Nous sommes heureux de vous présenter la naissance de notre nouveau Journal : FAILURE. Ce sont les nombreuses défaillances du système qui ont fait l’objet de ce journal. Nous n’allons pas ici raconter les réussites mais les échecs. A l’heure du tout algorithme il n’y a rien de plus humain que les échecs. L’intelligence artificielle ne faillit pas. L’humain si.
Avec FAILURE Journal, nous enquêtons sur la pollution intellectuelle. Nous archivons tous les crimes culturels commis en bande organisée. Ensuite nous les décortiquons. Les analysons. Et aujourd’hui nous sommes en mesure de les prédire. Nous anticipons les crimes culturels de demain. Et nous allons les rassembler pour vous dans FAILURE.
Le prix d’un sac Vuitton est criminel. Le marché de l’art est criminel. Un défilé Gucci est criminel. L’exil fiscal est criminel. Remplacer les librairies par des magasins de maquillages et de parfums c’est criminel. Fabriquer des vêtements par des enfants c’est criminel. Produire autant de publicités agressives c’est criminel.
A nos yeux, le crime capitaliste est le sujet culturel du nouveau siècle. C’est pour cela que FAILURE Journal agit simultanément comme un reporter de guerre, un enquêteur policier et un détective indépendant. Un Journal qui mélange la mode, la théorie, la critique et la politique. Édité depuis l’Institut 433 par Steve Oklyn qui n’y écrit pas une ligne, c’est les équipes de 99% YOUTH qui s’occupent des recherches théoriques et conceptuelles et les équipes d’APAR.TV de l’éditorial. Voici les couvertures des 4 premiers numéros. Nous en avons prévus 999.
Il était temps d’agir comme des reporters conscients face aux crimes culturels actuellement en cours en occident.
![Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag](https://scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/209584973_2957777841155347_4545370530577311983_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=tcRePr_L2N4AX9OQ0T3&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=1a85fdca505404c0d49c31aa74aea9e2&oe=616E367F "Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag")
![The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/196860070_809654653271496_8575323350180795315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=vTxo9sIcXKoAX9hx_qt&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=49f4362bfd5b774cd8bd8725423937c4&oe=616EC889 "The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021")
![Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172246940_241775834361086_412793993617799165_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=NsdBJGeJdKAAX9xoVs-&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=bad74dc95a374a1a3a389075b9ada30e&oe=616FA7B5 "Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan")
