Y SIN EMBARGO magazine Last/s, #29 (new! published!)

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If communicating means to put something in common, is it possible, today, at the height of

the era of communication, putting something in common? Or all we got are monologues?

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About this issue………Seven years of a periodical and independent publication is perhaps both necessary and long enough a time to verify or put into practice a set of ideas, wishes and adventures.

YSE closes a cycle, but doesn’t close (neither literally nor metaforically). New situations, new circumstances and, most of all, new wishes and interests consume and demand the always limited well of time and energy. We have grown in this seven years without any kind of sponsoring, there was never a financial support or even modest underpinnings to give any logic of survival to the publication.

Everything has been done on breathhold, in a respiratory exercise, at times painful, even if oxygen (of course intangible) always managed to be there in the end. Nevertheless these are times of generalised asphyxia and sometimes – even though nostalgia or stubbornness exert their seduction- it is necessary to dry dock the boat, caulk and face different courses. We will go on…….but we will be other.

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edit, direc & comple by fernandoprats

art direc & desig by Estudi Prats

virtual soport by Rivera Valdez

biotranslations by Alicia Pallas

video by Raquel Barrera Sutorra

music by Albert Jordà / Nevus project

almostopen_by manuel alcaide mengual

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Thanks to all those who have been reading and watching.
Thanks to all those who take and took part.
You’ll be hearing from us.

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Memphis Techno : Universal Constructor (Motion Graphics)

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Arranged on a lattice are these buckets. The buckets can contain a neural network, which is an artificial model of a brain. The color of the bucket is representative of the layout/makeup of the neural network. The brain can see its four immediate neighbors on the lattice (up down left right). It observes how many neighbors it has at each position, and what species the contents of the neighboring buckets are.

The bucket/brain then makes a decision to move some or all of the its contents to one of four neighboring positions. If the contents move to an empty bucket, the brain will mutate slightly when copies into the new bucket. Enough of these mutations eventually creates a different enough species that when the bucket tries to pass along its own contents, there will now be a “fight”. Only similar species cooperate by just passing along the contents of the bucket. From ostensibly initial random conditions and simple rules emerges highly complex, self organized structures. [Statement : Vimeo]

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Memphis Techno : Vimeo

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Shun Kawakami : Design as a Visual Language

artwork by shun kawakami (artless)
caligraphy by gen miyamura
size : W 7m x H 0.85m
Print : UV Ink on Wood Paper

Born in Tokyo in 1977. Shun Kawakami is an artist and designer currently based in Tokyo. He co-founded ‘artless Inc’ in 2000 and is active in many different kinds of visual communication fields. The units broad activities include graphic art and design, branding, print, web, video, installation etc. In addition to his work as a designer he is also active as an artist, mainly graphic art and interactive art. These activities are not only limited to Japan he also participates in art projects and exhibitions overseas.

Shun Kawakami Website

artless Inc : design as a visual language