Junk Jet is a non-commercial publication platform, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of designs, architectures, electronic media

Electronic media

Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...

, and of aesthetics. It is published by independent igmade.edition and designed by m-a-u-s-e-r.

History

Founded by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest in 2007, Junk Jet tries to introduce "noise

Noise

In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...

to signal".

Issues

Junk Jet n°1
noise-and-failure-issue

The editors write in the first issue:

JJ wants to capture and transfer junk’s ambiguities indicating non- function, or at least bad-function implied in the nature of techno- logy, and various forms of mis-use for aesthetic purposes. What could be the aesthetic (non-) function of junk within clean compu- tational aesthetics of electronic media?
Therefore, relevant fields are all sorts of re-use, of wrong- and non-use, and of tinkering (bricoler, basteln) of forms and found objects, of theories and (small) narratives, of fashions and styles, and of course of computers and other electronic devices.

Release Date: November 2007

ISBN: NO-ISBN

Number of pages: 69

Measurements: 25 x 20 x 0.5 cm


Junk Jet n°2
the-speculative-architecture-issue

The editors write in the second issue:

For the second issue, Junk Jet was looking for the Speculative, focussing on works of unpredictable architectures and volatile spaces within real and virtual environments.
The speculative haunts all systems of production, threatens them with the destruction of their order and with collapse. It continues to appear to all orthodoxies as artifice, as a black magic, which is to be unveiled, because it is somehow effective effective in an illusive, but absorbing way, which is characteristic to an occasion for a game and its stakes. It is not a rational process, but something that contradicts this frame, something that is recognized as irrational, as feverish, and that therefore is suspected to be dysfunctional, inhuman, or even monstrous.

Release Date: November 2008

ISBN: NO-ISBN

Number of pages: 100

Measurements: 24 x 16.5 x 0.7 cm


Junk Jet n°3
flux-us-flux-you-issue

The editors write in the third issue:

Junk Jet n°3 asked for fluxing architectures, boogie, buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, and temporary eternities; for all kinds of practical concepts and conceptual practices, for stable happenings and unstable thoughts, for lifted cellars and dugin landmarks, for curtains, mobiles, house boats, bubbles, zeppelins, flying saucers ...

Release Date: February 2010

ISBN: 978-3-00-030127-8

Number of pages: 120

Measurements: 18 x 13 x 1 cm


Junk Jet n°4
statistics-of-mystics-issue

The fourth issue is about:

works and theories that make 1 become 2, 2 become 3, 3 …, works that make something out of nothing or nothing out of something, that discover new – even if microscaled – galaxies, that believe in alchemy and maintain a certain kind of apocalyptic thought; works that move from mumbo-jumbo to real magic and back.

Release Date: October 2010

ISBN: 978-3-00-032228-0

Number of pages: 88

Measurements: 27 x 19 x 1 cm