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e-flux publications
EditorJulieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood
CategoriesContemporary art
First issue2004
CountryUnited States
Websitewww.e-flux.com/journals/

e-flux publications was initiated in 2004 and includes books and catalogs for e-flux projects, e-flux journal, e-flux journal reader series, and e-flux classics.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). [1][2] The monthly art publication e-flux journal features essays and contributions by contemporary artists and thinkers.[3] The e-flux journal reader series was initiated in 2009 as a joint imprint with Sternberg Press with specific themes or individual figures to unpack particular concerns in current cultural production.[4] e-flux classics was established in 2015 to reanimate moments in art history that resonant with pressing issues in our contemporary moment. The first publication in the series is distributed by University of Minnesota Press.[5]

History[edit]

e-flux and Revolver, Frankfurt/Main co-published a collection of texts between 2004 and 2005. These joint publications included: The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist, edited by Jens Hoffman; Do It, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist; and e-flux video rental catalog, edited by Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle.[6][7][8]

The Next Documenta Should be Curated by an Artist was released with a related seminar hosted by Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul, Turkey which extended the work done in the text to "provocatively question[s] the ascent of the curator, the value of the artist as curator, the future of international exhibitions and many less easily summarized tangents."Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).[9][10][11] In late 2004 Do It was launched in collaboration with Art Basel, at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, with contributors to the text including: Marina Abramovic, Allora & Calzadilla, John Armleder, Trisha Donnelly, Bertrand Lavier, Lawrence Weiner, and Yoko Ono.[12][13]

e-flux video rental catalog, published in 2005 is a reference book with contextualizing essays from Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda, Brian Scholis, and Jens Hoffman and text-based descriptions of selected contributions to the the e-flux video rental.[14] The publication, "inspired by the experiments of the expanded cinema, functions as a further extension or a translation of the project into the realm of text."[15]

The Best Surprise Is No Surprise was co-published with JRP-Ringier in 2006 and includes a commissioned essay from Daniel Birnbaum, an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, and over 250 selected e-flux announcements.[16] This collected material "documents significant recent developments in art-related media releases, which are now global, instantaneous and linked coming and going."[1]

e-flux journal[edit]

In 2009, e-flux began distributing the printed version of the journal as a PDF-to-print edition designed by Adam Florin that can be found at bookshops and art spaces around the world through a network of distributors.[17][18] The first issue of e-flux journal was published in December, 2008. Shortly after The Building, Berlin, presented the e-flux journal as exhibition as part of their public programming, producing issues 0, 1, 2 and 3 in the space over the course of the year. As the editorial collective explained, "(t)his first presentation of e-flux journal in Berlin (was) a prototype for what a small art space such as The Building can do with this system."

In 2014 Mark Sladen wrote "e-flux journal focuses primarily on long-form texts, with little effort to style the reading environment or to employ complex audiovisual elements. It could be argued that the journal's simplicity is it's strength, as the publication's lack of formatting—and lack of large audiovisual files—means that it flows with greater ease across a multitude of devices. But it does this by making text its unchallenged king."[3]

Since 2010, e-flux journal has regularly produced thematic issues, often guest edited by writers and thinkers such as Irit Rogoff, Boris Groys, Anselm Franke, and Carlos Motta.[19][20][21][22]These issues are often accompanied by symposia and events at e-flux on the same theme.[23]

e-flux journal reader series[edit]

In 2009 e-flux journal began publishing a series of paperback readers under a joint imprint with Sternberg Press.[2][24]

  • e-flux journal reader 2009.
  • What Is Contemporary Art?.
  • Groys, Boris. Going Public.
  • Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art.
  • Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited.
  • Steyerl, Hito. The Wretched of the Screen.
  • Rosler, Martha. Culture Class.
  • Toufic, Jalal. Forthcoming'.
  • The Internet Does Not Exist.

e-flux classics[edit]

The first publication in the e-flux classics series is distributed by University of Minnesota Press. Arseny Zhilyaev’s Avant-Garde Museology (2015) considers the museum of contemporary art as the most advanced recording device of human history and looks at this lineage through the museum as laboratory in the work of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian artists and thinkers. The text revisits historical accounts to think through the physical and social limits of human kind, with contributions from David Arkin; Vladimir Bekhterev; Alexander Bogdanov; Osip Brik; Vasiliy Chekrygin; Leonid Chetyrkin; Nikolai Druzhinin; Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov; Pavel Florensky; R. N. Frumkina; M. S. Ilkovskiy; V. I. Karmilov; V. Karpov; Valentin Kholtsov; P. N. Khrapov; Yuriy Kogan; Natalya Kovalenskaya; Nadezhda Krupskaya; S. P. Lebedyansky; A. F. Levitsky; Vera Leykina (Leykina-Svirskaya); Ivan Luppol; Kazimir Malevich; Andrey Platonov; Nikolay Punin; Aleksandr Rodchenko; Yuriy Samarin; I. F. Sheremet; Andrey Shestakov; Natan Shneerson; Ivan Skulenko; M. Vorobiev; N. Vorontsovsky; Boris Zavadovsky; and I. M. Zykov.[5]

Events and Projects[edit]

e-flux journal began participating in the NY Art Book Fair(NYABF) in 2009. Since then the journal has exhibited and organized events in the 2010, 2011, and 2014 fairs.

