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Lost In Evolution can be defined as a linguistic atlas. We collected more than 100 words that are redefining the times we live in, complete with their definition and explanation. These chapters are linked by a sci-fi novel that narrates the events of a post-apocalyp- tic future. This novel was written by us both using our human hands and with an Al-based text creator program. The final output is a cyborg-esque story where identity, language, and technology merge together in a tale that involves all of us, as part of humankind. Every term is associated with its respective Glyph, created from an algorithm-genera- ted graphic program we designed. We used an Al-image generator to create the graphics which introduce every chapter. The glyphs, combined with the Al-generated artworks, create the visual language that got Lost In Evolution.
Capslock Magazine was officially born in 2018 starting from a common vision devel- ped by a creative collective from the Vicenza area. This diverse team brings together graphic and product designers, DJs, and creatives who share a strong passion: the concept of the avant-garde, whether it can be tran- smitted to the context of technology, art, design, video games, and music. The goal of this project is to investigate every creative field from an innovative and te chronological point of view.
Log 57 – Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . . Anyone Corporation,
USA, Architecture, Magazine, “Calls for more Blackness in architecture schools can be simplistic,” writes architect Darell Wayne Fields, guest editor of Log 57. Well-meaning equity and inclusion programs often simply “associate the mere presence of Black bodies with institutional change.” In Log 57, a 208-page thematic issue titled Black is . . . an’ Black ain’t . . ., 29 authors explore the complexities of Blackness as it relates to aesthetics and architectural pedagogy. As Fields notes, “In calling for more Blackness, I, for one, am calling for more Black methodology. An inherent characteristic of [which] is a measurement of difference.” To that end, Log 57 gathers essays and reflections on architectural pedagogies, both in academia and in practice, by Sean Canty, Michelle JaJa Chang, Ajay Manthripragada, and Mónica Ponce de León, among others. Projects by young designers for whom methodological concepts of Black Signification and bricolage are central are presented in a four-color section, and built works and a preservation effort channel difference as a generative force in real-world communities. “This work demonstrates what is possible when methodological change is real,” writes Fields. “Real change, like Blackness, makes us nervous. Black difference, however, is revolutionary.”
Contents
Chelsea Jno Baptiste, Savannah Cheung & Sahil Mohan, “VERSatile Method”
Tamara Birghoffer, “House for a House”
Kenneth Brabham Jr., “A Room for Jacob Lawrence”
Alex Cabana, “Fuller’s Spine”
Barrington Calvert, “Speakeasy for the Revolution”
Barrington Calvert & Nick Meehan, “Preservation Operations: A Guided Tour of American Legion Post 218”
Sean Canty, “All the Things You Are: Latency as an Aesthetic Practice”
Brian Cavanaugh & Darell Wayne Fields, “University of Oregon Black Cultural Center”
Michelle JaJa Chang, “Shadows and Other Things”
Eunice Chung, “Bigness and Blackness”
Matt Conway, “Drunk Datums”
Melinda Denn, “A House for Rosie Lee Tompkins”
Nitzan Farfel, “A House Is a Brothel”
Darell Wayne Fields, “Prologue to a Black Pedagogy”
Rachel Ghindea, “House for the Dead”
Mitzy González, “Nepantla: An Altar for Gloria E. Anzaldúa”
Fillip is pleased to announce the release of Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack, with contributions by Joar Nango, Ryan Gorrie, Timothy O’Rourke, David Thomas, Courtney R. Thompson, and Jenifer Papararo.
Supplement 7 traces Joar Nango’s artistic process, mapping the development of his temporary installation and sculpture Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack presented at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg) in 2019 as part of Stages. The publication features an interview between Nango and Indigenous architect David Thomas about an abandoned military barracks’ transformation into Canada’s largest urban reserve. It also includes a short essay by Indigenous architect Ryan Gorrie, in which he examines Circle of Life Thunderbird House in Winnipeg, designed by renowned Indigenous architect Douglas Cardinal. These texts are paired with critical writings by architecture lecturer Timothy O’Rourke and architecture scholar Courtney R. Thompson, who detail accounts of governmental suppression of Indigenous architectural and artistic ingenuity in both Australia and Canada.
