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Lost Zone. Hiking the Dawn of Metaverse

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Edited by Andrea Belosi and Joana Rafael
Contributors: Alice Dos Reis, Andreas Angelidakis, Jay Springett, Massimo Greco, Natalie P. Koerner, Tyler Coburn.


Graphic Design: Ivo Rubboli
Color and bw
208 pp.
22×14 cm
eng

2022
ISBN 978-88-97753-76-6

Category: Theory Visual reader

For a decade, from the mid-1990s, Active Worlds was the most popular user-created virtual environment on the internet. It was an online zone full of precedent and potential; a worldbuilding exercise and infrastructure holding the promise of a self-electing global citizenry amidst virtual constructions of their own imagination and creation. Coming from a background in architecture, editors Andrea Belosi and Joana Rafael have led an expedition through the remains of Active World’s principal territory, AlphaWorld. Infused with principles of psychogeography and urbanism, and sprinkled with the dream logic that seasons virtual realities, four avatars were enlisted to walk in relay the 655 digital kilometres that separate AlphaWorld’s northern and southern limits. Alongside an atlas of AW’s 495 public and private worlds, and details of the online platform’s social and technical construction, rules and labor, Lost Zone draws a line through the ruins of our recent digital past, to gain insights into our hybrid present.

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Dino Ignani

DARK ROME. 1982-1985

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Dino Ignani

DARK ROME. 1982-1985

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A cura di Matteo Di Castro in collaborazione con Elena Marasca
Testi di Matteo Di Castro, Daniela Amenta, Diego Mormorio
In collaborazione con s.t. foto libreria galleria, Roma

368 pp.
18,5 x 26 cm
ita/eng

2024
ISBN 979-12-81790-09-4

This book gather Dino Ignani's Dark Portraits collection, a selection of approximately 200 photographs that are part of a much larger series of shots, mostly portraits, taken over the course of five years, and effectively evoke the spirit of the 1989s in the dynamic city of Rome. Ignani's research is a window on the look of the young adults who animated the clubs of the so-called Dark scene in Rome, a scene that was in fact diverse and multifaceted, presenting a range of unprecedented aesthetic and individual declinations that flowed into other moods and styles of the time.

Vv.Aa.

Costruzione dell'Universo

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Vv.Aa.

Costruzione dell'Universo

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Edited by Emanuele De Donno, Amedeo Martegani
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at the CIAC in Foligno
Supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno

352 pp.
17×24 cm
ita/en

2024
ISBN 979-1281232075

Costruzione dell'Universo: Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp is a research project that gathers artists’ magazines and publications by various artists who were active in the realm of “periodical and irregular” printed matter from the 1950s to the present day, beginning with of the work of the visionary artist Marcel Duchamp. This significant and hitherto overlooked sector of artistic production explores the dimension of the newspaper and magazine as an artistic medium. The selection includes extremely rare, a-periodic, and extraordinary printed items, “sensitive” publications in which the artist first handedly draws and designs the cover, the inner pages, the image sequence, or conceives the overall form of the object as a unique, yet replicable work. The publication in this context is sometimes transformed into an open and collective container, capable of engaging and coordinating multiple artists in the same layout or across different issues. The title “Construction of the Universe” points out to the fundamental and pioneering role of the early 20th-century avant-garde movement, referencing the 1915 Manifesto “Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe”, the notorious artistic manifesto that was initially released as a flyer and resembled newspaper layout. The 1950s (when our research for this book began) saw a significant rise of a utopian perspective in which artists, finally liberated from the existential weight of world conflicts, often envisioned the creation of a new society, free of relics and debris, made of travelling architectures and wide open spaces, new languages, and characterized by a deep longing for emptiness, a thrust toward the brightness of the future and the cosmos.

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I am Gonzo. My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books

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Aa.Vv.

I am Gonzo. My Dirty Italian Zines Fuck Serious Scientific Books

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Edited by Emanuele De Donno, Luca Pucci

254 pp.
13 x 18,5 cm

2024
ISBN 978-88-97753-58-2

Category: Theory Visual reader

This revised edition of I Am Gonzo includes three new erotic stories and supplementary matter tobring it up to date as a new issue of the series. A porn addict amateur who collects dirty Italian comics inan “animalistic” way, Gonzo applies a conservative technique whereby he hides these questionablyviewable images within scientific libraries. This book addresses a widespread form of collecting thatavoids the subject of the “arty” comic strip and instead dives headlong into obscene material and theviewer’s experience of it. This mega-collection of pornographic Italian comics faithfully presents the genrefrom its sensual, sexual-phobic beginnings (1960-1970) to its porno-violent shift, between the years 1985and 2000. Voyeuristic and chock-full of thematic variants, from transgenderism and homoeroticism to fairytale, zombie, and cyber porn.

Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi

Bolletti/no 12

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Virginia di Lazzaro, giulia filippi

Bolletti/no 12

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24 pp.
stampa a un colore (grigio)
14,8 x 21 cm

2023

The theme of the twelfth issue of Bolletti/no is… TIDE! Aldo can’t find the stone he was playing with…. The tide covered it up! This issue of Bolletti/no takes us on a discovery of what the water hides and shows when the sea level increases and decreases… Let’s create a small flip book together to observe this fascinating fenomenon.

Bolletti/no is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of Bolletti/no is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Cinzia Pietribiasi, Pierluigi Tedes…

Memorie del suolo

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Cinzia Pietribiasi, Pierluigi Tedeschi

Memorie del suolo

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Co-published with Imagonirmia
Introduction text by Isabella Bordoni

208 pp.
10×15 cm
ita

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-95-7

Ten years of performance practices of the Pietribiasi/Tedeschi Company around the long term project #memoriedelsuolo told through the manipulation of a wide range of materials. A creative journey where the emotional temperature and degree of truth of the joint work of the artist duo Cinzia Pietribiasi and Pierluigi Tedeschi puts collective memory and archive in dialogue with processes, experimentations, readings, writings, stage gestures, public actions.

Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.10

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Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.10

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28 pp
14,8 x 21 cm
ita/eng

2023
No ISBN

The theme of the tenth issue of Bolletti/no is EGG. It invites readers to… hatch. The blackbird is crouched on its newly laid egg and waits. Life will come and spring will come. Have you ever seen blackbird eggs? And those of the herring gull? Find those and other eggs in this issue of Bolletti/no.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

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Soda Kazuhiro

Why I Make Documentaries. On Observational Filmmaking

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Soda Kazuhiro

Why I Make Documentaries. On Observational Filmmaking

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Supported by the Japan Foundation
Edited by Silvio Grasselli
Translated by Matt Schley

208 pp
11 × 20 cm
eng

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-85-8

Category: Theory

“What is a documentary?” “Why do I make documentaries?”. Soda Kazuhiro – one of the most prominent Japanese filmmakers, who has based his documentarist career on a radically independent filmmaking method, – writes this reflexive diary on his own work pursuing to find answers to these and to other crucial questions that arose along his long path of research. This first curated English version of his most enlightening and complete text has been enriched with a brand new iconographic apparatus from Soda Kazuhiro’s movies and a new updated introduction by the author himself. 

Giovanni Chiamenti

Interspecies Kin

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Giovanni Chiamenti

Interspecies Kin

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Supported by the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura nell’ambito del programma Italian Council (X edizione, 2021)
Promoted by NARS Foundation, Genspace, Spazio Volta, ARTDATE 2022 – The Blank Contemporary
In collaboration with The Blank Contemporary Art, NARS Foundation, Attiva Cultural Projects, Spazio Volta
Texts by Federica Torgano, Oscar Salguero, Cassie Packard, Massimo Bagnani, Leonardo Bentini, Kyle Frischkorn, Giovanni Paolin, Edoardo De Cobelli


pp. 96
17×24 cm
eng


2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-89-6

Category: Theory

Interspecies Kin is the first publication enclosing the research that Giovanni Chiamenti has carried out over the past two years. The project was developed between the United States, specifically in New York during his residency at the NARS Foundation and a subsequent collaboration with the community biolab Genspace, and Italy, thanks to the collaboration with Spazio Volta and the support of his cultural partners Attiva Cultural Projects and The Blank Contemporary Art. Chiamenti’s practice lies somewhere between scientific popularization and his intent to be formally speculative, bordering on the sci-fi. The artist has created an organic glossary, originated from interspecies relationships, in which creatures demonstrate their adaptability to an increasingly polluted environment and the hybrid becomes the protagonist of rhizomatic relationships capable of interconnecting extremely distant worlds. The texts within the publication address the issue of micro-plastic pollution plaguing the oceans and its subsequent integration within the evolutionary process of organisms and bacteria inhabiting the deep sea. The topic is addressed not only by curators and critics but also by a marine microbiologist and a biomedical engineer. This is a transdisciplinary project in which the imaginative power of the forms generated by the artist is not intended to obscure the scientific component, but instead to bring the reader closer to the studies conducted in recent years in evolutionism.

