Nicolas Canal Tinius

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Nicolas Canal Tinius, born 1994, is an artist, designer, and researcher with an archival and historiographic focus. After completing a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies at Cambridge, he was awarded a MEAD Fellowship, which funded a large scale art project investigating collective memory and white supremacy in the US South. Alongside his continuing artistic practice he is building a centre for creative exchange in lower Normandy, which is set to open in 2022.

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Jun 21, 2021 ∙ 15 min

Americanitis: Architecture, Mass Media, White Supremacy

The origins and definition of the word ‘Americanitis’ are opaque at best. It is generally believed to have appeared in medical journals of the late nineteenth century, describing a particular nervous ailment found in the inhabitants of the United States of America. Thought to cause disease, heart attack, nervous exhaustion, and even insanity, Americanitis was seen as a serious threat to the American public. In fact, in 1925, Time Magazine reported that Americanitis was responsible for...