Monday 10 June 2013

Experiment with PDF


If it can be said a handmade book is read at the distance it was created, then with this in mind what is happening when we read a PDF? There are many crazy websites and programs around now that attempt to simulate the book and its pages, in pixels,  in windows, on your screen. There's a sadness to this sort of operation, a sort of nostalgic tragedy. I would like to make PDF's that utilise this tragic nostalgic quality, in a poetic way, to exposes what is at the heart of this type of thing, an uneasiness in the way we use our new technologies. I think its a transition thing. We are living in times of transition, it might be useful to get inside the symptoms of this transition.