Issue 23 : Fall 2012

FRONT PAGE

• From the Editor: ISSUE 23
  — Christine Metropoulos

MASTHEAD

• OTHERZINE: Issue 23, 2012.
  — OTHERZINE

ARTIST PROJECT

• Lexicon of Spatial Concepts for Giordano Bruno
  — Jeanne Liotta

COMMENTARY

• Mike Kelley and Meme
  — Gerry Fialka

MEDIA ACTIVISM

• Globalistas Crack the Firewalls and Flat Screens
  — Podrescu and the XLterrestrials

INTERVIEWS

• Playfulness and Processuality:
  An Interview with Bruce Sterling about the New Aesthetic
  — David Cox

• Got Beef with Culture:
  Flesh-ing Out Semiotics with Jon Moritsugu
  — Anthony Buchanan

• Bleeding from Their Mouths:
  A Conversation with Jon Leidecker on Zulawski's POSSESSION
  — Eilish Cullen

ART AND MEDIA HISTORY

• The Blessing of Silence:
  John Cage and Radio in the 1920s, Part 2
  — John Smalley

CINEMA

• Angry White Male:
  An Experimental Genre?
  — Molly Cox

• Jimm Juback:
  Dada Bantamweight Rascal of 1970s Super-8
  — Mike Mosher

RANTS

• The Hateful Years
  — Mark Flood

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From the Editor: ISSUE 23

by Christine Metropoulos

12 Sep 2012

Still from BENDITO MACHINE IV (2012) by Jossie Malis in “Globalistas Crack the Firewalls and Flat Screens”

We have reached a momentous occasion: ISSUE 23 of OTHERZINE!

From the virus that is 23 emerges an issue in search, celebration, and despair of process(uality), precarity, long-distance listening, patterns, hysteria, percepts and...culturcide, both on- and off-the-grid.

In this liminal state, our contributors—and conspirators—draw forth a collection of inspired investigations and cunning critiques inhabited by artists’ projects, media-activists’ reportage, existential insights, copious interviews, cinematic explorations, and considered media histories.

Fasten your seatbelts for...

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Filmmaking sorceress Jeanne Liotta’s stunning cruciform couplets in
LEXICON OF SPATIAL CONCEPTS FOR GIORDANO BRUNO

Podrescu and the XLTerrestrials’ front-line communiqué on CiTiZEN KiNO
and the new tactical media

Thought-full (and -provoking) insights from McLuhan maestro Gerry Fialka
(OTHER CINEMA Oct. 13th guest!) on artist Mike Kelley

David Cox’ (OTHER CINEMA Nov. 10th artist!) interview with writer and
futurist Bruce Sterling on the New Aesthetic

Anthony Buchanan’s interview with cult commando Jon Moritsugu
(OTHER CINEMA Sept. 22nd guest!)

Eilish Cullen’s conversation with sound artist Jon (Wobbly) Leidecker
(OTHER CINEMA Nov. 10th artist!) on Polish auteur Andrzej Zulawski and POSSESSION

OTHERZINE 23 closes out the centennial of John Cage’s birth with
the final installment of John Smalley’s essay, positing ‘20s radio “silent nights” influence on Cage

Molly Cox considers the Angry White Male’s place in experimental cinema

Stalwart contributor Mike Mosher chronicles the filmography of fellow Michiganite
and ‘70s Super-8 maker Jimm Juback

And Mark Flood resuscitates THE HATEFUL YEARS