The dawn of our new world
This week we've been happy/nervous/relieved/excited to introduce Spring/Summer 2025 and the next iteration of Metalabel. Which, most importantly, opens up this universe for all of us together to release and express our creative output how we best see fit.
All week we’ve been overwhelmed with projects — both the ones brought to us by our guest curators for this season (more on them in a moment) — as well as the people who have shown up to start making releases of their own.
To all of this we say with our loudest outside voices we say: YES THIS!
The Spring/Summer 2025 roster
We've made a whole gorgeous web experience to celebrate the artists releasing work with us in the coming months. To give you a sense of the range of people and projects who are part of this growing community, we've taken one sentence or phrase from each artist's bio and strung them together into a wild narrative of this new world.
Artists in BLOOM (a bio-poem)
One of the most influential voices in contemporary art. The filmmaker behind many of the creative documentaries you love. An artist collective of radical and rebellious storytellers spearheaded by Janelle Monáe. A conceptual artist with exhibitions at MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, and Performance Space. A Chicago-based volunteer-run publication. A NYC-based small press that specializes in poetry.
Hardware aesthetic luminary protocol light art. A multinational software and merchandise publisher by artist Cory Arcangel. A systems thinker who explores how computation can nurture systems for reimagination. A Toronto-based studio of video creators. A living legend NYC noise and sound artist. Playful, narrative work that blends websites, comics, and games. An independent musician whose work has earned 350M+ streams.
Dreamlike worlds that draw on video game aesthetics to explore simulation and nature. A painter, designer, and musician from Colombia who uses digital tools and traditional media. Spiritual technology inspired by the Wu-Tang Clan. An independent toy designer in Brooklyn, NY. A Chicago-based artist and animator whose work collides with skateboarding. The first museum-born cultural incubator. One of the most celebrated visual artists working today. A book that defines the past half-decade of the internet.
Place-based stories that reshape history, connect generations, and open new pathways for imagining the future. An exhibition project in Soho, NY, that helps artists sell their work. A non-profit organization committed to helping creative people make meaningful connections through in-person and online opportunities for collaboration and discussion. Nigerian-Canadian identical twin models and creative entrepreneurs. The writer and editor behind The Real Review.
Work examining the nature of perception, spirit, psyche and the soul in an age of hypermedia. A writer and artist whose work has been featured at MOCA, MoMA PS1, and BOMB Magazine. A CGI artist and animation director from Dubrovnik. New York City-based low-lit poetic synth-pop with hints of techno, shoegaze and post-punk. Space for slow making, material play, and imagining worlds through thread and fabric. Textiles that explore the complexities of femininity, identity, and emotional truth. An interdisciplinary studio that explores omitted histories. A book about how to see what’s hidden.
Our curators
These releases were brought to us and supported by a network of guest curators who brought in releases and creators from their networks. We've been grateful to work with them. They include Joshua Citarella, Rayna Holmes, Lena Imamura, Jazsalyn, Eric Montanez, Danielle Paterson, Sorrell Salb, Molly Soda, and Yancey Strickler. We'll be hearing more from these curators throughout the season.
Spring/Summer releases live now
Of the many releases we're celebrating this Spring/Summer, these six are live now. Give them an exploration:
Next week we'll be back to celebrate more of the new releases and new community growing here in this space. Thank you for being part of it.
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