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the insides of things
Diagram, an electronic journal of text and art, looks well worth exploring.
Their submissions page contains some highly sexy phrases:
"[W]e're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries ... We value the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance ... We like iteration and reiteration. Ruins and ghosts. Mechanical, moving parts, balloons, and frenzy ... We want art and writing that demonstrates / interaction; the processes / of things, both inner and outer; how certain functions are accomplished; how things become. How they expire. How they move or churn, or stand."
The most recent issue [3.6] came to my attention because it's an "all-audio" issue: which means that it features both sound-related diagrams (can I get a T-shirt with this on it?) but also a wide variety of experimental soundwork selected by "sonics editor" Shannon Fields, whose own list of sexy interests includes "accidental congruencies, inexplicable structural mappings, territorial failings, feelings without soundtracks, silences." |
Thursday, February 19, 2004
3:59 PM
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