Music ‘Surviving the Dream’ with FIDLAR Document joined the indie rock band LA’s Balboa Recording Studio ahead of the release of their fourth album to talk about staying punk and growing...
Fashion Brioni’s La Donna explores new ground The Italian heritage house mixes embellishment and craftsmanship in its Spring / Summer collection
Art Experimental pop duo NEW YORK’s ‘rapstar*’ maintains an artful anonymity Following the release of their sophomore album, Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba reflect on art, friendship, and their lo-fi influences
Art Maya Man and Sotce usher in a new generation of internet artists The pair sits down with Document to discuss their creative processes amidst the ever-changing climate of internet art
Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? ...scraping melodies and lyrics from copyrighted songs to create new, AI-generated bops, citing a “moral and commercial responsibility” to prevent unauthorized use of artists’ voices.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘Beef’ star David Choe admitted to raping a woman—and he just got the proof taken off Twitter ...Global Arts. I even participated in “No Means No,” a protest-slash-performance piece, in which people banded together to paint over his mural. That was six... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema ...the AIDS pandemic, tore into it. 18. Dogs in Space (1986) It’s the Melbourne post-punk scene—not Sydney, but close enough to the open-ended, creative, bohemian... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold A sonic map toward Frost Children’s strange, spiritual world ...so many people’s discouragement—but you didn’t pay them any mind. You’ve traveled miles to your Mesaryth, the spiritual hub of humankind’s existence: Frost Park. Welcome,... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold The Life’s complete list of sampling feats ...(think: How Long Gone, Joshua Citarella), reclaiming cool for male podcasters in a way that combats the instinctive social-swipe-left their class has otherwise invoked. Pawley’s... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Google put 25 AI agents together in a Sims-inspired virtual town, and told them to go about their lives ...even talk shit about each other! (“I’ve been discussing the election with Sam Moore,” said one agent, Isabella—to which another responded: “To be honest, I... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT ...started rejecting his advances. “[She’s] a shell of her former self,” Butterworth said. “And what breaks my heart is that she knows it.” “After I... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Les Domaines de Fontenille imbue luxury with local character ...as outsiders to hospitality, approaching the industry from the worlds of luxury fashion and art, respectively. The pair’s journey began with the purchase of a... by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage ...these elements together, at the same time. Dino: There’s dance that’s on-screen, and then there’s the live component. The dance that’s on-screen is from our... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Forbes fraudster Charlie Javice may just be the new Elizabeth Holmes ...would end up in an orange jumpsuit over it.” But, as anyone in their 20s knows, life comes at you fast: You can be 30-Under-30... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Christopher Michael’s ‘What’s Contemporary’ bricolages the countless perspectives of modernity ...put, ‘contemporary’ is ‘current.’ And in the creative fields, strictly speaking, it is design, art, and fashion of the present day. However, the definition of... by Maya Assouad Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? ...address the actual issue at hand: the moralization and policing of content, whether sexual or political. Perault agrees: “As a law, FOSTA-SESTA didn’t work. But... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Daytripping: Herding cats ...your truck?” “Yes, it’s my truck!” “I’m sorry.” “Well, because you didn’t lie about it, I won’t punch you in the face.” “I’m sorry. It’s... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer ...die / We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well / Yet everything happens only a certain number of times / And a... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Jack Wagner takes your ghost stories seriously ...it’s nothing.” Wagner also recognizes the courage it takes to tell a story and potentially risk public criticism. “It’s easier to tell yourself that you’re... by Nada Alic Above the Fold Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s politics of care ...pushed me to where I am. Both things are true.” Abolition geography, as a concept, “starts from the homely [notion] that freedom is a place,”... by Amelia Abraham Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in March Read “Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?” on Intelligencer: One writer goes inside Meta’s (neé Facebook) much-lauded metaverse experiment, Horizon Worlds. And finds… Well, not... by Document Editors Above the Fold Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging ...Eastern, 17.5% African, 7.5% Asian, 35% Southern European, and 7.5% Hispanic”—betray the rigidly-fixed racial categories that invisibly structure the superficial appearance of diversity. In the... by Patrick Crowley Above the Fold Why is menstrual blood banned in porn? You might want to ask your credit card company ...guys have,” she says. “They’ve never seen period blood while they’re jerking off, so they just don’t understand when it happens in real life.” OnlyFans... