transplantations

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more and more, at a vortical pace, our political, affective, and social life spreads out (or is captured) from its original settings to become reinvested and restaged in a different milieu, which is the virtual or digital (including the so-called generative), where it circulates, effervesces, and somehow reconfigures itself – to the point that, for many, what is now felt as earliest is the virtual itself. transfigured, it ceaselessly seeps back into our flesh and yet, time and again, it contuses us. as an expanding overlay grows thicker that arms digital with a human semblance, a reciprocal thrust emerges (once more) trying to crush us into a machine-like existence. paradoxically, it seems that we already find ourselves far too immersed in this world, but all the same quite foreign to it. and, perhaps, one of the means we may have at hand for apprehending such a shift might be by jelling and transposing some of the manifestations and the inner workings of such malformation into the comparatively placid but phlegmatic (reflective) universe of materiality — as a visual teratology that could make possible the marking of such descent.

it is in this sense that we here call all artists who may have or which to develop ideas that transplant or distil the digital realm into visual paper works and may want to collaborate with us. we're looking for artworks, which will be edited and sold by arte menor, that, in any format suited to pigment printing, make a critical dislocation of some region or ebullition of the digital cosmos into the near-bidimensional and material plane of paper. the works will be inkjet printed on acid- and lignin-free so-called archival papers, in open, but numbered editions (_/x). we welcome projects that are suited to inkjet and can live within the boundaries of a sheet of paper; not so much the book or pamphlet, but more the print (or series of prints), as the square or rectangular surface that harbours such displacement.

these open editions will be printed on demand, with the express agreement of the authors, who preserve all rights and may close them as and when they wish – arte menor retains printing and trading rights for the duration of the agreement, which can be fixed-term or continue without a set closure. artists receive 60% of the profit for each work sold (less vat), from a price agreed beforehand between both parties.