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The article presents a list of grantors, sponsors and donors being acknowledged by Atlanta, Georgia-based nonprofit organization Art Papers for their generous support of the "Art Papers Magazine" and its public programs, including the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Thomas Alvey.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the various topics within the issue, including art and activism, materialism in the art works of artists like Ang Li, and the traveling solo exhibition of Carolyn Lazard.

This section presents a list of the donors, grantors, and sponsors of non-profit organization Art Papers, which include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Art Initiative.

This section presents a list of sponsors and donors that offered financial support to nonprofit organization Art Papers which include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and Art Initiative.

The article presents an interview with American architect and Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) co-founder Glen Small. Topics discussed include how his interest in becoming an architect started and how it shaped his career, a brief background on the founding of SCI-Arc, the influence of ecology and environmental movement in Small's designs, his reason for designing underground structures, and whether it is important for architecture to look towards the future.

The article describes the Re-Ruined Hiroshima photomontage developed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki as part of his installation at the 1968 Milan Triennale titled "Electric Labyrinth." Topics include a lukewarm reception of the original photomontage in an exhibition in New York in the 1980s, a description of the elements of the montage's construction and comments on the depiction of Hiroshima's destruction in the image.

The article summarizes some of the key philosophical ideas of Chinese American architect and polymath Eugene Tssui from his 1999 book "Evolutionary Architecture: Nature as a Basis for Design." Topics include Tssui's thought on architecture as a continuum with natural processes, a description of his style of writing which is meant to be read in a zig-zag manner, and how writing from left to right utilized the hemispheres of the brain.

The author talks about the emergence of infrastructure in Manhattan, New York City. Topics include the author's thought on Manhattan as the city of second technological revolution, his proposal to remove Manhattan's infrastructure from its present context and place it in the center of San Francisco Bay, California, and his idea to assemble any surviving fragments of the memory on the infrastructures such as Bologna's arcades and John Nash's Regent's Park.

The article focuses on several photographs at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Maryland that document U.S. development aid to Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between 1953 and 1961 under U.S. President Harry S. Truman's Point Four Program. Topics include the importance of these photographs in understanding the crucial role of the environment in U.S. imperial expansion, the idea behind Four Point Program and the categories of NARA images from Point Four operations in Jordan.

The article highlights case studies of environmental activism in the U.S., including the Stop City/Defend the Forest movement in Atlanta, Georgia. Topics include the goal of the Defend the Forest to fight the destruction of communal forest and stop the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center and the launch of an environmental justice movement by a working class Black community in Warren County, North Carolina to fight against the use of their land as a toxic-waste dump.

The article discusses the report "Mitigation of Climate Change" released in April 2022 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which looks back at the history of sustainable architecture. Topics include sustainable architecture's focus on performance and efficiency in the last 40 years, the historical improvements in efficiency indicated in the technical summary of the Mitigation report's Buildings chapter, and an applied history of sufficiency addressed in the report.

The article presents an interview with Mae-Ling Lokko, an architectural scientist from Ghana and the Philippines and Yale University's School of Architecture assistant professor who is known for her work on agro-waste and renewable biobased materials. Topics include how she got involved in natural materials and upcycling, how culturally different places where she grew up affected her design and teaching approach, and her thoughts about reuse and material repurposing in architectural production.

The article reviews the exhibition "Competing with Lightning/Rivalizando con el Relampago" featuring the works of artist Eamon Ore-Giron at The Contemporary Austin museum in Texas from March 3 to August 20, 2023.

The article reviews the exhibition "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California from February 12 to July 2, 2023, featuring artists like Hans Haacke, Rebecca Allen, and Alison Knowles.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Eyes Were Always on US" featuring the artworks of artist Lonnie Holley at the United Talent Agency (UTA) gallery in Atlanta, Georgia from March 23 to April 29, 2023.

The article reviews the "Counterpublic 2023" triennial exhibition featuring artists like David Adjaye, Jordan Weber, and Damon Davis, held in St. Louis, Missouri as of June 2023.

The article reviews the exhibition "Long Take" featuring the artworks of Carolyn Lazard at the Nottingham Contemporary museum in Nottingham, United Kingdom (UK) from February 11 to May 7, 2023.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of viewing the painting "Magnetic Fields" by artist Mildred Thompson at the Menil Collection museum.

An interview with artist Chase Hall is presented. He talks about his first solo museum exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art titled "The Close of Day," which focused on the crossroads between the histories of materialist poetry, racial identity expressions, and labor. He cites some of his paintings like "Incarceration, Liberation, Perspiration" and "A Man and His Land." He presents some updates to his photography practice.

The article discusses how artists use their art to protest against perceived detrimental government projects. Also cited are how artworks in urban public spaces contend with human patterns of attention and distraction, and the activism of artists like Rebecca Solnit, and the use of materials like bricks, blocks, and pavers to symbolize power, labor, and industrial progress.

An interview with performance artist Kelly Taylor Mitchell is presented. She talks about her artworks that were based from her ancestry, documentation object-making, and rituals. She explains the steps she took to protect her works. She discusses her paintings, particularly the Great Dismal Swamp, and how the masking traditions connect her with her ancestors.

The article reviews the installation art exhibition "A Mass of Cyborgs," featuring works by Neo Muyanga, at the New York Center for Art, Research and Alliances.

The article reviews the installation art exhibition "No Way to Hide," featuring works by Muhammad Ali including drawings, animation and virtual landscapes, at the Dar Abdelatif in Algiers, Algeria.

The article reviews the installation art exhibition "The End of My Beginning," featuring works by Jamal Cyrus, at the Mississippi Museum of Art.

