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Curated by Molly Soda
Brooklyn-based internet performance artist Molly Soda—known for exploring the boundaries of reality, performance, and physical space—curates a series of releases for the Metalabel universe.
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.
Collection of flipbook animations, all starting with the same face, going different places. Released as blind boxes, what animation you receive is a mystery.
WET BOOK is the world’s first book designed specifically for bath time. The text includes both soft and hard facts from science, as well as original photo spreads and excerpts from Playboy and Zizek for Abercrombie & Fitch. This is the ultimate water study, careening between fact and fantasy with enough body to survive the flood.
Aesthetics for Forgetting - part coffee table book, part artist text - is an anthropological fever dream that explores the intersections of memory, media, and manipulation.
E-Angels is a visual exploration composed of vibrant colors and textures designed to evoke emotions and sensory experiences. Influenced by kawaii aesthetics, the fanzine creates a mini-world of pixelscapes born from feelings and thoughts through AI image generation and processing.
A Surreal Kind of Normal is a browser-based piece exploring the absurdity and dissonance of our contemporary human condition online. The artist performs not as a character, but as an amalgamation of neoliberal attitudes and the frozen subjects of stock images come to life. A “girl” who is not girl so much as a vessel, a gun, an ethos. Edition of 22
Superstars Only's very own spirit communication device. 👻 EDITION OF 5 👻 14.5 x 11.5 x 1.5”
These flipbooks are sculptural art toy books. Each animation is 30 frames long and can be viewed as a flipbook or sculptural stack of paper cutouts or a book.
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.
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT presents the JavaScript-based, generative art collection of the same name by artist Maya Man.
Twelve tells the story of 12-year-old Anni, who discovers an AOL chatroom in 1998 and enters into a wild virtual social world. She makes friends, enemies and eventually falls for a 27-year-old man. After being released as an interactive e-book on iTunes in 2013 and subsequently censored, Twelve is now back as a physical book designed by Molly Soda.
𝙢𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛 is a series of 20 unique .zip folders, each containing 100 files, physically embodied as one-of-a-kind artist books.