A book can hide a galaxy in its edge.
Published in 1979, Kohei Sugiura’s Zen Uchu Shi (Summa Cosmographica) turns star charts, data, and text into a reading environment. It does not simply visualize information. It reprograms how the eye moves: density becomes navigation, overprinting becomes time, and the page becomes a field you cross rather than a surface you consume.
Why do goldfish so often make us uneasy?
They are undeniably beautiful, yet their beauty can feel manufactured.
They live inside transparent containers, as if they are allowed to exist, and also permanently watched.
In this issue, we use the goldfish as a way to ask a few questions:
What kinds of meaning have humans projected onto goldfish?
Why do they so often carry a dreamlike, specimen-like, even corpse-like feeling?
CHUN HEEHYUN is a composer and performer who treats music as narrative. Her soundscapes do not accompany the image. They lead it, shaping time, space, and emotional structure.
Working through modular synthesis and Eurorack systems, alongside MIDI orchestration that re-voices Western instruments toward the timbral memory of gayageum, haegeum, and janggu, she builds a listening field where texture becomes cinematic language.
This feature is part of Artists | In Orbit, ELSEHERE’s slow thread for staying with practices in formation.
For artists and researchers: submissions are open via ELSEHERE Open Call in bio.
We archive and stay with artists and practices that keep advancing in method and aesthetics. If you are building your own thread, we welcome your submission into our editorial and curatorial field.
How do finite rules generate infinite forms?
In this issue, we trace the aesthetic logic of digital structures, from information aesthetics to contemporary generative practice, and ask how algorithms produce and embody value at the edge of order and randomness.
Our focus is not technique for its own sake, but critical framing:
When creation becomes procedural, what shifts in artistic subjectivity and originality?
Is the machine merely executing rules, or participating in creation?
Keywords: generative art | fractals | algorithmic music | AI-generated content
We believe the sharpest words do not simply describe the world. They reconfigure how we see, and what questions we dare to ask.
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