The article explores the use of general adversarial network (GAN) algorithm and artificial intelligence (AI) in the work of artist WangShui. Topics discussed are animated abstract images of the natural world in the video installation "Scr...pe II," personal transformation of gender and nonbinary transgender identity in the film "From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances," and self-construction or self-reinvention and reality heroines in the exhibit "Certainty of the Flesh."

The article examines the exploitative labor conditions imposed on gig workers of the data economy in the Global South embodied by the character Andra8 in the video work by visual artist Alison Nguyen titled "My Favorite Software Is Being Here." It discusses the video's depiction of burnout and overwork, a business model ubiquitous of apps and services, worker exhaustion in the absence of protective labor laws, destructive destabilization caused by colonialism, and disposable labor population.

The article describes the narrative imagination of artist Ian Cheng in his anime series "Life After BOB: The Chalice Study" and "Emissaries," trilogy of simulations about cognitive evolution and ecological conditions. Topics discussed are theme of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications depicted in the series, his use of simulations to illuminate non-human scaled complexity, and interactive component of the series called Worldwatching which allows viewers to examine animation scenes.

The article considers the intersection of ancestral knowledge and the computing concepts of heritage algorithms in the quilt exhibition "The New Bend" and the film installation "Piña, Why Is the Sky Blue?" Topics discussed are alignment of felt theory with indigenous feminist tradition, resiliency of women at quilting circles, diasporic longing, communication with the past and future through virtual reality, and influence of the Internet in knowledge-sharing.

An interview with Iranian Kurdish artist, activist and educator Morehshin Allahyari is presented. Allahyari talks about the origins of her project "Moon-Faced" which used artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on Qatar dynasty portraiture. She explains her framing of the nonhuman intelligence of the creature jinn in her three-dimensional (3D) modeling project "She Who Sees the Unknown," which illustrates mythical beings and spirits, as aligned to the nonhuman intelligence of computers.

The article describes the potential roles for artificial intelligence (AI) in considering the Anthropocene timeline of Western epistemologies. Topics discussed are fears and anxiety of replacement of artists' illustration with the advancements in image generation and text-to-image systems, copyright issues, legal personhood versus human exceptionalism in human-machine interaction, and questions about self-representation depicted in the digital art series "The Selfie Drawings" by Carla Gannis.

The author talks about the destruction, iconoclasm or desecration of Indigenous land as monument as a result of opposing perspectives on the land's value. Topics include the author's thoughts about the variation of architecture and monuments in Turtle Island, the importance placed by Indigenous nations on their land and territories and the interaction between people and their land in a way that is depoliticized from other disciplines as discussed in an article by Lars Rhodin and Sun Jiuxia.

The article focuses on the bioshelter toilet initiative by the New Alchemy Institute (NAI) founded by fisheries biologists John Todd and William McLarney. Topics include a description of the Swedish Clivus Multrum dry toilets and its suitability to NAI's mission at the Prince Edward Island Ark in 1976, the importance of the group's experiments in alternative energy production, organic agriculture and aquaculture, and a brief background on NAI's composting initiative that began in 1974.

The article discusses the word "parasite," which are species known for their dependence to others like ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, and leeches. Also cited are the 2019 movie "Parasite" by director Bong Joon-Ho, the use of parasites as metaphor for lazy and pernicious people, and how majority of parasites in the natural world are living in symbiosis with their hosts.

The article reviews the multimedia installation "Pray" by artists Alex Gvojic and Korakrit Arunanondchai at the Canal Projects in New York from September 29 to December 17, 2022.

The article reviews the multimedia installation "Pray" by artists Alex Gvojic and Korakrit Arunanondchai at the Canal Projects in New York from September 29 to December 17, 2022.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of watching the Panama Fruit Feeder Cam at Canopy Lodge 24-hour live streaming of vegetation and wildlife at the lodge's surrounding forest in Panama.

The article reviews the exhibition "Monira Al Qadiri: Refined Vision" featuring Al Qadiri's coverage of the oil and gas industry at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas from September 23, 2022 to January 8, 2023.

The article reviews the exhibition "Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols" featuring Motta's works like videos, sculptures, and photographs at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from September 16 to December 30, 2022.

The article discusses how artist Laurie Anderson depicted death or the end of things in her works of art, particularly her videos. Also cited are Anderson's contribution to the Arctic Imaging project, her story of extinction and culture of good endings, and her exploration of other subjects like rifts, slippages, and glitches in works like the 2015 film "Heart of a Dog."

In the article, the author discusses the migration patterns of the living and the dead as depicted in art. Also cited are the collection of passenger pigeons (Ectopistes migratorius) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) of Toronto, how artists in Europe used nature to show intellectual freedom amidst the restrictions applied in paintings, sculptures, films, and theaters, and some works of art like the earthwork "Borderline" by conceptual artist Barbara Kozlowska.

The article reviews the 12th Berlin Biennale contemporary art exhibition "Still Present!," presented in Berlin, Germany from June 11 to September 18, 2022, which featured works of several artists including Antonio Recalcati, Roberto Crippa, and Noel W. Anderson.

The article reviews the video installation art exhibition "I Will Survive," which featured works of artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl, presented at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands from January 29 to June 12, 2022.

The article reviews the contemporary art exhibition "documenta fifteen," presented in Kassel, Germany from June 18 to September 25, 2022, which featured works of artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas and artist collectives Black Quantum Futurism and The Nest Collective.

The author discusses highlights of the experimental AIDS memorial "Gone and for Ever," presented in June 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Topics explored include the selection of the Church of Saint Luke and The Epiphany as the venue for the event organized by the William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center, the urns created by artist Alex Stadler for the memorial, and the procession and prayers offered for the people affected by the AIDS pandemic.