Issue 1/2005
Past Forward
The first issue of this magazine appeared in April 1995, then still under the name of springer – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst. The picture of a chameleon featured on the cover intimated the versatility that was to be demonstrated in the forty issues that have followed. Before the retrospective gaze unfolds a long, varied journey characterised by the constant endeavour to open up new themes and geographical focuses. For our tenth anniversary we do not so much want to review the past as to try, in keeping with this maxim, to open up yet more vistas, examining current developments, still untried paths, and the constantly renegotiable status of critical art and its discourses. One focus is on the promises and prophecies of digital culture, which ten years ago was still in its youth. The Net segment in this issue therefore looks at a number of pr... » read more
Net section
Islands in the Net
From non-places to reconquered anchorages of the avant-garde
Krystian Woznicki
»Loading Error …«
The first netstrike took place ten years ago
Alessandro Ludovico
Always in Opposition?
The Berlin transmediale.05 interrogated the principles underlying the actions of media art and practice
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Destination Television
A conference in Cologne recapitulated the »Camcorder Revolution«
Holger Römers
The End of the Miserable Quest for the Self
Brain research, determinism and new promises of salvation
Hans-Christian Dany
Lost & Found (VII)
»Berlin Super 80« looks back at the punk, New Wave and Super-8 scene of the early eighties
Christian Höller
Past Forward
»... that they mark everyday life in its depth«
A brief look at the work of the Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Eustache Kossakowski: »6 Meters from Paris«
German only
Patrick M. Komorowski & Anka Ptaszkowska
Empty Pedestals (Part I)
On Dalibor Martinis\' performances of climbing onto the empty pedestal of Tito and becoming a metalworker – like Tito
Ana Peraica
Empty Pedestals (Part II)
On Dalibor Martinis´ performance of climbing onto the empty pedestal of Tito and beoming a metalworker - like Tito
Ana Peraica
New Keywords
A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris
Political Correctness
A chapter from »New Keywords«
Meaghan Morris
The Struggle over Modernity in the U.S.
Some notes on the power of the neoconservative revolution [1]
Lawrence Grossberg
Social Landscape
On a recent project by Julie Ault and Martin Beck
Jason Simon
The Farber Machine (Part I)
Patrick Amos & Jean-Pierre Gorin
The Farber Machine (Part II)
Patrick Amos & Jean-Pierre Gorin
Figures of the Crisis
An exchange of letters between the Colectivo Situaciones and Alice Creischer / Andreas Siekmann on forms of politicization in the present Argentine and German context
Colectivo Situationes & Alice Creischer / Andreas Siekmann
Of Artists and Skiers
The scandal surrounding Hirschhorn’s »Swiss-Swiss Democracy«
Felix Stalder
Series of I-Pairs
The theme of identity in the works of Václav Stratil
Jirí Skála
Artscribe
Alejandra Riera: »maquettes-sans-qualité: Travail en Grève / Work on Strike«
Angelika Bartl
»Situated Self. Confused, Compassionate and Conflictual«
Vladimir Tupanjac
»legal / illegal. Wenn Kunst Gesetze bricht«
Martin Conrads
Dierk Schmidt: »Geiseln«
Jochen Becker
Cezary Bodzianowski: »Ein und Aus«
Catrin Lorch
»Just do it! Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof«
Monika Vykoukal
Joseph Beuys: »Actions, Vitrines, Environments«
Benjamin Paul
Catherine Yass: »Wall« / Susan Trangmar: »A Question of Distance«
Jörn Ebner
»Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?«
Simon Sheikh
Peter Friedl: »Out of the Shadows. What is written cannot be unwritten.«
Sophia Prinz
»Funky Lessons«
Christa Benzer
Dorit Margreiter: »10104 Angelo View Drive«
Nicola Hirner
»Das Neue Europa. Kultur des Vermischens und Politik der Repräsentation«
Christian Egger
Books
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt:
Maciunas’ »Learning Machines«: From Art History to a Chronology of Fluxus
Gislind Nabakowski
Wolfgang Kraushaar / Karin Wieland / Jan Philipp Reemtsma:
Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF
Susanne Karr
Jens Schröter / Alexander Böhnke (Hg.):
Analog/Digital – Opposition oder Kontinuum?
Petra Löffler
Karl H. Hörning / Julia Reuter (Hg.):
Doing Culture: Neue Positionen zum Verhältnis von Kultur und sozialer Praxis
Jens Kastner
Max Andersson / Lars Sjunnesson:
Bosnian Flat Dog
Martin Reiterer