Conversations

Clement Valla

A digital image of a dandelion covered with seeds, rendered as distinct points of color against a black background

Alex Zhang / Greg Liburd

A photograph of happy people gathered in a basement, smiling at the camera. The wooden ceiling beams and the art on the red walls are slightly disorted by the camera's fisheye lens.

Emily Edelman / Sasha Stiles

Linda Dounia

A quilt-like collage of green fronds over shapes in pink, orange, and yellow

Audrey Ou / Chris Fussner / Clara Che Wei Peh

A digitally rendered image of a black firework in the shape of a dog, against a blue sky

Libby Heaney / Sarah Shin

A digitally rendered image of a mystical landscape with a large tree and a glitter ball, bathed in a pinkish light

David Henry Nobody Jr.

A surreal photograph of a man painted in blue paint with a shelving unit covered in pretzels and crowned with a doll's head attached to him

Simon Denny / terra0

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

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

Amir H. Fallah / Sarah Zucker

A digital image combining figures from medieival Persian painting with a smiley ficae, a photo of a beetle, and other found images arranged on a jaunty square with blue, red, and orange

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