Art Book Fairs[edit]

In 2011 the journal presented the e-flux book coop, "a mobile home for publications" at MoMA PS1 as part of the NY Art Book Fair, hosting the project in a trailer parked in the PS1 courtyard. After the fair closed PS1 requested to keep the Book Coop on view for a year. Initially presented at Art Basel as part of the e-flux Kopfbau project the e-flux book coop features art books, magazines, and other types of publications from members of the e-flux journal network, a group of over 200 international art centers, art book stores, and independent publishers that self-publish and distribute the print-on-demand e-flux journal. [25] As e-flux explained "Each member sends us a selection of around 5–8 titles and we sell them on their behalf at the price requested. We return sales less a tiny amount, which the book coop retains for operational costs. So there’s a lot of trust involved, especially so when we first began developing the project." [26]

In 2013 e-flux journal also participated in the Los Angeles Art Book Fair, presenting Art Between the Cracks: Sylvere Lotringer in conversation with Anton Vidokle as part of the inaugural edition of the fair's programming.[27] As part of e-flux journal's participation at the 2014 New York Art Book fair Brian Kuan Wood and McKenzie Wark held an event to discuss how the consolidation of finance and art asks for an update to the task of what Wark has termed 'the hacker class'" in "the classroom…an informal venue for artists, writers and publishers to feature new releases and present their publications."[28] In 2014 the journal joined Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, launching the 2015 co-publication with Sternberg Press, The Internet Does Not Exist. Taking the form of a mini-symposium with Metahaven, Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto, Hito Steyerl, Diedrich Diederichsen, and others.[29]

Venice Bienniale[edit]

In 2015, e-flux journal was invited to participate in the 56th Venice Biennale, All the World's Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor. [30][31] This commission was realized as SUPERCOMMUNITY, an editorial project by e-flux journal supported by Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.), Remai Modern Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, and Microclima.[32][33]

Logo/design[edit]

The e-flux journal reader series logo was designed by Liam Gillick in 2009 for the first publication of the series, e-flux journal reader 2009. Gillick says that the three parallel lines that constitute the logo refer to his 2009 text Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 1 of 2: The Discursive, The text addresses how discursive practices "play[s] with social models and present[s] speculative constructs both within and beyond traditional gallery spaces." Gilick goes on to assert that "(t)he site of production today often exists within the text alone."[34]

Issues 0, 1, 2 and 3 of e-flux journal were designed by Francesca Grassi and Jeff Ramsey after which the e-flux journal Layout Generator was developed by Adam Florin, an "automated system to turn blog-like, long-scrolling-column HTML into rich, print-ready PDFs with more a varied visual depth and flow" was developed in dialog with Jeff Ramsey who has stayed on as the designer for e-flux journal, e-flux journal reader series and e-flux classics.[35]


References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "The Best Surprise is No Surprise". artbook. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b Sternberg Press
  3. ^ a b Sladen, Mark (March 2014). "Slow Down the Internet". Art Review: 49. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  4. ^ "e-flux journal reader series". e-flux. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  5. ^ a b [1]
  6. ^ "The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist". artbook. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  7. ^ "Do It, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist" (Press release). New York: e-flux. 8 November 2004. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference evr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist". artbook. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  10. ^ "The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist" (Press release). New York: e-flux. 12 February 2004. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  11. ^ "Artists To Take Over Documenta?". artnet. New York: artnet. Retrieved 17 February 2004.
  12. ^ "Do It, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist" (Press release). New York: e-flux. 8 November 2004. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
  13. ^ "Art Basel Miami Beach, Conversations" (PDF). Art Basel. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  14. ^ Aranda, Julieta; Carazzato, Frida; Garzia, Maria; Vidokle, Anton (March 2010). "A Conversation About E-Flux Video Rental" (PDF). http://www.fondazionegiuliani.org. Fondazione Giuliani. Retrieved 23 June 2015. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  15. ^ "EXHIBITION 136, E-FLUX VIDEO-RENTAL". Portikus. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  16. ^ "An archive of e-flux". jrp, ringier. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  17. ^ e-flux journal Distribution
  18. ^ e-flux Journal Layout Generator
  19. ^ Rogoff, Irit, ed. (March 2010). "Education Actualized". e-flux journal. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
  20. ^ Groys, Boris (ed.). [url=http://www.e-flux.com/issues/29-november-2011 "Moscow Conceptualism"]. e-flux journal. Retrieved November 1, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Check |url= value (help); Missing pipe in: |url= (help)
  21. ^ Groys, Boris, ed. (July 2012). "Structural Violence; Animism". e-flux journal. Retrieved November 1, 2014.
  22. ^ Motta, Carlos, ed. (April 2013). "Queer Theory; Language and Internet; Accelerationism". Retrieved November 1, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. ^ e-flux Exhibitions and Events
  24. ^ e-flux journal reader series
  25. ^ e-flux book coop at NY Art Book Fair September 30–October 3, 2011, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
  26. ^ Gat, Orit. "E-flux Talks About the Book Coop at the New York Art Book Fair". Rhizome. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  27. ^ "LA Art Book Fair, Events". Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  28. ^ Heddaya, Mostafa (January 5, 2015). "Your Concise Guide to the NY Art Book Fair". Hyperallergic. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  29. ^ Mauk, Ben (January 5, 2015). "No Sale". The Paris Review. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  30. ^ Boucher, Brian (March 5, 2015). "The 2015 Venice Biennale List of Artists Is Out". artnet News. New York: artnet. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  31. ^ "56th Exhibition, Addendum-Okwui Enwezor" (Press release). La biennale. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
  32. ^ "Addendum -Okwui Enwezor" (Press release). Italy: La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  33. ^ "e-flux journal at the 56th Venice Biennale" (Press release). New York: e-flux. April 23, 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  34. ^ Gillick, Liam (January 2009). "Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 1 of 2: The Discursive". e-flux journal. New York, NY. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  35. ^ "e-flux Journal Layout Generator". April 6, 2010.

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