Dear reader,
We hope you’re threading gently into the new year. We ourselves are having a very slow start, hence only a short(er) newsletter this time around.
TLDR:
Our next theme is “In the Archives” with a deadline 31 january 2025.
You can request to order a copy of CURSOR06 here (orders will be processed late January/early February)
Our first General Assembly as an association will be in early/mid February, most likely week 7, in Copenhagen. Sign up to be a member here.
Behind-the-scenes, the big theme for us this year is fundraising and finance. If you are interested in either, feel free to email Anna (me!) at anna@cursormag.net.
First, a brief thank you to everyone who made 2024 amazing: To all the contributors of Attention! and PLAY, the volunteers who dropped the issues of at various bookstores, event photographers & DJs, and our friends at Kritik Digital and Ethos lab, who we hosted events with last year. And of course, Ungdommens Demokratihus who became the home of CURSOR (the association) in 2024!
Looking forward, we are excited to read your submissions for CURSOR07: Into the Archives. The deadline is 31 january 2025, and we hope to get back to you not too long after. This is a theme that we have been especially excited about, and we hope that you’re just as interested as us to nerd out over what it means to keep personal archives, the age-old physical vs digital archiving debate, where our collective internet memory is going, and so forth. Email us at cursor@cursormag.net with any and all questions, or send us your pitch.
For first time writers: We would love to see an attached draft with your pitch, even if it’s very rough/bullet pointed, as we realise writing is a lot of work and we want to make sure that there is a clear idea of the scope before starting.
Our first General Assembly date will be sent out to members and on Discord soon. Only members have voting rights (and get the minutes — ooh!), so sign-up if you’re interested in helping CURSOR keep existing. Sign up here. Discord link here (redirects to the app).
One last thing - you can request to order a physical copy of CURSOR06 via our web form here. We’ll confirm orders late January/early February, where you will get a payment request, and we’ll ship shortly after. And yes, a smoother process is on our 2025 bingo card.
Thank you for staying with us in 2025 - we are excited to explore the archives with you and read/watch/experience your thoughts.
Big hugs,
the CURSOR team via Anna