Post- Digital Print - Monoskop

6.3 the network as a large-scale experiment:
the documenta 12 magazines project.
Perhaps inspired by the Mag.net blueprint, one of its members,
Georg Schöllhammer (curator and founder of Springerin magazine)
in 2005 conceived (and was appointed curator of ) the Documenta 12
Magazines project, which brought together independent art magazines
from around the world during the 12th edition of the vast Documenta
art exhibition and programme. 303 His original project was to set up a
“collective worldwide editorial project”, “publishing and discussing
contributions – essays, interviews, photo reportage, features, interventions
from artists and articles of fiction” creating “a network… that
aims to explore and discuss topics of current interest and relevance
(not only) to the Documenta 12 (three main topics): ‘Is modernity our
antiquity?’, ‘What is bare life?’ and ‘What is to be done?’”
In the months preceding the Documenta event, three ‘magazines’
were to be published, featuring content selected and discussed by
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Top
View of the Documenta
12 Magazines project
exhibition, Kassel,
Germany, 2007
Bottom
A screenshot of the collaborative
open-source
editing platform used
for the Documenta 12
Magazines project,
2007