N/A is a new magazine based in San Francisco that evolved from a

class at the California College of the Arts called Art, Technology, and

the Rhetoric of Power. We take a critical approach to art-making in San

Francisco, and the art world at large, with an eye to that institution’s

expanding adoption of, and influence on the technology industry. With

this is mind, our first four issues will be dedicated to an investigation of

Mechanisms, a group exhibition curated by Anthony Huberman for the

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art. Huberman tells us:

        … our machines have trained us to embrace and enjoy a life of seamless

connectivity and complete flexibility. They have taught us to value efficiency

and standardization. They have encouraged us to move quickly. To scale. 

They tell us to maximize our time and minimize our effort…

        We promise to do our best to avoid these traps. Our magazine will exist in 

real space and employ obsolete technologies. We’ll have a website, but

good luck figuring out how to use it. Maybe we’ll scale, but scaling down

is just as likely as up. And as far as maximizing time and minimizing effort...

we’re artists, so we don’t know how to do that. This magazine will be a

thing, not a device. A space, not a site. A platform, in the old sense of the

word, for art and ideas.

 

We hope you enjoy our efforts.

Drew Heitzler

Founding Publisher

Tamara Suarez Porras

Founding Editor

Troy Chew

Chloe Ghillani

Weiyi Guo

Fa He

Ana Saygi

Zhengdong Ye

Ruxue Zhang

Qian Zhao

Founding Contributors

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