In a profile of Edmonton-born, Berlin-based artist Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, writer Lauren Lavery examines how Shaw’s treatment of industrial materials lends insight into our evolving relationship with urban landscapes and technology.
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Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
The screenshot interrupts the flow, capturing a fleeting thought within the machinery of creation. It is a time stamp, a photograph, or an idea jotted down in a notebook. The act of capturing a thought gives a fleeting moment a platform to become something.
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BlackFlash Spring/Summer 2026 “In my time at BlackFlash, we’ve persistently renegotiated the magazine’s identity, careening between vestigial past eras while plotting a future course, all…
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Collaging elements from BlackFlash’s online and print archives, Emilie Neudorf considers relationships between the digital and physical.
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Loving or unloving, families contain complex emotional structures that are informed by blood ties, love ties, like ties, amalgamation, and separation. They are subject to forces of love, ambition, adventure, restlessness, fear, commitment, and escape.
