Metalabel

Our take

Becoming Press is special artist-run imprint based in Berlin who’ve been publishing some of the richest theories, critiques, and provocations about the world we live in. Their latest publication wrestles with the dynamics of our current form of capitalism and theorizes what may lay beyond the status quo in horrifying or glorious detail (depending on your POV). Not to miss.

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Concept City presents itself as the first ever zine from a Network State. What we find interesting is the decision to make a zine for a Network State in the first place. It presumes that a place is about culture, that culture is about expression, and to invest the time and energy into expressing that culture (even if more proposed than actual) is a way of manifesting it.

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Always excited to see new voices offer up their thoughts on Dark Forest internet theory, this time from writer, blogger, and independent researcher Marta Ceccarelli and our friends at Aksioma in Slovenia. Marta’s writing reads like we’re sitting having coffee together, conspiring about online imaginaries that can serve us better. 

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Metalabel merch drop alert. Metalabel merch drop alert. For the first time ever, we’re releasing a small run of Metalabel merch to memorialize the world we’re leaving behind, and to make room for the world that’s yet to come. More will make sense later. Extremely limited editions.

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We’ve been following Phillippa Schmitt since artist (and curator here) Molly Soda put us on. Since then we’ve fallen in love with Phillippa’s demented-cute style as its spread across stickers, notebooks, and her latest: a cheeky take on exquisite corpse in collaboration with artist Paul Deacamps. Can’t wait to play with it.

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We know we’re always on our soapbox about the infinite possibility of labels, but hear us out. InterAccess is a Canadian collective that technologically twists and manipulates what’s possible. With this Metalabel release, they’ve turned a new survey exhibition of Toronto’s digital art scene into both an IRL exhibit as well as this collection on Metalabel where digital works can be purchased, supporting the artist and organization itself. Fresh thinking, great work, and an excellent new use of Metalabel. 

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A series of floral-inspired paintings made with genetically modified microbes on Petri dishes. Karen Ingram's work depicts multi-entity collaborations between different entities: human, robot, and microbe, probing notions of agency and predictability through color. Love!

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Maya Martinez is a New York City-based artist and playwright whose work has appeared at MoMA PS1, Hauser and Wirth, and other institutions. Theatrics, her first ever book, collects Martinez’s plays, monologues, and other theatrical compositions in print form for the first time. We've seen some of her work in the flesh and were left wowed. Limited-run first edition from Wonder Press.

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A curatorial project spread across digital media, installations, and a longstanding visual collage instagram account, Sucking Salt archives Caribbean architecture and aesthetics as analysis of colonial histories. Take Care brings together some of the brightest emergent voices in West Indian art aesthetics to produce a haunting and vibrant zine of essays, poetry, and visual essays. Now available for digital download.

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A critical exploration featuring the work of three distinct artists — visionary artist Mariko Mori, digital pioneer Micha Klein, and multimedia rebel Nahomi Alvarez — visualizing the evolving resilience of human creativity. In the face of ongoing global talk of AI's impact on creativity, Artificial Artist is a launching pad for honing in on the distinctly human touch.