Conversations

Jon Satrom / Olivia Jack

A computer-generated abstract image in greens and pinks with the code used to generate it visible on the left-hand side of the screen

Jamie Faye Fenton / Ras Alhague

A glitchy image of a human figure from the chest up, against a black background

Duane King / Paul Schmidt

An abstract digital compositoin of triangles of varying sizes, forming interlocking patterns in pink, blue, and cyan

ACI / Mark Amerika

A humanoid figure seen from the chin down, cast in a uniform bluish gray, walks through a colorless desertscape

Connie Bakshi

A pixelated dark image—unclear of what, but it has white talons of some kind

Fabiola Larios / Sofia Crespo

An AI-generated image of what sort of looks like an illustration of human anatomy

Maya Man

An AI generated doll is pasted into a background image of a high-end living room. Text at the bottom reads like a taunting Instagram comment: "You're absolutely ugly."

Sasha Stiles

Backlit fluorescent text on a black bakground spells out a lament for humanity's extinction.

Ira Greenberg / Ivona Tau

A digital abstract image dominated by green, broken into rectilinear shapes, with some text in the upper third

Nicolas Sassoon

Nicolas Sassoon

Guest editor Shumon Basar offers stories, strategies, and speculations for an era after the end of eras. Predicting the FUturee

A cartoon man stands alone in thought, sandwiched between indistinct photographs of a parking lot and a city at night