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The 9th Berlin Biennale: A Vast Obsolescent Pageant of Irrelevance

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka June 24, 2016June 26, 2016

BERLIN — BB9 is so vacuous, ideologically apathetic, ahistorical, sarcastic, and dehumanizing, it’s a wonder it hasn’t been blacklisted solely on account of its conformity to commodity fetishism.

Posted inBooks

Someone Made a Book of #artselfies

by Alicia Eler March 2, 2015March 3, 2015

The selfie exists everywhere that people own smartphones. DIS Magazine’s #artselfie, published by Jean Boîte Éditions, attempts to freeze one aspect of this cultural moment — the art selfie — by parlaying its meaning into a gleaming, print-only book

Posted inOpinion

Styling Booty: Race, Class, and Divas

by Alicia Eler August 8, 2013August 9, 2013

CHICAGO — The exploitative fashion shoot OFFICIAL GLAM GIRL for DIS Magazine is yet another disappointing instance of black womens’ bodies as objects of an unsmiling capitalism, an order ruled smirkingly by a white woman performing a blinged out, pimp-like gender.

Posted inArt

Stop Talking Shit About Stock Photography

by Michelle Lhooq February 8, 2013February 8, 2013

Stock photography is a rapidly growing, global industry — and thanks to mass proliferation on the internet, a billion-dollar one, too. But let’s not kid ourselves: we look down on these hypercommercial images and consider them akin to junk food: cheap, ubiquitous, and easily digestible.

Posted inArt

DIS Magazine’s Website of “Subversive” Stock Photography Is Like Shutterstock on Ketamine

by Michelle Lhooq February 4, 2013February 5, 2013

Convention-flouting DIS magazine is launching a new stock photography website called DISimages.com next week, and they’re really hoping their images pop up everywhere — from the Huffington Post’s front page to a weed dispensary’s brochures.

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