Issue #3–COLLECT
With the powerful and frightening rise of artificial intelligence, to governments and corporations collecting personal data, to the human compulsion to gather and arrange, we collect daily. Issue #3–Collect will wander through various assemblages within space and investigate the multitude of ways we collect and order our world.
OUR CONTENT
Each issue of our magazine includes Art Files, Stories, Space Futures, Interviews, and Essays.
Collection and Presence
Michelle Chun is a visual maker born and raised in Southern California.
Art Files: Joey Serricchio
Joey Serricchio is a Los Angeles-based artist making conceptual art in a variety of interdisciplinary mediums.
The Gentrification of South Central Los Angeles
A city’s attempt to clean up a region’s reputation caused the displacement of its people.
Art Files: Liberty Worth
Liberty Worth is a native of Los Angeles – a city of grit, diversity and great natural beauty. Influenced by the power of art and nature to soothe trauma and bring peace, she creates works that reflect natural wonder and quiet beauty from both new and discarded or repurposed materials.
Urban Theater: The Drama and Ceaseless Advancement of Gentrification in Los Angeles
Where is the urban landscape not changing? Or perhaps a more location-specific question: How fast is your urban landscape changing? Los Angeles is in a serious housing crisis. The Westside of Los Angeles, where I live, seems to be in a perpetual state of development.