e-flux is an artist-run venue and publisher in Clinton Hill. Since 1998, it has operated an email announcement list and monthly journal commissioning long-form essays on art, politics, and technology.
Founded in 1998 by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, e-flux built its reputation on a simple provocation: what if critical discourse about art moved as fast as the art world itself? The email announcement list came first, then the journal: a monthly publication, launched in 2008, commissioning long-form essays on art, politics, history, and technology from writers like Boris Groys and Hito Steyerl. Alongside the text, e-flux kept making space for things that couldn't be archived: Time/Bank, a skill-trading economy that bypassed money; the Agency of Unrealized Projects, a public database of censored and rejected proposals; Martha Rosler's 7,000-volume personal library, installed as a public reading room. Since December 2021, the physical home is 172 Classon Avenue in Clinton Hill, where the Screening Room hosts artist films, experimental music, and public lectures. The question e-flux keeps returning to: what does it mean to build infrastructure for thinking?
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