flat journal

A platform that engages with contemporary conversations surrounding emerging media in the arts

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Some featured works by
@laurenleemack
@gvgktang @breadfellow @minneatairu @GosiaWojas @MichelSALU @kariminilu @3liseortiz @nchuk @Bonsta5

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“Can touch be expropriated from the body without consequences?”— @GosiaWojas
Wojas examines the body’s role in perceiving touch and touch perception

https://t.co/ZAOPYgGqCI
#phenomenology #jacquesderrida #jeanlucnancy #mauricemerleauponty #touch #deconstructionist #philosophy

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“Touch, Touch, Remove” by @AndreaAvidad is an interactive, web-based work that places ‘touch’ in relation to a series of affiliated terms such as contact, proximity, distance, and remove.
https://t.co/xPz2Hohfra
#webart #netart #performanceart #video #ASMR #touch #COVID19

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“Tactility of Everyday Objects” by @Bonsta5 documents surface textures of everyday objects through pencil rubbings & ink print, enlivening the relationship between commonplace objects & our hands.
https://t.co/1dxlbrr6y4
#objects #touch #pencilart #shading #tactileart

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"Now I understand parenthesis as two hands grabbing my attention, not letting me ignore what is contained. A gesture for the reader to lean in." —Barbara Paulus
https://t.co/vhowqbjzP6
#prose #humantouch

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“The Mockup Aesthetic: Gestures of Transgression” by Leslie Liu is an interactive essay, designed to be viewed in Photoshop, about the politics of wheatpaste mockups
https://t.co/NN4hAjrauX
#graphics #wheatpaste #mockup #mockupdesign #PSD #writing #essay #design #designaesthetic

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“Jewel at Playa Vista” by ann haeyoung responds to the connection between palm trees and Southern California’s colonial history.
https://t.co/WUYsFLuaHk

#postcolonial #losangeles #palmtrees #playavista #southerncalifornia #video #luxuryhomes

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"As bodies, all of our movements create resonance—they collide with things, perhaps unseen and particulate but nevertheless material." –Katherine Adams
https://t.co/yjqipd8ZHS
#sonic #sound #haptic #dance #choregraphy #performance #essay #writing #movement

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“Embodied Pedagogies: Teaching Remotely in a Digital Age” by Jeremy Hahn and Peter Sebastian Chesney outlines the methods used by the authors in order to create practices of embodiment through remote instruction.
https://t.co/pt8aUomGjW
#essay #pedagogy #teaching #remotelearning

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“...my art doesn’t exist without the participants putting their hands on it.” –@smigla_bobinski

https://t.co/yk9i8ZAE4f

Today we feature an interview with intermedia artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski; interviewed by Ana Teresa Vicente.

#art #multimedia #touch #interview #feature

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"The Kiss" by @JasminBlasco is composed of a kissing code and a message in tongues—probing tensions between intimacy and surveillance to ask how we may carry secrets in a hyper-visible world.
https://t.co/cPUmICg503

#kiss #performance #video #code #tongue
#intimacy

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“A Vacuum Is Also a Plenum and Both Make Music
Make Life” by @bighedva is an evocation of a night in Berlin where bodies are entangled between the sounds of Sunn O))) & the void.

https://t.co/Yd8jy7spff

#sunno #sound #music #noise #time #berlin #bodies #writing

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Maddie Butler's aural work, “Tensing (MB+MJ /\ pm-am, 11:33-1:41 /\ 5.21-5.22, 20),” contends with the affective boundaries between two agents performing a sexting exchange.
https://t.co/9IG89LlBsS
#sound #soundart #performance #intersubjectivity

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“Red Earth” by @MichelSALU is a processed-based, cross-media project that features images that are programmatically transformed through a series of translations of Salu’s prose.
https://t.co/C0U88Uj61q

#yoruba #digitalsculptures #postcolonial #data #translation #digitalart

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In "Muted" @laurenleemack's screen-based experience crafts rich, layered soundscapes, voice recordings, animated alt-text, & photo documentation that coalesce into a poetic re-telling of works made throughout the pandemic.
https://t.co/JhSUj9RILW
#soundart #covid19 #alttext

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“Greens and Blues” by @breadfellow is an AV collage that explores the imagery of gardening to reflect on relational growth & care: like plants, relationships need trimming & watering.
https://t.co/NtolEC44yi
#blue #archive #care #tending #video #VR #therapy #garden

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“It’s always winter when you’re willing to travel in it."

Today we feature justine nguyễn-nguyễn’s “Matutinal Mating” from issue 0.2 Touch.

https://t.co/30dAMKlm7b

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“BRUNT DRAMA” by Matthew Lax is an animated video that features the neutralized domain of crash test dummies primed into a series of vignettes that muddle the boundaries between labor and love.

https://t.co/yrdWomPaPX

#3danimation #video #labor #love #animation

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“Ophthalmics” by @minneatairu is a video that interpolates GAN portraits; the generative gazes of Atairu’s portraits impart detailed textures of the human skin.

https://t.co/MROqUBryOz

#skin #portrait #GAN #GANs #generativeart #video #digitalart

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What lies in the Red Earth? Ponder with us in the latest issue of @flat_journal

https://t.co/xeLBJOkm6e

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“Abecedarian after border speeches” by @ @kariminilu & @3liseortiz involves 2 poems fashioned by the artists’ custom-designed “Border font.” Border font is based on 40 borders initiated or substantially fortified between 2000 and 2020.
https://t.co/BpOaDQAkN6
#poetry #font #type