The first piece of taxidermy I ever bought was an overstuffed toad. It cost twenty-five cents and it was somewhat broken; wires protruded where its hands should have been. I bought it on a whim, at a garage sale. Thirty years later, I still have it sitting on my desk, staring at me with its dull fak…
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‘Taxidermy offers animals both a second life and a second harassment by the Anthropocene.’ Ned Beauman introduces the photography of Helge Skodvin.
‘How would I feel if I had messaged for years with someone that I later found out was an AI?’
Brea Souders speaks to Alice Zoo about chatbots, interconnection and the dialogue between photography and text in her work.
‘The presence of another person at the scene is suggested. The image invites you to imagine their position and to mentally assume it.’
Photography by Debmalya Ray Choudhuri, introduced by John-Baptiste Oduor.
‘He did what people told him to do. He was a machine.’
A short story by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker.
‘For the past ten years I have been trying to write about the events that occurred on 9/11.’
