O FLUXO ISSUE#01 – Circulating Forms of Reality

Our friends from O Fluxo have finally launched today their first collectible printed publication. It's called O FLUXO ISSUE#01 – Circulating Forms of Reality, consisting in 142 pages full of exclusive content, interviews, and special features of artists and collectives here in Triangulation Blog we really admire, such as Phone Arts who are presenting their first ever printed pieces. Also there are some in-depth conversations, essays, an amazing zine-styled section with more than 50 pages of exclusive masterpieces from some of O Fluxo favorite international artists, and much more.
So I interviewed O Fluxo in order to know more about this exciting new project which is strictly limited to 200 copies and is now available to purchase here (into this post) and in O Fluxo website. Must have a copy of this!!. See more;

Could you tell us a bit more about O Fluxo (online) and when and how did it start? 

The project O Fluxo started about a year ago by a pair of members with different professional backgrounds and interests: André Moreira, a fashion designer and me, (Nuno Patrício), graphic designer. Back then, we felt a strong impulse to start something that could contribute somehow to the improvement of the Portuguese visual sensibility. Over time, we involuntarily have been attracting new audiences, especially a huge amount of foreign public, so we had to implement a bilingual format in order to be righteous to everyone and still without losing the initial purpose. In some way, we ended up developing this ever-changing-online-space format, which has quite rapidly established a sort of an examination on different creative perspectives and how they affect the visual culture in general.

Since I know ofluxo.net I saw your are really focused on new media art, including digital and net art but you also take a major relevance to contemporary graphic design and printed based projects and artist working on this area, was this the reason you have worked on a printed publication or how did you decide to create it?

Whether it is online or in physical publications, we really don't want to focus on just one, two or three formulas, we only intend to portray what is happening in all the contemporary sphere. Perhaps that's the reason why this first publication is titled 'Circulating Forms of Reality', it fosters a good portion of the current creative semantic field. Based in this principle, we can assume that Ofluxo further blurs the boundaries between the physical and the virtual atlases, so why not immortalize that principle in a printed publication? Besides, publications can take advantage on any other media, they represent material determination, people can keep them and treat them as personal objects, and if we start mixing concepts, we'll approach target groups more widely.

Can you introduce us to this O Fluxo Issue#1, Circulating Forms of Reality? 

O Fluxo Issue#01- Circulating Forms of Reality works as a crossover publication between new media art and graphic design, virtual and physical, digital and analogue. A collaborative effort set up to question and explore a multiface concept around several different fields of creative creation and research embracing both its visual and theoretical aspects. 

I'm very proud to be part of the curatorial section of this first issue called Postrender, by including some of my favorite artists working on the installation form into digital and virtual environments, can you tell us what else is inside of this first number, such as interviews, articles?  

O Fluxo Issue#01 also includes a huge range of different articles and exclusive content. It is subdivided in five major sections, in which we present some of our favorite internet-related projects featuring some extensive interviews, visual essays, research, adaptations, an amazing zine-styled section, a very special feature which documents the first ever printed material from the Phone Arts contributors, and much more!

Which is the relation between the online and the physical publication? 

There are always some equivalences between all kinds of media. At some point, everyone who is involved with an online platform feels the necessity to extend the online concept into a tangible form. We felt that desire too! Starting with the basic idea that the publication would reflect the nature of the online content, it worked out as a reasonable practice to reunite some of our favorite creatives in a single project.

Is it a periodical publication? I mean how many issues are you going to publish per year? Are you going to keep that reduced and exclusive number (200) of publications always?  

We intend to publish irregularly, whenever we feel like it. Although, we'll try to keep the biannual periodicity parenthetical as possible. And yes, we want to stay true to the limited edition concept, in some way, it increases the emotional and the pecuniary value of the object.

I'm very impressed about this printed project of O Fluxo, it's great to have such a publication on my hands, I was wondering how long it takes to do a publication like this. I also would like to know more about the editors, Nuno Patricio and Andre Moreira, there is a stunning design and editorial work on it!  

