Merge # 16

Hg. Håkan Nilsson, Frankfurt/Main, Revolver, 42 S., 30 Farbabb., 29,5 x 23 cm, broschiert, (englisch)

ISBN RDB 050810



When both new media theorist Lev Manovich and art theorist-curator Nicolas Bourriaud identify post-production as the working method of our age, they point to something so familar that we hardly recognize the importance of it. Truly, we are more and more working from already existing material. The digital revolution makes everything re-editable, and thus, everything is always already open for (re)interpretation and updating. As many have pointed out, this strengthens some poststructuralist core arguments, like Jacques Derrida's famous "there is nothing outside the text" and Roland Barthes' "beneath every text is already another text". It is indeed the end of the new.
Combining already existing things might be the working method of our day and age. But what happened to drawing and to sketch? What happened to pre-production?

This issue of merge brings some of these questions to the surface. Clearly, by pre-production we're not suggesting that post-production isn’t important. But one has to start somewhere. (Editorial)

Mit Beiträgen von Patrick Mehrens, Leo Qvarsebo, Stephan Pascher, Dick Hebdidge, Brad Eberhard, Lars Arrhenius, Håkan Nilsson, Debra Riley und Per Bjurström