The term “log” is used to designate a file or a database in which all the events affecting a process (software application, transactions on a computerized network, etc) are chronologically recorded. Thus, between the sham ideal of “transparency” and the fluid discourse between “communicants,” the very foundation of immediate thinking, Sammy Engramer places a series of obvious things on center stage through his appropriation of the concept of the art magazine. For Engramer, designing a magazine offers the advantage of being able to resist both the gravity and the rigidity of the monographic catalog as well as the temptation to understand his work as fixed and definitive in form. The magazine LOG presents the many points of view permeating his approach to better weave together the links between the various elements that compose it... |