About Looking :

I N T R O D U C T I O N
Gaye Chan, Art Director + Art Editor

Tinfish Press began collaborating with visual artists in 1997. Through hand-crafted journal covers and centerfolds, and experimental book designs, visual art has increasingly become an integral aspect of Tinfish's production.

About Looking initiates a new component to Tinfish, featuring writings on art. The first installment is by Jaimey Hamilton on Drawn to Remember, a project by Dana Forsberg.

Hamilton's research concerns the intersection of contemporary subjectivity, commodity culture, mass media, and the visual arts in a global context. Her current book project, Strategies of Excess, is a history of postwar assemblage in relation to an increasingly Americanized contemporary consumer culture in the 50s and 60s. It reconstructs this particular moment in which international avant-garde practices seem to be fascinated by, but also anxious about, the materialism of postwar capitalism . This book is part of her wider interest in appropriation as an artistic mode that is increasingly relevant in a world comprised of global flows of goods, people, and culture. Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa - Department of Art and Art History.