PUBLICATION | New writing in pylon

pylon is pleased to announce the publication of 3 newly commissioned critical essays about the work of pylon artists Andy Gracie (hostprods), Jen Southern (Hamilton & Southern) and Steve Symons:

Andy Gracie: Symbiotic Circuits
by Mitchell Whitelaw

Beside Ourselves, Sometimes
Kris Cohen on Hamilton and Southern

Eureka Moments: A Background to aura, Sonic Augmented Reality by Steve Symons
By Helen Sloan

The texts will be published on the re-designed pylon website (in html and downloadable pdf formats).

For further information, please contact Michelle Hirschhorn, pylon project development manager:

Info:
info@pylon.tv
www.pylon.tv

NEW | Slart

Art Magazine in Second Life
Source: ArtNet

Richard Minsky, an artist and founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City, is launching the first magazine dedicated exclusively to the art scene in the burgeoning online universe of Second Life. Dubbed Slart -- as in Second Life Art -- the publication is designed to bring "real world art issues" into the virtual sphere, and to make sense of an imaginary art scene that already involves some 100 online galleries. Among the articles on tap for the premiere issue are "Will virtual artworks appreciate in value?" and "Is all virtual art illustration?"

Info:
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-23-07.asp

MAGAZINE | Rouge, Issue 10

ROUGE
issue 10 (January 2007)
Contributor: Adrian Martin, Rouge Co-Editor

There is a ‘Japanese connection’ running through the new issue of the Melbourne-based, independently produced film/arts magazine ROUGE, which was recently described by the CHICAGO READER as "the best film magazine going that's exclusively online ... far and away the most international of film magazines in English ... attentive to what's going on in movies around the planet."

Young Japanese critic Kiyoaki Okubo writes about the reception of Mikio Naruse in USA in the ‘30s – and about a surprising link to American director John Ford. Japan’s greatest Ford scholar, Shigehiko Hasumi, writes about Portugal’s Pedro Costa. Costa himself speaks of his Masters – Eastern and Western – in a lecture delivered in Tokyo. And the workers at a Japanese multiplex figure in Selina Ou’s striking photograph, recently exhibited at the Sophie Gannon Gallery …

Costa returns in another thread: Miguel Mariás’ moving visual tribute to the recently deceased radical filmmaker Danièle Huillet. Also in the issue: Yvette Bíró on the Sarajevan film Grabavica; archivist Paolo Cherchi Usai on his foray into filmmaking, Passio (premiering in February at the Adelaide Film Festival); Julia Vassilieva on the remarkable recent Russian film 4; Adrian Martin on Terrence Malick; Ivone Marguiles on the ‘chambre Chantal Akerman’; Jonathan Rosenbaum on Indian director Ritwik Ghatak; Mark Rappaport on hidden details and relations in Sunset Boulevard; Nicole Brenez on the rediscovered British experimentalist/documentarian/scene-maker Peter Whitehead; and a jaunty introduction to the singular voice of Libération movie columnist Louis Skorecki … plus, in the RougeRouge close analysis section, Alain Masson from the long-running French magazine Positif on architecture, décor and space in Singin’ in the Rain.

All back issues of Rouge (co-edited by Helen Bandis, Adrian Martin & Grant McDonald) can be perused, free of charge, on-line.

Info:
http://www.rouge.com.au

PUBLICATION | Artreader published

A once-off broadsheet put together by the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and Substation Singapore, Artreader provides critical responses to the opening of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT5) and the launch of the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA).

Edited by Lee Weng Choy, co-Artistic Director of the innovative Singaporean contemporary arts centre, Artreader includes reviews, interviews, features and focus pieces. It looks back on the history of APT5, and to its future in the new gallery. Writers include Jon Bywater, Ulanda Blair, Ellie Buttrose, Lilly Hibberd, Stella Brennan, Jessica Campbell, Holly Arden and Kris Carlon.

Ten thousand copies of Artreader are now available at select venues around Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.

For more information, a list of distribution points, or to read an online version:
http://www.artworkers.org/index.php?cID=2091&webpage=default

EXPERIMENT | LAB MAG

LAB MAG is a fluid Portable Document Format publication, which collects the work of artists, designers and writers. It is a project of LAB, a think tank founded by Adam Pendleton, which practices research, documentation, art & design. Contributors are sent 'Notes for LAB MAG' and invited to contribute whatever they wish; They are free to engage with the notes or to ignore them. Through the network of contributors, LAB MAG begins to articulate itself. LAB MAG is a framework and a collection device.

But, the publication is more than a little unstable. It is always shifting, as works are added, filtered and reworked. By privileging its electronic format, and dividing each of the contributions into separate chapters, LAB MAG encourages an active participation by the reader, selecting which pieces constitute their copy of the magazine, which are printed and in what order. The publication then is a loose constellation of ideas, printed occasionally but never on a set schedule. Every copy is a new reading of the project.

