r-echos / replication & discussion
r-echos: “
This summer I discovered several very interesting magazine projects like Hard Werken or Emigre mainly thru my interest for an another magazine, Dot Dot Dot. In this page Jérôme Rigaud describes r-echos as a ‘magazine’ and it is funny how the way their editors speak about the magazines I discovered this summer applies to r-echos as well. In a way with r-echos Jérôme explores the online extension of this model for magazines. ‘Piet [Schreuders] shows me copies of copies of his self-published magazine Furore, which he calls his archive. He is an avid collector of all sorts of esoterica. The shelves and drawers of his office overflow with material of all kinds, [...]. He tells me that one way of bringing order to this mess is by turning it into a magazine. When an issue is published, that’s his archive, and he throws out most of the material that was included.’ in Rudy Vanderlans, Emigre 69 : The End, 2005, page 32. ‘Jop von Bennekom’s self-motivated ‘Re’ magazine.[...] Through this overt form, a magazine dedicated to his interests, proclivities, possessions, friends, life events, etc. Jop von Bennekom positions himself as both the originator and subject of the magazine. The magazine generates a fictional presence [...] who permeates every aspect of the project. Even he moves from sole proprietor to executive editor or when the subject of a specific issue shifts to focus on a single individual, Jop von Bennekom serves as both author and subject in an [...] autobiographical project.’ in Micheal Rock, Mad Dutch Disease, (conference). For more information on the history of this kind of magazine practices I’d like to read Dot Dot Dot n°1 a lot. ‘We were aware that founding a magazine on useful content was a radical move to make, and a dangerous claim to fulfil once, never mind repeatedly. But the big idea only expanded,resulting in the compilation of an encyclopaedia of twentieth century graphic design periodicals. With this as the basis of a pilot issue, we decided the remainder of the magazine should recount the stories of some of the more interesting periodicals on our list; the ones we felt came closest to what we hoped to achieve. We decided on Emigre, Eye, form + Zweck, Hard Werken, Typ, Typographische Monatsblätter and Octavo for further investigation - an international selection spanning at least a couple of generations. In compiling these pieces we hoped to syphon off some wisdom and help plot our next move.’ Bref… I’d like to know more about this, and it would also be nice to be able to qualify what is different, what changes with networked magazines?
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(Via pierre.reblog.)
