News from Switzerland: THE.ICONOMIST #issue7 and the zine F is for FRAGILITY were shortlisted for the Rosmarie Tissi Award in graphic design in the MA-g (Museum of Avant-garde) Awards. These publications will now become part of the institution’s contemporary collection.
“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
28 July 2025, 11:20 AM [PROSE] A DRESS GREW ITSELF894 WORDS, READING TIME: 4m58s [read]
[INPUT] I TOOK A PHOTO AND I FORGOT TO FEEL.pdf2025, research for upcoming project, 35p., 1080×1920 each [view]
rEDLines is a virtual automated writing installation that subverts the logic of the journalistic headlines to reveal their flaws, excesses, and poetic deviations. Hosted on THE-ICONOMIST, the work operates as a language machine, firing off fragments of text that recombine incessantly, creating impossible headlines, news from a fictional or distorted world, echoes of a collapsing … ti_redlines
“XXXSPACE” [2025] A film by THE-ICONOMIST20m25s, color, sound 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 … xxxspace_2025_a film by the iconomist
“THE WORLD AS A STAGE” [2024] A film by THE-ICONOMIST11m06s, color, sound This film 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 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
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.
“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)