Electronic Life brings together speculative writings on AI, data culture, imaging and the ‘evolution’ of information. The publication title is in reference to James Lovelock’s book ‘Novocene’, which presents the hypothesis that AI represents the beginning of a new epoch. We can understand the basic unit of information, the ‘bit’, as ‘the fundamental particle from which the universe is formed’. Following which, the future world is one where ‘the code of life is no longer written solely in RNA (ribonucleic acid) and DNA, but also in other codes, including those based on digital electronics and instructions that we have not yet invented’. In short, humans are in the process of ushering in the new ‘electronic life’, which will not be a technology of humans but indeed a new species. (For more, see ‘Why Electronic Life?’) — Editor.