Philip Brophy is nothing if not opinionated. Screenic: Politicised Writings on Being Screened is a new anthology of his writings from the last twenty-five years published by Discipline.
As its title suggests, Screenic focuses on work that involves screens. It addresses the ways our changing mediascape has challenged artists, producers, curators, viewers, and critics—sometimes rejuvenating how media art can be imagined and presented; other times evidencing an anaemic grasp of the contemporary mediascape that whorls outside the white cube.
Hear Philip Brophy in conversation with Discipline publisher and publication editor Helen Hughes and publication designer James Vinciguerra. Buy a copy of Screenic and take home a complimentary complementary copy of our publication Philip Brophy: Hyper Material for Our Very Brain (2012).
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Philip Brophy is a polymath—a musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, artist, graphic designer, academic, and curator—with uniquely criss-crossing preoccupations. In 1977, he formed the group → ↑ →, which produced experimental music, films, videos, and live performances; and, in 1993, directed the feature film Body Melt. He has developed art projects, too numerous to list. For decades, he’s also been a prolific writer on music, sound, art, film, and anime, contributing regularly to The Wire and Film Comment. He is based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Helen Hughes is an art historian, art critic, editor, independent publisher, and curator. She is co-founder of contemporary art publisher and journal Discipline. She is also a founding editorial board member of Index Journal, Findings Journal, and Memo Review. She has written for journals such as Artforum, ANZJA, CACSA Broadsheet, Art & Australia, EMAJ, Index, Eyeline, Artlink, and Frieze.
James Vinciguerra is a designer and musician working across a range of sectors but with a focus on music. Vinciguerra has designed album covers, T-shirts, posters, scarves, logos, posters and more for Total Control (the Melbourne band in which he also plays drums), Constant Mongrel, Sleep D, AD 93, Carne Bollente, and others. With a penchant for custom, convention-defying lettering and typography, and hand-drawn illustration, Vinciguerra’s work is a mixture of digital and analogue media.
