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No.1

Summer 2015

BENDING REALITY

A look into the bizarre phenomenon known as glitch art.

CALIFORNIA ESSENCE A look into the mind of SoCal photographer Jack Belli.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Explore into current events in food, travel, & culture.

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Our staff’s pick of the most necessary items in your daily happenings.

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BENDING REALITY

Into the mind of Southern California photographer, Jack Belli.

CALI ESSENCE

Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of photographer, Richard Avedon’s work.

RICHARD AVEDON

A look into the bizarre phenomenon known as glitch art.

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文化 EDITOR IN CHIEF Ben Guzman

EDITOR Ellen Rosenbush

EXECUTIVE EDITOR James Marcus

MANAGING EDITOR

More Than Just A Magazine.

Music. Skating. Surfing. Art. Fashion. Travel. Life. Based in Southern California, Bunka Magazine is an entertainment brand focused on the documentation of the counter-cultures we live in today. Bunka is more than just a magazine, it’s an aesthetic, a lifestyle. Bunka Magazine is a vision shared by innovative creators who believe fun is, above all, the most important thing in life. By meshing such a vast variety of topics, Bunka Magazine is your go to source for all the information you need.

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DEPUTY EDITORS Christopher R. Beha, Christopher Cox

SENIOR EDITORS Emily Cooke, Giles Harvey

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WASHINGTON EDITOR Andrew Cockburn

ART DIRECTOR Stacey D. Clarkson

WEB EDITOR Joe Kloc

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ryann Liebenthal

ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Miranda Popkey

ASSISTANT EDITORS Hasan Altaf, Camille Bromley, Matthew Sherrill

ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Sam Finn Cate-Gumpert

EDITORIAL INTERNS Jamie Fisher, Henry Knight, Osita Nwanevu, Rachel Poser

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Ben Austen, Kevin Baker, Tom Bissell, Joshua Cohen, Thomas Frank, Nicholas Fraser, Rivka Galchen, William H. Gass, Gary Greenberg, Jack Hitt, Edward Hoagland, Scott Horton, Frederick Kaufman, Garret Keizer, Christopher Ketcham, Mark Kingwell

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Culture

Window Dressing

Themed windows make brilliant vignettes on FIDM’s 5th floor.

By Dagmar WinstonW Photographs by Kyle Swinehart

Each semester at fashion school, FIDM, located in downtown Los Angeles, the 5th floor is host to a variety of window displays created by the Visual Communication students. Each semester they are given a theme and told to run with it. The results, quite often, are spectacular. This semester’s theme is nature and instructor Katherine LoPresti instructed students to build their window displays with “as much organic materials as possible.”

The students work as teams to build everything from the dresses to creating the typography for the windows. The group effort pays off as the nine windows are often the center of attention for visiting parents and prospective students.

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SUMMER 2015 MORE THAN JUST A MAGAZINE.

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CALIFORNIA ESSENCE

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Photographer Jack Belli captures the epitomy of the Southern California lifestyle through his portraits of beautiful women.

By: Ben Guzman Photography by Jack Belli.

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Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

Jack Belli

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RICHARD AVEDON:

a portrait of an artist

Fahey Klein presents a major retrospective of the photographers work.

By Kely Smith

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hat do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common?

They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier Amer-

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ican portrait photographers.

Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of other magazines. During bunka 30

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“All photos are accurate.

None of them is the truth.�

- Richard Avedon

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the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising.

His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.

As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves.

Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.

Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own.

Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed.

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his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image, Avedon has found a way to do both.

Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series

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of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans.

Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.

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BENDING RE A L I T Y A Look Into the Bizzare Phenomenon Known as Glitch Ar t.

By: Ben Guzman

BE N D I N G RE A L I T Y

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nternational artists that tinker heavily with computers to create their work are called "glitch artists." They produce a type of new media art that lays out defects—glitches—in a given computer system onto a visual canvas, whether it's print, 3-D installation, or computer screen.

A new exhibit at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago is celebrating their work, but why? Historically, humans have been indifferent to non-human art; none of Koko the Gorilla's drawings appear in the Louvre. So will art fans flock to glitch art? Or are these digital artifacts only a mother(board) could love?

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glitch art evolved. Entire communities have sprouted up on the web to nurture the discipline from the bottom up, like the Chicago-based 0p3nr3p0 glitch art repository. UIMA’s "glitChicago" exhibit, which opened on August 1st, pays homage to Chicago’s tradition of honing this subculture of electronic artists.Chicago has been a hub for the glitch art movement for years, even before glitch art became a term. Electronic and noise music, the punk rock scene, as well as improv jazz circles, all helped influence the artistic subgenre. The spirit of sharing digital media and the network of DIY art galleries in Chicago also played a part.

Since the 1970s, the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago has encouraged artists and software and computer engineers to follow the same

coursework and collaborate. The art and technology program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been around for decades, and the school’s brief generative systems program influenced a generation of digital artists in Chicago.

In the '90s, Chicago hosted important conferences in the digital media space, like the International Symposium of Electronic Art and SIGGRAPH. Glitch art really took off in the past decade, however, as all these trends primed an audience for it.

"It wasn’t until recently that glitch artists started referring to themselves as glitch artists," says Paul Hertz, curator of glitChicago. Different techniques of manipulating digital media began to find traction within Internet communities, and artists in Chicago picked up on them.

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"glitch is a cyborg art, building on human/computer interaction."

