Issue #1

Superimposition

Recycling AI

Conceived, designed and edited as part of the Postgraduate Course in Information Driven Design at ESAD, Superimposition — As Above So Below is a publishing platform interested in critically addressing contemporary issues.

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Exploring both research processes and republication of content and open to submissions Exploring both processes of investigation and republication of content and open to submissions, it develops an informational device materialized in a digital journal and a printed publication updated annually.

Our thinking is interested in cycles — their obsolescence and persistence, their power and evanescence — pays attention to information overlays, layers interconnected with other layers, trying to identify what reveals itself on the surface and what remains invisible waiting to take shape. We try to discover new landscapes where information circulates, critical thinking awakens and ethical, political and ecological issues are addressed. We immerse and emerge, in irregular cycles that try to make sense — as above so below

Perhaps these types of unexpected twists lead Allado-McDowell to later liken the experience to learning to play a new musical striking a chord and hearing it return with new overtones is not the first time a computer has authored a book. To name one notable prior example, in 2016, a Japanese research team