How do you see AI as a problem?

In this issue, we use collage to determine what the real issue is with AI.

• Do you believe it is the data centers? 
• The water consumption? 
• The artwork stealing? Something else entirely? 
• Depiction through collage can be abstract or literal. 

We are accepting physical or digital collage only (cut paper, zine aesthetics, Xerox distortion, archival disruption, assemblage scanned flat, etc.). The title is the problem with AI, so we will not be accepting any AI generated content.

No paintings, no photography alone, no illustration alone.

Collage must be the primary method and conceptual anchor.

We especially encourage submissions from artists who are multiply marginalised, chronically ill, disabled, trans, intersex, undocumented, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, low-income, and otherwise systemically excluded.

Benefits:

• Artists will receive a digital copy of the published work
• Credit lines and description of the artwork will accompany images in the issue
• We will provide promotion via Photosynthesis Magazine's growing social media (350~) 

WHO ARE WE?

Collage is on the rise as an art form and it is being explored in new and intriguing ways every day. 

As a new and independent magazine, we are here to highlight talented and thought-provoking artists that are not afraid to push the boundaries of what is socially acceptable. 

We are specifically keeping our eyes out for artists that cross lines that have been set by aristocratic elites and works that force us to ask again questions that we thought we had answered long ago.
What is art? Who gets to decide what art is? Who is allowed to make it?

An important part of collage work is how it tells stories in a torn and fractured way that no other art form can quite touch. 

It can be an artist's way of sorting thoughts and memories, a way of combining them, and a way of connecting them to new ideas and philosophies. 

We look for art that is beautiful, painful, emotion-filled, gory, devastating, aesthetic, clever, and political. 

Above all, it is crucial that the message behind the work is significant and purposeful. 

This magazine has been on Hiatus as the curator completed graduate school, and is now back in action due to the alarming political choices being made around the world.

The curator believes that now, more than ever, collage artists' voices are crucial.