A selection of five images from the Unmonumental series is now up on Version, an online journal edited by Jordan Crandall and Caleb Waldorf, produced by the Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego:
Unmonumental.051909
away from what is intended;
material that (just barely)
falls out of step.
Version is an online journal for short-form writing and media work. It presents scenes, incidents, encounters, and sensory experiences drawn from everyday life, in which concepts are not only elaborated but enacted.
Version works in close-up, cultivating moods, atmospheres, and various forms of bodily apprehension and awareness. It aims for a quality of intimacy, presence, and affective charge: a material openness to unexpected forms of encounter. At the same time, it works laterally, conducting transversal operations across object-boundaries, attuned to the rhythms, flows, and layered ecologies that constitute the phenomenal world.
Each Version editorial item adheres to the following formal constraint: a maximum of 500 words, 5 images, or 50 seconds.
With its formal and rhetorical approach, Version embodies new patterns of readership and network-enabled economies of attention, which can involve time-constrained multitasking and transversal readings across media venues. It spans specialized discourses, genre categories, and disciplinary divides, while encouraging the reception, rearrangement and redistribution of its material in new social networks and assemblages. It is less a bounded publication than an editorial ecology -- a dynamic system through which unexpected editorial properties and forms can emerge.
