metaverse

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A person stands with arms outstretched in an arid desert landscape, appearing to wear a dress made from red and pink balloons

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A view of a virtual world, with three stand-alone columns serving as portals to social areas. They stand around a blue pool opposite red trees

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A digital rendering of a circular hall with a central column adorned by the Liberland flag

Simon Denny / terra0

A potted plant sits on a table in an exhibition booth; grids shaded with colorful gradients hang on the black walls

Steve Pikelny

A screenshot of a virtual world, showing the interior of a church with a cross-shaped window opening onto the blue sky. The walls are hung with photographs of religious pamphlets

LaTurbo Avedon / Skawennati

A view of a virtual community space, with a white glowing tree in a plaza surrounded by gracefully curving buildings under a blue sky

Simon Denny

Alan Lau

An abstract portrait of the collector Alan Lau, created from digital renderings of geometric shapes

Metakovan

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

Mathcastles

An ASCII drawing consisting of black, blue, and green hearts on a gray field

Sarah Zucker, who uses obsolete and current tools to make forward-looking work, is Outland’s first guest editor. Ahead of Her Time

An animated image of a woman raising a finger in disapproval. Her hair is a flowing animation and there is a meander pattern bordering the image