The artists’ books of ParaDigital and their associated web content are designed to ask questions about virtual navigation in all of its complexity. Our maneuvers between Instagrams, finstas, and the space behind those two bastions. The Rubin’s Vase of nature and digital photos of nature, stories and storylines, friends and “friends”. Below are links to short essays concerning the issues that informed each project, along with supplemental photographs of the books.
Lauren Davies, Shh… (a story of quiet love)
Matthew Dunbar, Reflections
Amanda Fago, The Stage
Penelope Greene, A Life, Somewhere
Travis Johnson, The Book of Eyes
Will Kilada, Evolution
Brian Malgieri, Meet the Abstracts
Diana Morley, Notifications
Genevieve Moulton, Little Genevieve’s Big Adventure
Olivia Santos, Moments in Time
Casey Sherman, Friends in Arms
Lauren Silverman, Echo
Ryan Silverstein, Planned
Joe Sharak, “The World as it Was: A Traveler’s Guide to Extinction”
Shawna Smith: The Gauntlet: “The 39 Clues and Generational Trauma”
Steve Trail, The Kingdom and the King
Quentin Wall, Duolingo
Claire Wallace, [Explicit Content]
Image credits: The announcement of the marriage between Lucia Visconti and Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, British Library Harley MS 565 f 68r; Martin Vorel, Programming Code, Wikimedia Commons; HG Wells, from The Time Machine, Internet Archive; Computer Codes, Pexels.
