''POSTmatter'' is a London-based online magazine about contemporary art and culture in the digital age. It was founded in 2010 by Remi Paringaux, Alexander Dellal and Xerxes Cook as an

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-only magazine named POST. The magazine has been edited by Louise Benson since 2014.

Background

Early issues of POST magazine on the iPad were identified with a unique suffix; the first and second issues were titled 'POSTgravity' and 'POSTperformance'. "POST offers a map for others to follow,"

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stated in May 2011. The website was launched in 2013 under the name 'POSTmatter'. No further iPad editions were released following its launch, and POSTmatter was adopted as the official name of the online magazine.

POSTmatter special projects

As part of the 54th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

in 2011, POSTmatter created a physical pavilion and accompanying app titled ‘Commercial Break’ in partnership with Neville Wakefield and

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. It featured the work of over 130 international artists, including Ari Marcopoulos,

Aleksandra Mir Aleksandra Mir (born 1967) is a Swedish-American contemporary artist known for her collaborative installations and projects. Her work deals with travel, time, placehood, language, gender, identity, locality, nationality, globality, mobility, con ...

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, Cyprien Gaillard,

Christian Jankowski Christian Jankowski (born 1968 in Göttingen, West Germany) is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. Work Jankowski's work has been associated wit ...

and

Agathe Snow Agathe Snow (; née Aparru)Roberta Smit ''The New York Times'', July 15, 2009. (born 1976) is an artist based in Long Island, New York. Before moving to Long Island in 2008, she lived and worked in New York City. Biography Snow was born in Corsic ...

. POSTmatter worked with artist

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in 2012 to create an app-based experience based on his large-scale multimedia production ‘ALTERED EARTH’, commissioned by the

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POSTmatter exhibitions

In 2014, POSTmatter staged its first exhibition at the

Accademia di Brera The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

in Milan. A series of interactive installations were displayed, showing three fashion films that could be altered by human touch or movement. One of these installations, 'Ripple', was exhibited again in 2015 at Fashion Space Gallery, London, as part of the exhibition 'Digital Disturbances'. POSTmatter presented a 3-part talk series at the London College of Fashion to accompany the exhibition. In 2015, POSTmatter took part in fig-2 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. An exhibition was curated by POSTmatter that brought together photography, sound and video works, while artists, writers and curators were invited to participate in live writing events that were published online.

POSTmatter relaunch

POSTmatter relaunched with a new website in 2016. The

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stated in September 2016, "POSTmatter is at the forefront of re-enchanting the scope of the digital magazine, becoming an essential voice on life and culture in the digital age."

References

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