issue 2

The Wizards of OSS- by Martin Conrads

If they were musicians, they obviously were signed up with touch or sonig. But because they are net.artists, jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans), since the mid 90s, have been on the forefront of publishing disturbing digital dialectics...
http://www.art-bag.org/contd/liner/oss.htm


VinylVideo™ - by Martin Conrads

With VinylVideo™ finally a technology advances, which makes the connection of sound and image, media art and the net transparently like never before - a techno-aesthetic invention which...
http://www.art-bag.org/contd/liner/vv.htm

"Intuition", vorgespiegelt. - Zeichnungen von Kai Schiemenz im Berliner „loop - raum für aktuelle kunst“. - Martin Conrads

Idealerweise nähert man sich den Bildern von Kai Schiemenz über Konstruktionen - gedankliche, räumliche, konzeptuelle. Seine 4 bisher erschienenen, comicähnlichen Bücher könnten als Pläne gelten, sich den Zeichnungszusammenhang zu erschließen, in dem seine Konstruktionen zu Modellen des Betrachtens werden. „...nur wenn man sich nicht darum bemüht“ ist eines seiner Bücher betitelt und verweist somit auf eine Grundfigur zum Betrachten seiner Arbeiten: Intuition, die mit Willen wie Wissen gleichermaßen spielt.
http://www.art-bag.org/contd/liner/schiemenz.htm


Blood on the Gallery Floor? (History in the Mix) - Josephine Berry

Critics have been kicking around the art-political football of Catherine David's documenta X all summer long, debating whether art and politics are compatible or mutually cancelling. Such critics can be found huddled together during post-modernism's half-time, discussing strategies for avoiding art's collapse. Some wistfully...
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issue 1


Wearing Sleeve Feelings. - 'How it Feels' at the Tracey Emin Museum - Josephine Berry
Tracey Emin's museum shines out like a beacon on the otherwise bleak Waterloo Road. The passer-by is alerted to its existence by the words, 'Tracey Emin Museum. A Place to Grow' painstakingly stitched in felt lettering to a piece ...
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Terry Riley in conversation - with Ulrich Gutmair and Martin Conrads - Berlin, January 1997

ug: in the seventies a lot of people - all the krautrockers and people like brian eno - were influenced by your music. as an observer of contemporary electronic music i was astonished...
http://www.art-bag.org/contd/liner/riley.htm


Spiegelstadium für Quereinsteiger - "Fort!Da! Cooperations" in der Villa Merkel, Esslingen - Martin Conrads ©1997

Manche leichtherzigen Beobachtungen können in Folge schnell zu unkontrollierbaren Experimenten mutieren. Die Beobachtung: Ein Wiener Psychopathologe trifft seinen Enkel dabei an, wie dieser freudeglucksend mit...
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Jim O'Rourke in conversation with Martin Conrads. (Berlin, March 1997)

The following Interview took place in the cafeteria of the Info-box at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The night before Jim O'Rourke did a concert at Podewil, playing the track from one of his latest solo record...
http://www.art-bag.org/contd/liner/o_rourke.htm


Luxusliner in der Arktis auf Grund gelaufen (Berlin, July 1997)

Longyearbyen (AFP) - Das Kreuzfahrtschiff "Hanseatic" des deutschen Reiseveranstalters Hanseatic Tours mit 260 Menschen an Bord ist am Sonntag vor Spitzbergen auf Grund gelaufen. Passagiere und Besatzung ...
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