Covertext: Is the artist necessary for making art today?

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With contributions by Jono Podmore, Nick Montfort, Hannes Bajohr, Scott Myles, Daniel Scott Snelson, Birgit Kempker, Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, Max Stolkin, Antonia Low, Derek Beaulieu, Nick Thurston, Mara Genschel, Mi You, Dag Erik Elgin

 

»Covertext: Is the artist necessary for making art today?«, our second publication, is both excerpt and conclusion to an editorial project emailing friends and colleagues about a statement to the question »Is the artist necessary for making art today?«. Compilations of answers and contributions were published online on this site and subsequently as a selection in this book

 

Covertext: Is the artist necessary for making art today?

Edited by Swantje Lichtenstein and Tom Lingnau

 

Designed by Tom Lingnau
56 pages, b/w, paperback, english, 17,4 x 11,6 cm

Printed in Cologne, September 2015
Edition of 350

 

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Cover image by Max Stolkin, from the series »he do the police in different voices, 2014, digital alterations of facsimiles of edits by Ezra Pound, dimensions variable