema, and AI resistance as we explore a decaying web of synthetic identity, broken interfaces, and the horror of a world where reality no longer loads.
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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.
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A 52-page zine exploring how artists can channel their creative anxiety. Features contributions and insights from Aubrey Plaza, Melissa Broder, Anelise Chen, Jlin, Mike Rugnetta, Henry Rollins, and Nikki Sixx
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A wider view of our self-interest. Now Me, Future Me. Now Us, Future Us. A model for a deeper form of living. BEyond Near Term Orientation: Bentoism.
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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.
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Incidental Container is simultaneously a singular artwork and group exhibition conceived and organized by Jason Isolini. Featuring artists: Jake Brush, Courtlin Byrd, Tomi Faison, Sarah Friend, Xavier Mcfarlin, Rebecca Millsop, Zach Nader, Georgica Pettus, and Molly Soda. The IC tote-bag is a unique work derived from the artists' collaboration.
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Do Not Research Mapping Project (2021 - 2023) 16 x 20", luster print
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"A Few Essays on Taste" is a collection of essays on fashion, trends, and culture written by Ruby Justice Thelot in 2024.
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Homage to Apollo 8 & 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP
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A three-year compendium of the author's Instagram Stories that seeks to answer the question: "Why do we post?"
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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.
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An exploration of individuality after the internet The Post-Individual First Edition includes "The Post Individual" essay, an audio recording and video introduction by the author, and research notes behind the piece
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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 Zoom, SUNDAYS: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 1-3:30pm EST
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Our second book was a strange one, some kind of amalgamation of a lore-dump and a cosmological manifesto. It's now available to read as an e-book.
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Why do we approach AI chatbots as modern-day oracles? This issue of the Slow AI Series “[Dis]enchantment: A zine about Esoteric AI” summons 54 pages of magic, divination, folklore, and other arcane ways of knowing to disenchant then re-enchant our relationship with algorithmic systems.
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a tiny but mighty collection of fonts and templates for self published authors, artists and entrepreneurs in 2026. Specifically for Jewish authors, artists and entrepreneurs, these resources are also useful for anyone who is writing a childrens book (or a tiny non fiction book) in 2026
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