Criticism

Ian Cheng / Jon Rafman / Refik Anadol

A digital image of a gray landscape with a yellow puddle in the middle and small gray humanoid creatures clustered around it

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

A digital drawing of a garden with a profusion of blooms, all in different colors from real life--tending more towards violets and pinks

K Allado-McDowell

A photo of a darkened theater with people in fantastical costumes on a stage glimpsed in the background; a high-tech set-up with laptop and chart readings in the foreground

The Outland Review

An AI generated image of a disheveled, dumpy man standing alone in the aisle of a big store, the shelves around hi8m lined with brightly colored, indistinguishable products

"I'll Be Your Mirror"

A close-up of a woman's face surrounded by boldly colored abstract shapes resembling a test pattern on a screen. Her eyes are opened wide and her fingers touch her cheeks, seeming to spread radial black and white lines across them

Tyler Hobbs

A vertical composition with an arrangement of colored dots on a pale pink background

Ahaad Alamoudi

A diptych showing two animated falcons against yellow backgrounds; a subtitle below the falcon on the right reads "I'm scared I'll get grilled"

Isaac Sullivan

A painting of a motorway propped up on a concrete ground

Coded

A grid of pale pink and blue squares in a seemingly random arrangement

Charlotte Johannesson

A photograph of a computer plotter drawing showing two blocky figures with their backs to each other on desktop computers

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