{"id":975,"date":"2019-09-26T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artfile.es\/2019\/how-to-do-things-with-email-my-holy-nacho\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:15:47","slug":"how-to-do-things-with-email-my-holy-nacho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artfile.es\/en\/2019\/how-to-do-things-with-email-my-holy-nacho\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Do Things with Email: My Holy Nacho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The core of <em>My Holy Nacho<\/em>, an artistic project by Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig, is \u201cimmaterial\u201d work: remote, delocalized, triggered only by instructions sent by digital means. Over more than a year, these two artists commissioned various services from successive industrial suppliers throughout the world, limiting their communication to mere emails. This publication comprises a selection of the digital documents that constitute the (immaterial) archive generated by this work process, as well as twe essays by Robert Jackson and me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By virtue of its format, however, this is not just a publication, but suitable also a device suitable to be displayed in three-dimensional space, as if it were an object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"www.myholynacho.net (abre en una nueva pesta\u00f1a)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myholynacho.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.myholynacho.net<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmic.es\/es\/galeria\/proyectos\/#my-holy-nacho\">Cosmic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abIn June 2013, Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig took three steps to set in motion the collaborative, fragmented and remotely controlled project My Holy Nacho. 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