Extra-Medium Issue 00 – Preview

A first look into Extra-Medium Magazine

Issue 00 explores how artists use their medium to interrogate interiority and the immaterial. Bringing together curated artworks, conversations with eight practitioners, and three essays, it maps distinct approaches to process, form, and meaning.

Featured Interview

Anthony Chit on Cho reflects on material sensitivity, intuition, and the shifting relationship between object, memory, and form.

Selected Works

A selection of artworks and visual fragments from the issue, tracing different approaches to image-making, atmosphere, and interior life.

Ramone “K” Anderson

Left: Loki Zero / Right: James Jordan Johnson

Collage – Ramone “K” Anderson.

Ross Deeley

Using Hitomi’s journey in The Vision of Escaflowne as a case study, Aziz Tarkhan examines the unstable mechanics of free will. Through anime, philosophy, and narrative analysis, the essay asks whether human choice is real or only ever shaped by forces already in motion.

“Hitomi chooses not to choose. Through her visions, she is aware that there are potential determined paths, but she accepts that the illusion of free will is how we should experience it.”

The Mechanics of Free Will by Aziz Tarkhan

Kendrick Lamar & Fundamentalism

by Ramone “K” Anderson

Following Kendrick Lamar’s music from his first EP to GNX, Ramone “K” Anderson explores how faithe volves under the pressures of culture, doctrine, and lived experience. Part criticism, part personal reflection, the essay moves through Christian fundamentalism toward a broader spiritual framework beyond rigid binaries.

“Reaching the apex of dysregulation, like Lamar, I too went looking for answers.”

Get the full issue

The full edition of Issue 00 is available now.

Foil bag, metallic foil cover, 177 pages, perfect bound, XM postcard and sticker.