XXXSpace is an essay film that emerges from the sensory and symbolic collapse of our time. Set in a dystopian—yet real—context where three simultaneous wars shape the global imaginary, the film presents an iconographic collection of images gathered since 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. Since then, missiles, explosions, and ballistic diagrams have become … xxxspace_2025_a film by the iconomist
THE-ICONOMIST publications are included in collections such as the contemporary art library at the Beaux-Arts in Paris (France), the Schaulager/Laurenz Foundation (Switzerland), the contemporary collection at the m-AG — Museum of the Avant-Garde (Switzerland), and the photography library at the Moreira Salles Institute (Brazil), among others. In 2023, the magazine was featured in the exhibition The Intelligent Library at PhotoVogue, at Base Milano. In 2025, THE-ICONOMIST participated in Offprint Paris as an exhibitor.
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“THE-ICONOMIST’s latest issue is hectic and “suffocating” in its use of online image banks. The magazine has never really operated within the requirements of a conventional magazine. This isn’t just because the issues don’t have any advertisements or an ISBN number, or even that it doesn’t have a website that can be indexed by Google. The magazine defies a traditional editorial approach at every turn.After its first four issues’ focus on AI-generated visuals, the magazine has returned with its fifth edition — a printed exploration of surveillance in the digital age.” — ELLIS TREE, It’s Nice That “Leafing through the eighth issue of The Iconomist feels like plunging into a dense sea of images drawn from widely different origins and visual regimes. Appropriated, manipulated, distorted, corrupted, cropped, filtered and recombined, these images accumulate into a surface that is intentionally overwhelming, producing a visual field that feels both vertiginous and delirious.” — ELAINE RAMOS
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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 files was damaged, but the recovery process … fragility
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THE WORLD AS A STAGE is based on images from public security cameras. Evoking William Shakespeare‘s famous phrase, the title suggests that everyday life is constantly under observation, turning us all into actors who play our parts in front of an invisible audience. Just as in the poem “All the World’s a Stage”, where each … the world as a stage a film by the iconomist
“Everything everything everything everything. A world on edge of destruction. Objects become precious, matter becomes subject to feel of reverence. This is an art form for artists. The mass of people appreciate Modern art 50 years after its practice. This art form will not be subject to this time lag since it is unlikely that … words_gustav metzer
[21×28 cm, 58 pages, softcover. Shipping worldwide via MagCloud] Nº 7 — BIG DATA. The new issue of THE-ICONOMIST is structured around three verbs: to track, to store, to capitalize. They do not appear as themes or narrative devices, but as discrete operations — technical procedures that have become naturalized, embedded in daily life and … issue-7_big_data_log