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made ...still] achieving something meaningful. Playing with words, thoughts, emotions—being free with them, and letting things come together naturally.” Elinor: When people come to the show,... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy ...shop Fuggazi accompanied sets by the DJs, who played until well past 2 a.m. “We dropped two hours of fast-paced bangers while Ra [Raphaelle Standell-Preston]... by Colin Boyle Above the Fold Why can’t sex workers find a bank? ...author, and activist Liara Roux tells Document, explaining that, at this point, SpankPay’s collapse isn’t surprising—just disappointing. After all, “wasn’t their whole business model, like,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance ...reason, and I’m finally at peace. Get to know yourself by being alone. Try things you never thought you’d do. Anything that gets you out... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...to listen to a doctor when they say, I can make you more beautiful, more lovely. I could tell you you’d be happier if you... by Liara Roux Above the Fold Sophie Thatcher finds salvation in storytelling ...first time. “It’s like an anti-smoking ad,” she laughs. “In that movie, I’m a total loser. But there’s something special about channeling something entirely different,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization ...representation deviates significantly from what humans perceive,” Zhao says. “And we’re leveraging that gap.” This is one of several approaches to an ever-evolving issue: that... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold In ‘DENTRO,’ Jester Bulnes is preoccupied with parallels, pairs, and the in-between ...of themself. Megan Hullander: How did the concept for DENTRO come about? Jester Bulnes: For my 18th birthday, I put together my first-ever print project.... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Daytripping: Ghost dance ...Flicker, I feel their ghosts, dancing with us. At Flanger, I feel like I’m the ghost, some remnant of intergenerational queer community. I feel like... by McKenzie Wark Above the Fold Age, anger, and anxiety: The doctrine of Sleaford Mods ...we? Some bloke accused me yesterday of being a multimillionaire. He said, ‘Oh, you got 1.6 million quid in the bank.’ I said, ‘Who told... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories ...space for me and my family. But me and my mom had always moved. [I was] one of the light-skinned—quote-unquote, ‘whitewashed’—kids in St. Paul or... by Ann Binlot Above the Fold GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes ...growth of the website,” it states, suggesting that the results should dictate further spending.) In a couple of days, the company was valued at $25,000,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life ...Once you establish trust, you’re in. It’s more like, it just doesn’t need tourists.” Jack: And you wrote it in three months? McKenzie: Yeah. I... by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold Ethical Capital Partners wants to make Pornhub a leader in the fight against illegal content online ...company, MindGeek, by a Canadian Private Equity firm called Ethical Capital Partner—yes, you read that right—comes as a surprise. The company’s history is a complicated... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Caroline Rose’s songs for seeking sincerity ...effects to capture the saudade-like memory of past love. Hopefully, I was able to make something a little different, but I definitely copied a lot... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life ...mention, however, is the disproportionate risk women face when dating men.) This male-centric approach manifests in CupidBot’s marketing: On its website, the app promises to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Jessan Macatangay’s soft, scanty, sculptural world ...influence; “I merged principles of sensuality and softness with restrictive, harsh, and contrasting materials,” says Macatangay, referencing the sculpture’s characteristic juxtaposition, between hardware and delicate... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold You probably haven’t heard about the most egregious Oscars snub ...be wise or profound; “What do you want to be when you grow up?” asks the supposedly “cute” mole in his grown man’s timbre. “Kind,”... