In the following pages, four artist/researchers present their work in print form for Art Journal. What unifies their individual approaches is a shared attempt to deploy the aesthetics of truth in order to raise criticality. By aesthetics of truth, I mean an intellectual manipulation of visual codes that signify a truth claim. To be clear about what this entails, examples might include videotaped confessions, textbook-inspired design strategies, and experimental lectures in which claims are asserted that are, in fact, inaccurate, if not flagrantly false. Yet these projects do not simply manipulate the visuality of what may lead us to accept them as truth but, more important, they use this method critically to raise concrete historical issues. Their work is not simply sign play. The subjects of the individual projects range from Ninjitsu to beekeeping to the prison industry to the United States-backed coup in Chile. Generally, these artists work in a wide array of media including video, installation, and performance-based presentations such as lectures, laboratories, or street actions.