DAISYWORLD MAGAZINE takes its name from the computer simulation of a hypothetical planet introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in a 1983 paper — a model world where the growth of black and white daisies regulates the global temperature, demonstrating how living organisms and their environment evolve as a single, self-regulating system. It is exactly the kind of reference that tells you everything about what this magazine is interested in: interconnectedness, feedback loops, the places where the human and the non-human blur.
Edited by Zazie Stevens and published seasonally, DAISYWORLD is an art publication devoted to perception, the sensory, ecology, and erotica — four words that sound unlikely together until you read an issue and realise they have been the same subject all along. Each edition launches between seasons, deliberately occupying the transitional space: appreciating experience, transition, and metamorphosis instead of anticipating the next big thing. The artist’s intimate knowledge, based on observation, becomes the tool for questioning anthropocentrism through beauty and language.
Four issues have been published. The third, titled ROT, Language & a Stray Butterfly, brought together contributors including Johanna Hedva, Hatty Nestor, Britt Browne, and Paige Emery, among many others. The fourth featured Craig P Burrows, Ananda Serné, and Mia You, with a cover by Serné and Poyen Wang. The contributor lists are international and cross-disciplinary — photographers, writers, mushroom cultivators, herbalists, poets — and the publication sits comfortably alongside titles at San Serriffe in Amsterdam, rile\*books, and BOOKSHOP LIBRARY in Bangkok.
In a media landscape that separates ecology from desire and beauty from critique, DAISYWORLD insists they are aspects of the same living system. The daisies regulate the temperature. The magazine regulates the attention.
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