Anthologies
The Absolute Report
This book is an Absolute Report of the last five years of the 20. century from the perspective of a specific artistic network that was active at that time. We present the projects that APSOLUTNO created in that period as well as reports by various artists, media thinkers and other important personalities that APOLUTNO met within the same East-West network in the sphere of new art & media practices. In this book we find parallels between our own projects and those of others, by identifying four important themes that run through the work created at that time: time, space, code, and memory. (association APSOLUTNO)
APSOLUTNO (ed.), Revolver, Frankfurt/Main: 2006, 232 pp., English
The Mag.net reader - Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing
Mag.net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers) is a network of independent print magazines working in the field of electronic culture. The participating magazines, which include Mute (Great Britain), Neural (Italy), springerin (Austria), 3/4 Revue (Slovakia) and Zehar (Spain), are among the most significant media of critical reflection on art and culture influenced by digital technologies. Their existence demonstrates the importance of print media in an era that claims to be »digital«.
The objective of Mag.net is to provide an infrastructure linking up printed publications and Internet magazines with one another. This reader brings together essays and reports on the options for publishing and exchanging knowledge using electronic networks.
Miren Eraso, Alessandro Ludovico, Slavo Krekovic (ed.), Arteleku, Italy 2006, 119 p., English
It takes place when it doesn’t. On dance and performance since 1989
It takes place when it doesn´t. On dance and performance since 1989 follows the congress of Tanzquartier Wien to which we had invited participants from all over Europe to talk about new geographies and artistic workforms and workspaces in the fields of dance and performance, about the widely interweaved and cross-referencing, often indistinguishable and multiply coded cultural figures of production, reception and reflection. The focus was beyond the borders of disciplines and beyond the classical play of presentation and interpretation. Also, it was about showing spaces of action that lie outside the hermetic and taxonomic models of representation of a medial and academic discourse mostly reproducing areas of terminology or dichotomies like Western/ Non-Western, which by now have become canonical. (Krassimira Kruschkova/ Georg Schöllhammer/ Martina Hochmuth)
Martina Hochmuth, Krassimira Kruschkova, Georg Schöllhammer (ed.), Revolver, Frankfurt/Main: 2006, 263 p., English
Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern Europe, Post-socialism & The Retro-Avant-garde
The point of departure is a difference between Eastern and Western Europe that I try to conceptualize philosophically, insisting on a difference - a critical difference within and not a special classification method marking the process of grounding differences. This book can be perceived as a radical theorization of a particular (Eastern European) position; here positioning means repoliticization. Fiction Reconstructed offers a very detailed inquiry into specific Post-Socialist art and media strategies. (Marina Grzinic)
Marina Grzinic, springerin (ed.), edition selene, Vienna: 2000, 218 p., english
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