Thanks! Well, as I mentioned here before, we have very different backgrounds and interests, but they complement with each other pretty well to be honest, and that aspect definitely influenced the decision of creating something together, something that could improve our disciplinary differences and knowledge. With this first publication, our aim was to make a physical territory for contemporary reflections and experimentations in a very magazine-styled-behaviour, with interviews, sections, all the editorial structure that a first edition should represent. With the future editions we are planning to create something that would combine density, simplicity and a certain lack of editorial hierarchy, basically like all that free-stylers do, but always without losing our sense of continuity. Either way, we are talking about a self-initiated project, composed entirely with collaborations upon our invitation, so it takes a lot of time to manage and prepare everything, and of course, lots of love and determination must be put into it. 

Can you tell us more about the material/paper, dimensions..? 

The main concern was to create something easily transportable, so we choose to make the publication with 20x25cm, a medium format, not to big, not to small, just a pleasant handle dimension, and also to use an extremely lightweight paper stock like recycled paper, and because it is in offset printing, the paper helped to improve the ink absorption, ending up with a great range of delightful colors. In sum, we couldn't be more happier with the final result!

Are you going to book a number from each publication to Triangulation Blog, right :)? 

haha Sure! Triangulation Blog had always influenced us somehow, and we always walked through a similar path. Besides, we believe that exchange it's something extremely necessary in order to ensure a continuous complex web of creative relations.

First Issue Contributors include:
Alex Gibson, Alexander Lis, Andreas Banderas, Andreas Ervik, Anthony Antonellis, Antoine Aillot, Barnie Page, Barriobajero, Bonjour Jean-Jacques, Brain Metcalf, Chris Seddon, Christian Oldham, Daniel Littlewood, Emilio Gomariz, Guillaume Hugon, Hanna Terese Nilsson, IMG Masters, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jennifer Chan, Jeremiah Johnson, Jesse Hulcher, Joel Evey, Killian Loddo, Manuel Bürger, Marcel Kaczmarek, Marlie Mul, Marvin de Deus, Mathias Ringgenberg, Michael Manning, Nic Willson, Rasmus Svensson, Rustan Söderling, Sterling Crispin, Ted Galperin, Tim Heiler, Travess Smalley, and Travis Stearns.

BUY >>> O FLUXO ISSUE#01 – Circulating Forms of Reality >>> HERE!!

Portugal €26,50 EUREurope €29,50 EURRest of World €32,50 EUR

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Junkjet Nº5 · net.heart

The image above is the cover of the fifth issue from the great collectable publication Junk Jet, it shows the real size of this last number (be sure you are seeing the real resolution, press cmd + 0). I like each publication has a different size, usually very handle, this is 25.5 x 15.5 cm with a total of 154 pages which content shows and speaks about the work of many talented net.artists and the internet culture. This issue called net.heart transfers internet things from their digital space into a paper jet. —— "It has developed an archive impossible that transports, in print format, net based works, or fragments of works showing collections, series, animations, applications, and reflecting anti-heart texts on the net and its new forms of art, design, and architecture. N°5, the net.heart issue, has transferred internet things from their digital space into a paper jet. This transportation procedure relies on documents in a similar way as the museum relies on photograph and video documenting performance arts. And Junk Jet believes that this analogue documentation is in no way inferior to pseudo-preserving techniques of data migration, emulation, or reprogramming. At the end, Junk Jet says: Transportation is not so much about the artwork as object, but rather about the indication of the subjective decision of the artist. In this sense Junk Jet is a Russian conceptualist."  It is edited by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest. See more;


About the project Junk Jet, "is a zine-jet, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of media, aesthetics, and electronics. Junk Jet is an irregular series of medial events, and a low-fi paper publication, edited by Asli Serbest and Mona Mahall (m-a-u-s-e-r) and published by their own igmade.edition. Junk Jet is about wild forms and found objects, about weird theories and (small) narratives, anti-fashions and non-styles, about exploring do-it-yourself works, accidental outcomes, deviant and normal aesthetic forms that result from jammed common practices, misused media, and subverted customary tools. It is about cultivating an anti heart by “introducing noise to signal”." 

