The Wire #486 August 2024 sport the Band of Thebes and

the Band of Thebes and the Lesbian Sappho

The exhibition House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm takes the common clichés about AI as an opportunity to talk about issues such as hidden human labor

Surf Life showcases these women’s creativity and coastal lifestyle

the mystery of poetry and the leaven of irony that transformed the “banal” into surprise and revealed its hidden and human face

10 interviews with selected contributors and jury’s comments on the winners

The Wire #486 August 2024 sport the Band of Thebes andWire is an independent music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. It celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and provocative,