Issue #6


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Editorial


Most new developments in art by the turn of the millennium were still situated to a large extent in a modernist framework, namely their main impetus was still boundary pushing, inventive, overcoming tradition, extending the definition of art etc. It wasn’t until the 2010s that culture had shifted to a truly postmodern condition.

Institutional organizational tools such as ‘laws’ or ‘curating’ which are based on Enlightenment humanist frameworks become less important than ones that help organize and interpret mass information more effectively. In the past, we as humans saw evidence, and then tried to manipulate it for ourselves. Now, we try to align ourselves into data flows because we believe in the greater importance of overwhelming numbers-based trends. Art used to be a way of organizing human expression, but if subjectivity is irrelevant, it becomes a vehicle of effective social interests..... [buy]

The Editors


Contents



p. 08.......................Editorial

p. 10........................Günter Erbe – Notes on the Dandy

p. 19.........................Taslima Ahmed – Art in the Age of Putin

p. 26........................Masato Fukushima – Multiple Personae in Contemporary Art

p. 33.........................Uweinat Experience by Michael Farin

p. 40.........................A. S. Hamrah – Banality is Bourgeois Style – Selected Film Reviews
                                from “The Earth Dies Streaming”

p. 45..........................Andrés Gómez Emilsson – Harmonic Society: 8 Models of Art for
                                 a Scientific Paradigm of Aesthetic Qualia

p. 74..........................Artist edition by Dena Yago



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