Higher Arc #1

The inaugural issue of Higher Arc magazine includes:

accuracy, archives, art, big names/no names, clumsiness, collating, conflict, conspiracy, dialogue, editing, experiments, knowledge, literature, lectures, new sincerity, old jokes, projects, reading, TIME, the hand, transcription, writing…

Akiko Watanabe, Alasdair McLuckie, Andrew Murray, Anna Heyward, Andrew Liversidge, Bill Peit, BLESS, Chris Barton, ffiXXed, Gian Manik, HIMAA, John Kleckner, Lindsay August-Salazar, Manuel Buerger, Matthew Griffin, Martin Bell, Mieke Chew, Miles Allinson, Misha Hollenbach, Nicholas Ashby, Pat Foster and Jen Berean, Th. Baldishwyler, Thomas Jeppe, Tim Hillier, Tin & Ed, TONK, Tom Ellard, William Heyward.

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Fotograf #17: Amateur Photography

“Amateurism, the theme of this issue, is a phenomenon that has been tied to photography not from the medium’s very beginning, but rather from the period when taking photographs became accessible to a broader range of social classes. At the start, photography was an exclusive, very demanding process (both operationally and cost-wise) that was however gradually simplified. Over time a business element entered into the process: sellers not just of cameras, but also of photo materials, chemicals, etc. had an interest in the maximum expansion of the market and thus in the gradual simplification of process. The result of this effort was the gradual permeation of photography into a wide array of layers of society.” – Pavel Baňka, Editorial

Czech/English
110 Pages
ISBN: 9-771213961006

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Cine Qua Non #4

Bilingual Arts Magazine – Winter/Spring 2011 #4

Cine Qua Non is an arts magazine of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) built up by movements in written form that freely crisscross reflections, reviews or essays; movements that relate music to visual arts, dance to theatre, cinema to literature. This publication intends to submit its readers to a unique editorial approach that gathers artists, researchers and teaching staff, Portuguese or foreign, proposing texts of different nature about diverse artistic expressions. Cine Qua Non is, since its first printed issue, an entirely bilingual publication (Portuguese/English) that is presented in both versions: an online edition and a printed one.

INDEX
|| EDITORIAL | DISQUIET
Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva

|| WONDERING IN HUMANITIES:
THE BELLIGERENCE OF THE BELLETRISTIC
Margarida Vale de Gato

from abroad

|| 30 DAYS OF STORYTELLING
Luísa Alpalhão

|| IMAGE DRAMATURGY
Krystian Lada

|| WAITING FOR A MISTAKE
Brian Putnam

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Essays

|| “MACHINES TO GENERATE DESIRE”: AVANT-GARDE MANIFESTOS AND GUERRILLA ADVERTISING
Julian Hanna

|| ÉTANT DONNÉS: 1º LA CHUTE D’EAU. 2º LE GAZ D’ECLAIRAGE
VS L’ORIGINE DU MONDE
Catarina Patrício

Inside of

|| MY DISQUIET, MY SOLACE
João Botelho

|| GLORIA OR HOW PENELOPE DIED OF BOREDOM
FROM THE TEXT TO THE STAGE – THE MOORED ROPE
Cláudia Lucas Chéu

|| TWENTY FINGERS ON A PIANO
Tiago Patrício

QUID JURIS
|| FACEBOOK AND THE PROTECTION OF YOUR FEATURED CONTENTS
Pedro Ramos Almeida

SPOILER
|| JAMES DEAN, EGYPT, DEOLINDA
Jorge Vaz Nande

144 pages
English / Portuguese
ISSN: 1647-4198

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Zweikommasieben Magazin #1: August 2011

Texte: Jasmina Serag, Marc Schwegler, Daf Huser, Tobias Brucker, Remo Bitzi
Lektor / Bildrecherche: Patrick Alexander
Fotographien: Judith Blum, Jose Baez, Daf Huser, Will Saul
Gestaltung: Kaj Lehmann

This issue features: Mount Kimbie, Gold Panda, Hippos in Tanks, Tim Hecker, Will Saul

All texts in German

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Komfort Mag #6

Komfort on the trail. A precisely executed deduction, direct evidence and the subsequent cross examination lead to a confession. The upcoming summer issue of the visual magazine Komfort will bring you a crime-themed photo series by Michal Šeba, the author of a successful exhibition at the Prague Rudolfinum; photos of confiscated objects by Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer; the trauma of Czech detectives, dealing with a real and unsolved mystery of the mass murderer Hubert Pilčík will be covered in a picture reconstruction by Michal Adamovský. The project Selection, where Dominik Hejtmánek and František Polák collect anonymous photographs from private archives and work with the nostalgic energy of this medium, will be presented in the curatorial selection of Václav Jirásek. Scenes from the Diary of the Maid will be provided by Petra Steinerová, and everything will be accompanied by prose from the tough school of Jan Čumlivský.

