Contribution to Shift Re-Appropriated
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Contribution to Shift Re-Appropriated |
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The Weblog, the display and the small figures called blogobs are a contribution
for the Shift! is re-appropriate project. A short description: At the exhibition
which took place in a 24 hour shop in the center of Berlin, visitors of
the exhibition or customers could purchasing a Blogob. By doing so, they received
a password for the moderated fully functional weblog by mail within a day,
in order to be enabled to publish their own stories and content. For this
Shift! project, designers and artists from around the world were invited
to re-appropriate the publication itself. Detritus of previous Shift!s
were bagged up and given to contributors who were then asked to deconstruct,
re-interpret, and re-invent earlier incarnations of Shift!. These "new
designs" could take any shape or form and serve any function, under one
condition – that nothing else be used other than the Shift! material.
Shift is an independent design magazine by Anja Lutz, Berlin, Germany.
The Shift magazine got well-established as "alternative" design
magazine. The concept of this contribution was to re-shift and re-format shift's
main focus of publishing into an art direction of instant messaging and into a multi-authored
publishing platform. Shift re-appropriated remains fun, and materialized this year as a mail
order catalogue. Questions on "publishing" and "politics" remains
an intrest of mine, which resulted in the experiment, the contribution Mallory
Neely House. The blog changed later to my "1066 And All That" personal Weblog. Link: 1066 & All That Project Contribution: Display & Blogobs / Weblog Exhibition: Exhibition: |