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Digging: From Wikipedia: Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the second being the removal and relocation of the material found there.

  • Digging
  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • The Body

Doctor, Doctor

Em
Kettner
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The following story unfolds with a cadence all its own. It rewards the curious yet meets the overeager with a measured wait and see.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina
Sarnelle
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Cover - The Erosion of Silicon Beach

The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina
Sarnelle
Issue:
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Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • The Body
  • Visualization

Anthropogenic Mineral Collection

Colleen
Hargaden
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Close up of white mineral rock.

In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe
Meres
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A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Despite the conclusion, the museum continues to exhibit the sculpture, claiming that it has acquired a modern cultural identity that transcends “issues of origin and genuineness” and stands as an “icon of the ever-changing perceptions and connoisseurship in the field of pre-Columbian studies.”

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