Inventions, fabrications, formations.

Doctor, Doctor

Em Kettner
Issue: 921en3S26g25

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

Souvenir

Ohan Breiding Shoghig Halajian
Issue: S9q2e49682e5

Inside this, another animal grows, then another, another. Eventually there are hundreds of thousands.

  • Fictions
  • Growth
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • The Body
Black and white photo of cables intersecting with one another on the concrete floor. The lower right corner displays the text: 2015/01/10 and 23:45:16 right below it.

Tes Heures

Na Mira
Issue: n85 q377142q

04/19/2018 i move back to Seoul during the season of Yellow Dust. my infrared camera begins glitching like the shaman herself

  • Architecture
  • Cosmology
  • Fictions
  • Invisibility
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • Vibration
Numbers "1134" appear on a marbled calculator.

Square Hole

Ryan Kuo
Issue: 20nii3en5Sin

An NFT offers a generic something: some thing, neither here nor there, which exists in order to escape being worthless (a born loser). It escapes to the address it is given, and its value is held precisely there.

  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Networks
  • System Failure
Featured image for Suzanne Kite - Three Diffractions of LA

Three Diffractions of LA

Suzanne Kite
Issue: 8ec0S21qS01i

I talk to my cousin Corey Stover on the phone and he teaches me hokšíkilowaŋpi (to sing a lullaby); we are both cruelly out of tune. He is in Oglala Nation, I am in LA, and we perform our distance. He sings to me and I to him, a short melody. I watch LAPD helicopters out the window of 242 East Avenue 41 and compose a short drone.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • Visualization
A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe Meres
Issue: 7e23c6 eSn84

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.”

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility