64 unnumbered pages : all black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Artists' books (books).)
Artists' books
Date:
2011
Notes:
Artist book. Pages printed in black and white with images
Inserted sheet bears text headed: "Ink (Book) from Signal to ink: Signal to ink is a narrative told through the photographed and the photographer; a navigation between physical space and screen space; between concrete reality and ephemerality; betwen emission and reception; a negotiation of the screen; in front and behind; inside and outside; guts and peel; visible and invisible; novel and obsolescent; a recounting of the failure of its own promising technology; or of some violence done there; order and out of order; control and breakdown; presence and absence; neither here nor there; muted; voiceless; hiss; image object subject light surface liquid current code metal glass film paper ink material immaterial body; the pathology of the ghost in the machine; or the messiness of matter. Penelope Umbrico, 2011."
"Aperture's director Chris Boot nominated me for the Discovery Award at Arles, for which I made a new body of work titled 'Signal to Ink.' The process of working on my book actually inspired me to think about my work within a narrative structure, to tell a story through a sequence of separate but related projects. For 'Signal to Ink' I address media, materiality and immateriality, and the idea of a screen as a surface on which something is projected and seen, as well as the medium through which things are sifted (let through or kept out): As a substrate on which one sees an image, the screen both sifts and registers the result of the sift. The exhibition begins with images I've found on Craigslist of TVs for sale pictured sideways--in profile they reveal how awkwardly monstrous they are (no wonder people are trying to get rid of them)--and then navigates through various conditions of the screen's physicality, from the electronic signal behind the screen (without image), through reflections of people in various states of undress on the screen (with no signal), to the disrupted signal of broken screens. The project's trajectory culminates in an offset-printed newsprint book of the TV screens, printed at 125 percent density so the ink rubs off on your hands as you handle it--and your handling registers on the book's images"--Penelope Umbrico / as told to Irina Rozovsky, Artforum website
Printed at 125% ink density on Hahnemuhle paper. Ink transfers to reader's hands
AAPGAB copy in envelope numbered 0294
Summary:
"Signal to ink is a narrative told through the photographed and the photographer. It navigates between physical space and screen space, between concrete reality and ephemerality; between heaviness and lightness; between emission and reception. It tells a story about presence and absence, being neither dead nor alive, but somewhere in between"--Artist's webiste