Artists featured in this Nº5 net.heart: 0100101110101101.ORG, Adam Cruces, Agathe Andre, Alessandro Bava, Alexei Shulgin, Angela Genusa, Angelo Plessas, Aureliano Segundo, Asli Serbest, Aristide Antonas, Artie Vierkant, Ball-Nogues, Bärbel Jetter, Bea Fremderman, Beatriz Ramo, Ben Aqua, Ben Vickers, Billy Rennekamp, Bonno van Doorn, Brad Troemel, Brian Droitcour, Bryan Boyer, Carsten Güth, Christian Oldham, Christine Nasz and Stefanie Hunold, Constant Dullaart, Dennis Knopf, Eilis Mcdonald, Fabien Mousse, Gene McHugh, Greg J. Smith, Hanne Mugaas, Jacob Engblom, Jasper Elings, JODI, Jonas Lund, Jordan Tate, Katja Novitskova, Laimonas Zakas, Lenox Twins, m-a-u-s-e-r, Marisa Olson, Michael Schoner, Mike Ruiz, Mimi Zeiger, Mona Mahall, Natalie Bookchin, Nicholas O'Brien, Nicolas Sassoon, NIEI, NLarchitects, Olia Lialina, Palace Palace, Ricardo Scofidio, Parker Ito, Patrick Cruz, Pieterjan Grandry, Rafaël Rozendaal, Raphael Bastide, Sam Hancocks, Sarah Weis, Something Fantastic, Sterling Crispin, Theo Seemann, Will Brand, Wyne Veen.

You can buy this Nº5 directly here in the following (paypal) link, the price includes also the shipping costs.

for NET.HEART €17,00 EUR

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P O S T E R

Feréstec

Feréstec is a catalan word that means "not domesticated", "an untamed anmimal". It's the name for an on-line visual project launched in 2009 by Ferran Pla, born in Barcelona, 1980. Lives and works in Madrid. Feréstec could be seen as a minimal approach to the digital image, where the movement goes from figurative to abstract.

Ferran tells us more about his project:

"The idea is to achieve a pure image, and to give digital texture a primitive feeling.

Raw images classically composed that leave you thinking that they could aswell have been retouched. Feréstec aims to reshape the concept of tradition within the avant-garde, by focusing on the very conventions of experimental cinema. I am also very interested on finding connections between the history of abstract cinema and skateboarding." See more;

"I published 4 zines based of my own images and exploring the raw feeling of my images on paper. My zines try to be cinema on paper following that Godard's idea that you can do films with a very few things, two stills is enough.

Ferestec's Notes is a kind of lab where you can see my creative procces. By juxtaposing images from others creators that i found interesting I try to create a third image completely new. Looking for new meanings. It's a way to show my thoughts without using langauge."

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Aaron "Jaws" Homoki vs Feréstec

polE zine by Piotr Grabowski

"Ping Flood" is the title of the latest (#11) cool issue of polE zine, a polish magazine launched in 2009 by Piotr Grabowski. polE is a Warsaw, Poland based DIY magazine with wide range works of polish young artists.

Piotr Grabowski tells us about this number;

"New issue of polE zine is a little bit sentimental, a bit futuristic, a bit provincial and strongly fatalistic. For me, surprisingly up to date, as I hear about the flood and hundreds of bodies floating in the sea. I use the history and current status, to show the phenomenon of congestion, the state of fatigue, drift and helplessness in the time of disasters. This situation is terrifying but somehow accustomed at the same time. Recurs every six months but yet incomprehensible. Future can be calculated, applied to the formula, illustrated by the scheme, but we are still completely uncertain and confused. Maybe the problem is in computational power. I am exploiting a digital cliché in that story, it is handy for me to show overloading of reality, space being pervaded by digitality today." See more;

"I called this issue "Ping Flood”. It's a simple hacker's attack on network server, that drives to overloading the system. For me it is the equivalent of what happens in many other contexts – the flood of seemingly harmless events that leads to massive system's congestion and to much more radical effect of changes, revolutions, personal dramas. But, after all, ping flood is not any sophisticated attack, it is quite primitive method, with no fireworks and its effects are easily reversible by RESET button." - Piotr Grabowski

I asked him about the usually content on polE magazine, because this issue seems to have a quite abstract style, but Piotr tells that polE's style depends on the moment of the story at each time. The abstraction is frequently used but is not a required thing for others artists. "Pole" in polish means area, field, sphere, so the art which Piotr is looking for, is not specified. The zine is a space opened for a creative exploration. 

Recent numbers are created by one person, sometimes inviting others to cooperate with, and the previews issues were like group exhibition.

Piotr Grabowski, "Ping Flood”, polE#11, Warsaw, 2011
Paper recycled, 80g, white ISO 70 brightness.

24 pages , 21 x 29.7 cm