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Spring / Summer 2007

This issue underscores the great diversity of art practices that make use of or that are proximate to the hoax. At times stinging and at other times amusing, the minor and significant impostures presented herein trace the portrait of yet another irreverent attitude that is often prized in the art world and that sometimes still manages to rouse shock.

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This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.

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