“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 USD Buy in … ti_zines_kitchen_9x9_
“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
“GEN3” [2025] A film by THE-ICONOMIST3m35s, color, sound This short film presents the editorial principles of THE-ICONOMIST, a “third generation” magazine that explores iconomy and the circulation of images in the digital age. Based on the concept of “iconomy”, coined by Gilson Schwartz, and Vilém Flusser’s thoughts on technical images, The Iconomist proposes a critical … collection: “Artificial” (2023)
25TH NOVEMBER_This zine is part of the 365 series, made from images related to or taken on a specific day of the year. The only restriction is that images taken or related to the current year are forbidden.
The first four editions of THE-ICONOMIST, which comprise Vol. I Ultra-Processed, are now part of the contemporary art library at Beaux-Arts de Paris, France. The four inaugural editions were developed using images generated by artificial intelligence.