Language: English / Czech

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der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis, issue e like “Eis” (ice), Summer 2011

“der:die:das is a mono thematic magazine based in Zurich. It draws its inspiration from objects of everyday life. Our relationship with the mundane is put to question and deconstructed through the investigation of objects, ideas and stories. The familiar is staged in an unfamiliar way while the alien in the usual is discovered.”

der:die:das is published every sixth month in German with an English translation.
Contributors “der:die:das – ausgabe e wie Eis”:
Francis Alÿs, Florian Ammann, Nicole Bachmann, Big Zis, Michael Bodenmanna, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Etzensperger, Helve & Christian, Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch, Véronique Hoegger, Michael Hunziker, Stefan Jäggi, Alban Kakulya, Aleli Leal, Andreas Lutz, Jon Mathiey, Melanie Matthieu, Irving Penn, Hans-Ruedi Rohrer, Barbara Signer, Remo Stoller, Gabriela Weidmann

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It’s Nice That #6

It’s Nice That is a tri-annually published arts and culture magazine. Including in-depth interviews and articles focussing on, and written by, practitioners from all over the world, It’s Nice That publishes original content in a format that gives the work the respect it deserves.

The sixth issue of It’s Nice That includes interviews with George Lois, Lawrence Weiner, Asger Carlsen, Kate MacGarry, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard. Features on or by Marion Deuchars, Keith Haring, Carl Kleiner and Chaz Bundick among others alongside a selection of work recently featured on the blog.

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Lotto Magazin und das Spiel ums Ganze – 1 aus 6

There is an idea. It says: human identity consists of six different zones which fit together as an entity. Every individual human being tries its best to keep these different areas of identity stable and firm. If one fails, the loss of identity is inevitable. The six zones mentioned consist of: a soundly relationship to other people, an emotional connection to different places, a mental association with objects and things, an integretion in certain organisations and communities, a well-balanced relation to power and obsession and last a dynamic definition of ideals: ideas in a value system. And this is what the first issue is all about. The „idea“ in a sense of a discourse about humanistic values is looked into by as many different angles, grades of abstraction and artistic interpretations as possible. Aspects like religion, philosophy, devotion and avocation, morality and ethics, science and politics are considered within this context as well. And each little part of the human constitution which is thereby explored and reckoned from another point of view helps us to find our complete identity and stability as an individual and within human society.

Editor-in-Chief: Matthias Straub
Art Direction: Wessinger und Peng
Photography Editor: David Späth

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Nero No.26 – Spring/Summer 2011

NERO is a quarterly magazine dealing with contemporary culture. Created in 2004, it has a circulation of 60.000 copies and is distributed widely in Europe and the US. The team behind NERO also works in curating, art direction and production of contemporary art events and exhibitions. The publishing department, under the name Produzioni NERO, works in the production of artist’s editions, alongside catalogues and books commissioned by museums, foundations and private collections.

Content:
WIKI DIARY pt.2, POLITICS AND THE AVANT-GARDE, THE INFINITE CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 HEAD-HUNTERS, TOPOLOGIES OF CULTURE(S) ON THE SEMIOTICS OF DRY STONE WALLS, TROVATELLI, A CLOCK THAT RUNS ON MUD, THE MEANING OF MY AVANT-GARDE HILLBILLY AND BLUES MUSIC, CHÈRE STURTEVANT, COMPOSITES, SEE YOU AT PART TWO, WORKS THAT COULD BE MINE & WORKS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE MIN…

Cover by Adou

Special Project by Josh Smith

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Graphic #18 – WORKSHOP ISSUE
This issue brings together 16 workshops on graphic design. It revisits these workshops which have been held around the world for the last two years, and provides the details and energies of such graphic design education that takes place outside the regular curriculum.

CONTRIBUTORS
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Charlotte Cheetham
Daijiro Mizuno & Yuma Harada, Lovis Caputo
David Reinfurt
Fraser Muggeridge
Guy Meldem, David Keshavjee & Julien Tavelli
Julia Born
James Goggin
Min Choi
Nicolas Bourquin & Thibaud Tissot
Our polite society
Radim Peško
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Temp & Tankboys
Urs Lehni
Uta Eisenreich & Saskia Janssen

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