Megarave – Metarave
Kunsthaus Langenthal / WallRiss, Fribourg, 2014
ISBN 978-3-905817-59-1
English / German / French
152 pages, illustrated throughout
Softcover, approx. 20.5 × 30.5 cm

Scarce out-of-print exhibition publication exploring the parallel histories of 1990s rave culture, techno, cyberculture and the early World Wide Web.

Published for the Megarave – Metarave exhibitions at Kunsthaus Langenthal and WallRiss in 2014, the book takes 1994—the emergence of large-scale Swiss mega-raves and the arrival of Netscape Navigator—as a starting point for examining the technological and social utopias surrounding rave and early Internet culture.

Includes texts by Sadie Plant, Domenico Quaranta, Melanie Bühler, Yann Chateigné Tytelman and Nicolas Brulhart, with visual contributions by Metahaven, Kari Altmann, MSHR and Olia Lialina / Dragan Espenschied. Also includes archival material relating to the legendary Roggwil mega-raves and Swiss rave graphic design.

An especially interesting publication for collectors of rave and techno culture, 1990s cyberculture, early Internet history, post-Internet art and experimental graphic design.

Condition: Good used condition. Some light shelf, edge and corner wear consistent with age and handling; please see photographs for exact condition. Interior remains presentable.

Now out of print and unavailable from the publisher.