Joined Metalabel 04/16/2025
buildinpublic-s663
Build In Public University
The New Internet Manifesto

Collector #4

This was the manifesto that launched the time machine.

buildinpublic-s663
Build In Public University
The Memetic Foundation of Human Value: A Personal & Theoretical Journey

Collector #15

Human value is fundamentally memetic - we're valuable for the ideas we create and share, not as resources to extract. Our economic systems must recognize how communities amplify unique contributions, ensuring everyone has at least one community that "sees" them.

uaad
Underground Art And Design
Worlds Unfolding: Ideas and Prompts for Virtual World-Making

Collector #106

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.

culturehacker
culturehacker
culturehacker #001

culturehacker #001

by Lance Weiler

Collector #1

Various work by Lance Weiler (aka culturehacker) an artist and storyteller working in film, theatre, games and code.

metalabel-scry
SCRY
CAPTCHA

CAPTCHA

by Berto Herrera, Oswaldo Rodriguez, and 1 more

Collector #45

In our digital age, every CAPTCHA solved reduces our existence to data points. Every click fuels a shadow economy, stripping away genuine connection and trapping us in endless metrics. We must reclaim authentic human experience.

hardart
Hard Art
THIS IS NOT A BLUEPRINT #1 : By process of invitation

Collector #134

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.

pomotect
postmodern tectonics ™
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

by postmodern tectonics ™

Collector #28

a rumination on why small things need to make a big comeback

pomotect
postmodern tectonics ™
Applied Imagination

Applied Imagination

by postmodern tectonics ™

Collector #50

"A lightly researched field guide for thinking about and/or making creative things" These are observations from real working life, a collective twenty years of our work as professionals in a wide range of fields — architecture, advertising, design, innovation strategy, journalism, and software engineering.

l00bi
L00bi
LOOBTOPIA  𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞

Collector #62

Here is a reality ~ 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒. This is the film. Sillyfunsilly visuals, cynicism, narcissism, avatars and music. (We are camouflaging Loobi's aching emptiness, as she endlessly searches for a sense of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦/𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚/𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.) Loobtopia is fickle, noncommittal and vapid. IT IS SUCH FUN. W3lc0m3 Fr13Nd$. ᴛꜱ&ᴄꜱ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ.

creasidence
Creasidence
Creasidence Tokyo Zine #01

Creasidence Tokyo Zine #01

by Maxim Chumin, ES, and 12 more

Collector #21

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.

strategictransparency
Strategic Transparency Press
Transparency, Hypervisibility, Revelation: On Modalities of Creative Resistance

Collector #8

This zine presents a new way of thinking about the promises and pitfalls of artmaking for digital and social change—one that, instead of falling prey to the cat-and-mouse dynamic of Big Tech and its extractive systems, takes advantage of duration, time, and conformity to its own advantages.

autonomousworlds
Autonomous Worlds Network
Autonomous Worlds N1

Autonomous Worlds N1

by Caroline M. Ballegaard, Arthur Röing Baer, and 15 more

Collector #238

The Autonomous Worlds Network’s first publication offers a new vocabulary for a new era of worlding.

baukunst
Baukunst
Contours of CAD + AI - Baukunst Study Group 002

Collector #15

In our second Study Group at Baukunst, Contours of CAD and AI, we set out to explore how emerging AI and machine learning techniques have the potential to revolutionize computer aided design in industrial design, engineering, construction, virtual environments, and beyond. We worked in collaboration to form a picture of what the future of engineeri

aixdesign
AIxDESIGN
AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI by AIxDESIGN & internet teapot

Collector #31

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.

squad
Metalabel Press
After the Creator Economy

After the Creator Economy

by IY, Severin Matusek, and 3 more

Collector #275

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.

ideaspace
The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler
The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

The Post-Individual (Open Edition)

by Yancey Strickler, and IY

Collector #152

An exploration of individuality after the internet. The Post-Individual includes: — The Post Individual essay — An audio recording by the author — A video introduction — Research notes, early drafts, and slides

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APEX
APEX

APEX

by APEX Zine, and Freya Bromfield

Collector #62

Is our digital identity shaped by the constant stream of online trends and memes? APEX, a cutting-edge zine dives into the intersection of AI, identity, and digital culture- journeying through past, present, and future to answer this. From "Modern Accelerationism" to "Cybernatural Synergy," APEX offers fresh perspectives on evolving digital selves.

tci
The Creative Independent
On dealing with creative anxiety (digital)

Collector #116

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

lasthuman
Last Human Collective
LAST HUMAN #001

LAST HUMAN #001

by Lance Weiler

Collector #25

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.

lasthuman
Last Human Collective
LAST HUMAN #002

LAST HUMAN #002

by Lance Weiler

Collector #15

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.

aksioma
Aksioma
The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023)

The PostScriptUM Anthology (2010–2023)

by Janez, Domenico Quaranta, and 2 more

Collector #4

Essays on Art, Technology, Society and the Environment

squad
Metalabel Press
Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

by Rayna, IY, and 4 more

Collector #664

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

otherinternet
Other Internet
Other Internet 2018–2024

Other Internet 2018–2024

by Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti, and 2 more

Collector #238

The definitive Other Internet anthology collects our essays and reports in print for the first time, traces crypto-cultural history in 6 new pieces, and surfaces new material from the OI archives. Ships June 2025. Pre-order now.

aksioma
Aksioma
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects

(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects

by Janez, Thomas Spies, and 10 more

Collector #25

Is it possible to create specific real-world outcomes by modifying our data streams?