THE-ICONOMIST© is a post-digital artist’s magazine and research project. Founded in 2021.
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Faceless Things (2005)Kyung-mook Kim (b. 1985) David Bordwell wrote:Warnings about gay sadomasochism to the contrary, this doesn’t offer much you can’t see in Warhol or Waters. What it does provide is three shots. The first, nearly 45 minutes long, provides virtually a one-act play about a motel tryst between a businessman and his teenage lover. The … Kyung-mook Kim, <em>Faceless Things (2005)</em>
You wake in a hotel room that is not the hotel room you fell asleep in the furniture is similar but not identical the curtains are heavier the light more artificial the bed too narrow and you wonder if the hotel has rearranged itself during the night to keep you confused or if you have … A memory that never belonged to you
Memoryscape, a speculative tale by THE-ICONOMIST, is a plunge into the collapse between memory and technology. A narrator drifts through feeds, notifications, algorithms, and system glitches in search of himself, but finds only echoes, noise, and screenshots of a life mediated by devices. Between buffered dreams, captcha identities, and emotions translated into data, the book … memoryscape_2025
“We always think of the imagination as the faculty that forms images. On the contrary, it deforms what we perceive; it is, above all, the faculty that frees us from immediate images and changes them. … Imagination is essentially open and elusive. We could say that a stable and completely realized image clips the wings … gaston-bachelard_imagination
F IS FOR FRAGILITY (OF DIGITAL IMAGES). When data is corrupted, the image also takes on a new life. They have lost their original functions, their sharpness, and often any possibility of literal reading. What remains are fragments, noises, spectra. In December 2024, one of our hard drives containing thousands of reference images and project … ti_zine_fragility