Phase Zero Issue 09

The gritty visual language of New York City’s 70s underground art scenes and social movements is manifested in a slew of guerilla printed ephemera: Punk magazine, The East Village Eye, Provo flyers, the East Village Other. These DIY magazines and newspapers documented art and experimental music performances spanning across the city. Today, the emergence of chronically online internet culture has resulted in newer tactics for displaying content—endless scrolls and memes. Social media’s absurdist aesthetics seep into the visual language and social makeup of NYCs underground, creating a reality rooted in cyberculture networks and schemes. Phase Zero is an experimental-exploration-time-capsule-print-publication. It is an artifact attempting to document and critique the rapidly evolving culture and visual language of the current counterculture in NYC. Its DIY aesthetic, guerilla marketing, and rapid production mimics the tactics of 70s punk fanzines to contradict the internet aesthetic and