This is a magazine is an experimental art publication founded in 2002 by Karen ann Donnachie, Andy Simionato & Sons. "One of the best known"Lauren Parker, Interplay, p.60 V&A Museum, 2005 flip-book style online magazines it has also published in a variety of formats including a PowerPoint edition, Animated GIF collections as well as video peep-shows and sound-objects. Alongside the internet specific episodes a series of hard-cover printed books or compendia and multi-media projects such as the Everything Will Be OK have been published.
The project is considered "highly influential" in Lauren Parker's Victoria & Albert Museum book on internet publications, InterplayLauren Parker, Interplay, V&A Museum, 2005. and "a publishing phenomenon" by Adrian Shaughnessy in The UK Journal for Made Images, Varoom.Adrian Shaughnessy, Varoom Magazine, UK, 2006.
In an interview for UK magazine Graphics International,Graphics International N.105, p.34 2003, Adventures in Publishing Ltd, UK New York designer and artist Stefan Sagmeister said "I just think This is a magazine is one of the most interesting publications out there...I followed it from the start and was consistently surprised by its inventiveness"
"Redefining what it means to call something a magazine",Christopher Tew, Arco04 Exhibition Catalogue, Spain, 2004 This is a magazine'''s editorial style combines artworks by internet artists with found internet ephemera. Over the past decade the project has been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries and has been the subject for publications on art, design, and new media for its ability to move beyond traditional models of curation, publication production, and distribution.
Selected contributing artists
Miltos Manetas, GR Sergei Sviatchenko, DK Jodi (art collective), NL Angelo Plessas, GR Animal Collective, USA Brody Condon, USA David Shrigley, UK Rafa%C3%ABl_Rozendaal, NE James Victore, USA Jason Salavon, USA Jon Burgerman, UK Lorna Mills, USA Jon Rafman, CA Yoshi Sodeoka, JP Lia (artist), AT Mirko Ilić, USA Petra Cortright, USA MTAA, USA Nadín Ospina, CB Pamela Anderson, USA Starfuckers, IT Antonio Riello, IT
Compendia Pink Laser Beam, 2009 Who I think I am, 2007 Everything Will Be OK (book) with DVD, 2005 Chaos Happens, 2004 Fashionequalsfiction, 2003 Love, the Universe and Everything, 2002
Exhibitions and conferences TDM5 Grafica Italiana, Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Milan, Italy (2012–13) Triennale di Milano Design Museum, Milan, Italy (2010) Hijacked, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia (2008) Colophon 2007, Independent Publication Festival, Luxembourg (2007) Reading Room (2005) and Viewing Room (2007), Senko Gallery, Viborg, Denmark CMYK — International Trend Magazines Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2004) Semi-permanent, Sydney, Australia (2004) SignJAM, Milan, Italy (2008) ARCO, Madrid, Spain (2005)
References
External links Pink Laser BeamThis is a magazine Official Website'' Everything will be OK Donnachie, Simionato & Son (Publishers) Karen ann Donnachie & Andy Simionato (Founders) Atomic Activity Books (This is a magazine Imprint)