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%.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Something is wrong with the internet and we all feel it. Join us & SOFTER for a three-day collective manifesto and workshop to name that feeling together, mapping our digital lives, drafting the principles we refuse to live without online, and building webpages from scratch. Bring your love, your rage, and your hope.
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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.
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a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in march 2026 ♡
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Unlock the Secrets to Intentional Branding and Storytelling with these short visual treats of insights.
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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.
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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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Bucolique is an impressionist statement, a brush that flows freely, capturing the charm of the naïve and the spontaneous. It brings a light yet intense texture to your strokes, perfect for exploring letterings, faces, objects, flowers, and dreamlike nature scenes. Let your hand wander and let the texture tell the story.
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The sixthedition of Fishnet Magazine explores the topic of Eroticism. This zine is made up of various artists' works, varying across all different mediums. Preorder shipping starts in May.
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The fifth edition of Fishnet Magazine explores the topic of Escapism. This zine is made up of various artists' works, varying across all different mediums. Preorder shipping starts in February. Second, limited cover image.
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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.
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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.
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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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The first New Release from YACHT on limited-edition yellow vinyl—now in a second wave!
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This 36-page risograph-printed pamphlet is a radical & practical guide to reclaiming your life from digital technology.
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An experimental b/w photozine of microframes capturing childhood evil and sorrow in classic sitcoms and films. Limited edition.
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The meme-ification of a shirt I made whilst at The School of Visual Arts began as a happy accident. On offer is a limited edition run of 52 Hoodies with Male Fantasies emblazoned across the front. Ships in June.
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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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This track is all about the depths of the heart and what our hearts do to us to satisfy a desire.
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An IRL open mic held the first Sunday of every month in Boulder, CO. It's a free event. Can get ticket without payment. $5 suggested donation. It's a open mic dedicated to creativity being good for you not you being good at it. It was founded in Austin Texas by James McCrae who can be found on social media platforms under @WordsAreVibrations
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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.
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Alloentity recognizes a deeply human experience, the allostatic (versus homeostatic) nature of identity. How it is relational and negotiated, consistently. Explored with some of the earliest synthesized portraits created with a fine-tuned generative model, alongside quotes from a century of thinkers including Sylvia Wynter, Zadie Smith, + Carl Jung
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A consideration of the unquantifiable parts of being alive, what eludes the machine.
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A crash course to fall back in love with the world and your life.
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"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.
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a digital magazine filled with my favorite images & missed connections collected from newyork.craigslist.org in february 2026 ♡
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LOVE LIKE THUNDER, GRIEF LIKE RAIN is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering that leads us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises. Pre-orders are open for the first 100 editions & include a free digital copy of the book. Orders ship March 2026.
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Chief Hugh Akagi delivers an insightful message to the King of England, asking him to remind Canada that the Peskotomuhkati made their treaties with the King before Canada existed. The Peskotomuhkati people remain unrecognized as a First Nation in Canada. This video and press release are free, collectible items designed to build good relations.
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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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learn how to meditate like the Buddha - step by step instructions and visualizations on mindful breathing from the Anapanasati Sutta - ideal for anxious and overwhelmed authors, artists and entrepreneurs.
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Limited edition of 100 prints on un-dosed heavyweight blotting paper using plant based food grade ink, signed and numbered, 19x19 cm
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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?
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Shipping label sticker prints for the Cybernetics Image Library. Designed for the Neuromantics show.
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In the context of their limited edition vinyl album 2 Slow Stories, Brian Eno and Bette A have created a series of 444 unique paintings.
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ever wanted to rep your definitely healthy relationship with your computer?? introducing... 𝔦 ❤ 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯 bumper stickers !
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Created in just 4 days by 20 artists, this zine is the result of the first Creasidence Comics Workshop in Tokyo — an international program uniting visual storytellers to create a playful journey through Harajuku, page by page in collaboration with mentors. Exhibited and released as a limited edition physical comic book at SOMSOC Gallery.
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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.
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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.
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A call to arms for artists to midwife a new cultural movement. This manifesto invites a shift from art as commodity to art as soul-work, uniting the artistic, political, and spiritual in service of a rebirth: a Second Renaissance.
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