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.

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.

FANDOM is a communal publication which features critical and experimental short-form responses to the theme of fandom from a variety of upcoming writers and artists.

Nine writers explore the future of the internet.

A notation instrument for practitioners whose work knows something they don't.

ENTER THE SIMULACRUM 🧬 YOU ARE INVITED. JUNE 20TH. 10PM. SECRET WAREHOUSE LOCATION IN BROOKLYN.

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.

Print edition of my English translation of Sefer Yesira, an ancient Hebrew mystical text that first promulgated the concept of combinatorial creativity. You can buy the print edition for $221 via the Blurb link in the release notes. I have provided a free PDF of the entire book and mp3 audio of the translated text via Metalabel.

Channel Surfing is a web series diving into the digital collections of Are.na super-users. CS002 will reflect on all things FRICTION: technological (in)efficiency, neo-Luddism, cognitive offloading, convenience culture, and more...

a mechanical girl and her pseudo-brother play science detective in the subarctic after witnessing a series of inexplicable events involving various iridescent animals. 35pgs, full color.

Seven writers explore a world after nation-states.

"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

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.

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 100-day online drawing community program. Participants receive a Drawing Club Kit by mail and share their daily drawings in a private Discord channel. The drawings will be archived on its online archive birdcall.online/drawingclub.

'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. ★

Get detailed Notion templates for all the exercises in the Artist's Way book. ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ Unlock your higher creativity with the self-guided 12 week program in the Artists Way written by Julia Cameron. Join artists like Doechii, Alicia Keys, Bella Hadid, and more in the creative transformation guided by these exercises.

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.

Season 2 of New York City Garbage continues with the first-ever DOUBLE DROP — two limited editions of 25. Collected from the 56th annual NYC Pride March 🏳️‍🌈 and the legendary Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest 🌭 in Coney Island, these cubes capture the spirit, spectacle, and joy of New York’s iconic summer traditions. See you at noon!

a tiny but mighty collection of printable yoga cards (and PDF) for beginners, believers and the curious but not yet convinced.

This essay enacts what it argues - that knowledge is relational and accumulative, and intelligence is designed by culture. The writing navigates across two very different parties, compares the internet and AGI to desire paths, and brings Caribbean theory into advanced forms of technoculture.

The heART of humanity cries out for liberation beyond the fences of these tame pastures which have emaciated our magick. This piece declares my mission to help activate an art movement that gives a % of it's profits to support projects working in regenerative culture. Projects like www.Bloomnetwork.earth and www.rehuman.earth What if?

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A public service announcement by Kattattak Press (#002) Feb 2026, Naarm (melbourne) 1 colour screen print ⎪28x28cm) ⎪220gsm speckle paper ⎪Edition of 30 + 10 A.Ps ⎪ Numbered and signed Silver and brown paper variants (5 each) Imperfectly designed and hand-printed by humans not AI

A zine published by The Creative Independent, compiling quotes, excerpts, and recommendations from working artists, all gathered from our archive. Topics covered include always looking for better ways to express yourself, finding your path, creating work in your own voice, following your curiosity, and more.

A zine documenting conversations about resistance from activists outside of technology to translate into modes of resistance against genAI models.

"Alt-Alterity" envisions a world where the notion of “alterity” dissolves, making way for new affinities. In response to an era marked by crisis, this curatorial project serves as an artistic provocation, navigating you through speculative realities, rebellious technologies, and fluid identities shaped by the ideas and works of 31 artists.

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

NEW EPUB VERSION: Exocapitalism challenges the critical orthodoxy on how it understands and talks about capitalism today.

What if AI didn’t run on Silicon Valley logic? Making Sense of Slow AI, compiles 40 pages of eclectic stories on Small, Esoteric, and Ancestral AI – inviting you to think small, make it magical, and plan for the past.

Mixed media on Paper.

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We’ve been told patriarchy is inevitable. It’s not. In redefining power, this book imagines the next world and invites you to help build it. Pre-order, release date TBD

Part of Metalabel SS2025 collection. DOOM→BLOOM Handprinted in Lisbon on heavyweight Gildan T-Shirt. Limited edition of 40.

Sketches iterating on an ongoing series, this is the first one to be shared in a frame. One available, made unique with the help of a Chicago rainstorm. Drawn in multi-color ink on heavyweight watercolor paper, the piece itself is about 3" x 4" & framed is just shy of 5" x 7".

Bad Kingdom is a poetic visual novel that follows three characters: Robin in Taipei, Swan in Tokyo, and a mysterious Crow, as they reflect on the loss of their beloved online multiplayer game Fly Like a Bird. The piece is presented both as an interactive Ren’Py visual story and as a comic in PDF format.

First Futures is a free, 4-hour virtual workshop that makes futures design accessible to everyone. Learn practical tools to spot change, map consequences, design speculative products, and create artefacts that challenge the status quo.

A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)

A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

Quiet Media is a print-first publication founded on the simple belief that our attention is our most valuable resource, and it should be treated with care. Through the perspective of 15 contributors, the inaugural issue explores what changes when we stop optimizing for speed and volume, and start designing for depth and meaning instead.

Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.

One year of my work, printed for collectors.

Seven writers explore the future of autonomous governance.

Six writers explore the future of our planet.

Artist Joshua Citarella and writer Yancey Strickler spoke weekly about their creative practices for the "New Creative Era" podcast. This book edits those discussions into a collection offering a new perspective on the creative life. Available July 1.