Dark, fast and heroically anti-social, Black Metal is perhaps more renowned for its practioners’ acts of violence and murder than its musical form. But is there more to it than burning churches and diabolical pseudonyms? Cameron Bain looks into the abyss

Marina Grzinic looks at a selection of recent photography from Japan

Rudy VanderLans is editor of the highly influential graphic design magazine Emigre and co-founder of the digital type foundry of the same name. He recently published Joshua Tree, the third in a series of books presenting photographs taken of the Southern California (SoCal) landscape.

In early summer 2001, violence exploded across several Nothern English towns. For many, the riots appeared to come out of the blue, but the building blocks of an explanation were soon in place - to be repeated by newspapers, TV, community spokespersons and state authorities. In the wake of events, Matthew Hyland reads on from 'irrational, mindless thuggery' to 'race riots' and representation.

Digital Diaries: risky
One step beyond Jennicam is Digital Diaries by Natacha Merritt. Natacha fucks people and photographs herself doing it. Edgy, voyeuristic, very real and already spreading virally among Mutoid porn fans. [Taschen £16.99]
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Digital Diaries: risqué

Alison Gill at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels - 12.9.96 - 9.11.96

Review of From Silver to Silicon

From Silver to Silicon reclaims the (photo-mechanical) past in order to make an argument about the (electronic) future. A CD-ROM about photography, culture and digital technologies, it declares itself as a(nother) speculation on the transition between two technologies of the image. Like many such works, it claims to wear its speculation with a difference.

Review of Aziz + Cucher's photography show