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Welcome to Scan, hosted by the Media Department, Macquarie University.
A refereed journal of media arts and culture, published three times a year.
Vol 8 Number 1 October 2011
Edited by Sarah Keith, John Scannell, Becky Shepherd
Endemic to the concept of 'unacceptability' are the boundaries that proscribe it; the points where particular bodies, images or practices have apparently exceeded the limits of utility and are deemed surplus to the requirements of functional community. A utilitarian gesture mobilised in the name of consistency and social cohesion, the unacceptable must be deployed with circumspection and caution, lest it constitute a collective cultural blind-spot. Topics deemed too difficult to discuss, are all too often marginalised, and important cultural, communicative or creative issues are simply excluded from discussion. Matters of propriety can, and all too often do, become matters of silence, erasure and heresy. Contesting the boundaries of the unacceptable constitutes a vital component of most of our daily lives, and rightly so; for as a relativist concept, it is exemplary, and one much distinguished by its capacity to elude universal accord.
The articles contained in this issue of Scan attempt to probe the limits of acceptability, as they seek to comprehend, and perhaps, intervene in some divisive contemporary issues.
A magazine of media arts essays, reviews and other pieces.
NEW TO THE MAGAZINE:
"A STEP BACKWARDS FOR A LEAP FORWARD"
The OFF LABEL Festival / Digital Art Weeks 2011
Victoria BC, Canada, November 2011
by Arthur Clay
Electronic Art Must be Destroyed by Ian Haig
Book Review: Edward Scheer, The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr’s Performance Art 1971-2005 (Melbourne: Schwartz City) by John Potts
Perceptions by Megan Hicks
Writing Lives: Revealing Families by Willa McDonald
A gallery of multimedia works and sites.
NEW TO THE GALLERY:
Archetypal Africa by Alan Bigelow
Clay Conversations by Hazel Smith
Let Us Burn the Gondolas by Jonathan Walker
How to hold the Binoculars by Jack Randell