Brian Droitcour

Keith Haring

A digital drawing of a red television set showing a figure holding its head as purple rays flow from an opening in the top

News

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

Holly Herndon / Ian Cheng

A promotional image for a video game, where a woman points a gun at semi-abstract figures spilling forth from a doorway

Commentary

Illuminated with a projected animation, a building explodes with colorful fluid shapes

"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

Steve Pikelny

A digital image that looks like a banknote, with guilloche patterns, borders, a denomination of 1, and a serial number, but is too abstract and empty to fully resemble an actual bill.

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