Link Editions: Command-Shift-4. Screenshots 2001-2014 by UBERMORGEN now available!

Link Editions is proud to announce the release of two new books: Command-Shift-4. Screenshots 2001-2014 by UBERMORGEN, and the reprint of UBERMORGEN.COM, a comprehensive catalogue published in 2009 by Fabio Paris Editions. Both books are available for download as PDF e-books, and as print-on-demand paperback on Lulu.com.

 

 

Inke Arns, Domenico Quaranta, JODI.ORG, UBERMORGEN.COM, Link Editions, October 2015. Color, English, 96 pp, ISBN 9781326406974

 

UBERMORGEN, Command-Shift-4. Screenshots 2001-2014, October 2015. Paperback, 740 pp, black and white and PDF ebook, 303 pp, ISBN 9781326440190

 

The 8th issue of the series In my Computer, Command-Shift-4. Screenshots 2001-2014 presents a selection of about 350 images out of the 40,000 screenshots taken by the Austrian duo along its existence. Curated by German designer Diane Hillebrand, the book is born as an e-book translated into paper form. Although both versions of the book can be experienced linearly, as an usual book, they are actually hypertexts that should be primarily navigated hypertextually, clicking on links (in the e-book version) or following notes (in the paper version). In the e-book version, hyperlinks are visualized using icons in 14 different kinds of gray, each of them representing a (hidden) category. But since the surrounding of the icons changes on every page, it’s almost impossible to see the exact kind of gray of the icon, and thus deduce the category it represents in the designer’s system. This, together with the reader’s choices between two links, makes each experience of the book completely different and personal, not a walk through a designed path of any kind. The navigation of the print version is willingly counter-intuitive and hard, and requires concentration and focus, instead of serendipitous clicking.

 

Originally published in 2009, UBERMORGEN.COM collects the work made between 1999 and 2009 by Austrian duo UBERMORGEN (lizvlx and Hans Bernhard). Along that decade, UBERMORGEN developed a consistent oeuvre, focused on the ability of media to infiltrate reality to the point of completely altering the perception of it ([V]ote Auction, [F]original Media Hacks, Generator Tetralogy) or even its social, biological or human infrastructure (Psych|OS, Chinese Gold, Art Fid); and on the potential of art to engage a dialogue with economic, bureaucratic and informational systems (EKMRZ Trilogy, Superenhanced and all of the above). All these works are presented extensively through pictures and introductory texts, and discussed in depth in two essays by Domenico Quaranta and Dr. Inke Arns. The book also features a visual tribute by artists JODI.ORG.

 

UBERMORGEN have exhibited in museums and galleries internationally since 1999, including HKW, Berlin; MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; MACBA, Barcelona; Ars Electronica, Linz; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; New Museum, New York; Malmö Konsthall; NTT ICC Museum, Tokyo; MoCA Taipei; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw and Prague; Sydney and Gwangju biennales. Awards include ARCO Beep, Swiss Art, Ars Electronica and IBM New Media. More: http://ubermorgen.com

 

The Link Art Center is proudly part of Masters & Servers. Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age, a European adventure focused on a new generation of digital interventionism, awarded with a Creative Europe 2014 – 2020 grant. Up to August 2016, Masters & Servers will explore networked culture in the post-digital age.