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Cosmic Bloom

Leo Villareal

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Jonathan Perkins

The cofounder of SuperRare reflects on how the marketplace has evolved since its founding five years ago, while staying true to its original vision.

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Centre Pompidou

Curators Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli discuss the museum’s landmark acquisition of NFTs.

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Text reading "This contract is art." The text is black but the word "is" is maroon

Rhea Myers

Rhea Myers, who has been making art using blockchain technologies since 2011, discusses her pioneering work.

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The Outland Review, vol. 01

Bitcoin NFTs Taproot Wizards, Julian Opie's VR installation, Jill Miller's Ariel Pink project, and on-chain robots Kazokutchi reviewed in brief

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Through the Looking Glass

A survey of art made for and about screens traces a supply chain of sorts, with works considering the material history of their production and the emotional aspects of their use.

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Manual Override

In the work of Tyler Hobbs, the relationship between humans and machines is filled with productive tensions.

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Linda Dounia

The Senegal-based artist talks about working with AI tools and sharing knowledge with her community.

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Building a Decentralized Art World

Outland’s new guest editor Refraction DAO is creating alternative models for organizing and funding an international network of exhibitions and events.

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Archive from the Future

Ahaad Alamoudi’s digital manipulations of Saudi national symbols reflect the changes being driven by both state-led social reforms and a grassroots online culture of parodies and remixes.

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The Render and the Real

Isaac Sullivan’s images-within-images, collected in cities around the world, reflect the complex entanglements of the virtual and the material in contemporary life.

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Style over Substance

To situate early computer art in familiar narratives of abstraction and minimalism, an exhibition rewrites history by separating social concerns from formal ones.

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Unsellable

The "garbage collectors of the NFT world" buy unwanted tokens for a pittance and preserve as relics of a historic bubble.

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Holographic Media

Media is no longer linear. Legacy outlets fade into noise, and communities have become filters through which all platforms are accessed.



Guest Editor

Shumon Basar

We're in an era after the end of eras. We have a final, historical ending in sight, while simultaneously being aware that such an end never actually arrives. Here are stories, strategies, and speculations about how we might go from here to there—and what “there” could even be.

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A diagram comparing eras of the internet, from early web forums to social media to web3 media collectives

Holographic Media

Media is no longer linear. Legacy outlets fade into noise, and communities have become filters through which all platforms are accessed.

A Venn diagram of Chaos and More Chaos overlapping in 2023

Predicting the Present

Outland’s new special issue draws on the program of Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum, and its “agnostimistic” inquiry into trends in media, technology, and culture.

A painting of a motorway propped up on a concrete ground

The Render and the Real

Isaac Sullivan’s images-within-images, collected in cities around the world, reflect the complex entanglements of the virtual and the material in contemporary life.