EIKON #128

Editorial Content Order

Artists | Joan Fontcuberta | Thomas Freiler | Bouchra Khalili | Nnenna Onuoha | Liesl Raff |

Carl Aigner | Thomas Ballhausen | Simon Bowcock | Jens Bülskämper | Karin Cerny | Eva Gaeding | Wolfgang Giegler | Kathrin Heinrich  | Melody Howse | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink | Peter Kunitzky | Anja Linhart | Elisa Mirbach-Eder | Gerald Matt | Christin Müller |  Margit Neuhold | Günther Oberhollenzer | Danièle Perrier | Veronika Rudorfer | Nina Schedlmayer | Tina Schelle | Roland Schöny

 

Languages | German / English
Dimensions | 280 x 210 mm
ISBN | 978-3-904083-21-8
100 pages

Price: € 18,00 (incl. 10% VAT)

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Content

PORTFOLIO

THOMAS FREILER | Christin Müller
BOUCHRA KHALILI | Danièle Perrier
JOAN FONTCUBERTA | Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink
LIESL RAFF | Karin Cerny
NNENNA ONUOHA | Melody Howse

 

PROJECTS

Both sides of the room | Tina Schelle 
The Border Crosser. Peter Senoner | Günther Oberhollenzer
Rodrigo Braga. Point Zero | Elisa Mirbach-Eder

 

     

ARTS & STUDIES

Jakub Kłak | Kathrin Heinrich

 

 

IM FOKUS

FAKE NEWS On the Logic of Impact of Invented Identities and Falsified Messages in Social Media | Roland Schöny

 

 

FORUM

Gerald Matt in conversation with Claudia Märzendorfer
an interview mit Ursula Endlicher | Wolfgang Giegler

 

 

AUSSTELLUNGEN

Dream on. Berlin, the 90s | Veronika Rudorfer
Walter Niedermayr. Usable Surface | Carl Aigner
Money Talks. Art, Society & Power | Simon Bowcock
Light Sound Senses | Nina Schedlymayer
Philipp Goldbach. Training Images | Jens Bülskämper
Sophie Thun. Between Light and Wall | Margit Neuhold

 

 

TERMINE

mit MARK SEALY

 

 

COLLECTOR’S EDITON

NGADI SMART: Wata Na Life

 

 

PUBLIKATIONEN

C A L A M I TA / À. An Investigation into the Vajont catastrophe | Eva Gaeding
Andreas Müller-Pohle. Niépce Recoded | Carl Aigner
Bernd Stiegler. Bildpolitiken der Identität |  Peter Kunitzky
Christoph Borbach. Delay. Mediengeschichten der Verzögerung, 1850-1950 | Thomas Ballhausen

Editorial

The publication of this issue of EIKON on November 5, 2024, coincides with an historically significant date: the 60th election of the president of the USA. One of the two candidates for the highest officein the United States originally provided the inspiration for taking up a theme in this issue which has been haunting the media for some years and which the person in question has been at the forefront of spreading to this day—even though he has always seen himself as its victim; For under the slogan “fake news” Donald Trump continually sums up all the headlines that fail to coincide with his political ethos or don’t suit him for other reasons. At the same time, that he has been making himself into one of the most prominent promoters of global conspiracy theories is suggested not least by the fact that even the Meta Group, which is not exactly famous for seriousness and transparency and owns the social-media platforms Facebook and Instagram has blocked Trump’s accounts at times.

Furthermore, just a few weeks ago we witnessed the only publicly conducted debate between the presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, where the latter, not for the first time, relaunched a rumor that can hardly be trumped for absurdity and later went viral: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”This evoked tumultuous scenes in the town thus named.

It is similarly absurd perhaps, but due to the numbing tendencies of our media-overburdened society, that we are hardly surprised or excited by such statements. In this sense we cannot be grateful enough to Roland Schöny, our guest editor on this occasion, for not hesitating to devote himself such a discussion and for seeking the systematic element of false news, even in times so driven by emotionality.

Nela Eggenberger for EIKON, November 2024

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