Nine characteristics begin to describe its point of departure. LAB MAG is:
1. A Framework, Not a Content
2. A Collection and A Collector
3. Portable Document Format
4. Printed On-The-Fly
5. Organized by the reader
6. Scale-less
7. Un-Ending
8. Never Completely New, Never Completely Old
9. Always, Just-In-Time

LAB MAG will be available:
1. As a free PDF from welcometolab.org, which can be sorted and printed by the reader, to any scale.
2. In a variety of print formats using diverse methods of reproduction and distribution.

Contributions include development notes and images from Thomas Hirschhorn; an essay on appropriative politics from Seth Price; new work by Renée Green, Jason Dodge and Johannes Wohnseifer; projects by architect-artists Pedro Reyes and N55; posters by poet Jena Osman; a Kelley Walker spread; graphics from design innovators Experimental Jetset; and a LAB inspired play on old work from Pierre Bismuth.

The publication is co-edited by Adam Pendleton and Bartholomew Ryan, and designed by David Reinfurt and Sarah Gephart of O-R-G.

Info:
http://welcometolab.org

LOCAL | APT News ...

The Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is to have its own free newspaper. Artworkers, the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) and the Substation Singapore will put together a publication on the people, artists and curators involved in this year’s Queensland Art Gallery event. The broadsheet will include reviews, interviews and focus pieces. To be developed over a series of workshops, it’s intended to cultivate the skills of the writers involved, as well as promoting critical discourse on the 37 Asia-Pacific artists, filmmakers and performers scheduled to exhibit at this year’s event.

Lee Weng Choy, co-Artistic Director of Singapore’s innovative contemporary arts centre, the Substation, will act as editor. Members of his writing team have recruited from all over Australia, as well as internationally. They include Holly Arden, Ulanda Blair, Stella Brennan, Ellie Buttrose, Jon Bywater, Jessica Campbell, Kris Carlon and Lily Hibbard.

Organisers are aiming for a release date of 18 December – 16 days after the three-month event opens on 2 December. Ten thousand copies will be printed, with 9,000 to be distributed through art galleries, cafes, bookshops, theatres and cinemas around Australia and Asia.

For further information and advertising rates contact Katrina Stubbs at the IMA on (07) 3252 5750 or email katrina@ima.org.au

JOURNAL | Ctrl+P Journal of Contemporary Art

A zine out of the Philippines. Ctrl+P is steered by the Judy Freya Sibayan and delivered as a pdf. Where there is no arts publishing, local art magazine or funding for such activities, this is a serious journal for local writing that takes a global perspective. Releasing their third issue, which focuses on the practice of curators including Georg Shollhammer’s "documenta 12 magazines", an interview with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist among other juicy reading. Email them at mailto:ctrl_p_artjournal@yahoo.comto be put on their ‘journal mailing list’.

NEW | ArtReview:Digital

Same Magazine, Just Digital

Experience ArtReview: Digital. Since last month’s launch, thousands upon thousands of people from around the world have tuned in to the digital version of ArtReview magazine. Zoomable, searchable, easy to navigate and downloadable, ArtReview:Digital is available anytime, wherever you are in the world. Try out ArtReview:Digital and receive six complimentary issues, including Contemporary Collecting (January 2007) and Future Greats (March 2007).

Register online at:
http://www.artreviewdigital.com/

PUBLICATION | Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence

Sarai Reader 06 uses 'Turbulence' as a conceptual vantage point from which to interrogate all that is in the throes of terminal crisis, and to invoke all that is as yet unborn. It seek to examine 'turbulence' as a global phenomenon, unbounded by the arbitrary lines that denote national and state boundaries in a 'political' map of the world. It wants to see areas of low and high pressure in politics, economy and culture that transcend borders, to investigate the flow of information and processes between downstream and upstream sites in societies and cultures globally'.At an early stage in its gestation this year, the Sarai Reader was invited to participate in a community of publications - a project called 'the documenta 12 magazines' <http://www.documenta12.de/english/magazines.html>

Documenta 12 Magazines is a process and a discursive community that brings together more than 80 print and online periodicals throughout the world. "These journals and magazines will discuss the main themes and theories behind documenta 12 with particular emphasis being placed on reflecting the interests and specific knowledge of the respective local contexts entering into a dialogue with documenta 12. These debates will be compiled and published in a series of publications. This 'journal of journals', so to speak, will represent a forum for the contemporary aesthetic discourse. This platform will in turn also form part of the documenta 12 exhibition in Kassel." This year, Documenta 12 Magazines addresses the issue of 'Modernity?'.

Sarai Reader 06 interprets this issue with an emphasis on the question mark that follows the abstract noun of this marker of temporality. We see our time, the one that sits in on Modernity's wake, as an opportunity for interrogation and questioning, for admitting to radical uncertainties, and looking askance at the claims of truth and beauty. We are happy that this Sarai Reader marks a diffuse, dispersed engagement with discourses in contemporary art, by featuring a large number of contributions by artists, curators and critics, and by paying a degree of focused attention on the perils of practice in contemporary art and literature.

Like all Sarai publications, Sarai Reader 06 is available for free download in pdf format at: http://www.sarai.net/journal/reader_06.html

To order copies of the book, write to: publications@sarai.net or aftab@sarai.net