Unknown Quantities
Edition 10

Saturation

From the Editors

When the UQ10 team began discussing a potential theme we could address with our milestone 10th issue, a common theme ran throughout our conversations: the Internet. Not just the Internet, the mass of content which is uploaded every second of the day and how it impacts all of us in different ways. How can we describe this phenomenon? The term Saturation suggests excess, excess of content to a point that it becomes no longer bearable. We find this term acutely relevant when considering the barrage of information on the Internet, seemingly "trivial" to "groundbreaking". It is too much for our brains to consume; how can we navigate the masses of information we are presented with at the click of a button?

While this question remains unanswered U010 draws the focus to the impacts of the saturated Internet on its users. We have contributions that span a wide range of contexts such as Amelia Kedge's autoethnography [A Perfect Week], which provides a humorous take on the performative nature of social media. A stark contrast is the highly emotive work of Rola Lee whose artwork "Ignorer" investigates how Internet censorship filters information and ignores the actual human emotions. UQ10 challenges practitioners and readers to respond to aspects of the theme of "Saturation" they resonate with. The physical format of the journal provides refuge from the screens which dominate so many aspects of our lives. The thoughts of our contributors are printed and bound, in order to avoid getting lost in the noise of the Internet. We hope our publication not only contributes to a contemporary conversation but creates a time-capsule which voices anxieties, insecurities and concerns regarding the Internet world in 2022.

Editorial

HE Ziqing Myoungae Kim Ella Krispel LEI Jingyan Rosie Mell David Morrison Charlotte Parr-Burman XUE Yiwen

Contents

Describe Yourself in One Word Carla Adams Lun Lin Lu Lin & XUE Yiwen Sasa Annual Report 2022 Sulki & Min Your Imagination is More Powerful Than the Internet Chris Lewis DullDream™ Constant Dullaart The Endless Doomscroller Ben Grosser A Perfect Week Amelia Kedge Second Life TAO Yifan Why and How Society Ended Up in a State of Perma-Flux Jenny Brewer Untitled YIN Yifan Out of Office Nastja Säde Rönkkö The Sweet Screen Studio Moniker Red Dark Nest YU Qing Ignorer Rola Lee We Weren't Meant to See This Many Beautiful Faces Felicity Martin After Waking Up HAI Zhexin The Color Dot Font Martin Grasser Rain-Demic YU Qing The Series of Source Seungkeun Jang Are We All Addicts Now? Katriona Beales Now I Am On Garments XIE Mo Tasia Sugiyanto Search Notices HAI Zhexin Missing Persons GUO Dumo Northern Fairy Tale Heloise Xinxin Heloise Home HE Ziqing My Social Anxiety Stories LI Yanying Growing Naturally ZHANG Xingyong Monsters PAN Wenjie OffSpring CHEN Jiarong Chinese-English Language-Hybrid Liao Geyu Greece

Details

• 176 x 250 mm
• 127 pages
• Printed by Unknown Quantities at Central Saint Martins
• Printed on various papers by GF Smith
• ISSN 2055-1479

With thanks

We are grateful to Central Saint Martins MA Culture, Criticism and Curation and MA Graphic Communication Design for providing us with a platform for realising our visions, which can be captured in a physical publication and kept on a shelf instead of a cloud drive.

We are thankful to the 28 contributors who provide us with thought-provoking works that manifest a common struggle of our generation. We are also thankful to our tutors and peers for giving us support and teamwork.

Unknown Quantities 10 [Saturation] is a collaboration of love and friendship, which we sincerely appreciated as part of our journey.

Special thanks:
Isabel Albiol Estrada
Stephen Barrett
Matthew Chrislip
Alison Green
Nick Kimberley
Anna Nikolova

Paper kindly provided by GF Smith

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