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mostly imagined. What is more pertinent to this project is the fact that our generation has a blurred point of view on values and on temporality itself. The past, present, and future—or at least a visually skewed representation of them—are immediately accessible by typing a few keywords into an engine. In this way, reality is multivalent, personal, and constantly in flux. The fashion in DIS is not "high" nor "low." It is simply Medium.’
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The first issue published was the Labor Issue, co-edited with artist Chris Kasper. The magazine proposes an horizontal exploration of culture, offering articles on climate change alongside faux-commercials. The content of the online magazine was organized around categories such as distaste, dystopia,
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magazine. In addition to the magazine, DIS consists of the platforms DISimages – a project producing new stock imagery – and DISown – a now-closed concept store featuring work by over 30 artists as a laboratory to test the current status of the art object, as well as notions of taste and consumerism.
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to present a project at their yearly Regent's Park event. The result was a series of images using the galleries and architecture of the Frieze London Art Fair as both a backdrop and subject. The series sought to explore new ways of documenting art in an attention economy, a theme in DIS’ work. The
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The Art School issue explored the culture of art school and imagined new art school trends. Architect and artist Alessandro Bava guest edited the Disaster issue, which focused on ecology related topics. The Data Issue took as its starting point the rise of so-called "big data", or more broadly the
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Early content was focused on identifying emerging trends and forecasting potential new ones, from accessorizing with nipple clamps through Z-CoiL shoes and Under Armour sports clothing. Explaining their original interest in fashion they have said ‘If there is a temporality that DIS explores, it is
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In 2015, they released a line of Political T-shirts in collaboration with K8 Hardy, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others. Lauren Boyle described the genesis of the project as such "In our research, we became fascinated with political t-shirt trends, in particular @GOPteens and other right-wing groups,"
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studio, DISimages, and invited numerous artists and photographers to participate. DISimages has been described as ‘Shutterstock on ketamine.’ DIS themselves explained that “... stock photographs just perpetuate the same stereotypes over and over again, so we wanted to intercept that and add a few
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In 2014 they created a pop-up store called DISown at Red Bull Studios in New York; according to the press release, "'DISown—Not for Everyone' is an exhibition posing as a retail store. Or maybe it’s the other way around. As Karl Lagerfeld for H&M is a diffusion line for fashion, DISown is a
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Describing the art meets commerce aspect of the venture, Christopher Glazek, wrote “DISown”’s upfront commercialism served then to rebuke artists—including some who participated in the show itself—whose market value relies on presenting their work as somehow outside the market system.”
50:('to do the opposite of') and is meant to reflect an oppositional attitude. DIS is primarily known for their interdisciplinary approach to advertising, fashion, communication and popular culture via the Internet. Critics and audiences have associated them with 266:’s October 2015 exhibition ‘Co-Workers, Network as Artist’, curated by Angeline Scherf, Toke Lykkeberg and Jessica Castex. To design the exhibition, DIS was inspired by collective work spaces, shopping malls, and airport transit areas. They also showed 160:
Boyle continued. "Where are the crazy and inspiring progressive t-shirts for our generation? In the grand tradition of commodity activism, we commissioned five artists to design t-shirts that raise awareness. Direct action that's ready-to-wear."
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Shawn Maximo's DISimages project "Confusion is the New Luxury" fused natural landscapes with computer generated images to surreal effect, and Ian Cheng's "3D Models" had virtual human heads reciting commercial programming.
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For sale were items such as a mobile trash can and office planter by artist Lizzie Fitch, a salad bowl by Hood By Air and a Maje Cule-designed mirrored folding chair intended to "maximize intern productivity."
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In January 2018, DIS launched an online edutainment channel, dis.art, which streams video pieces for a limited run of 30 days. The launch of the channel was preceded in 2017 by a video installation (
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and promising to probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality. They were also invited to produce the advertising campaign for the show, which starred
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curator, Sarah McCrory, said of their work: "They subvert the very language of fashion, art and advertising, right down to making ugly a compliment.”
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Artists who contributed to DISimages include Anne de Vries, Ian Cheng, Dora Budor, Maja Cule, Harry Griffin, and Fatima Al-Qadiri.
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art, though they themselves do not identify with the term, dubbing it ‘a pun with no hope for a conceit’ in one interview.
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series of shifts associated with the ubiquitous nature of parallel processing, large data sets, and digital networks.
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commissioned DIS to create new work for their 30th bi-annual New Photography exhibition, this time titled
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In 2016, the 9th Berlin Biennale (June 4—September 18) was curated by DIS. The Biennale title was
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The project began and evolved from an online, interactive magazine that is a twist on a
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magazine. It is now composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro.
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in a new installation commissioned specifically for the exhibition.
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For the 2015 New Museum Triennial, Surround Audience, curated by
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more tags to those weird pictures, to give some more options.”
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look-alike contest with MoMA PS1 for at Art Basel Miami Beach.
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Steryl, von Falkenhausen, Hito, Susanne (25 October 2015).
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Photo by DIS, 2012. Fair Trade, Frieze Projects 2012
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 298:In 2016, DIS put on a solo show, 752:Yotka, Steff (6 November 2015). 394:Gaboury, Jacob (24 March 2010). 376:Reichert, Kolja (13 June 2016). 745: 727: 719:La, Nouvelle (9 October 2015). 712: 697: 678: 661: 639: 624: 600: 575: 530: 506: 491: 476: 363:"DIS Magazine: The Labor Issue" 74: 461: 446: 417: 402: 369: 355: 330: 1: 324:"Zine Creamers: DIS Magazine" 305: 498:Beach, Hana (16 July 2015). 114: 7: 196:and the locations were the 69: 10: 824: 163: 88:discover, and dysmorphia. 667:Susanne Von Falkenhausen 409:Pepi, Mike (3 May 2015). 140:diffusion line for art". 134: 788:The IXth Berlin Biennale 739:The Museum of Modern Art 294:Project Native Informant 455:"Taking Stock with DIS" 273: 148: 100: 21: 457:. Interview Magazine. 428:. Spike Art Magazine. 146: 98: 19: 691:Conceptual Fine Arts 654:, November 24, 2015 411:"The Dis Data Issue" 396:"Interview with DIS" 230:New Museum Triennial 212:Selected exhibitions 103:In 2011 they held a 194:The Present in Drag 608:"The Life Aquatic" 567:has generic name ( 178:Casey Jane Ellison 149: 101: 84:launched in 2010. 22: 815: 758: 757: 749: 743: 742: 731: 725: 724: 716: 710: 709: 708:. 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New York City
lifestyle
fashion
dis-
Postinternet
lifestyle
fashion

Kim Kardashian
stock photo

de Young Museum
Casey Jane Ellison
McKenzie Wark
Academy of Arts
European School of Management and Technology
Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art
Frieze Art Fair
Lauren Cornell
Ryan Trecartin
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
MoMA
Conchita Wurst


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"DIS Magazine"
"DIS Magazine: The Labor Issue"
"Das digitale Erhabene (The Digital Sublime)"

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