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Auriea Harvey

A 3d model of a sculpted head from which extrudes a mass of clay-like substance, with a lit candle at the center

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An abstract digital image of a mass of colorful threads against a grayscale background

Jonathan Monaghan

A digital image of a horse covered with Uber logos reclining on a beach at dawn beside a Peloton bike

Arkive

A black-and-white photograph of a woman seductively lying on a bed. Her face is encased in a TV monitor

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What used to be a photo of a woman, distorted beyond recognition

Shirin Neshat

A pair of hands opening to reveal Arabic calligraphy inscribed on the wrists and forearms, softly lit against a black background

Metakovan

A square-shaped collage made up of 5000 tiny images of all different things, almost impossible to decipher

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi / The Question of Funding

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A five-by-five grid of colorful triangles, squares, and rhombuses, each assembled from smaller leaflike shapes, against a black background

Harold Cohen

A sketchy portrait of a grey-haired and bearded man in a green shirt and tight brown pants, against a lurid purple-brown-green-pink-blue wallpaper backdrop

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

A softly blurred and glowing digital image evoking braided threads, folding over each other in swirling patterns