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A NEW GENERATION OF
Media Activists, net.art, 1997
“An aesthetic of poaching, tricking, reading, speaking, strolling, shopping, desiring.”
-David Garcia and Geert Lovink
Ben Parr, Mashable!, 2010, 5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize - “The simple point is that it’s easier to carry a smart tablet than 300 hardcover books and 20 newspapers with you. Apple’s tablet will almost certainly have a focus on bringing all of print into the digital world, whether the industry is ready for it or not.”

This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. Now imagine this as an art book.

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

“Where institutional critique hopes to disrupt the illusion of cultural authority by revealing the mechanisms that buttress it, designart hopes to democratize that authority by providing mood lighting and comfortable chairs.”

- Joe Scanlan ‘Please Eat the Daisies’, 2001
“What really characterizes artists’ books is that they reflect and emerge from the preoccupations and sensibiilities of artists as makers and as citizens.”

- Clive Phillpot, former director of the library at the museum of Modern Art.
“The combination for motivation and conscious intervention based on increased awareness and knowledge of the problem-solving process is the standard formula for increased creativity.”

- James L. Adames, Conceptual Blockbusting, 1985