Metalabel

The Dark Forest Collective does not and will not exist | Yancey Strickler | Venkatesh Rao | Maggie Appleton | Peter Limberg | Rebecca Fox | Joshua Citarella | Arthur Röing Baer | GVN908 | Leith Benkhedda | Caroline Busta | Lil Internet | Ruby Justice Thelot | Katherine Dee | Nadia Asparouhova | Mindy Seu

empowa is ash herr, a new media artist & creative technologist whose practice focuses on contemporary empowerment culture on the internet. Her work examine narratives around personal growth alongside the internet.

Releases from the Metalabel squad. As individuals our powers are limited. In groups we become stronger

Memes and zines about bluegrass, Americana, and Billy Strings.

Do Not Research is a platform for art, writing, internet culture and beyond.

Hard Art is a cultural collective standing in solidarity in the face of climate and democratic collapse.

Brian Eno and Bette A. are artists. The duo are debuting the special edition of a new book forty years in the making, called "What Art Does."

A Thousand Forests is an Emerson Collective resource for creatives. Emerson Collective is a company that invests in entrepreneurs and innovators driven by purpose and a sense of possibility, working to create a world of abundance for future generations.

A growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people

Cultivating life online 🌱

Artists exploring future utopias.

Becoming Press is an independent publisher of minor theoretical literature. Note: Metalabel does not allow combined shipping, so for purchases of 2 or more books please visit our main webstore: shop.becoming.press thanks

August Lamm is a writer and visual artist from New Haven, CT. Her first book was a drawing guide, and her debut novel is forthcoming in 2025. She downgraded to a dumb phone in 2022 and has since worked to help others reduce the impact of technology on their lives.

FUTURX es un centro (I+D) investigación y desarrollo con foco en la intersección entre la música, la tecnología y la cultura de internet. -- FUTURX is a research and development (R&D) center focused on the intersection between music, technology and internet culture.

Exploring creativity, form, and the self since 2017

Providing only the finest New York City Garbage to collectors worldwide.

Bloom! The Inner Space collection. Art, ideas & inspiration at the intersection of mindfulness, mental health, community wellness & transcendence. An exclusive series for the inner peace makers, cosmic consciousness connoisseurs, ethereal explorers, mettā mercenaries, trippy hippies, spiritual seekers & enlightened entrepreneurs.

We create with the belief that attention, ideas, and creativity are sacred.

Other Internet is a nonprofit applied research organization. We investigate the psychological, political, and economic effects of digitalization, and we advance pro-social applications of new media technologies.

Artist and internet culture writer in NYC. Host of Doomscroll. Founder of Do Not Research. Author of Politigram & the Post-left.

I am a Bene Israel Jew from India living in Israel translating Abraham Abulafia's Kabbalah into English from Hebrew

The private label of post-pop group YACHT.

Forever Magazine is a print project that began as a reading series at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Forever was named one of 5 up and coming literary projects by New York Magazine and has been written up in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Interview Magazine, Airmail, Nylon, and dozens of other outlets.

I make drawings of the natural world, moments of grace and beauty in an age of disappearance.

we <3 internet

Autonomous Worlds are not just worlds that happen to exist onchain, but worlds that could not exist otherwise. The Autonomous Worlds Network is an organisation that seeks to uncover and advance the plot of these worlds.

Baukunst is a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building.

postmodern tectonics llc. is a b2b of ideas. we help emerging artists, architects, designers, musicians, or creative entrepreneurs actualize their visions for new objects or experiences. based between manhattan (NY) and manhattan beach (CA) we operate fundamentally through continuous collaboration.

A label dedicated to documenting and exploring the hidden threads that shape new cultural movements. Network Archives is the beginning of an ongoing journey to document and share the experiments, successes, and insights of a vibrant community of creators, listeners, thinkers and collectors.

Go anywhere, be anything, live forever (if you want to.)

co—matter is a research & strategy studio. We collaborate with a global network of researchers, writers and designers to release media about networked culture and its impact on our lives.

Writer of 'A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man'. Based in Dublin.

Underground Art and Design (UAAD) is an art and design platform and a creative studio dedicated to advancing experimental art practices and critical inquiry at the intersection of art, technology, and social transformation.

Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana produces, presents, and disseminates art projects as well as exhibition, discursive, and educational programs with the aim of critically understanding the structures of contemporary society and the role that new technologies play in shaping the way we perceive it.

❦ 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕗𝕠𝕠𝕕 ❦ PLAY is a mutual aid project, consisting of LGBTQ+ chefs and artists committed to fighting food insecurity and championing queer joy. The project will exist in the form of cookbook zines, dinners, and immersive food + art experiences.

A series of art zines documenting the development of Columbia DSL’s newest prototype, LAST HUMAN a 10,000 sq. ft. immersive digital literacy experience opening in 2026 at MAD Arts. Centered on synthetic media, misinformation and truth online, the project imagines a collapsing digital ecosystem where algorithmic noise overwhelms human presence.

A series of releases inspired by Cristine Brache's second book of poems, Goodnight Sweet Thing.

Among the most innovative artists working today, Shantell Martin is known for her exploration into the vast potential of the drawn line. Using an ink marker, she creates improvisational compositions with meandering lines and a recurring cast of characters, symbols, and messages that reflect a deeply rooted interest in identity.

Creasidence is a global creative accelerator building a network of independent creators. We support artists through programs, infrastructure, and mentorship — shaping new models of collaboration and work in the creative industries.

Building tech to help essays thrive in the age of slop. The project is anchored in a pattern language for essay composition. Writers use an AI app to get feedback, and we're giving $10k to the best essay of 2025. The finalists will be featured in "Best Internet Essays," an annual collection that makes sense of our times through a classic medium.

The Institute of Machine Unlearning is a para-academic playground for collective unlearning and feral pedagogy. Its purpose is to resist prediction and optimization, and to open space for anticipation, refusal, and care. On Metalabel, IMU releases zines: living documents that blur research, art, and play, carrying traces of workshops.

A phygital space.