Click, Swipe, Download, Share, Panacea, Re-Follow-ed
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 6822134
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Exhibitions and Artists Book.
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
Sowden’s research explores the methods that artists are using in order to publish ‘books’ digitally, and presenting the growing use of digital platforms as a publishing tool used by artists. Sowden has produced exhibitions, collections of Artists Books and creative responses to the question of the book as container. Each is included here as a multi-output portfolio:
Re: Follow-ed (after hokusai): Exhibition curated by Sowden and Pichler (co-author), Cabinet du Livre d'Artiste, Rennes, France, 28th September – 3rd December 2015. An exhibition of artists' books inspired by the American artist, Ed Ruscha. The exhibition presents Sowden and Pichler’s extensive investigation and collection of books produced by multiple artists in homage to the books made by Ruscha.
Panacea: Artist’s book produced in response to the call for entries and exhibited at Redesigning the Medieval Book, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, 1st December 2017 – 11th March 2018.
Click, Swipe, Download, Share: This exhibition presents the growing use of digital platforms as a publishing tool used by artists.
Research Insights
If it is to be argued that a book is a sequence of pages inside a container, and if a container is considered as a physical entity – then a container must also be a computer monitor, a mobile phone, a room, a box, the Internet.
The research contributes to the continuing debate around the role of the e-book as a publishing method for artists, and whether many of these can still be classed as ‘books’, or if this was and is the artists intention in the first place. Included are examples of apps, pdf downloads, print-on-demand books, hyperlink works, text messages, Twitter feeds and blogs. To be seen within the context of specific publishers who at that time began to specialise in digital artists’ publishing.
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- Non-English
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