Spike #87
216 x 280 mm, 160 pages
Vienna, Austria & Berlin, Germany (English-language)
Quarterly
Published since 2004
Editor-in-chief: Rita Vitorelli
Art direction: Gian Gisiger
Spike is a themed art magazine; this issue is titled ‘Everything’s Computer’ and explores the unruly artistic energy that will always find a way in an age increasingly shaped by digital aesthetics.
‘We’re a long way past the internet overgrowing embodied life in how we see, make and talk. For material culture, it’s meant rupture; but online, in darks forests, whole words keep crackling into view.’
Inside: Brian Droitcour revisits NFTS and PFPs—once heralded as the future of the art market—as ventures in collective world-building; Morgane Billuart traces two decades of online authenticity with the e-girl ‘godmother of internet girlhood’, Ann Hirsch; and Dena Yago asks: ‘Are Memes Dead?’
On the Journal, about an earlier issue:
‘I love Spike magazine. The quarterly art magazine has been published since 2004 by artist Rita Vitorelli and has just reached its 50th issue. It follows an idiosyncratic editorial direction – part of its strength is its refusal to follow the crowd, and the art mag shelf is a crammed one. It’s not easy to stand out, but Spike’s mix of written and visual essays brings a more curatorial than editorial approach. And the main reason it stands out is its design.’
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