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Contemporary Arts & New Media
Contemporary Arts & New Media
Vol.14#1 2010

 Friction Research 3: Art is not about Communication

  I can communicate nothing...there is nothing to communicate...painting can never be communication. --Gerhard Richter, 1977

 Introduction

Art is not about Communication

Below our open call from November 30 2009

nouns: Focus, Belief, Communication, Course, Comprehension, Art, Effect, Art, Direction, Direction(s), Network, Art, Vector, Side, Side, Main, Interpretation, Error, Many, Professional, Field, Art, Senses, Thumb, Critic, Few, World, Speech, Extreme, Notion, Ourselves, This, World, Push, Foreground, Curator, Metrosexual, Power, Relation, Accumulation, Item, Fetish, Replacement, Lust, Contact, Capital, Distinction, Use, Exchange, Labyrinth, Housing, Global, Warning, Transportation, Education, Sex, Healthcare, Political, Agenda, Value, Object, Control, Prison, CCTV, Market, Non-Smoking Area, Public, Everybody, Part, Communication, World, Facebook, Twitter, About, Their, Spaces, Google, Anxious, Need, Each, Other, Labour, Stop, Thinking, Leisure, Subject, System, Aesthetics, Teleologics.

verbs: To problematize, To invent, To economize, To force, To capitalize, To inject, To reject, To subject, To object, To maintain, To remain, To insult, To consult, To solve, To dissolve, To involve, To revolve To explode, To implode, To radiate, To broadcast, To send, To conceive, To retrieve, To conspire, To subvert, To invert, To absolve, To gain, To loose, To drain, To drink, To drown, To stop, To communicate, To mutate, To correspond, To eject, To rule, To eradicate.

adjectives/adverbs: Mistaken, Contrary, Singular, Local, Contemporary, Public, (Psycho), Patho-Sociological, Drenched, Oversaturated, Urban, Senseless, Speechless, Worshipped, Rural, Blurred, Private, Communicative, Global, Lucid, Kind, Nice, Rough, Mild, Less, Manifold, Plural, Focal.

names: Derrida, Foucault, Brecht, Lacan, Freud, Deleuze, Bourriaud, Houellebeq, Lovecraft, Poe, Borges, Alzheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Marx, Hobbe, Spinoza, Sloterdijk, Hegel, Kranz, Benjamin, Plotinus.

The following individuals and collectives have contributed to our call for submissions:

 Poetry

Art is not about Communication, Lawrence Upton 2009 - UK

 Text

Participation as Kitsch, Henry Jones 2010 - USA

Jacques Derrida and the Politics of Architecture, Francesco Vitale 2009 - IT

Essay Generator, judsoN ^R+ 2010 - USA

 Paintings

Skin, Biying Zhang 2010 - USA

 Projects

Grenze, Patrick Fontana et al. 2009 - FR

204_NO_CONTENT, Darko Fritz 2007 - > NL/CRO

 About

This is the third issue of 'Friction Research', a series of collective investigations on contemporary arts & media practices.

Previous issues:

'Investigating Ruptures in the Art Political Grid', Nictoglobe, Volume 12 Issue 3, Amsterdam The Netherlands (2008).
'Creative Resistance: New Media as Soft Arms', Nictoglobe, Volume 11 Issue 2, Amsterdam The Netherlands(2007).

Submissions welcome.

Submissions should be no more than 500 words, abstracts about 100 words. Feel free to adorn your submission. The following digital formats apply:

for images: jpg, png, gif - any size/format 
for video: mov, mpg - duration: not more than 2 minutes. 
for audio: wav, mp3 - duration: not more than 2 minutes.  
Send your submission to:

submissions[at]nictoglobe[dot]com

In case your submission will be published, you will be notified.

Curated & Published by Andreas Maria Jacobs for Nictoglobe Online Magazine 2010

Nictoglobe can be reached by email: info[at]nictoglobe[dot]com