Issue 3/2003
Reality Art
The return of the real – years ago that was the programmatic promise of a new, reality-oriented art. However critical of context and institutions art had tried to seem in the past, political upheavals and social changes had led to an even more urgent push toward the outside, toward grappling with real, palpable conditions. By that time television and the new media were beginning to tirelessly come to grips with the promise held out by reality, and artistic approaches could not avoid likewise reflecting on realistic and documentary qualities. Is this then Reality Art? Analogous to the mass media field, a general renewal of interest in the commodity »reality« can be discovered in today's artworks as well. This is particularly evident in the reawakening of a wide range of ethnographic and downright journalistic approaches. These can be trac... » read more
Net section
Art Without Artists
Interview with the Turkish media-art group xurban about the problems of “Eastern” contemporary art and the promise of a new collective subjectivity
Aras Ozgun
»Read_me 2.3« or: Reprogramming Sense
The second edition of the software-art festival »Read_Me« took place this year in Helsinki
Alessandro Ludovico
»Media Architecture« after VR Quake
The 6th International Art & Communication Festival in Riga focused on Issues of Space, Architecture, and Media
Tatiana Goryucheva
Securing Personal Evidence
On the artistic and tactical potential of GPS
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Almost noise-free
German media art collections struggle to save bits and bytes
Christiane Fricke
Lost & Found (1). The re-issue of the record »Monotonprodukt 07«
The start of a series about rarities from the last three decades of media and electronic culture that were thought lost or had temporarily fallen into oblivion
Christian Höller
Reality Art
Politics of Truth
Documentarism in the Art Field
Hito Steyerl
Work, Seafaring, War
The social documentarism of the photographer Allan Sekula, whose works were recently exhibited at the Generali Foundation in Vienna
Manfred Hermes
Documentation as Artistic Practice
Jan Verwoert
The Voices of Portici
Reality and Staging in Current Radio Plays in German
Martin Conrads
Functional, not activist
An interview with the Danish artist Kenneth A. Balfelt about a social project he initiated
Lars Bang Larsen
Periphery-resistant
Different registers of engagements with reality
Suzana Milevska und Erden Kosova
Defying the Label Culture: Collaboration as a Reverse of Colonialism
The project »Three Halves« by Navjot Altaf, Lin Holland and David Lewis
Nancy Adajania
From the war of the technocrats to a war against technocracy
The journal »Fotogeschichte« looks at the subject of »war and photography«
Jochen Becker
The Arrogance of Eggplant
This year's VIENNALE shows a survey of work by the radical documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio
Alexandra Seibel
»Stuff Happens«
Artist Project, Print Version only
Hans Haacke
Rogue States and Protectorates
Permanent war as the basis of the imperial world order
Klaus Ronneberger
Half modern, half something else
On the Martin Beck exhibition at the Grazer Kunstverein
Christian Kravagna
Atmospheric waste pictures
On the exhibition of the work of graphic designer Peter Saville at the Design Museum in London
Jörn Ebner
»This is how we laughed about the system«
On Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Actionism in Hungary in the Sixties
Andreas Fogarasi
Artscribe
»Moltitudini - Solitudini«
Benjamin Paul
»real*utopia« - Kunst im Grazer Stadtteil Gries«
Susanne Jäger
»Ketty La Rocca«, »Helena Almeida«
Petra Löffler
»Haupt- und Nebenwege«
Gerald Echterhoff
De Kunstbank - »What>2«
Carmen Mörsch
»Form-Specific«
Natasa Petresin
»Sound Systems«
Christian Höller
»Ort des Gegen«
Dorothee Richter
»U-TOPOS« - Zweite Tirana Biennale
Natasa Petresin
»Abstraction Now«
Christa Benzer
»Just built it! - Die Bauten des Rural Studio«
Jochen Becker
Banksy - »Bad Press« und »cheap, fast and out of control«
Martin Reiterer
Books
Ruth E. Horak (Hg.):
Rethinking Photography I + II
Matthias Dusini
Regina Bittner (Hg.):
Die Stadt als Event
Anette Baldauf
Martin Greve:
Die Musik der imaginären Türkei
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Thomas Atzert / Jost Müller (Hg.):
Kritik der Weltordnung
Hans-Christian Dany
Jochen Becker / Stephan Lanz (Hg.):
SPACE // TROUBLES
Daniel Pies