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Mutual Actions
Spring / Summer 2008
This issue proposes a reflection on two distinct yet overlapping phenomena: interactivity – which refers primarily to the relation between the individual and the machine, particularly in technological artworks requiring the spectator’s participation – and interaction, which instead calls to mind a relationship between individuals, specifically between the artist and members of the public, and is made evident in multimedia and video works, web art, and participative works.
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Which Interactions in Contemporary Art?
To see oneself in that Mirror
L’interactivité et la fluctuation sémiotique
Reflexive Figures: The Encounter in Interactive Arts
De/generative Narratives: Net Art and Textual Adaptation
Collective Actions: The Interactive Installation Work of Marc Fournel
Le temps donné par Giorgia Volpe
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.