Metalabel

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A curatorial project spread across digital media, installations, and a longstanding visual collage instagram account, Sucking Salt archives Caribbean architecture and aesthetics as analysis of colonial histories. Take Care brings together some of the brightest emergent voices in West Indian art aesthetics to produce a haunting and vibrant zine of essays, poetry, and visual essays. Now available for digital download.

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With every release, designer Traceloops finds another tiny moment to beautify of the flipbook that we didn't know was possible. Did we think we would researching gum packaging today? Definitely not, but we're loving the journey Traceloops sends us on in appreciation of animation and creative packaging.

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The Hard Art collective continues to show the rest of us what collaboration maxxxing really looks like. Daddio! is a new collaborative novel that features multiple members of the collective — including Alex Lockwood, Brian Eno, and Jeremy Deller — coming together for a multimedia release that unpacks and explores truth, democracy, and the climate.

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One of the early releases on Metalabel originally published August 2024, our friends at FUTURX are exploring how to shape a common language around AI for those working in the music industry. As timely as ever, they've made this thoughtful release $2 for a limited time. Don't wait.

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The postcard is the simplest form of artwork that can circulate via mail, and this one ups the ante. Scented, weighted, and thoughtfully crafted, this postcard from Joanna Lam takes the nostalgic beauty of a mail-only world and turns it into a fragment of memory. We can't wait to hold it.

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Always excited to see new voices offer up their thoughts on Dark Forest internet theory, this time from writer, blogger, and independent researcher Marta Ceccarelli and our friends at Aksioma in Slovenia. Marta’s writing reads like we’re sitting having coffee together, conspiring about online imaginaries that can serve us better. 

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Visual artist and choreographer Beau Bree Rhee wants to know: how do we sit with climate dystopia? How can we notice the traces around us? Her new release builds on these explorations in movement and research and compacts them into pointed prompts that allow us to think together. Available digitally, and with a limited edition screenprint.

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This exceptional new media package from electronic musician and composer Jlin captures the artist at work building pieces from samples discovered during a trip to the Powerhouse Museum in Australia. An exceptional look into the creative process, and one of the best-packaged releases we’ve seen on Metalabel.

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A critical exploration featuring the work of three distinct artists — visionary artist Mariko Mori, digital pioneer Micha Klein, and multimedia rebel Nahomi Alvarez — visualizing the evolving resilience of human creativity. In the face of ongoing global talk of AI's impact on creativity, Artificial Artist is a launching pad for honing in on the distinctly human touch.

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A series of floral-inspired paintings made with genetically modified microbes on Petri dishes. Karen Ingram's work depicts multi-entity collaborations between different entities: human, robot, and microbe, probing notions of agency and predictability through color. Love!