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Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Jorinde Seijdel 1 Jan 1989

The Image: a guide to pseudo-events in America

DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, Atheneum Macmillan (pub), New York 1987(first published in 1962) ISBN 0-689-70280-9, English text, pp319, $7.95.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Tee, Ernie 1 Jan 1989

Machines Virtuelles

Traverses 44-45, Revue trimestrielle du Centre de Creation Industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou (pub) Paris, September 1988. ISSN 0336-9730 French text, pp284, FF95,-

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1989

Philosophien der neuen Technologie

Jean Baudrillard, Hannes Böhringer, Vilém Flusser, Heinz von Foerster, Friedrich Kittler, Peter Weibel, Ars Electronica, Linz/Merwe (pub) Berlin 1989. ISBN 3-88396-066-7, German text, ppl35, DM12,-

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Jeremy Welsh 1 Jan 1989

Stylistic Piccolo prahlt Vrijblijvend Katwijk aan…

A Holiday Romance

In March 1989 the AIR Gallery, one of London’s major and longstanding venues for new experimental art, closed its doors for the last time. AIR’s penultimate exhibition saw video/performance artists...

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Bill Horrigan 1 Jan 1989

Adolescent Junglebook overschijdt Scenic Paradise

A note on Peggy and Fred in hell

I asked myself how I could pass the time today and tomorrow, here and there for now. I felt an immeasurable stream of time, unconquerable as the air. From earliest childhood we had been accustomed to...

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1989

Infra-Red Wahrheit moraleggiare kunstmatige BLIND

The great silence

The most inviolable requirement of contemporary art is an absolute moral freedom, demanded without consideration, for all artists in the creation of their work. Goethe’s famous Dichtungi und Wahrbeit...

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Daniels, Dieter 1 Jan 1989

Gepatenteerde Archeoloog patentiert Marginale…

From George Brecht's Notebook of 1959

What does it mean to invent something? There is an exact notion of ‘invention’ in civil law which provides for the originality of a legally registered patent to be officially certified. However, it...

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Alfred Birnbaum 1 Jan 1989

Reng Ga Ga

Footnote to a Cadavre

The cadavre exquis finds an interesting parallel in the ancient Japanese poetical genre of renga or ‘linked verse’. An exactingly disciplined aesthetic exercise that was the height of aristocratic...

Mediamatic Magzine vol 4 # 1+2 1 Jan 1989

Pay-Ear

This doesn't work outside NL

All artists working with the modern communications media regularly encounter a rather peculiar fact.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 # 1+2 Bilwet 1 Jan 1989

De alien en zijn media

Accursed KAPOW! Plukbaart Ontroerende Screentest

The Soul is an Alien Being On Earth - George Trakl

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Eveline Lubbers 1 Jan 1989

Criminal Lombroso Appiccica Partiële Masks

The face of evil

Details have been supplanted by the impression of the whole. Words have been replaced by die image. The authorities no longer have to rely on minute observation of an anomalous ear or a big nose to...

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Anna Abrahams, Koert van der Velde 1 Jan 1989

Incestuous Devotie Worships Draconische Snowwhite

Instant religion in the TV age

TV’s most loveable monster is The Beast, a hare-lipped, gutter Batman from New York. Abrahams and Van der Velde deftly feed him through the holy rollers of their psycho-mincing processor.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Louis Bec 1 Jan 1989

Chimérique Teratologie permuteert Déjà-Vues

From Prothesis to endothesis

The transforming potential of the technical sciences undermines a large number of the most accepted concepts and practices.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Philip Hayward 1 Jan 1989

Seductive Merman formt Speelse Neptunus um

Rhapsodies of difference

The Mermaid Myth and its radical re-interpretation inUlrike Zimmerman’s Touristinnen and the Tom Tom Club’s Suboceania.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Jans Possel 1 Jan 1989

Blub Jeah Aaah NOW!

The Emancipation of the mermaid

The bad reputation of the sea god Triton, son of Poseidon, has resulted in the merman being relegated to complete oblivion or rather he has simply been repressed from memory.

Mediamatic Magazine vol 4 #1+2 Maurice Nio 1 Jan 1989

Kanker - Découpage

I Sing the body eclectic

Every hybrid creature is anti-nature and therefore perverse. By joining one kind to another it perverts Nature and taints God’s creation. Even in the beginning hybrids have ridiculed the natural...