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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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Abstractions
Spring Summer 2025
Yet what about abstraction today? Long confined to formalist and self-referential imperatives, abstraction has gradually freed itself from the modernism yolk to recapture its evocative power. This issue proposes to turn away from the dogma of Abstraction as a historical genre to consider its various plastic and semantic avenues. In this invitation to explore abstractions, we wish to re-establish a dialogue between content and form, between the political and the poetic, by engaging with works that evoke reality differently. Whether they are qualified as abstract, non-figurative, or non-objective, these works certainly tell us stories.