‘media history’

…     ➤  ASSOCIATED EVENT Thursday, 21 May 2026, 16.00-18.00 pm (CET) HISTORY/REALITY #4: from The Garden of Communication to the Dark Forest of the Internet An afternoon of presentations, performances, and discussion Partly hybrid event held in English For online participation booking is essential.  Free tickets via Eventbrite.   archivuminternetwork  marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center’s presence on the internet. Since its  launch …

… of the Internet This hybrid, English-language event marks the final instalment of the series History / Reality, part of the two-year research project  Curating The Digital Attic Archive. The project aims to create an open-source web platform to reconnect the dispersed Attic Archive, maintaining its conceptual autonomy while preserving it physically across international collections. The series title derives from Pete Horobin’s 1970s performance, which explores how artists’ …

… forms such as calendars, postcards and periodicals.   Henar Rivière, professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain). She specialises on international intermedia art, with a main focus of experimental writing in its various forms, including mail art and its expansion into the field of artists’ archives. She lead the research project  OBASA and Artpool: Collecting, Connecting, Archiving. The Active Archive as a Cultural Alternative on the Global Stage” …

… collages and paintings to actions in public spaces, he constantly navigated between techniques, media, and genres. Influenced by the avant-garde and concrete art, his work engages a conceptual stance as much as it evokes Fluxus attitudes. This chamber exhibition at Artpool aims to highlight Vigo’s special relationship with artists’ periodicals and show how he embraced this medium, having quickly realized that these publications, as shared creative spaces that are simple to produce, are …

… that define fanzines, there is a recurring structure that draws on formats present in mainstream media as well: in the collection display, enlarged copies of the publications’ pages and the original fanzines are arranged in successive thematic groups according to these reconstructed genres or ‘columns’. In other words, we have created a fictitious anthology, revealing the typical structural basis of alternative publications, i.e. an anatomy of fanzines. Fragments from publications …