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.
Emma Annonio, ABCs of Girl Power
Anonymous, Life: It Sucks Sometimes
Amanda Austin-Bassett, Soul Collage: My Savage Garden
Jarred Bloom, Dollar Bin
Julia Caldwell, Beauty and Her Beast
Caroline Crimmins, Piddles Travels Around the World
Isabella Fazio, The Singing Book
Yadelin Fernandez, Women-Libs
Michaelena Ferraro, A Memory Deferred
Thomas Gillingham, Notified and Rejected
Hayley Hare, Developmental Scrapbook
Tessa Hensler, Love Always,
Hayley Jones, Music Box
Kayla Kenny, Street View
Anthony Lyon, Foundations
Julia Merante, Rape Kit
Ben Michalak, Follow the Path
Jackson Michalski, Pocket Sized Addictions
Rebecca Nace, Lock and Key
Kelly Parrett, A Carefully Constructed Campus
Samantha Phillips, Do We Change?
Sarah Pleines, The Light Keeper
Olivia Root, More Than Meets the Eye
Patrick Ruehle, Morekashian-Best Mansion Tour Companion
Amanda Sheps, GRETA: The Environmentalist Cookbook
Andrew Shutes, America: The Wall
Ravenna VanOstrand, Read Receipts
Helen Warfle, AudioVisual Machine
Monica Weber, Geode: On Female Friendships
Nick Widman, The Martian
Image credits: antomoro, Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Wikimedia Commons; Wikimedia Foundation Servers, Wikimedia Commons; Mike Dickison, Interior of the Auckland Museum library, showing the shelving curved to fit the round atrium space, Wikimedia Commons; Florian Hirzinger, Server Room in CERN, Switzerland, Wikimedia Commons.
