Objects Subjects Remastered (a book by Prats/Ruibal)

Objects Subjects Remastered
ISBN 978-1-4477-7596-6
48 pages, full-colored, english

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provisional answer to our own questions

In december 2009 we proposed “objects subjects” as our provisional answer to the questions we had been subjecting ourselves to from our progressive and sustained immersion in the new communication technologies at the service of art and literature dissemination.

The truth is, objects subjects still acts today as a tacit manifesto about a series of interests we had been handling in its first edition and that still remain. We’re talking about interests referred to complementation, to the creative equilibrium in complementation, to the integration of traditional processes and the new media, to the challenge of understanding and collaborating in the understanding of how, in the next years, the convergence of the innovation and the same old thing will develop.

It is natural that, within this context, since the publication of “objects subjects” we have collaborated in a series of projects confirming our need to explore possible answers to the question of the virtual world/kind of real world symbiosis, in the sense that in this symbiosis we will find the most fertile ground to exhibit and edit our work.

Since then the support and receptiveness from thousands of web users have served as an incentive to keep on generating ideas and ways of creative communication.

We adopted the shape of “Prats/Ruibal” for everything done jointly, and from our web (lesargots.com) we spread the results of this essay in permanent construction from which we think about what we do, about what we disseminate, about the current broadcasting channels and about the problems of this new routine from Internet in general, or from social networks in particular, and its complementation and articulation with the usual publishing media (in the widest sense of the term).

“Below the Surface” was an attempt, which we judge successful, of taking online collaboration to its extreme formulation, disregarding any presential interchange through all the creative process.
(lesargots.com/web/?page_id=330)

We stepped into communication through image in motion with a series of clips we have broadcasted with the excuse of “publiciting” our projects, even if they, the videos, were an end in themselves and a door we keep open to future explorations.
(lesargots.com/web/?cat=33)

We applied for open calls which encouraged our discernment in seeing how far we could go with the complementation of our respective resources, and in this setting we took part, for instance, in ArtMoves/The Festival of Art on Billboards. (lesargots.com/web/?p=401)

With CarGol, una obra u otra instantánea de Prats/Ruibal we chose to lay our cards on the table when mixing our texts (and our battles with our mother or adopted languages) with our image production. We tried to create on line and in real time a literary-plastic product through the unconventional use of the often routinary spaces offered by Facebook. (www.facebook.com/notes/pratsruibal/cargol-una-obra-u-otra...)

And we keep on.
We fanned out, with Prats/Ruibal, a shared way we try to compatibilize with our respective individual creative processes, and we confirmed that this fan stimulates us with a fresh air that benefits these individual creative processes, while inducing us to pursue our attempt to decipher the keys of interchange in social networks, and in the whole web, both for our own benefit and for those who believe, with us, in their still not crystalized potential as a tool for expanding their current creativity.

We invite you to approach this new edition of “objects subjects”, in which colour has its say for the first time and in which we reassert our will to keep working, researching, whenever possible:
discovering.

fernandoprats & miguel ruibal
July, 2011

Taken on: July 10, 2011

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