THE DEEPREAL ISSUE

Frictions between the synthetic and the authentic pulse through our culture like a hissing, tingling current. An algorithmic gaze seeps into how we see, create, and imagine — blurring illusion and truth until they start sharing the same skin.

The DEEPREAL Issue is our wayfinding through this new terrain. We don’t hide from artifice; we confront it.

When everything can be simulated, how does the meaning and power of what truly moves us shift? And what, if anything, still anchors us to the real?

This issue features ADEKUNLE GOLD, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL, ASHNIKKO, DION BAL, EARL SWEATSHIRT, FROST CHILDREN, HARRI, HIND SOUSAN, KATO FIERKENS, KISS FACILITY, LEVI VAN GELDER, LOLO AND SOSAKU, LOWENA HEARN, MAAHLEEK, POSTER GIRL, ROMBAUT, SHALVA NIKVASHVILI, THEOPHILIO, TILDA SWINTON, TOMMY SMITS