[spectre] PhotoStatic Magazine 1983-1998

[Lloyd Dunn]

B a c k g r o u n d

Photostatic Magazine was a regular fixture and active proponent of 
the zine, audio art and DIY (do it yourself) counterculture that 
emerged during the 1980s. As a journal of so-called 'machine art', 
Photostatic managed to bring together artists working across the 
spectrum of contemporary disciplines, including photocopy art, 
collage, correspondence or mail art, concrete poetry, experimental 
works, graphic design, photography, sound and video art, humor, 
essays, reviews, journalism, and more.

In addition to this wide range of subject matter, Photostatic's 
contributors came from around the world; Japan, Australia, North and 
South America, and most nations of Europe, including many artists 
from the then-Warsaw Pact countries. Photostatic worked within a 
self-proclaimed 'Eternal Network', which made use of photocopy, 
typewriters, rubber stamps, glue sticks, handwriting and the 
international postal system; in perhaps much the same spirit as 
people blog, surf, chat, email and code web pages today.

A n n o u n c e m e n t

Photostatic's editor, Lloyd Dunn, is pleased to announce a new 
website devoted to historifying and archiving the project called 
Photostatic. This new site is intended to serve as a repository for a 
complete collection of Photostatic Magazine in electronic form 
(including its variant titles Retrofuturism and Psrf).

We further announce the immediate availability of the first issue in 
the PDF series,  Psrf 49 (October 1998), which was the final issue in 
the printed series. New postings will follow at approximately 
one-month intervals.

We post these versions, one at a time, in like manner to how they 
first appeared, in deference to the print publication's bimonthly 
schedule. We post them in reverse chronological order to form a 
mirror image in time of the original series. People entirely new to 
this content will therefore have the opportunity to see the work 
sequentially with its origins gradually unveiled, as opposed to how 
its creators saw it, inevitably in terms of an unfolding and 
surprising future.

Please visit the new site.

	http://psrf.detritus.net/

If you are a former Photostatic or Retrofuturism contributor, please 
take a moment to stop by and leave your comments.

	http://psrf.detritus.net/comments.html


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