On June 1, the 2006 issue of Eleven Eleven will be available through your local bookseller.

From the Editors

This issue is a crosscurrent of systems, strategies, and processes.

Data—public and private histories—is searched and scanned, and systems of code are created in order to sort intimate information. Then, using experience and intuition, these writers and artists shape and cipher their personal languages into projects that are aligned and entirely transformed. The past is captured and re-organized; uncertainty is clarified and made universal.

The results are kinds of illuminations. Light, in all its forms, occurs over and over again in these pages. Like a camera flash, and the processing that follows in a dark room, the works bloom as a result of attention, technology, and artistry. These could be moments stopped and frozen by the eye of the artist. Flashpoints. These are also close-ups and hybridizations. The insight, adaptability, and ultimately, acceptance, of the contributors radiates throughout.

Simultaneously, a crosscurrent—conflict, elements running counter to one another—remain. Individual processes and systems clash with the randomness and unpredictability of nature.

—Youmna Chlala and Brent Foster Jones

Volume 3 Contributors

Ordering

Copies can be ordered directly from CCA for $15. Please email eleveneleven@cca.edu or call 415.551.9217.