Here’s a gem from the archives that is more than worthy of your attention: the televisual translation of the Fiore/McLuhan/Agel experimental paperback The Medium is the Massage, courtesy of McGraw-Hill “text films,” several Pennsylvania libraries, and Internet Archive. It’s a prescient piece of cybernetic pop, starring McLuhan qua new media oracle, circa 1970. Aside from the psychedelic lighting and special effects, it’s the excitement with which the words electric and electronic are pronounced that holds…
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On the occasion of the inauguration on October 24, 2015 of the Walker’s exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia which examines the intersections of art, architecture, and design with the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, my collaborator Adam Michaels and I are direct publishing a pamphlet entitled TWO INTERVIEWS WITH QUENTIN FIORE + QUENTIN FIORE ON THE FUTURE OF THE BOOK. The pamphlet in question was first released as a limited-edition supplement…
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My collaborator Adam Michaels and I have been working on a two-fold supplement to our 2012 book on the experimental paperbacks of the 60s and 70s that we will be presenting at the Project Projects table at the New York Art Book Fair (MOMA P.S. 1) on the afternoon of Saturday, September 21, 2013. It consists in two limited edition items: a poster remix of the book and its sources; and a pamphlet that reproduces…
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