American conceptual artist Les Levine (Dublin, 1935) is considered the founder of media art and invented the terms transmedia, camera art, disposable art, media sculpture, software art and body control systems. The A-side of Slowscan Vol. 57 consists of a recording used in Levine’s 1976 installation Game Room at California State University, which was also shown at the M.L. D’Arc Gallery in New York the next year. The installation, the full title of which is…
Flacker in der Pfote is Kiev Stingl’s first book, originally published by the Bavarian Pohl’n’Mayer press in 1979. Now edited and re-published by Moloko Plus from Schönebeck, Stingl’s poetry compilation looks and reads as vital, violent and unflinching as it was in 1979. Like much of Stingl’s lyrics, the poems form an exploration of the deeper layers of existence…
Artist, writer, curator, theorist, and activist Jean-Jacques Lebel (Paris, 1936) has been a spearhead of the avant-garde since the 1950s. Lebel formed an early link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat Generation, introduced Happenings to Europe, was one of the creative minds behind the May 68 revolt, organised the Festival de la libre Expression (which evolved into the Polyphonix festivals), provided first French translations of works by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs and has curated large exhibitions on Francis Picabia, Antonin Artaud…
