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.

A practical introduction to typography; from anatomy and spacing to legibility and alignment, for people who want to create type that reads beautifully and feels intentional.

This issue of the zine, travels to MAD Arts just north of Miami for a special look at Last Human Studio a collaborative workshop with high school students that blends vibe coding and digital literacy. Over the course of two and a half days, students move from having no prior experience with AI to staging a Dead Internet inspired pop-up exhibition.

Select All Images That Make Your Bones Shrivel is the third zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created through public experiments and participatory workshops, it gathers CAPTCHAs that refuse recognition and stretch a small security interface into a collective exercise in critical play.

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.

"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

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.

"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.

Free Trade is the second zine from the Institute of Machine Unlearning. Created during a public collage session, it gathers fragments, fears, jokes, and quiet refusals to explore what AI feels like from the inside of everyday life, where attention becomes currency and imagination becomes resistance.

i’m calling this new series “art from the apocolypse” - and it’s ideal for those life momenets you need to decorate quickly but don’t have time to spellcheck. Perfect for minimalist loving therapists, mental health professionals, and past life regression practictioners who got D's in history class & have an unusually low startle index.

Glint is an experimental artist book created and edited by Tiziana La Melia and Natasha Katedralis. Formally evoking a tabloid, Glint is a roving inquiry of rural, urban and agrarian cycles that irrigate thinking between fantasy, food and fashion.

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.

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.

After an entire 365 days, the original New York City Garbage cubes are back for the final drop of Season 2. Last year's 50 sold out quickly, so we've added a few more to the pile (65) to give more folks the chance to give the gift of Garbage this year.

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.

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%.

75x50cm oil on canvas 2026

The digital zine that is a result of the April 2026 Creasidence Manga Residency held in Tokyo. Over the course of 4 days, 8 artists from around the world came together to co-create a comic zine centered around the theme of the world of Insperion. Each page's center is the frame by the Lead Mentor & comic writer, Diego 8sided Infante.

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.

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 can ancient wisdom shape the future of AI? In the zine Pasts, Presents, Futures: A Zine About Ancestral AI, we take a step back to reflect and reimagine. What if we used lessons from the past seven generations to create AI that helps us build a world worthy of the next seven?

Bigger isn’t always better. What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? The 38-page zine “AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice, and low-tech to re-imagine AI that is locally-rooted and more attuned to our natural world.

A set of ten postcards featuring reproductions of paintings from Cristine Brache’s Bunny series.

Mini pocket zine covering a tactical guide on protecting your digital footprint at events.

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.

a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in march 2026 ♡

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.

Do Not Research is a platform for art, writing, internet culture and beyond.

Everythingisromantic is a zine and poetry collection. It exists as a reminder that every moment can be romantic, a sign to hold on to burning optimism with clinging fingers, and a vignette of fleeting, intense emotions that dither in my mind and stain my worldview.

First Lights are stars that nobody has ever seen before. Through a process done in consultation with research astronomers around the world, the excess and unimportant stars of astronomy are collected, printed, folded, and sealed completely blindly, so that when you open up a First Light, you become the first person in the world to witness it.

Not for smoking. This box contains 18 incense sticks inspired by traditional cigarettes. A fragrant and interactive fashion accessory that looks as good in your bag or on your coffee table.

Do Not Research is a “detestable band of washed up millennial seapunks” and “zoomers obsessed with Mark Fisher”. It is also a highly active online community that publishes writing, visual art, internet culture research and more.

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 second Levels of Nuance Emergency Group Show took the form of a Zillow listing in sleepy Brownsboro, Texas. Although the show lasted a mere three hours on the platform, it lives on through this commemorative artist t-shirt! Are you ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for Real Estate®?

Conceived by Oliver Herring and recounted by DOT Curator Sam Rauch, TASK is a group artmaking activity that can lead to collective chaos (and a lot of fun!)

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RURAL is a site-specific publication series documenting conversations and experiences with people living in rural communities. It explores lived experience framed by these questions: How does where we live shape our reality and impact how we relate to ourselves, our communities, the environment, our politics, and the ways we are creative?

For the discerning maximalist. Declare your love for Van Dyke Parks with typographic flair. Hand printed in Brooklyn.

A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man is a dizzying descent into digital madness, where one man's screen addiction and artistic ambitions collide in a genre-bending exploration of love, technology, and the disintegration of the modern mind. It's the first ever long-form screenshot.

neutra is a sans-serif typeface inspired by the aesthetics of retro-futurism, gen x soft club, and y2k. rooted in a geometric approach, its minimalist forms have a sleek, technical feel with a nod to space-age graphics.

GEOTYPE is a font with angular shapes, sharp contrasts, and a bold and experimental style. A playful display typeface that's eye catching on every surface. It's the very first font created by Seah Studio, in partnership with the Letterform Archive.

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.

Issue #002 documents our latest LAST HUMAN prototype—a creepy descent into the AI slop of the dead internet, Participants were dropped into a glitching system with one urgent task: hunt down their doppelgänger. It’s a game of human CAPTCHA—prove your humanity before the algorithm erases it.

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: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 1-3:00pm EST

Earth swimming in a sea of stars amidst the Milky Way

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?

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.

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,TUESDAYS: 3/3, 3/10, 3/17,3/24, 6:30-8:30pmEST