Index
ISSUE 02
WHAT YOU’RE IN FOR
HELLO
Hello from Sofa
p. 5
Caia HageI & Ricarda
Messner say a Cyber-
love Hello.
COLUMN
Hello from Natasha
p. 6
Our issue II guest editor
Natasha Lennard says
Hi and shares her take on
cyberlove.
COLUMN
Sofa Hangout
p. 12
Features tunes and video-
games curated by gamer
Brie Code and a movie
quizzlet by our SOFA film
buff Hannah Sioda.
COLUMN
Cyberlove, Decoded
p. 14
Natasha, our guest editor,
Invites friends onto the
Digital SOFA to gchat
about what cyberloving
means to them.
Words: Natasha Lennard,
Moira Weigel,
Mychal Denzel Smith,
& Chelsea G.Summers
COLUMN
DOKTOR CHARLOTTE
p. 23
SOFA’s in-house Doktor
Charlotte shrinks statis-
tics on digital love and
contemporary sexiness.
Words: Charlotte
Wiedemann; Illustrations:
Yashasvi Mattis
BEDROOM
LAST MESSAGES
p. 28
Screenshots of texts that
people have received as
their last love messages.
Source:
lastmessagesreceived.
tumblr.com
COLUMN
FASHION FUTURISM
p. 29
Fashion’s ability to pre-
dict the future is given the
respect it deserves.
Right now, all eyes are on
the sleeve, which is get-
ting longer and longerrrr.
Words: Caia Hagel
SEXFILE SEV
p. 30
A sort-of-asexual gay
Millennial shares his take
on today’s cybersexuality.
Words: Sev Astor
Photos: Amanda Vincelli
FEAR & LOATHING
ON THE CYBERLOVE
HIGHWAY
p. 32
A witty and honest
dispatch about our most
humiliating Internet
behaviors while search-
ing for love.
Words: Matthieu Morge
Zucconi; Illustration:
Jan Buchczik
IN SNAPCHAT WE TRUST
p. 33
We all have a crush on
Snapchatting but it’s
actually the safest form
of saucy.
Words: Jenny Davis
INSTAGRAM DIARY
p. 34
Sometimes getting
naked on Instagram is
not only a digital strip-
tease but a non-verbal
portal to our soul.
Words: Rachel Rabbit
White; Illustration:
Adrien Tison
THE ART OF WEBCAM SEX
p. 35
There is more to web-
cam sex than flaunting
ourselves in front of
the cam. Alisa shares tips
and explains why it’s an
art in itself.
Words: Alisa Camp,
Illustration: Adrien Tison
WHAT'S A NUDE
BETWEEN FRIENDS?
p. 37
Our guest editor Natasha
chats to her BFF
Alana about their sisterly
(and sometimes nude)
cyberlove.
Words: Natasha Lennard,
Alana Massey
Illustration: Adrien Tison
SOFA FICTION
p. 38
VR futurama will never
be the same after this wild
fictional sexcapade.
Words: Kurt McVey,
Photos: Nikola Tamindzic
COLUMN
TRASHLAND
p. 45
Removing the hierarchies
between what’s deemed
“high” and “low” in
culture is our way of
transforming the smutty,
trashy and taboo in our
daily consumption
into forms of unfamiliar
wisdom. Trump has ar-
rived and it could be
that it was written in the
stars of RuPaul's Drag
Race: All Stars.
Words: Caia Hagel,
Konrad Kardashian
& Ricarda Messner
via Skype
CONTENTS
SOFAH is devoted to our mushrooming digital lives and our experiences inside them.
As always on the SOFA platforms, it’s healthy to disagree, as long as we listen to each other.
Our byline Life is a Chatroom embraces the fact that communication in its many contemporary forms is the currency the most influence on change.
BUSINESS
SENTIMENTAL MACHINES
p.48
Digital empathy exists
between humans
and machines. Christian
and Daniela tell Siri
"l love you”.
Words: Daniela Silvestrin
& Christian Rauch
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
p. 50
Our everyday Internet
lives lay in the privileged
techy hands of Silicon
Valley’s elite.
Words: Aaron Bornstein
Illustration: Per Tornberg
REORGANIZING
OUR DIGITAL SMUT
p. 53
How porn companies are
changing the industry's
vocabulary, and porn it-
self for a greater diversity.
Words: Natasha Lennard
AMATEUR ART REVIEW
p. 56
If art makes you cry, it's
good art - as our author
discovers when she
stumbles upon Hanne
Darboven’s posthumous
oeuvre in Chelsea.
Words: Erin O’Connor
NON-AMATEUR
ART REVIEW
p. 57
What is missing in the
Trump Tower Penthouse?
Art of course!
Words: Thibaut de Ruyter
FASHION
CYBERDREAMS
p. 58
Ande, Jane, Mayowa and
Marc have arrived in the
post-race-post-gender
dreamworld to dial us in
to fruitful cyberdreaming
Photography: Alexander
Coggin; Styling: Viviane
Hausstein
COLUMN
SOFA OBSERVATORY
p. 70
Beware: fake news and
hashtags infiltrate our
intimate Internet worlds
vying to influence us.
Words: The Editorialists
Illustrations:
Ben Mendelewicz
COLUMN
FLIX FILOSOFIE
p. 74
Hannah, our film philoso-
phy student and in-house
flix guru, looks at the
importance of remember-
ing to forget in a digital
era where almost nothing
disappears.
Words: Hannah Sioda
ACTIVISM
BITNATION
p. 78
How would the world look
without nation state
borders, in cybersocieties
that we create ourselves?
Q & A with Bitnation's
founder, Susanne
Tarkowski Tempelhof
& Caia Hagel
DIGITAL SWISS
ARMY KNIFE
p. 82
Nelson sheds light on
Wechat China to describe
its role in the commercial
revolution of Shanghai.
Words: Nelson Ng,
Illustration:
Errol Richardson
A VIRTUAL COVEN
p. 84
Liba tells the story of her
virtual meditation group.
Words: Liba Waring
Stambollion; Illustration:
Mirko Cresta
MATH & LOVE
p. 85
A poetic rant on love in a
world where math is too
often the ruling power.
Words: Andre Harris
COLUMN
SNACK TIME WITH GG
p. 86
SOFA’S own snack eater
talks digital spirituality
in LA while enjoying some
Chinese prawn crackers
Words: Grashina
Gahelmann
COLUMN
THE HUNGRY FOR
FORTUNE FORTUNE
COOKIE
p. 87
The HFF Q& A with
galerist Sebastian Hoffmam.
COLUMN
DIRTY PILLOW TALK
p. 88
What is the Orgasm
Gap? It’s the hippest (and
hottest) new frontier of
activism.
Q & A with Caia Hagel
& Lisa Wad;, Illustration:
Helene Jeudy
SLEEP HYGIENE
p. 91
Trolling the trolls and
diving into cyberhate is a
source, to an artist called
Zu, for writing provoca-
tive songs.
Q & A: SOFA with Zu from
Sleep Hygiene; Visuals:
Laura Knoops
COLUMN
SOFA INNOVATOR
p. 94
Our pin up is a woman
who turned her years
of being digitally slut-
shamed into serious cred
and creed. We love you
Monica Lewinsky.
Words: Ricarda Messner
GLOSSARY
p. 94
Net lingo is a whole new
language. If you don’t
get a term, we have likely
defined it here :)
