A number of projects and initiatives featured in this May/June issue share a concern with public document, the right to access and distribute information freely, and the tangibility--the desirability, even--of “truth” in digital age. --Victoria Camblin, excerpt, Letter from the EditorTABLE OF CONTENTS:Àsìkò in DakarAmanda H. Hellman discusses the tradition and future of West African experimental arts education. The Common NetworkStephanie Bailey follows Amar Kanwar's The Sovereign Forest and Stephen Willats' Inside the Ocean as maps towards social reform. OPINIONGive Us CPRTrial lawyer Gerald FitzGerald calls for a centralized provenance database, funded by a levy on market sales. *CORRESPONDENCE*To: Constant Dullaart; From: Carson Chan; Re: BalconismA curator and writer responds to a manifesto calling for sovereign communication in the digital age. Being as Glass EelRosa Aiello's textual veil reveals the form of the object beneath it. Above and Beyond the Fence LineBreonne DeDecker and Darin Acosta map the uncharted industrial territories of southern Louisiana. Visibility Machines:Harun Farocki and Trevor PaglenNiels Van Tomme and Jeroen Wille scan the work of two artists confronting the structures concealed within military image-making. RELiable COMmunicationsYuri Pattison finds humanity in advanced communication technologies; he and Karen Archey discuss. Art of the Stateless StateJonas Staal calls for a state of permanent, stateless revolution. OccessionDouglas Coupland secedes the Occident (so you don't have to). Red WineA poster hails Nicolas Ceccaldi's public institutional debut at Kunstverein München [April 25-June 15, 2014]. ReviewsInside CERN (Lars Müller Publishers); Alien She (Philadelphia); James Lee Byars (Detroit); Mel Chin (New Orleans); Simon Denny (Colchester, UK); HIWAR (Amman, Jordan); Critical Machines (Beirut, Lebannon)
