On the cover: installation view of Sasha Stiles’s A Living Poem at MoMA, New York (2026).
Sasha Stiles: A Living Poem
- + Plotter school roundup
- + NextDraw tips and tricks
- + A conversation with Frieder Nake
Sasha Stiles’s A Living Poem invites us to reconsider language, technology, and being human. In our cover feature, she talks about her practice across poetry, AI, handwriting, and code, from her installation at MoMA to the personal history behind it.
Digital art pioneer Frieder Nake joins DAM Projects founder Wolf Lieser to talk about his earliest plotter drawings and what makes an artwork worth spending time with. We follow Larva Labs’ Autoglyphs and Meebits from digital works to plotted drawings, meet the artists and educators who teach plotting (Golan Levin, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Zach Lieberman and more), and Windell Oskay shares 21 tips for the NextDraw and AxiDraw.
Inside issue no. 4
- 6Editor’s LetterBre Pettis shares some issue highlights.
- 7ExhibitionsHighlights from recent shows of machine art.
- 1421 Tips & Tricks for Your NextDrawWindell Oskay shares lesser-known capabilities of NextDraw and AxiDraw plotters.
- 18The Secret Is in the DrawingsA pen plotter in a museum, drawings of voxel avatars, a treasure hunt, and engineered data that refuses to explain itself.
- 24The Poet in the MachineSasha Stiles plays with the algorithmic potential of an ancient medium.
- 30The Pioneer: Frieder NakeIn conversation with DAM Projects’ Wolf Lieser.
- 35So You Want to Go to Plotter SchoolAn informal guide to some of our favorite courses.
- 46New Challenge: Postcard PlotYour task: create art that travels.