The fore-word to Issue 4 examines the unlikely strategies inherent to the screen. While it is easy to think about the digital screen as a proxy or a frame, this issue proposes otherwise.
Read MoreCurrently, we use screen technology to interface with a variety of media. Enthralled by the capabilities of our devices to effortlessly reproduce, display, and create visual imagery, this essay explores the screen as a critical site of perceptual production. By examining the rhetoric and strategies of commercial advertisements for screen technologies, an emphasis is placed on the screen as a visual frame, a physical object, and a phenomenological site in order to propose how visual technologies have affected notions of visuality.
Read MoreWe are participating in a digital seance. The screen you are looking at to read this article is your medium, connecting you to the streaming afterlife of the writer’s thoughts and memories.
Read MoreJyoti Arvey took analogue photos of Skype conversations she had with friends and family while teaching English in Novosibirsk, Russia. This photo series and the accompanying texts defamiliarize the screen as a meeting place, exploring the intersections between digital surveillance, the archive, and notions of collectivity versus individuality.
Read MoreThe works of these four contemporary Colombian artists stem from a reflection of the liminal, material, and visual codes through which the screen produces the images that give us access to knowledge, time, and space. In the so-called post-internet/information/digital era, these discussions aim to understand the possibilities of interrupting/materializing/demystifying/enjoying the stillness of the world through the screen.
Read MoreJonathon Hornedo reviews the National Gallery of San Francisco’s exhibition, Petra Kujau: The Paintings, the first solo exhibition in the USA of the pioneering German artist Petra Kujau, great granddaughter of the extraordinary painter Konrad Kujau.
Read MoreDISSOLVE Magazine SF is an online publication focusing on arts criticism and discourse with the aim to foster the work of emerging writers, cultural theorists, and artists that are passionate about attending to the unseen and the unknown.
Dissolve is pleased to share the release of our most recently printed book, The Demise of Alice by Evelyn Grace Vex. Vex is the pen name of Grace Hannah Perez, an author and artist from Southern California. The novel—a noir mystery set against the backdrop of New Orleans in the late 1920s—was edited by Christopher Squier and Jackie Valle and published by Dissolve in hardcover in February 2024.
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