Welcome to Afterimage Volume 51, number 4. Among a myriad of other topics, this issue includes two distinct through lines: the histories and lingering traces of colonialism and how technology affects individuals’ conception of their place in community. We begin with the essay “Graphical User Interference” by David Caterini, which highlights the latter. In this essay, the author explores digital interfaces, arguing that they are encoded with implicit values that inform users’ behaviors and identities. Caterini notes that intended uses of software create idealized users, but that “artistic appropriation can cultivate nascent desires and subjectivities that question whom such an idealization is serving and that pluralizing the use of GUIs has the potential to shift how users envision themselves as well as their relationship to their communities.”

In this issue’s first peer-reviewed article, “Immersion into the Datascape: Ryoji Ikeda’s Data Composition in Screen-Centric Audiovisual Installation and Its Embodied Experience,” Joo...

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