- Daniel Temkin

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faces behind the glitch Kim Asendorf Heitor Magno Beflix (Ant Scott) Paul Hertz Rosa Menkman Jessica Westbrook Scott Fitzgerald Anton Marini Daniel Temkin Jon Satrom Nick Briz Jon Cates A Bill Miller

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Between 2010 and 2012 the Chicago-based glitch artist Nick Briz, along with three other glitch artists, organized the first-ever GLI.TC/H festivals.

The first one took place in Chicago, but the organizers realized they needed to bring together the greater international glitch community. The 2011 festival simultaneously panned out in Chicago, Amsterdam, and Birmingham, U.K. Influential glitch artists have emerged from Chicago and onto the international scene. One of them, Jon Cates, coined the term Chicago Dirty New Media, a catch-all term that describes how digital tech can elevate an experience. Even if a glitch artist doesn’t physically hail from the Windy City, she might attribute her style to Chicago’s Dirty New Media.

Software and Art Glitch artists largely rely on a technique called databending to produce their work. Using a basic hex editor, an artist can modify the most rudimentary information in a digital file, like a JPEG image or MPEG video. The artist can open these files in the hex editor and manipulate the binary information behind the files—the ones and zeros—typically with the "Find and Replace" function.

Transcoding, another trick behind this new media, involves opening a media file in program that is not expressly designed for it. It’s what would happen if you opened up an image file in an audio editor, applied reverb, and then saved it as an image again.

Yet another technique, datamoshing, deals with modifying video compression rates.

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BE N D I N G RE A L I T Y "One of the characteristics of glitch, aside from its origins in errors and system overload, feedback and so on, is that when people try to do it concretely, they often end up working directly with the material of the file itself, below the level of its representation, as an image, or as text, or as audio," says Hertz.

In general, glitch art is the process of exploiting misbehavior, however spontaneously or intentionally the defect occurs. The process can either take place in the electronic media or in the encoding behind it.

"The process is more important than the result," says Briz. "There’s all kinds of things that can happen when you use technology the wrong way."

It’s one thing to make something that looks cool, but the aesthetic isn’t the interesting part of glitch art; it’s the process. Sometimes, the very use of technology takes second stage, as well.

"We tend to put the onus on our machine, but really something has happened in the system because it

hasn’t responded as per our designed or expected use," says Briz. The gist of the artwork doesn’t have to center on how machines misbehave. It can represent any system’s misbehavior, even taking a political tone.

Two French glitch artists helped create a concept piece called Corrupt.desktop. The experience starts when someone downloads the artists’ Mac OS X-compatible computer program onto a display computer at an Apple store or retailer. After installing it, the app icon appears in the app dock, looking like Safari. An unassuming Apple customer could inadvertently open it, visually distorting the desktop. The cacophony of desktops breaking apart while Apple employees slowly realize it makes a political statement.

The glitch then becomes a part of the whole store’s ecosystem.

Corrupt.desktop has a spot on GitHub, in keeping with the spirit of sharing tools and artwork in the glitch art community. And the code

behind the project, openFrameworks, is a C++ based program, created by artists, for artists.

Starting as far back as the '80s, digital artists started creating software especially for creating glitches in systems and machines. Hertz wrote a program called GlitchSort for students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which took off in the online community. Monglot, by Rosa Menkman, and Kim Asendorf’s pixel sorting program were also influential.

Apart from software, general advances in technology have made glitch art find a foothold in the artistic landscape. A small subset of artists experimented with transcoding in the nineties. Before that, artists manipulated analog audio signals and transmuted them into images.

“In the late sixties, it was hard to show computational art in a gallery,” says Hertz, even if this type of art started showing up around then.

You see it more now because technology has just gotten a lot cheaper.

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“A VR installation that cost a quarter of a million dollars to put up over at UIC, you can probably do for five thousand now,” he says.

Computers are more powerful, too, and the Internet has liberated artists from galleries to circulate their work.

A Yahoo group called “Databenders” surfaced around the time when Yahoo groups were just taking shape, and a Flickr group called “Glitch Art” brought glitch artists in contact with one another, including Briz.

Facebook groups and Reddit threads have cropped up in the last five years.

Two French glitch artists helped create a concept piece called Corrupt. desktop. The experience starts when someone downloads the artists’ Mac bunka 48

OS X-compatible computer program onto a display computer at an Apple store or retailer. After installing it, the app icon appears in the app dock, looking like Safari. An unassuming Apple customer could inadvertently open it, visually distorting the desktop. The cacophony of desktops breaking apart while Apple employees slowly realize it makes a political statement. The glitch then becomes a part of the whole store’s ecosystem.

Corrupt.desktop has a spot on GitHub, in keeping with the spirit of sharing tools and artwork in the glitch art community. And the code behind the project, openFrameworks, is a C++ based program, created by artists, for artists.

Starting as far back as the ‘80s, digital

artists started creating software especially for creating glitches in systems and machines. Hertz wrote a program called GlitchSort for students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which took off in the online community. Monglot, by Rosa Menkman, and Kim Asendorf’s pixel sorting program were also influential.

Apart from software, general advances in technology have made glitch art find a foothold in the artistic landscape. A small subset of artists experimented with transcoding in the nineties. Before that, artists manipulated analog audio signals and transmuted them into images.

Before that, artists manipulated analog audio signals.

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We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have w eird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

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