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EIKON #56: 15 years of EIKON, 15 Years Photography and Media Art

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15 YEARS EXPOSURE

Oh well. In a book, you can't give everything away right at the start. Anyway, Vittorio Kowalski needed fifteen years to find out the truth. (p. 119)

The center of the title for me is not so much "the weather," as "fifteen years ago"—the sentimentality of it all. (Falter 36/06)

No, for me that's the most attractive thing about writing, leaving something out. (Falter 36/06)

But how was the weather yesterday, or fifteen years ago? Nobody really cares about that. Except to compare it to the present. (p. 13)

But you don't really want to tell me that you're an author who actually thinks a photorealist picture of an Alpine storm is important. (p. 95)

Too little and too much
Just right—that's the fool's goal. (p. 179)

On September 15, the new novel by Wolf Haas appeared in the shops, Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren [The Weather Fifteen Years Ago]. This edition of EIKON, marking our fifteenth birthday, appears on December 15. As our founding editor Carl Aigner remembers, "It was a wonderful winter fifteen years ago." The novel by Wolf Haas is a love story, and EIKON also began as a love story. Our first issue had on its cover a work by Michaela Moscouw from the series Gute Nachricht [Good News]: the picture of a pregnant woman, whose gaze is directed forward at her full belly. The time of birth and joyful anticipation for all that might come.

Bettina Kattinger, a student of Matthias Herrmann at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Künste, returned to this work in answering our call to the photography students of Vienna to propose a cover for this fifty-sixth edition of EIKON on 15 Years of Photography and Media Art in Austria: A Retrospective Look Ahead.

The decision was not easy, so we decided to show many of the other proposed covers as illustrations accompanying a contribution on the situation of training and as a statement of our look to the present.

Of course, we cannot claim to provide a comprehensive reference work on any one subject or time period. Instead, this issue of EIKON is intended to show various ways of looking that illuminate different aspects. The perception of photography and media art among the public in the face of exhibition houses or various outreach activities, or the Austrian print media, is one of the questions explored by Andrea Winklbauer, Nina Schedlmayer and Michael Freund. Olga Kronsteiner shows us with numbers and facts how Austria's art market has developed in international comparison, while Margit Zuckriegl depicts from her many years experience as director of a photography collection the changes that photography collections have been subject to, attempting together with Gerald Piffl to answer the question of whether photography has reached its goal. A conversation with the photography conservator Andreas Gruber informs us about questions of restoration and conservation, while Johanna Hofleitner dedicates herself to the question of awards and prizes and Ruth Horak reflects on the question of training opportunities in photography and media art in Austria.

In a contribution on media art in particular, Patricia Grzonka explores the transformation of the term, and suggests a new approach.

The contributions of Rainer Metzger and Thomas Mießgang place traditions and their reflections in the spotlight of their individual point of view, and finally Carl Aigner responds from his personal point of view as founding editor of this journal.

If suddenly a house falls on the roof, it might be a One Minute Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, creating a hole that can allow us to see reality through a new perspective. We see a part of the world, and depending on where we are we see a different segment: one minute (sculpture), one month (of photography), fifteen years (photography and media art.) It's always about timeframe and perspective.

We invite you to make your own picture, and with this issue would like to thank all those who accompanied us throughout the years, without whose dedication and generosity we could not look forward hopefully today: all the artists and authors, subscribers and advertisers, the former Ministry of Science, Art, and Culture under the direction of Rudolf Scholten as well as the Art Section under Peter Wittmann and today Franz Morak for his great commitment to photography, Johannes Hörhan and Gudrun Schreiber from the Film and New Media Division for their many years of vital commitment to Austrian photography, Cultural Department, Lower Austria, with Joachim Rössl, Friedrich Grassegger und Alexandra Schantl, in addition the state government of Upper Austria, in particular Reinhard Mattes and Anneliese Geyer, and not least Vienna's Department of Culture, with Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Bernhard Denscher, and Berthold Ecker for the special support of this anniversary issue, as well as all those who have worked with EIKON over the last fifteen years—and all those who will accompany us in the fifteen years to come: this issue is dedicated to you all.

Elisabeth M. Gottfried
In the name of the entire EIKON team

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