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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Geert-Jan Strengholt 1 Jan 1994
The End of Advertising?
A round table discussion
Point of departure for this issue of Mediamatic and the following discussion, is the preposition that advertising was one of the big arts of the 20th century, But will advertising make it into the...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Willem Velthoven 1 Jan 1994
Editorial
The Eighth Art
This issue of Mediamatic is based on the assumption that advertising was one of the great arts of the twentieth century.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Adilkno, Bilwet 1 Jan 1994
The Art of Being Informed
about the Data Dandy
I do not believe in progress, but I believe in the stagnation of human stupidity – I admire Japanese chairs because they have not been made to sit upon
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994
Some of my best Friends are Dogs
The Bozman Simplex Syndrome of the tv commercial, or how I taught my dog to get used to tinned food.
'He leaves it all at the wrong houses.' Mr. Winkle looked perplexed, and Bob Sawyer and his friend laughed.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Paul Groot 1 Jan 1994
Paul Perry, Artist at the Side of God and Triple P
No artistic profession has been courted more intensively by advertising in preceding decades as that of visual artist. The literary world of the sixties was startled by the huge demand for...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Alfred Birnbaum 1 Jan 1994
Better Not Knowing
A Fable
In those days, so much was unaccounted for that they decided to base their economy on what they didn't know. It made sense: a life where everything is known is not worth very much, people said, so...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Peter Fend 1 Jan 1994
Art and Advertising
When artist Peter Fend was still a boy, he seriously thought of a career in advertising. But because his belief in America was insufficient, his career in conventional advertising came to a premature...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Jules Marshall 1 Jan 1994
Advertising and New Media
from Parasite to Symbiote
Poor old advertising has taken a lot of stick over the years.
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 9#1 Norbert Bolz 1 Jan 1998
The user-illusion of the world (1)
on the meaning of design
Mundus vult decipi, goes an old moralistic saying: the world wants to be deceived. This is especially valid today. We could hark back to Nietzsche: bring on the beautiful illusions. Yet simulacra, as...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#2 Richard Wright 1 Jan 1993
Siggraph
Anaheim USA 1993
We are all participants in an amazing week of information exchange, networking, presentation, demonstration and exhibition, declares the convention programme, - where our collective involvement...
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Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#3/4 Norbert Bolz 1 Jan 1994
The Meaning of Surface
Traditional industrial design is falling apart.
Now that the digital revolution is turning everything into surface and the things with which we interact are becoming increasingly immaterial and turning into black boxes, not only do established...
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