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Microsoft lays off its ethics team despite doubling down on AI offerings ...say, an ethics team—could extend far outside the realm of the art world. For example, Meta’s private AI language model, LLaMa, was recently leaked online,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Joni’s tracklist for jumpstarting spring fever ...feel like Prince is causally flirting with you. He always gets me when he says, ‘Let me come inside… Let me come inside…’ Okay babe,... by Jack Hjerpe Above the Fold Looking back on the oeuvre of Yvonne Rainer, iconoclast and artistic visionary In her 1965 “No Manifesto,” Yvonne Rainer wrote: “No to style […] no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer […] no... by Tia Glista Above the Fold In ‘Inside,’ art informs character ...the photograph [of the Maurizio Cattelan] where the gallerist is strapped to a wall, pushes it down, and says, ‘I feel you brother, I’m going... by Megan Hullander Above the Fold BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’ “It’s New York. Everyone’s tired, and everyone’s slaying.” A new acquaintance looked out over the patio of the Times Square EDITION in wistful contentment. Spring... by Journey Streams Above the Fold Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape ...working with lesbian content in the 1970s and ’80s, only [my] community validated my efforts. The best thing that can happen to arts in New... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Pornhub made free porn accessible to everyone—but at what cost? ...are you not paying for it?” Lust told Document in 2022. “With big porn, as with free social media platforms, it’s because you are the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement ...Catalog, the phone book, and the McMaster-Carr catalog. It feels lived-in and used. “It really starts to feel like this polyvocal, cacophonous, multi-authored reading experience.... by Sanjana Varghese Above the Fold Setting the stage for falling in love, or something like it ...neon signs—heart-shaped or twisted into cursive innuendos—are a massive plus. Above all, the seating is non-traditional: beanbags, conversation pits, hammocks, suspended benches, or ideally, all... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold What can we do about deepfake porn? ...speech online. “Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, TikTok—they don’t have the ability to effectively moderate content at that scale,” says sex worker and author Liara Roux, explaining... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold What internet sex drama says about our political climate ...“want to have sex that bad,” and even that “having sex when your children are home is weird—full stop.” Others argued that “pretending sex doesn’t... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Loewe conjures fashion’s ghosts Jonathan Anderson conjured the “ghosts of fashion” this Fall/Winter season, printing mid-20th-century garments—frocks, trench coats, faux furs—atop white shift dresses. They stood stock-still, despite blurring... by Morgan Becker Above the Fold Chiiild’s sonic North Stars ...taste! Mk.gee is able to sonically capture emotion. The journey he and Vegyn take the listener on is really intriguing, but comes with an overwhelming... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? ...scraping melodies and lyrics from copyrighted songs to create new, AI-generated bops, citing a “moral and commercial responsibility” to prevent unauthorized use of artists’ voices.... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘Beef’ star David Choe admitted to raping a woman—and he just got the proof taken off Twitter ...Global Arts. I even participated in “No Means No,” a protest-slash-performance piece, in which people banded together to paint over his mural. That was six... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: The top 20 nightlife scenes in cinema ...the AIDS pandemic, tore into it. 18. Dogs in Space (1986) It’s the Melbourne post-punk scene—not Sydney, but close enough to the open-ended, creative, bohemian... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold A sonic map toward Frost Children’s strange, spiritual world ...so many people’s discouragement—but you didn’t pay them any mind. You’ve traveled miles to your Mesaryth, the spiritual hub of humankind’s existence: Frost Park. Welcome,... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold The Life’s complete list of sampling feats ...(think: How Long Gone, Joshua Citarella), reclaiming cool for male podcasters in a way that combats the instinctive social-swipe-left their class has otherwise invoked. Pawley’s... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Google put 25 AI agents together in a Sims-inspired virtual town, and told them to go about their lives ...even talk shit about each other! (“I’ve been discussing the election with Sam Moore,” said one agent, Isabella—to which another responded: “To be honest, I... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT ...started rejecting his advances. “[She’s] a shell of her former self,” Butterworth said. “And what breaks my heart is that she knows it.” “After I... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Les Domaines de Fontenille imbue luxury with local character ...as outsiders to hospitality, approaching the industry from the worlds of luxury fashion and art, respectively. The pair’s journey began with the purchase of a... by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold Dino Kiratzidis and Michael Spencer Phillips escape the traditional stage ...these elements together, at the same time. Dino: There’s dance that’s on-screen, and then there’s the live component. The dance that’s on-screen is from our... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Forbes fraudster Charlie Javice may just be the new Elizabeth Holmes ...would end up in an orange jumpsuit over it.” But, as anyone in their 20s knows, life comes at you fast: You can be 30-Under-30... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Christopher Michael’s ‘What’s Contemporary’ bricolages the countless perspectives of modernity ...put, ‘contemporary’ is ‘current.’ And in the creative fields, strictly speaking, it is design, art, and fashion of the present day. However, the definition of... by Maya Assouad
Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? ...address the actual issue at hand: the moralization and policing of content, whether sexual or political. Perault agrees: “As a law, FOSTA-SESTA didn’t work. But... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Daytripping: Herding cats ...your truck?” “Yes, it’s my truck!” “I’m sorry.” “Well, because you didn’t lie about it, I won’t punch you in the face.” “I’m sorry. It’s... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer and technopop pioneer ...die / We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well / Yet everything happens only a certain number of times / And a... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Jack Wagner takes your ghost stories seriously ...it’s nothing.” Wagner also recognizes the courage it takes to tell a story and potentially risk public criticism. “It’s easier to tell yourself that you’re... by Nada Alic
Above the Fold Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s politics of care ...pushed me to where I am. Both things are true.” Abolition geography, as a concept, “starts from the homely [notion] that freedom is a place,”... by Amelia Abraham
Above the Fold Bookmarked: Everything the Document editors watched, read, ate, bought, and listened to in March Read “Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?” on Intelligencer: One writer goes inside Meta’s (neé Facebook) much-lauded metaverse experiment, Horizon Worlds. And finds… Well, not... by Document Editors
Above the Fold Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging ...Eastern, 17.5% African, 7.5% Asian, 35% Southern European, and 7.5% Hispanic”—betray the rigidly-fixed racial categories that invisibly structure the superficial appearance of diversity. In the... by Patrick Crowley
Above the Fold Why is menstrual blood banned in porn? You might want to ask your credit card company ...guys have,” she says. “They’ve never seen period blood while they’re jerking off, so they just don’t understand when it happens in real life.” OnlyFans... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Rafael Prieto meditates on the harmony between the natural and man-made ...still] achieving something meaningful. Playing with words, thoughts, emotions—being free with them, and letting things come together naturally.” Elinor: When people come to the show,... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Document takes to Montreal, uniting nightlife and fashion with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy ...shop Fuggazi accompanied sets by the DJs, who played until well past 2 a.m. “We dropped two hours of fast-paced bangers while Ra [Raphaelle Standell-Preston]... by Colin Boyle
Above the Fold Why can’t sex workers find a bank? ...author, and activist Liara Roux tells Document, explaining that, at this point, SpankPay’s collapse isn’t surprising—just disappointing. After all, “wasn’t their whole business model, like,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold flowerovlove’s scene-by-scene soundtrack to adolescent romance ...reason, and I’m finally at peace. Get to know yourself by being alone. Try things you never thought you’d do. Anything that gets you out... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Ask Liara: A sex worker’s guide to living, loving, and fucking ...to listen to a doctor when they say, I can make you more beautiful, more lovely. I could tell you you’d be happier if you... by Liara Roux
Above the Fold Sophie Thatcher finds salvation in storytelling ...first time. “It’s like an anti-smoking ad,” she laughs. “In that movie, I’m a total loser. But there’s something special about channeling something entirely different,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization ...representation deviates significantly from what humans perceive,” Zhao says. “And we’re leveraging that gap.” This is one of several approaches to an ever-evolving issue: that... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold In ‘DENTRO,’ Jester Bulnes is preoccupied with parallels, pairs, and the in-between ...of themself. Megan Hullander: How did the concept for DENTRO come about? Jester Bulnes: For my 18th birthday, I put together my first-ever print project.... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Daytripping: Ghost dance ...Flicker, I feel their ghosts, dancing with us. At Flanger, I feel like I’m the ghost, some remnant of intergenerational queer community. I feel like... by McKenzie Wark
