Metalabel

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Who among us doesn’t need a good kick in the gratitude to remind us how little time we have on this rock? Temporary Candle, the first Metalabel release by the studio Basic Needs, is there to remind you.

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75 artists and creators anonymously share their thoughts and fears about the year ahead, available digitally and worldwide.

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Three troublemakers - a systems thinker, design rebel, and art activist - get together in an abandoned London club to figure it out. The result is this Dark White Paper that calls on Venture Capitalists to envision a world not based on extraction but "Togetherness." Available in extremely limited physical form, and digitally for free.

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The second release from Evan Roth is part mundane performance, part nostalgia. A glimpse into a larger series of works that are sometimes blown to grand proportions, "Multi-touch Paintings" turns everyday phone gestures (RIP swipe to unlock) into gentle artifacts that remind us nothing is safe from becoming obselete.

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Jeffrey Saldinger's set of archival pigment prints are like a warm hug. Celebrating his 15+ year expansion from painting to photography, we have the inside scoop that these extremely limited prints are made at home and just meant to be shared. If that's not love for the craft we don't know what is.

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Fifteen boundary-pushing writers respond to Italo Calvino's prophetic 1967 essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ through fiction that examines the intersection of computation and creativity. This interdisciplinary anthology explores how myth and technology shape the human condition.

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Part visual anthology, part theoretical exploration, this is coffee table book meets mind map—revealing how information becomes tangled, interconnected, and eventually lost. An intimate glimpse into both artistic process and the universal struggle with remembering.

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Marcus Lyon is a photographer and artist from London who has been operating a wild project where he explores the ancestry of many notable and regular people from specific places, then reveals all the interconnections and common bonds people share. Alta is a slice from this larger project, giving collectors a chance to experience the project through a free app, podcast download, or limited edition art book.

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You’ve wished upon a star, but have you ever discovered one? This new release from artist and technologist Morry Kolman that allows someone to be the first person to glimpse a new star. The release uses a piece of software that identifies stars that haven’t yet been discovered, then Kolman seals a printout of the star with a certificate of authenticity. Cosmic!

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Software but wearable, Aksioma's 16th annual tactics&practice series leaves a trace by seeding critical theory into your wardrobe. Are You a Software Update? interrogates how software systems govern interaction, perception, and decision-making, asking where the space for collective organization and intervention still lies.