[spectre] [Psrf] Photostatic Retrograde Archive, no. 34

[Lloyd Dunn]

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now available for download, retrograde release no. 17, april 2003:

PhotoStatic 34

description: http://psrf.detritus.net/vi/p34/index.html

direct download: http://psrf.detritus.net/pdf/p34.pdf (5.7 Mb)

Description. "Detournement Issue."  This issue explores the technique
of detournement, where radical content  is wed with mundane form. The
idea (as espoused by Debord and others) was to bring truth to the
masses in a manner that they would be willing to give attention to.
This collection of works by turns hews closely, and veers wide of,
the mark. And in so doing, it reflects the range of contributors and
mindsets that the Photostatic project had amassed by this point, some
six years into the series. Lang Thompson 's "funnies" hit some key
notes for the issue. An early appearance of the concept of the
"information virus" makes an appearance in the guise of a call for
works put out by Jonathan Prince. In addition, the "Art Strike
1990-1993" meme, so ably spread by Stewart Home and others, also
makes a prominent appearance.  Thad Metz loaned us a collection of
detourned adverts by anonymous creators, which appear in several
places in the issue, and some fine moments appear in the form of
works by Dadata, Joel Score, Paul Weinberg, John Stickney, and
others. The usual inclusion of columns by Miekal And, Brad Goins,
Thomas Wiloch, and others; and reviews of audio and print works,
complete the selection.

Contributors include. Joel Score, Ralph Johnson, Lang Thompson, Janet
Janet, Infomeme Labs, Inc., Thad Metz, Bill DiMichele, The Pleasure
Tendency, Dadata, Tim Coats, Thom Metzger, Pascal Uni, Mick Mather,
Serse Luigetti, Musicmaster, Miekal And, Bob Grumman, John Heck, Alte
Kinder, John Stickney, The Tape-beatles, Brad Goins, Jay Niemann, Jim
Passin, Chris J. Mitchell, Neil K Henderson, Thomas Wiloch, Ge[of
Huth], Arturo Giuseppe Fallico, Crag Hill, and David Powell.

Project Overview: The Photostatic Retrograde Archive serves as an
electronic repository for a complete collection of PhotoStatic
Magazine, PhonoStatic Cassettes, Retrofuturism, and Psrf, (as well as
related titles). Issues are posted as PDF files, at more or less
regular intervals, in reverse chronological order to form a
chronological mirror image of the original series. When the first
issue, dating from 1983, is finally posted in several year's time,
then this electronic archive will be complete.

issue directory: http://psrf.detritus.net/issues.html

project URL: http://psrf.detritus.net/

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