[artinfo] Publishing Without Limits: New Directions for Art Magazines

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ART FORUM BERLIN TALKS

Publishing Without Limits:
New Directions for Art Magazines
organized in cooperation with e-flux

Saturday, September 18th, 2004 at 5:30 p.m.

Panelists: Mircea Cantor, Power Ekroth, Massimiliano Gioni, Gabriel 
Kuri and Anton Vidokle

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Publishing Without Limits: New Directions for Art Magazines
Saturday, September 18th, 2004 at 5:30 p.m.

Rattling the chains of art magazine publishing recently has been the 
advent of a number of new publications whose innovations and 
experiments are reinventing the idea of the art magazine. Of these 
new journals, some have been initiated by artists in places with 
little access to mainstream magazines - Version from Bucharest, for 
example, while others, such as Charley, digest and process images, 
artworks, articles and previously published materials, in order to 
reshuffle and re-interpret information, change content and format at 
each and every appearance. Still others, resolved not to concern 
themselves with alienating readers, provide challenging theoretical 
content - SITE, from Stockholm, is a good example - or deconstruct 
the magazine format entirely - as it is with Kaspar, from Mexico City.

What all these new ventures have in common is their desire to bypass 
the limitations of conventional art publishing - distribution, 
circulation, structure, content complexity and nominal intellectual 
demands made on the readers, among them - by re-envisioning and 
reinventing the hidebound practices of the mainstream art magazine. 
The Publishing Without Limits panel will take a close look at these 
new publications, and engage their editors in a critical discussion.

Panel participants:
Gabriel Kuri - Kaspar magazine, Mexico DF
Power Ekroth - SITE magazine, Stockholm
Mircea Cantor - Version Magazine, Bucharest
Massimiliano Gioni - Charley, New York/Milan

Anton Vidokle - e-flux, moderator

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