This journal highlights five artists and their significant works - Joseph Nechvatal, Lily Lack, Gretchen Bender, Sara Hornbacher, Paul Nichols.

Joseph Nechvatal: Grace Under Pressure

Nechvatal's work quietly proposes that the act of Scrutiny must be equal in its power to the spectacle of commercialized Sleep. These acts of scrtiny and their necessity are effectively implied by the use of a gray, Renaissance or tatoo-liked field or environment of super-statically charged images.

Lily Lack: Detergent

The credibility of the object is undercut by the institutional disarray of the product in Sheila, and the existential disarray of production in This is My Life.

Gretchen Bender: Total Effect - Neutralization and the Psychedelic Concept

Bender's psychedelic hyper-appropriated image-bound environment - comprising visual, computer-generated, and video work - asserts a disparate instrumentality in the aesthetics of neutralized signs.

Sara Hornbacher: Torque Habit

Hornbacher's work leads people to experience the rational mediation of images optically as a kind of static disfiguration of light. Also, her work summarizes the visual tautology involved in perception.

Paul Nichols: Transcendental Stasis

The cultural cliches and appropriated ad elements in Nichols's work set up a kind of cartoonish synthesis that enables us to look at the apparently arbitrary nature of the transcendental.