Nov 18, 2025 2 min read

New on Outland: The People's Tools

We're writing to announce the launch of Outland, the publication produced by Outland, a new, nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing and education in the field of art and technology. We've been invited to contribute a monthly column.…

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Nov 17, 2025 4 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Ron Bronson

Today's respondent is Ron Bronson. Ron is a service designer and Assistant Professor of Practice in Urban Technology at the University of Michigan.…

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Nov 10, 2025 2 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: András Szántó

Today's respondent is András Szántó. András advises museums, foundations, educational institutions, and corporations on cultural strategy and program development, worldwide.…

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Nov 3, 2025 5 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Leonardo Bravo

Today's respondent is Leonardo Bravo. Leonardo is an artist, educator, and curator. His work in the arts sector has exemplified building public and private partnerships that highlight the power of the arts to transform and catalyze vulnerable and underserved communities.…

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Oct 31, 2025 1 min read

No Ghosting! (and an editorial update)

Comrades, We thank the (thousands!🫠) of you who are reading, reacting, and writing to Soft Labor.…

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Oct 27, 2025 3 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Paul Chan

Today's respondent is Paul Chan. Paul is an artist who lives in New York. His work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, the Walker Art Center, and the Centre Pompidou, among others.…

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Oct 20, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 13: The Mother Lode

Dear Soft Labor, I am an artist. About a decade ago, I won a significant award—one that has helped launch and foster the careers of many in my thimble of a world.…

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Oct 14, 2025 2 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Hilary Greenbaum

Today's respondent is Hilary Greenbaum. Hilary is a New York‐based creative director, designer, and writer, currently serving as Director of Graphic Design and Brand Creative at the Whitney Museum of American Art.…

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Oct 6, 2025 4 min read

Vol. 1, No. 12: Feeling Conned

Dear Soft Labor, While a graduate student at a prominent research university, I had the opportunity to work with a cultural critic and activist whose work I greatly admired and even cited within my own thesis project.…

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Sep 29, 2025 4 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Damien Davis

Today's respondent is Newark-based artist, writer, and educator Damien Davis, whose work explores cultural representation and the recontextualization of symbols through digital and analog processes.…

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Sep 22, 2025 4 min read

Vol. 1, No. 11: Cult of Creativity

Dear Soft Labor, I’m a middle manager in what I’ll obliquely call a “cultural institution”—one characteristically rife with bureaucratic red tape, political infighting, and lack of process.…

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Sep 15, 2025 3 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Jarrett Fuller

Today's respondent is designer, writer, editor, educator, and podcaster Jarrett Fuller. Jarrett is Director of undergraduate program in Graphic and Experience Design at North Carolina State University.…

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Sep 8, 2025 4 min read

The Soft Labor Questionnaire: Jen Liu

Today's respondent is Jen Liu. Jen Liu is a New York based artist working in video, painting, sculpture and performance, on topics of Asian diasporic women, material flows in the global economy, and reviving archival artifacts.…

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Sep 2, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 10: Imposter Syndrome

Dear Soft Labor, I’m a writer who uses a pen name—a best-selling writer, in fact—and even better, I write young adult fiction that teeters on the edge of fantasy.…

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Aug 25, 2025 5 min read

Vol. 1, No. 9: Back to School Special

Dear Soft Labor, I’m an untenured film professor at a large west coast university with a particularly pernicious colleague. He openly harasses faculty and students right up to the very edge of what he can get away with, then continues a furtive campaign after that.…

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