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The journal of Alessandro and Andrea does not exist. It doesn’t even have a name, an identity: it’s a journal that they fill from scratch every time, and they filled this issue with Sunni. MEDIA was born as Pantheon, number zero, then became Carne, while now number three is titled average, Alessandro Moretti, one of the magazine’s founders, tells us that the collaboration was born in 2022: «The people of Sunei showed interest in our first issues and They asked us to start collaboration, which is also the theme of the magazine, Collaboration understood as relationship, Add. We got it just right.”
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How do you explain a magazine that has neither a name nor an identity? “It’s a choice we made for Maximum freedom and fun guaranteed for each issue, We like to take care of the format, the paper, the item, deciding on just one name runs the risk of getting stuck in something that’s always the same, while we like to push ourselves to the limit every time. What forms a link between the various issues is the narrative within the magazine, with each issue having a theme that develops in the next issue. For example, number zero was devoted to the pantheon, impenetrable, spirituality, then in number one we briefly began to talk about flesh, pleasure, the body, the physical realm. then number two, the same body that those ties and bonds, with magazine, there is also a viewer that hides the red color and creates a bond between the viewer and the object, the conversation becomes more active». The colors of the media are, in fact, green and red, and while the viewer removes the red, it creates two hybrid images, which together reveal the real image, like a Hegelian synthesis (“the media”), the final, That which is of the way exists only in oscillation between one and the other. Even the illustrations were combined according to the subject of the affair: Alessandro and Andrea called on painters, who in turn were invited to call on other painters to collaborate. using multiple instances Sunni stylistic featuresHowever, the media revisits them, putting them in dialogue.
«Each text collected in this magazine is a dialogue or conversation»Sikandar explains. The rapport they create in writing the texts is similar: they are all interviews, as is the introduction to the magazine, which is a dialogue-interview that the artist and friend Andrea Bocca did with the two founders. It also marks the duo’s first active focus on writing, because, as they explain, they started out as painters and always considered writing “a good experiment”. Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Independent Magazine in a book salt and tobacco Alyssa Carasai chats with translator Sarah Verdecchia while they talk the link that exists between different languages and the way languages influence each other and they come into contact at the time of translationwhat dialogues they have, and how the language reflects the personality of the speaker.
Without spoilers, the texts contained in the media are four in total, in addition to the one already mentioned, a philosopher who talks about relationship in speculative terms, then a design anthropologist who talks about the relationship between humans and objects. talks, and then the last one is an experiment, an interview that Chat GPT has done for himself through signals that debunk some artificial intelligence biases, and talks about the liminal space between analog and digital We do.