Artists: Alfredo Jaar | Luise Marchand | Leopold Strobl | Grzegorz Welnicki | Jun Yang

Authors: Carl Aigner | Berthold Ecker | Nela Eggenberger | Ruth Horak | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink| Peter Kunitzky | Maren Lübbke-Tidow| Gerald Matt | Margit Neuhold| Gerald Piffl | Nina Schedlmayer | Walter Seidl | Johan Nane Simonsen | Marie Christin Spatzek | Raimar Stange | Barbara Steiner| Julia Stellmann | Paula Watzl | Erik Vroons

Languages | Deutsch / Englisch
Size | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-904083-20-1
96 Pages
Prize: € 18,00 (inkl. 10% USt)

CONTENT

PORTFOLIO
GRZEGORZ WEŁNICKI | Erik Vroons
ALFREDO JAAR | Walter Seidl
LEOPOLD STROBL | Carl Aigner
LUISE MARCHAND | Maren Lübbke-Tidow
JUN YANG | Barbara Steiner

ARTS & STUDIES
KAJA CLARA JOO | Paula Watzl

FOCUS
THE LAST DIGITAL NATIVES
Künstlerische Arbeitsweisen im Zeitalter technologischer Umbrüche | Johan Nane Simonsen

FORUM
Ein Gespräch mit Kay Walkowiak | Gerald Matt

EXHIBITIONS
darktaxa-project. phtoograify | Nela Eggenberger
Elfriede Mejchar | Gerald Piffl
AVANTGARDE AND LIBERATION. Zeitgenössische Kunst und dekoloniale Moderne | Raimar Stange
Pierre Huyghe. Liminal | Julia Stellmann
Sissa Micheli. On Equality and Conformity | Nina Schedlmayer
Lucia Moholy. Exposures | Peter Kunitzky
Luiz Roque | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink

DATES
with BLOCKFREI Collective

COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Susan Philipsz: Sound Mirrors

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEW
Gabriele Rothemann. Werke | Berthold Ecker
Antonio Rovaldi. Morgen | Margit Neuhold
Gregory Crewdson | Gregor Auenhammer
Uta Kögelsberger. Forest Complex | Ruth Horak

EDITORIAL

Lieber Leserinnen und Leser!
“It’s no longer fiction to speculate about workers who spend the larger part of their waking hours with their eyes glued to screens. The Earth rotates beneath a network of satellites which are continuously taking photographs of its surface. Almost every one of us has a computer in our trouser pocket; we are all surveilled, measured and expressed in numbers: zero and one.”(1)
Digitalization, which since spring 2020, for reasons we all understand, has become more pervasive than ever, with video conferences, home offices, or the increasing shift of public services into the net, has been a part of our everyday lives for a good fifty years. Meanwhile, the entire western world is so interwoven with the constant availability of internet services and “smart” devices that our existence can probably scarcely be managed without these aids. Amid this permanent process of transformation stands photography, which is often assigned a dominant role.
The significance that the digital has acquired in the practice of art has caused the collective of FOTOGALERIE WIEN (currently consisting in Noémi Ábrahám, Herman Capor, Christian Eiselt, Christian Gold-Kurz, Tobias Izsó, Michael Michlmayr, Petra Noll-Hammerstiel, Anja Nowak, Johan Nane Simonsen, and Patrick Winkler) to trace this theme in the framework of a series of focuses stretching over two years in the form of exhibitions with a retrospective catalog. In a total of four blocks, crystallized out of the themes negotiated by the artists, the motto is divided into the fields of “artefacts,” “sensor technology,” “generative” and “coexistence”—while the age groups who grew up with the digital already predominate and their approaches are taken into focus by Nane Simonsen with The Last Digital Natives starting on p. 49. She also provides proof with exemplary samples that this generation, in contrast to commonly accepted clichés, by no means “loses itself in computer worlds,” but indeed is fixed in physical reality, “with its material and politicoideological implications.”(2)
Nela Eggenberger | EIKON | September 2024

(1) Foreword to the BILDER issues published to mark the ‘DIGITAL’ special feature, FOTOGALERIE WIEN, 2022–2024.
(2) See P. 58.

ART DIRECTION & DESIGN
Grafikum – Studio für Gestaltung

TRANSLATION
Vera Coccyx (E/D),Gerard A. Goodrow (D/E), Nelson Wattie (D/E)