Massimo Ricciardo

Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-object of Art History

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Massimo Ricciardo

Encounters in an Archive. Objects of Migration / Photo-object of Art History

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Edited by Costanza Caraffa, Almut Goldhahn
Supported by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura nell’ambito del programma Italian Council 
Promoted and edited by Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max-Plank-Institut.

208 pp
17 × 24 cm
ita/eng

2023
ISBN 978-88-97753-90-2

Global migration is one of the most pressing matters facing contemporaneity, but also a leitmotif in the work of Massimo Ricciardo. In his most recent project, the artist creates a dialogue between photographic objects from the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and objects of migration: things that are functional to the journey, such as passports and nautical charts, but also to identity and memory, such as family photographs, diaries, a sample of earth from the homeland. The installation generated compelling questions about these ‘talking’ objects: who do they belong to? Are they part of our cultural heritage? What are the appropriate artistic and curatorial practices if one decides to collect, archive, exhibit, transform them? The dialogues prompted by Ricciardo’s installation continue in this book and involve a polyphony of voices.

Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.9

€ 15

Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.9

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Wit a poster by School of Nonfunctional Studies
brown ink

24 pp
14,8 × 21 cm
eng/ita

2022
No ISBN

The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is MANTO (blanket). It invites readers to… bundle up, to stay warm under the blankets and to create your own snowy landscape. Open it up and flip through the pages to find out how. The ninth issue of Bolletti/no, the last of 2022, contains an artist’s poster by School of Nonfunctional Studies. This is the second of three artist’s posters specifically designed for Bolletti/no to say goodbye to the past year and all its seasons. The other poster will be attached to the last issue of 2023.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.8

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Virginia Di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no.8

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16 pp
14,8 × 21 cm
eng/ita

2022
No ISBN

The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is MINESTRONE. It invites readers to… cut your veggies and make soup. With the eighth issue of Bolletti/no, you are all invited to make your own soup. Open it up and flip through it to find out how.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

Virginia di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no. 7

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Virginia di Lazzaro, Giulia Filippi

Bolletti/no. 7

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One-color gold printing
16 pp
14,8 x 21 cm
ita / eng

2022
No ISBN

The theme of the seventh issue of Bolletti/no is SIDEREAL. It invites readers to… desire. The summer night sky is populated with stars that invite us to desire. We follow the trail of shooting stars and entrust our thoughts to them. With the seventh issue of Bolletti/no, you are all invited to make your own sky. Open it up and flip through it to find out how.

Bollettino is an experimental didactic magazine published at each solstice and equinox for the duration of 3 years. It responds to the desire to give a physical and printed form to a series of practices experimented in the time of laboratory work shared with children and adults by Virginia Di Lazzaro and Giulia Filippi. Each issue of BOLLETTINO is an invitation, a lense to read, and a tool for experimentation, creation, collection, and sharing. It is a journey into a world of small and big things, and things that are close to us and we see everyday. Each issue collects suggestions, narrations of experiences, prompts and leaves space for your own experiments. In addition to the 12 issues, there are going to be special issues and a conclusive “Annual Collection” will be the container for all the magazines.

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Viaindustriae is a cultural association and publishing house based in Foligno, PG, Italy. Founded in 2005, it promotes projects and artistic research ranging from museum exhibitions, site-specific installations, public actions, artist residencies and publications in various formats. In the last ten years, the publishing activity has consolidated to become the association's main field of action. Viaindustriae publishes artists' books, experimental research books, territorial studies, exhibition catalogues, monographic catalogues - among other forms of publishing - using publishing practice as a generative tool for artistic experimentation. The books have different formats that do not follow the standards of a canonical publishing practice but rather the needs and specificities of each project. Viaindustriae sees the publishing practice as an act of translation that requires a transformation of the art or visual work into a new form, where the work itself develops new possibilities and meanings; this is why each book becomes an autonomous platform and not just an opportunity to transfer content.