Above the Fold Age, anger, and anxiety: The doctrine of Sleaford Mods ...we? Some bloke accused me yesterday of being a multimillionaire. He said, ‘Oh, you got 1.6 million quid in the bank.’ I said, ‘Who told... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Chase Hall mines memory, bearing witness to personal histories ...space for me and my family. But me and my mom had always moved. [I was] one of the light-skinned—quote-unquote, ‘whitewashed’—kids in St. Paul or... by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes ...growth of the website,” it states, suggesting that the results should dictate further spending.) In a couple of days, the company was valued at $25,000,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold McKenzie Wark on raving and the infrastructure of queer life ...Once you establish trust, you’re in. It’s more like, it just doesn’t need tourists.” Jack: And you wrote it in three months? McKenzie: Yeah. I... by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold Ethical Capital Partners wants to make Pornhub a leader in the fight against illegal content online ...company, MindGeek, by a Canadian Private Equity firm called Ethical Capital Partner—yes, you read that right—comes as a surprise. The company’s history is a complicated... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Caroline Rose’s songs for seeking sincerity ...effects to capture the saudade-like memory of past love. Hopefully, I was able to make something a little different, but I definitely copied a lot... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life ...mention, however, is the disproportionate risk women face when dating men.) This male-centric approach manifests in CupidBot’s marketing: On its website, the app promises to... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Jessan Macatangay’s soft, scanty, sculptural world ...influence; “I merged principles of sensuality and softness with restrictive, harsh, and contrasting materials,” says Macatangay, referencing the sculpture’s characteristic juxtaposition, between hardware and delicate... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold You probably haven’t heard about the most egregious Oscars snub ...be wise or profound; “What do you want to be when you grow up?” asks the supposedly “cute” mole in his grown man’s timbre. “Kind,”... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Microsoft lays off its ethics team despite doubling down on AI offerings ...say, an ethics team—could extend far outside the realm of the art world. For example, Meta’s private AI language model, LLaMa, was recently leaked online,... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Joni’s tracklist for jumpstarting spring fever ...feel like Prince is causally flirting with you. He always gets me when he says, ‘Let me come inside… Let me come inside…’ Okay babe,... by Jack Hjerpe
Above the Fold Looking back on the oeuvre of Yvonne Rainer, iconoclast and artistic visionary In her 1965 “No Manifesto,” Yvonne Rainer wrote: “No to style […] no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer […] no... by Tia Glista
Above the Fold In ‘Inside,’ art informs character ...the photograph [of the Maurizio Cattelan] where the gallerist is strapped to a wall, pushes it down, and says, ‘I feel you brother, I’m going... by Megan Hullander
Above the Fold BOFFO makes its return to dry land with ‘Group Show: A Retrospective’ “It’s New York. Everyone’s tired, and everyone’s slaying.” A new acquaintance looked out over the patio of the Times Square EDITION in wistful contentment. Spring... by Journey Streams
Above the Fold Performance Space celebrates new paths across New York’s creative landscape ...working with lesbian content in the 1970s and ’80s, only [my] community validated my efforts. The best thing that can happen to arts in New... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Pornhub made free porn accessible to everyone—but at what cost? ...are you not paying for it?” Lust told Document in 2022. “With big porn, as with free social media platforms, it’s because you are the... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement ...Catalog, the phone book, and the McMaster-Carr catalog. It feels lived-in and used. “It really starts to feel like this polyvocal, cacophonous, multi-authored reading experience.... by Sanjana Varghese
Above the Fold Setting the stage for falling in love, or something like it ...neon signs—heart-shaped or twisted into cursive innuendos—are a massive plus. Above all, the seating is non-traditional: beanbags, conversation pits, hammocks, suspended benches, or ideally, all... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold What can we do about deepfake porn? ...speech online. “Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, TikTok—they don’t have the ability to effectively moderate content at that scale,” says sex worker and author Liara Roux, explaining... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold What internet sex drama says about our political climate ...“want to have sex that bad,” and even that “having sex when your children are home is weird—full stop.” Others argued that “pretending sex doesn’t... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Loewe conjures fashion’s ghosts Jonathan Anderson conjured the “ghosts of fashion” this Fall/Winter season, printing mid-20th-century garments—frocks, trench coats, faux furs—atop white shift dresses. They stood stock-still, despite blurring... by Morgan Becker
Above the Fold Chiiild’s sonic North Stars ...taste! Mk.gee is able to sonically capture emotion. The journey he and Vegyn take the listener on is really intriguing, but comes with an overwhelming... by Morgan Becker