#23 artificial worlds
artificial worlds imply a broad range of forms that go far beyond everyday reality. These may be either primarily artificial, for example as a model which becomes fictional due to the way in which it is depicted. They can also of course be implemented by their authors so persuasively that they combine real and illusionary elements in a manner that transports both work and viewer directly into this “other – artificial” world. Over time, new possibilities of manipulating the image have naturally come into play, through computer technology and as the gradual adaptation of virtual reality, familiar to us from the Internet and the worlds of social networking.
#39 delight, pain — Profiles
Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw’s profile could easily be presented as the trajectory of a succesful artist in which long-term themes are convincingly developed, the productive complexity of their elaboration increases, and in which exhibitions in the world’s leading institutions increase as well as the works represented in their collections…
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Zara Pfeifer
The Viennese housing complex Alterlaa can certainly be seen as an embodied form of utopian architecture. We can find this monumental project, designed in the 1970s by Harry Glück, in the 23rd district, in a peaceful area on the outskirts of the city…
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Paul Maheke
“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise”, begins a seductive essay by Audre Lorde. “The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling…
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#39 delight, pain — Wanted
Marie Tomanová
It Was Once My Universe is the story of a homecoming after a decade in the United States. The family farm – a dream house, a refuge for the imagination in exile – has become a foreign and uncanny world apart, moving in its own time field…
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Julie Béna
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading…
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Content
- ––– Profiles
- Lev Manovich
- Jerzy Olek
- Julie Cockburn
- Kateřina Zochová
- Jakub Nepraš
- Jörg Sasse
- Maxime Guyon
- Masha Ru
- Tomáš Lumpe
- Jiří Šigut
- Linda Čihařová
- Geert Goiris
- Roman Schramm
- Gottfried Jäger
- Václav Cigler
- ––– Interview
- With Pavel Smetana and Ivor Diosi on Artificial Worlds and Image Manipulation
- ––– Discoveries
- Iveta Kulhavá
- Kasia Klimpel
- Petra Hudcová
- ––– Theory
- Photographic Image as (non)-Art and the Limits of Artificial Worlds
- ––– Events
- Paris Photo 2013
- Heaven on Earth or "About a Chair"
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Silvie Milková
- Petr Strouhal
- Erik Sikora
- Zines of the Zone
- ––– Reviews
- Jiří Toman
- History of Light
- Tell the Truth, but Tell It Slant
- Jaromír Funke
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face
