VAR-LEN (Terminal IIIS_HEX)

Authors

Daniel Hewson, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Keywords

artists' books, Student Artists Book Contest, second

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2016

Major

Film/Animation/Video

Faculty / Course

Lindsay Beal, The Photobook

Materials + Techniques

Print on demand book

Student Narrative

This book is composed entirely of images taken with an iphone 3 that were subsequently blown up to the maximum dimensions offered by the industrialized print on demand services offered by Blurb. They were printed on the premium matte paper and bound with a hardcover image wrap (the most expensive options offered by Blurb) Although this book's images are intended to function on a formal, textural level, there is certainly a latent commentary about the over-saturation of images in the modern digital landscape and a mourning over the death of "traditional" notions of craft in the postmodern art world within this landscape. Paradoxically, I hope this book also functions as a celebration of the inherent speed and texture of the already antiquated iphone 3 technology, and, furthermore, the freedom and playfulness these utilitarian technologies and postmodern ideologies can provide.

Recommended Citation

Hewson, Daniel; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "VAR-LEN (Terminal IIIS_HEX)" (2015). 2nd Student Artists' Book Contest 2016. 15.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest2nd2016/15