Stuart Bailey

After eighteen issues, Dot Dot Dot remains the must-read journal on every designer's desk. By steering clear of both commercial portfolio presentations and impenetrable academic theory, it has become the premier venue for creative journalism on diverse subjects, such as music, art, literature, and architecture, that affect the way we think about and make design. Dot Dot Dot 19 presents the latest fieldwork of a multidisciplinary group of contributors investigating the web of influences shaping contemporary culture.

With contributions by Richard Rodriguez, Francis McKee, Anthony Huberman, Nick Paumgarten, Graham Meyer, Steve Rushton, Frances Stark, E.C. Large, Ryan Holmberg, Rob Giampietro, Joe Scanlan, Albert Sukoff, Dan Fox, Jan Verwoert, Seth Price, Angie Keefer, Paul Elliman, Rob Giampietro, Tom McCarthy, Walead Beshty, Snowden Snowden, Graham Meyer, Dan Fox, and Angie Keefer.… (mais)

What are the processes that enable archives to become productive? Conventional archives tend to be defined through the content-specific accumulation of material, which conforms to an existing order or narrative. They rarely transform their structure. In contrast to this model of archival practice and preservation, the conflictual archive has an open framework in which it actively transforms itself, allowing for the creation of new and surprising relationships. Illustrating how spaces of knowledge can be devised, developed, and designed, this archive reveals itself as a space in which documents and testimonies open up a stage for productive dispute and struggle.
Exploring nontraditional archives, such as those of Harald Szeemann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sitterwerk, and the publishing house Merve, The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict offers new perspectives on archival practice, interrogating whether archives need spatial permanence, and, if so, which design framework should be applied for the archive to take on more than a singular form of existence. The research project is a collaboration between the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève).

Copublished with Karlsruhe University of Art and Design and the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève)… (mais)

The must-read journal on every designer's desk, Dot Dot Dot covers design in the widest possible sense. Steering clear of both commercial portfolio presentations and impenetrable academic theory, it offers intelligent, passionate, and clever writing on the tangled web of influences that determine the shape of contemporary cultural production. Art, music,language, film, literatureyou never know what you might discover on its offbeat pages. Featuring a design as unexpected as its contents, Dot Dot Dot 17 presents new artifacts from its ongoing investigation into the past, present, and future of visual culture.… (mais)