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An issue zero made together.

Numero Zero is a quarterly digital periodical about multimedia languages (video, generative art, sound, web), built by a community.

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Issue zero
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What it is

Each issue is an interactive page, with a theme and an order. An issue zero is the dress rehearsal of a publication, before it becomes periodical.

Who makes it. Artists, designers and people working with video, sound, graphics, web and generative art. The publication comes from the people who take part.

How often. Every three months. The quarterly rhythm is not just a calendar: it is how often the community comes together.

Where it comes from. From a thesis in New Technologies of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, and before that from Fiori d’Inchiostro, a collective imagined and never built.

With AI, declared. Artificial intelligence is used as a collaborator in the design, and every step is documented. Contributors are asked to say whether and how they used it.

How an issue is made

  1. First, the theme.

    Together with the community, so the call comes from the group.

  2. Then the work arrives.

    Anyone who wants to take part sends their work through a form, by a deadline.

  3. We meet in person.

    The contributions are presented and discussed together, as in zine culture.

  4. The issue comes out.

    A small editorial team selects, orders and builds the page. The works stay with the people who made them.

The four stages in full

From zine culture

Hands arranging photocopied fanzines with collage covers on a wooden table.
Photocopied fanzines · AI
A young woman in a bandana lifts a poster fresh out of a risograph printer.
Risograph printing · AI
A young man turns the crank of a mimeograph and the sheets stack up.
Mimeograph · AI
An artist with headphones patches cables into a video synthesiser beside three small colourful monitors.
Video synthesiser · AI
A zine fair table with booklets, stickers and prints, two sellers behind it and a visitor in front.
Zine fair · AI

Four ideas Numero Zero takes from zines, and brings to the web.

Community as origin
The publication comes from the people who take part, not from an editorial board speaking to an audience.
The issue as a unit
A closed whole, with a theme and an order, the opposite of the endless feed.
Periodicity
Every three months the community meets: the calendar is also a rhythm.
Declared curation
Selection exists, and it should be visible and in the hands of people, not of opaque mechanisms.

Where we are

  1. First year

    Fiori d’Inchiostro

    An imaginary collective and its periodical: the starting point.

  2. Research

    Zines, magazines, web

    From DIY culture to scrollytelling and the case studies.

  3. Design

    The system

    Identity, architecture and a template to make a new issue every three months.

  4. Ongoing

    The survey

    An anonymous survey on how people take part and use generative tools.

  5. Coming soon

    The pilot issue

    Theme, call, an in-person meeting and the first issue, with a real community.

The research diary

What the community gives you

A young person at a laptop surrounded by windows of other community members, a private folder and a handshake.
AI-generated illustration
A profile
Bio, up to four fields, city and links to your work. You decide whether to appear in the member list.
Your private space
Ideas, works and materials for the next issues. Only you and the editorial team can see them.
Collaborations
Propose an idea from another member’s profile. If they accept, you exchange emails.
The calls
They reach members and newsletter subscribers. You need to be at least 18 to sign up.