DARA BIRNBAUM (A) Turning the Media Against Itself Michelle Kuo, Rahel Aima, and Emmanuel Olunkwa in conversation (B) I Fought Like Fucking Hell to Get Out of the Black Box Dara Birnbaum, Hito Steyerl, and Stuart Comer in conversation
ANDREA BRANZI (A) A Ribbon Running Through Andrea Branzi in conversation with Alessandro Rabottini (B) La Gioconda Sbarbata (The Shaved Mona Lisa, 1972) by Andrea Branzi (from Casabella, no. 363, March 1972)
LALA RUKH (A) Reading Lala Rukh by Saira Ansari (B) Interviews, Past and Present by Mariah Lookman
JULIE BECKER (A) The Delirium of Digression by Sabrina Tarasoff (from Mousse #76, Summer 2021) (B) Outside the Vitrine (Julie Becker, Sparkle Woman) by Mark von Schlegell (from Mousse #76, Summer 2021)
VAGINAL DAVIS (A) Vaginal Davis Troubles the Smile by Dodie Bellamy (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022) (B) The Royal We Vaginal Davis in conversation with Ron Athey (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022) (C) Anarchic Abundance, or The Art of Living by Amelia Jones (from Mousse #79, Spring 2022)
ROSEMARY MAYER (A) Nothing Independent of Its Circumstances by Wendy Vogel (from Mousse #73, Fall 2020) (B) Surroundings by Rosemary Mayer (from Art-Rite, no. 15, April 1977)
JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC SCHNYDER (A) Mister Neutral by Martin Herbert (B) On Schnyderian Art by Patrick Frey (from Parkett, no. 25, 1990)
Special 70th edition “THE STAR POWER ISSUE” (yellow cover).
THE BITCH IS BACK! See the return of pop’s most perennially talked about legend, Britney Spears, photographed by Mario Testino for our starpower issue. Plus: Joan Smalls by Alasdair McLellan, Carolyn Murphy by Danielle and Iango, and the best of spring fashion.
Contents:
Britney Spears photographed by Mario Testino Celine Dion Giselle Bündchen Stevie Wonder Liberace Lea T Zahia Dehar Power Agents Hollywood Legends L.A. Infamy
Texture Magazine Issue #2 is about proximity, growth, and the art of feeling as much as understanding – a fractallised approach to what sound can mean now.
From a radical relistening of silence to the intellectual demise of music altogether, the words contained within are to be held, shared, caressed and torn asunder. Also featured is writing on the sociopolitics of the nightlife industry, the place-making of UK Drill, and the meaning of gatherings in northern Sweden through the eyes of Pliny the Elder. Among many others, of course.
You are what you eat! Food is not only a basic need, it is deeply intertwined with most aspects of our lives — as individuals and communities. Foam Magazine #63: FOOD! – The Nourishing Issue looks at what we are made of, focusing on the ways food drives us apart, brings us together and moves us further — all at the same time.
Food fuels us, heals us and brings people together. Yet there is another side to food, which is more political and complex than it appears. Nourishment, ritual, sustainability, economy, labour, culture, ecology, community, exploitation, identity, politics: The collection of portfolios included in this issue are a testament to the variety of visual strategies addressing a few of such matters.
Next to 16 visual portfolios, we are thrilled to present an interview by Siddhartha Mitter with Anna-Alix Koffi on her work and the newly opened art space SOMETHING in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; a thoughtfully put together selection of Algerian photobooks in the bookshelf section by Awel Haouati; an essay on illegal labour in the food industry by Gustavo Duch; an account by Iroquois scholar Atlanta Grant on Indigenous ideas around food waste and recycling — and much much more.
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS & WRITERS Carson Cole Arthur, Clara Barbal, Joan Biren, Nao Bustamente, Samuel Bradley, Breadface, Kat Chan, David Chickney, Nha San Collective, Maisie Cousins, Gustavo Duch, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Laura Feliu, Gem Fletcher, Chandra Frank, Coco Fusco, Audrey Genois, Zahara Goméz Lucini, Rajyashri Goody, Atlanta Grant, Awel Haouati, Yining He, Chieri Higa, Hiên Hoàng, Hua Jin, Patricia Kaersenhout, George H. King, Kim Knoppers, Ana-Alix Koffi, Claudia Kussel, Charmaine Li, Sébastien Lifshitz, Florian Maas, Elisa Medde, Emily Hanako Momohara, Siddhartha Mitter, Paulo Nazareth. Beaumont Newhall, Ana Núñez Rodríguez, Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira, Paola Paleari, Sarah Perks, Valeria Posada-Villada, Peter Puklus, Rahee Punyashloka, Vivien Sansour, Stephanie Sarley, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Henry Rox, Amelie Schüle, Mark Sealy, George Selley, Sunil Shah, Aurélie Joycelyn Tiffy, Henk Wildschut, Guy Woueté, Gary Zhang Zhexi, Lin Zhipeng.
Mang Mang Magazine Vol. 1 is a Chinese-language independent magazine called “莽莽 Mang Mang” (meaning wild grass). The magazine includes articles, interviews, photos, and well-researched infographics documenting the recent wave of protests in China and in Chinese communities throughout the world that has led to the ending of the draconian Zero-Covid policy in China. Mang Mang Magazine Vol. 1 also deals with broader political and social issues (feminism, LGBTQ) and supports protests in Iran and Hong Kong, just to name a few.
