Outland

LACMA

A square with a digital image showing a tangle of flowers

Commentary

A glowing blue triangle floating in a black field bears the text "From the first yes, a hundred more"

Jonathan Perkins

An abstract digital image compriosed of misty blobs in pink, blue, yellow, and green

Centre Pompidou

A lime green square with a photo of a middle aged man wearing wireless glasses and a collared shirt and jacket

Nicolas Sassoon

Nicolas Sassoon

Rhea Myers

Text reading "This contract is art." The text is black but the word "is" is maroon

Craig Barrow / Regina Harsanyi

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

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.

Guest editor Simon Denny explores how ideas about ownership are structuring digital space, and how software metaphors are shaping real-world social relations. To the Metaverse and Beyond

A square canvas painted black and showing a bird's eye map view of a plot of land on Decentraland