Useful Pictures

Czech media theorist Vil m Flusser (1920-1991) coined the term "technical image" to describe the way in which images model texts in a world fundamentally changed and defined by industrialized modern culture. The fascinating collection of artists' projects assembled in Useful Pictures develops the notion of the technical image in a series of visual diagrams that exceed Flusser's wildest dreams--going beyond mere textual description or image mapping in order to make new connections and new sense through a hybridized visual language. The thirteen artists represented here present a series of iconic projects that combine image and text into a variety of complex diagrams that not only construe existing texts, but also propose new constructions and means of communication through radical cartography, comprehensive mapping, and thought-provokingly alternative visions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945323174
• ISBN13: 9780945323174
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Whitewalls
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"