Gregory Laynor, ‘The Making of Americans’ (2008)
A reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans in 913 mp3’s, one for each page of the book. Available on ubuweb
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Ignas Krunglevicius
‘Daemons Mouth’ (2015) by Ignas Krunglevicius.
A page from the diary of schizophrenic young man is read by
a text-to-speech robot.
gerlach en koop
‘The Two Pages’ (2010) by gerlach en koop.
The upper side of an unopened pack of copying paper (left) copied onto the
fivehundred sheets of a second pack, that have subsequently been rewrapped (right).
Marius Watz
‘Universal Digest Machine‘ (2005) by Marius Watz.
The Universal Digest Machine is an installation featuring a web spider that crawls the net, digesting web pages and outputting a brief analysis of their contents. The display unit is an industrial thermal printer mounted on a plinth. For every page visited by the spider, a receipt is printed, falling on the floor unless taken by a visitor.
Sofia Leiby
Work from ‘Salutary plank’ (2010) by Sofia Leiby
Screenprint on found book page.
‘Salutary Plank’ is a modest memorial ‘plaque’ installed at Ox-Bow School of Art commemorating the absence of happiness in a specific domain, or, the infeasibility of nostalgic fulfillment in the modern “natural” landscape.
Christian Capurro
‘Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette‘ (1999 – 2004) by Christian Capurro.
Christian Capurro asked anonymous people to erase a page from a 246-page issue of Vogue Hommes magazine from 1986. They were also asked to write in pencil on their erased page both the time it took them to do this and whatever monetary value they currently received at work for their time, translated into an hourly rate or rates. The erasing took 5 years to complete and involved over 250 people.
Ariel Schlesinger
3 videos by Ariel Schlesinger. Above: ‘L’angoisse de la page blanche’ (2007)
To see the other 2: Read More
