Lumpen magazine is an independent, critical arts and culture publication, published 3-4 times a year now with a circulation of 5-15,000 copies per issue. We distribute it Chicago, LA, Olympia, Portland and NYC. We think print is an analog media that is beautiful to touch and lovely to read and we will continue to provide a physical outlet for you to enjoy.
Lumpen magazine can be found in hundreds of outlets across the United States. Via our media projects, events and festivals we are fighting mediocrity in all of its forms—and celebrating the vibrancy of the emerging cultures.
The magazine is our oldest project, a home base or point of entry for everything else we create. In the last 114 issues and 19 years our goal has stayed the same: present innovative cultural, and political information to our readers. In that time we’ve expanded our activities to producing events, exhibitions, festivals, other publications, art/activist projects as well as other media.
We work or collaborate on:
- Version, an international festival about art technology and social issues.
- Select Media Festival our annual media arts festival
- WPBR, an in-house radio station
- Lumpen TLVSN, a cable-access television series and web tv channel
- Select, our emerging art project/magazine/DVD
- Co-Prosperity Sphere, an experimental cultural center. (As well as Eastern Expansion and Northern Exposure)
- Proximity Magazine, an enjoyable art mag
- Matériel Magazine, another awesome art mag
- Pr, an art broadsheet newsletter
- The (con)Temporary Art Guide Chicago, an annual directory of contemporary art spaces in Chicago
Our operations are experiments in what can be created when a group of artists with a few resources just make it happen.
Here’s what other people have had to say:
The best magazine in America today. – Fader
A resistance that defines the “underground,” Lumpen features a plethora of young artists who express common worries and desires. —Vogue Italia
Lumpen is part of a new generation of activist hipsters: digitalized, freaked out and plugged into a new wavelength. —Adbusters
Best Culture magazine finalist. —Utne Reader
Anarchists with barcodes. —Chicago Tribune
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If you have any questions or comments email us at edmarlumpen at gmail dot com
If you want to submit something for review or for view online or on tv send materials to:
LUMPEN MEDIA GROUP
960 W. 31st St.
Chill, 60608
USA
