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ZINE / INSTITUTION

Our philosophy

Human evidence in the age of infinite images.

AI can be useful, powerful and transformative. ZINE exists because some objects should still carry the trace of a person, a place, a material and time.

What from today deserves to exist 100 years from now?
01

Hand

Made physically by a human. Touch is not a romantic detail; it is part of origin.

02

Time

The work required real time: exposure, development, printing, drawing, firing, binding, recording or another witnessed process.

03

Story

Why the object exists is documented alongside what it is. Context does not decorate value; it helps create it.

04

Future

Materials, editions, conservation needs and preservation copies are recorded so the work can outlive the moment that produced it.

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See the Human Origin Standard

See the Human Origin Standard