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Shining, Appy ‘People’—Silvia Park’s Luminous Transpositions
Park animates the tug-of-war between pareidolia and paraphilia that would reasonably beset a society populated by androids who can pass for human, humanoid robots that cannot, some humans whose bionic enhancements make them more machine than flesh, and others whose foibles signal a nature too human for comfort.
Last Year: 2025 –> 2026
Horror After Horror
This issue, Horror After Horror, explores a range of interpretations and evocations of Horror as a medium of displacement through which to process extreme feelings and cultural conflicts. The title alludes both to the relentlessness of horrific events unfolding on a global scale and to the anticipation and unthinkability of what could come next.
Listen to Our Muertos—Emperatriz Plácido San Martín
We Say What Black This Is
50 Years of ART PAPERS
End of Year Letter: 2024 -> 2025
‘Tis the season for taking stock of what we’ve accomplished in 2024, and for looking forward to what the future holds. On behalf of everyone at Art Papers, I want to thank the individuals and foundations who rallied to support our mission this past year.
ECHOES Episode 1
Interpreting Site
Site is a compulsion of the mind at work in the body.
Reworlding
What separates us, the living, from our recent ancestors, is that we have inadvertently become not just people of the planet, but planetary people. And as planetary folk, we’re the generational interlocutors of interlocking, simultaneous and earth-scaled challenges—something called the polycrisis.