AInsect / Eaten Books

• En artists book som består av två olika böcker, läs mer om böckerna nedan. Böckerna skapades genom animationer som ställdes ut på Skövde Konstmuseum, Göteborgs Stadsbibliotek. Verket var också en del av Forskningssymposium: Glitch and Photography II: Bugs, Camouflage, and Insect Media där jag var inbjuden att göra en artistic lecture utifrån projektet. (Hasselbladstiftelsen, HDK-Valand och Konstnärsnämnden IASPIS) Böckerna har också haft releaser på: Supermarket Art Fair, Chart Art Fair (Copenhagen) AInsects A book from the 18th century with the title Atlas de Insectes containing detailed illustration of insects. As the book is scanned the illustrations on the opposite side of the page shine through the paper. The insects are cut up into their component parts (Wings, Body, Head, Rod), that are then fed into an AI, that through a chance process reassembles them into millions of new, made up insect species. Thus a new Atlas is developed, overlaid by the shadows of the original – as if a future AI was trying to understand life on earth. The eaten books The insect is moving over book pages, eating its way through the book, page by page in a slow animation. When the whole book has been eaten the insect moves on to the next. Thus a selection of books, important to our culture and civilisation, is disintegrated as the insects erase the lines through their movements. In the end, all that is left are small fragments of text and the traces of the insect’s movements. The animation keeps going for half a year, after which the consumed pages are printed and bound into a library of erased books with little else than the titles remaining.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Litterär gestaltning (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Literary Composition (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kfu (subject category)