The Photocopier as a Moral Dilemma
The Art Strike (1990-1993) continues to enjoy its long run as a potent topic for debate in this issue. Many in the Dialog section express distaste for the tiresome back and forth, but, running the series backward as we are, you, the new reader of this series, should expect and be prepared for more to come.
Issue responds in part to the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, among other issues. In this regard, the Bureau of Public Secrets offers up the essay The War and the Spectacle. Beyond that, a substantial portion of pagespace is given over to Netlinks: International Networking Year, a proposal by mailartists for a series of Decentralized Worldwide Networking Congresses to be held during the following calendar year. A variety of mailart luminaries weigh in with their opinions and thoughtful musings on the proposal.
Other items include essays by Ben G Price (‘The Epistemology of Eschatology’), Barney Rubble (‘Confessions of a Posterist’) and Eliza Blackweb (‘A New York Experience’), among others. Not to mention the numerous reviews of cassettes and printed pieces, and contributed graphics that readers have come to expect.
Notes
Printed on a Xerox 9500.
First issue to use half-letter (5.5 x 8.5 in.) format.
US print run: 655.
EU print run: (records unavailable).
PDF upload: 2002-07-01.
Changes
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Contributors
Mark Rose
The Tape-beatles
Karen Eliot
Esteban Felix
Eliza Blackweb
Eleutheros Productions
Thomas Wiloch
Ben G Price
Musicmaster
Piotr Szyhalski
Harry Polkinhorn
Crackerjack Kid
Walter Alter
Stephen Perkins
ASCW-IA
H R Fricker
FaGaGaGa
John Held, Jr.
Bureau of Public Secrets
Dadata
AR280
ASFi
Orworks
Vittore Baroni
Anton Viergever
Horizon Unlimited
Matthew Fuller
Ben Allen
Sensoria from Censorium
Ross Martin
