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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They say that the face is the mirror of the soul. They say that images generated by artificial intelligence have no soul, they are like mirages. MIRROR:MIRAGES presents forty-three mysterious artificially generated faces accompanied by excerpts from the short story “The Mirror”, written by Guimarães Rosa, one of the greatest authors of Brazilian literature. In … mirror-mirages_2024
THE-ICONOMIST Issue 5 was selected by Zum magazine’s photobook call 2024 and will be on display at the Moreira Salles Institute photobooks library in São Paulo from November 2, 2024, until January 2025. The edition will also be added to the institution’s collection of photo books.
“The World as a Stage” is an experimental film 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 … …
[58 pages, 21x28cm, saddle-stitch binding, with shipping worldwide. Published by zero-Editions] Nº 5. Inaugurating its new volume of publications, THE-ICONOMIST presents an unusual thematic dossier built around the verbs “to watch” and “to speculate”. Inspired by excerpts from Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison” and William Shakespeare’s poem “All The … the-iconomist-issue-5-the-world-is-a-stage-2024
Through this volume, we address crucial themes such as privacy and power, violence and social behavior, technology and ethics. In addition, we have enriched our analysis with selected texts by renowned authors such as Octavia Butler, Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, Thomas Elsaesser, Anne Carson, Guy Debord, Marshall McLuhan and Barbara Kruger, among others. This new … the-iconomist-n5-the-world-as-a-stage-spreads
KITCHEN 9X9. This zine takes as its starting point a collection of images of kitchens found on the internet; a kitchen set in a television studio, people with kitchen as their surname, kitchens throughout history, works of art depicting kitchens and other representations.13x20cm, 48 pages, saddle stitched binding. Shipping worldwide. $15 USDBuy in print
“PROPOSALS FOR A POST-PORTRAIT”, 2022-2023seventy-nine digital images, 1024x1024px eachpart of the “ARTIFICIAL” collection
What is THE-ICONOMIST? I imagine it as a cross between the imaginary museum proposed by André Malraux and Aby Warburg’s mnemosyne atlas adapted to a post-digital context dominated by artificial intelligence services. Just as over a hundred years ago the ready-made drew attention to the exchange value of the work of art, the artist-ready-made also … about