The Paper Radio duo of Benjamin Jones and Christopher Forgues, with their DIY aesthetic and countercultural convictions—sometimes aggressive, sometimes mellow—helped transform alternative comics in the first years of the twenty-first century.

With a long-awaited installation opening this month in Paris, pioneer video artist Dara Birnbaum discusses radical changes in technology and mass-media strategies, her own collaborative editing process, and her ongoing drive to meld personal and political concerns in her art.

Ubiquitous change and deterioration in both materials and spaces fascinate the thirty-four-year-old, New Orleans–born artist Zarouhie Abdalian, who is currently showing a selection of her altered objects in New York.