As a result of a 2-day workshop with Benjamin McMillan, the printed editorial features content automatically downloaded from various websites analyzing the symbolism of rock drawings in the Camonica Valley. The fanzine's design was created manually during the workshop and later transported into a digital format for final production.
The methods around space exploration echo those of Land Colonization on Planet Earth.
As soon as we began to see space as a viable destination, we started to use it - or see it - for human purposes: firstly political, and then also for economic and social purposes. Often associated with the discovery of the New World of Colombus, space is and has been seen by man as a Terra Nullius: an empty, uninhabited place. Interplanetary Echoes of a Quiet Land develops a photographic inquiry - and a speculative fiction - into the disappearance of the Moon and its gradual diaspora on Earth, due to an excessive extraction.
The Parametric Truth Lab is a space to spend time with software without it’s productivity as priority. Instead, the lab questions truths that are established through software’s parameters. The lab operates with an expanded understanding of software literacy. Designers use software to create narratives, transform research, communicate information. What worlds are you building, with what tools? How might those tools influence these worlds unknowingly or intentionally? With software everywhere, the lab documents what and who is automated, computed, digitised.
The act of measurement is not neutral and every technology of measurement and classification legitimates certain forms of knowledge and experience, while rendering others invisible. Interposing such self-tracking technologies between us and our bodies, in fact, means accepting as valid the metrics, statistics and parameters chosen by those who programmed such technology. We tend, on the other hand, to accept as objective, scientific, true everything that is expressed in data, numbers, graphs. However, behind the construction of data and their representations there are always choices, which ultimately correspond to strategies for constructing truth.
On April 10, 2019 the team of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released an unprecedented image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87, a visual evidence of what has, until now, been invisible. To be precise, this image does not technically show visual evidence of a black hole, for as we saw (or perhaps didn’t see), black holes are, by definition, completely dark incredibly dense objects from which even light cannot escape. Instead, the image shows a shadow, a boundary of perceptibility that manifests in darkness, forever exceeding human representational schema. It symbolises a horizon—a limit case—for human sense-making apparatuses. No instrument, no technological advance can ever probe the limit of the event horizon, because physically nothing exists within it.
Tonini Editore is an international publishing house focused on contemporary art. Based in Italy, Tonini Editore boasts publications with internationally renowned artists such as Claude Closky, Claudia Comte, Peter Downsbrough, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Koo Jeong A, Maurizio Nannucci.