''Machina'' was a monthly

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published in

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between from 1995 to 2002, and from 2006 to 2012. The title was subsequently reduced to a website but ultimately ceased activity in 2015.

History

The magazine began activity in 1995 and its founder was Marek Kościkiewicz, one of the members of a popular Polish pop rock group De Mono. The first editor-in-chief was Andrzej Sienkiewicz, later replaced by Bogna Świątkowska and Marcin Prokop. Its contributors included Grzegorz Brzozowicz, Paweł Dunin-Wąsowicz, Rafał Bryndal, Daniel Wyszogrodzki, and musician

Kazik Staszewski Kazimierz Piotr Staszewski (born 12 March 1963), also known as Kazik, is a Polish singer and songwriter. He is the son of the architect and poet Stanisław Staszewski. He is the frontman of the band Kult, which he founded in 1982; their latest ...

, among others. ''Machina'' was regarded Polish equivalent of the ''

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'' magazine, covering

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or mass art, sometimes contraste ...

, including music, film and literature. Between 1997 and 2000, every issue included a promotional CD. The magazine went out of circulation in 2002, and in 2005, the title was bought by the publisher PMPG Polskie Media with the intention to relaunch ''Machina''. The reboot issue was published in February 2006 and featured an image of

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represented as the Holy Mary, with her daughter Lourdes pictured as

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. It caused controversy and attracted criticism for defacing religious imagery. The new editor-in-chief was a Polish journalist Piotr Metz. In 2011, ''Machina'' was redesigned as a weekly issued only in electronic form and in 2012, it was reduced to a website which ceased activity in 2015.

References

External links

Official website – archived version from July 2015
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