EIKON #127

Editorial Content Order

Artists | Alfredo Jaar | Luise Marchand | Leopold Strobl | Grzegorz Welnicki | Jun Yang |

Carl Aigner | Gregor Auenhammer | Berthold Ecker | Nela Eggenberger | Ruth Horak | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink| Peter Kunitzky | Maren Lübbke-Tidow| Gerald Matt | Margit Neuhold| Gerald Piffl | Nina Schedlmayer | Walter Seidl | Johan Nane Simonsen | Marie Christin Spatzek | Raimar Stange | Barbara Steiner| Julia Stellmann | Paula Watzl | Erik Vroons

 

Languages | German / English
Dimensions | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | ISBN 978-3-904083-20-1
96 pages

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Content

PORTFOLIO

GRZEGORZ WEŁNICKI | Erik Vroons
ALFREDO JAAR | Walter Seidl
LEOPOLD STROBL | Carl Aigner
LUISE MARCHAND | Maren Lübbke-Tidow
JUN YANG | Barbara Steiner

ARTS & STUDIES

KAJA CLARA JOO | Paula Watzl

IN FOCUS

THE LAST DIGITAL NATIVES
Artistic Working Methods in the Age of Technological Upheavals | Johan Nane Simonsen

FORUM

An Interview with Kay Walkowiak | Gerald Matt

EXHIBITIONS

darktaxa-project. phtoograify | Nela Eggenberger
Elfriede Mejchar | Gerald Piffl
AVANTGARDE AND LIBERATION. Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism | Raimar Stange
Pierre Huyghe. Liminal | Julia Stellmann
Sissa Micheli. On Equality and Conformity | Nina Schedlmayer
Lucia Moholy. Exposures | Peter Kunitzky
Luiz Roque | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink

 

DATES

with BLOCKFREI Collective

COLLECTOR’S EDITON

Susan Philipsz: Sound Mirrors

PUBLICATIONS

Gabriele Rothemann. Werke | Berthold Ecker
Antonio Rovaldi. Morgen | Margit Neuhold
Gregory Crewdson | Gregor Auenhammer
Uta Kögelsberger. Forest Complex | Ruth Horak

Editorial

“It’s no longer fiction to speculate about workers who spend the larger part of their waking hours with their eyes glued to screens. The Earth rotates beneath a network of satellites which are continuously taking photographs of its surface. Almost every one of us has a computer in our trouser pocket; we are all surveilled, measured and expressed in numbers: zero and one.” (1)

Digitalization, which since spring 2020, for reasons we all understand, has become more pervasive than ever, with video conferences, home offices, or the increasing shift of public services into the net, has been a part of our everyday lives for a good fifty years. Meanwhile, the entire western world is so interwoven with the constant availability of internet services and “smart” devices that our existence can probably scarcely be managed without these aids. Amid this permanent process of transformation standsphotography, which is often assigned a dominant role.

The significance that the digital has acquired in the practice of art has caused the collective of FOTOGALERIE WIEN (currently consisting in Noémi Ábrahám, Herman Capor, Christian Eiselt, Christian Gold-Kurz, Tobias Izsó, Michael Michlmayr, Petra Noll-Hammerstiel, Anja Nowak, Johan Nane Simonsen, and Patrick Winkler) to trace this theme in the framework of a series of focuses stretching over two years in the form of exhibitions with a retrospective catalog. In a total of four blocks, crystallized out of the themes negotiated by the artists, the motto is divided into the fields of “artefacts,” “sensor technology,” “generative” and “coexistence”—while the age groups who grew up with the digital already predominate and their approaches are taken into focus by Nane Simonsen with The Last Digital Natives starting on p. 49. She also provides proof with exemplary samples that this generation, in contrast to commonly accepted clichés, by no means “loses itself in computer worlds,” but indeed is fixed in physical reality, “with its material and politicoideological
implications.” (2)

Nela Eggenberger for EIKON, September 2024
(1) Foreword to the BILDER issues which appeared on the occasion of the “DIGITAL” focus, FOTOGALERIE WIEN, 2022–2024.
(2) See 58.

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