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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
ICI Connections
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Category Archives: Workroom
LIBRARY SHELF: Books, Boxes and Portfolios
Zeier, Franz Books, Boxes and Portfolios: Binding, Construction, and Design Step-by-Step (1983) FIRST LINE: “The steps described under this heading are not meant to be followed one by one.” ICI SHELF: Bookmaking ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-14-12)
The ICI website on World Aids Day
The ICI website on World Aids Day, December 1st. 2011. Continue reading
EARTH SAMPLE: Koshoji Temple, Nagoya, Japan
LIBRARY SHELF: La Jetée: ciné-roman
Marker, Chris La Jetée: ciné-roman (1992) FIRST LINE: “This is the story of a man, marked by an image from his childhood.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (9-11-11)
About the ICI
The ICI is anchored by the belief that building worlds is a creative act. We understand art as a uniquely open field of possibilities inside society where it acts as a reflection of complex and sometimes hidden relationships, as a … Continue reading
Sebald’s photo archive
These pages, that represent the 385 images from W. G. Sebald’s four published prose fictions, jump-started our 5-year long study of the late author’s work. By attempting to bring the pictures back to their pre-publication state where they existed only … Continue reading
ICI Research Team
The ICI Associates contemplate the contents of the Manual of Lost Ideas. Parts of the Manual were eventually published in the ICI’s second major title, Benjamin’s Blind Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura. You can explore the … Continue reading
ICI Corporate Seal
When we became incorporated in the state of California we received an embosser with our corporate seal. We never understood the intended use of the seal but over the years we have experimented with the embosser on a number of … Continue reading
