Once the exclusive domain of programmers, code is now being used by a new generation of designers, artists, and architects eager to explore how software can enable innovative ways of generating form and translating ideas. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture offers an in-depth look at the use of software in a wide range of creative disciplines. This visually stimulating survey introduces readers to over 250 significant works and undertakings of the past 60 years in the fields of fine and applied art, architecture, industrial design, digital fabrication, visual cinema, photography, typography, interactive media, gaming, artificial intelligence (AI), artificial life (a-life), and graphic design, including data mapping and visualizations, and all forms of new media and expression.

Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 9781568989372
7 x 8.5 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Paperback, 176 pages

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Kilimanjaro Issue 10 – About Now (Box edition)
Ethos Art Love and Everyday Life.
Printed on posters size 68cm x 48cm.

Every newsstand magazine promises the now and the new. This issue of Kilimanjaro is about now, but remixed and refracted. Our tenth issue is the beginning of a new manifesto, a looser approach. It’s like we called you and asked, “What’s happening now?”

We’ve taken an old-school tabloid sensibility – disposable, sensationalist, even bigoted – and transformed it into something new and beautiful.

We hear from super-curators Achim Borchardt-Hume, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf about the artistic futuristic. Cyber-punk originator Bruce Sterling discusses atemporality. And we speak to Tatiana Trouvé, Isaac Julien and Polly Morgan about what they’re doing now. Plus work from Sarah Lucas and Keren Cytter, a collaboration with Cyprien Gaillard, and writing about film, fashion and contemporary culture.

“White” is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of “White”, which he sees as being closely related to the origin of Japanese aesthetics – symbolizing simplicity and subtlety. The central concepts discussed by Kenya Hara in this publication are emptiness and the absolute void. Kenya Hara also sees his work as a designer as a form of communication. Good communication has the distinction of being able to listen to each other, rather than to press one’s opinion onto the opponent. Kenya Hara compares this form of communication with an “empty container”. In visual communication, there are equally signals whose signification is limited, as well as signals or symbols such as the cross or the red circle on the Japanese flag, which – like an “empty container” – permit every signification and do not limit imagination. Not alone the fact that the Japanese character for white forms a radical of the character for emptiness has prompted him the closely associate the color white with emptiness.

13.5 x 19,5 cm, 5¼ x 7¾ in, 64 pages, 4 illustrations, hardcover (2010)
English/German, EUR 19.90 / USD 29.00 / GBP 15.99

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I discovered this new magazine a couple of month ago. I am glad to see this second issue out.

Who is Monika?

The space we’re in

We are surrounded by brands, celebrities, products and patented packaging. We read our world fast. We know the names we like and the ones we don’t. We don’t have time. Creators strive to get known. Get the work rolling in. Be accepted. It’s good sense: a need to survive. But what if we could slow it right down for a little while, find ourselves time to ponder, space for suspense? Isn’t there something wonderful in the not immediately recognisable?

An unknown quantity

Monika is an arts journal that does away with bylines. As respite from the exhaustive branding of conventional media, contributors adopt a disguise that enables them to experiment with new material or style, to bypass expectation and to play. By placing the quality of her content over the marketability of her contributors, Monika invites readers to decode identities, unravel mysteries and embrace the unfamiliar.

Telling tales

Through visual arts and the written word, Monika shares engaging ideas and observations. Each themed issue is designed to entertain readers with originality, wit, and sensitivity to the everyday. Combining imagination and experience, criticism and curios, Monika’s content is handpicked for its ability to render the unknown, unputdownable.

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In May 2010 the German non-profit art space D21 Kunstraum will host an exhibition of ArtZines – small artist publications that circulate in astounding varieties of forms and shapes, in print and online versions, at more or less regular intervals. These periodicals often refer to the DIY-approach of their predecessors, classic fanzines, which emerged from the ‘70s punk and underground music scene, mostly in the UK and the US.

The ArtZines show will shed light on an artistic medium that not only seems to have continuously gained visibility, popularity and presence in contemporary art institutions. It also addresses the ways in which its producers have adopted new channels of distribution, made possible by the Internet, that support interconnectedness and global coalescence.

In order to present a cross-section of publications that meet the outlined criteria, we have started a far-reaching and extensively communicated open call for zines, of which a selection will be shown in the D21 Kunstraum galleries. Focusing on issues of display and seminal exhibition design, students of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, class of Systemdesign (Prof. Oliver Klimpel), will develop a design concept for the exhibition. Furthermore, we are working closely together with mzin, a Leipzig-based gallery and bookshop for graphics, art and pop.

A symposium within the framework of the show will bring a number of zine producers, distributers, collectors, curators and readers together. These participants will connect and discuss different facets of their work, outline historical dimensions as well as influential precursors, and the impact of technological advance and digital culture for a traditionally paper-based medium. In addition to that, two workshops will be held, one by the Leipzig-based publishers of spector cut+paste magazine, the second as part of a school project. Both workshops will each explore different practical approaches and techniques in the production of ArtZines.

Contact: Regine Ehleiter | ehleiter@d21-leipzig.de

(via Manystuff)