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Month: March 2023

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THE ICONOMIST is an independent artist-run magazine, a research, an agency of images, an observatory and a process of collection. Since 2021.

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THE ICONOMIST is an independent artist-run magazine, a research, an agency of images, an observatory and a process of collection. Since 2021.

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What is an iconomist? The element “icon” comes from the Greek Εικόνα and means “image”. In its origin, therefore, iconomy is the art of managing images. Today it is the science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of images. The iconomist treats images as mass, raw material, and can either give value to rotten images or

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STREAMING is a section of film screenings curated by THE ICONOMIST updated weekly. INPUT/OUTPUT is a section that is dedicated to experiments with images appropriated from our research, as well as videos and writing experiments. COLLECTIONS contains independent such as the VVVoyeur project and the books Stories to Store and STAYNONSTOP. ISSUES is where all

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White flash or mood disorder (Entryways), 2023Digital collages, 1387x200px each.

Mark Leckey – Concrete Vache (2010)

Concrete Vache (2010)MARK LECKEY Leckey has created two new films about Milton Keynes Gallery. The first, Concrete Vache makes use of the Gallery’s extensive documentation, splicing together footage from numerous past exhibitions and events to create a continuous narrative which will be presented alongside a number of 3D models. The second film combines images of Mark Leckey – Concrete Vache (2010)

Gefängnisbilder (2000), directed by HARUN FAROCKI

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices.

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Nº 3 — To catalogue. Introducing THE ICONOMIST’s latest thematic dossier. This edition takes inspiration from art magazines and catalogues to curate a collection of images that provoke and question our relationship with artwork documentation in the age of artificial intelligence. All the clichés of the art world are represented, the artist’s studio, the the the_iconomist_issue3