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What do we mean when we say that something is contemporary? And what should the designator contemporary art refer to? What constitutes the present present or the contemporary contemporary? Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art, the first book in the Contemporary Condition series, introduces key issues concerning contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present and calls for a deep rethinking of the structures of temporalization.
This book contains three interconnected palimpsest essays on the backstory of a meta font updated by Dexter Sinister and used in this book series, a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from a higher point of disinterest, and a proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel physi- cal and digital realms. All of the essays contemplate the ambiguous nature of our shared idea of time itself.
Welcome to Downlode, future European megalopolis and home to two of the best gunsharks (hitmen) money can hire - motormouth Finnegan Sinister and laconic, ice-cool Ramone Dexter. Revenge, assassination, betrayal - they're all in a day's work for the gun-lovin' criminals.
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Finnigan Sinister and Ramone Dexter are gunsharks: hired killers with chalk outlines round their souls. The boys have killed their old boss and created a new force in Downlode's underworld - Demi Octavo. Demi has a new job for them - teaching her younger sister, Billi, how to be a gunshark
The city of Downlode is being torn apart by the escalating conflict between the major criminal powers. At the centre of it all is Demi Octavo, Downlode's queen of crime. She's trying to hold the city together, but it all keeps slipping from her grasp - and fun-loving hitmen Sinister and Dexter are caught in the middle!
Ecstatic alphabets/Heaps of language is a group exhibition on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from May 6 to August 27, 2012. It brings together forty-four modern and contemporary artists and artists' groups working in all mediums including painting, sculptutre, film , video, audio, spoken word, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of written and spoken language--visual, arual, and beyond. This book--a volume in the continuing series, Bulletins of the serving library, published by Dexter Sinister--is that artist team's contribution to the exhibition.
The must-read journal on every designer's desk, Dot Dot Dot covers design in the widest possible sense. Steering clear of both commercial portfolio presentations and impenetrable academic theory, it offers intelligent, passionate, and clever writing on the tangled web of influences that determine the shape of contemporary cultural production. Art, music,language, film, literatureyou never know what you might discover on its offbeat pages. Featuring a design as unexpected as its contents, Dot Dot Dot 17 presents new artifacts from its ongoing investigation into the past, present, and future of visual culture.
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Handy guidebook to scrambles in Snowdonia, Wales. All the routes described lie within the northern half of the Snowdonia National Park. Includes the Glyders - mostly concentrated on Tryfan, Glyder Fach and Glyder Fawr - the Snowdon group, Carneddau and Eifionydd regions. Routes range from scrambly walks to the boundaries of proper rock climbing.