isthisit? issue 2, 2017
96 pages / Full colour printing / Perfect bound

isthisit? issue 3 (2017) includes artworks from Rosie Back, Jade Annaw, Peter Barnard, Olly Bharat, Marc Blazel, Alice Bradnack, Uma Breakdown, Juan Covelli, Ed Fornieles, Jenny Francis, Ben Grosser, Michelle Hannah, Alexander Harding, Elliot Hewgill, Realf Heygate, Martin Kellett, Burkut Kum, Heleen Mineur, Eden Mitsenmacher, Camilla Edstrom Odemark, Hollie Page, Alastair Peat, Duncan Poulton, Christopher Priestman, Tyler Robarge, Aaron Scheer, Emily Simpson, Joseph Whitmore, Hannah Willcocks and Trystan Williams, interviews between Bora Akincitürk & Berk Çakmakçi and Iain Ball, Kate Cooper and Chris Bayley, Natalie Lambert and Bob Bicknell-Knight, alongside essays by Bob Bicknell-Knight, Amber Clausner, Lucy Cowling, Stacey Davidson and Pippa Eason, Daniel Keller, Thomas Tyler and Trystan Williams.

The second issue of the isthisit? magazine is 96 pages and composed of artworks, essays, interviews and one podcast, considering memes and appropriation on the internet. In the United States 2016 presidential election, memes are said to have played a fundamental role, with individuals on 4chan claiming that they were responsible for Donald Trump’s rise to power due to the amount of memes that were created and shared on a daily basis. This issue of the magazine hopes to consider the power of the meme, it’s rise in contemporary culture and the widespread appropriation of images and videos being utilised, both in memes and artworks.

isthisit? issue 2 was launched on the 8th August 2017 in conjunction with The Choice of a New Generation at The Muse Gallery, London, UK.