BIOGRAPHY
Armin Linke was born in Milan, Italy, 1966. Lives in Milan & Berlin
2008 True North, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2007 Armin Linke, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin;
This Place is my Place, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
2005 Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
2004 An Uneven Exchange of Power,
Strorefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2003 50. Biennale di Venezia
Selected Bibliography Transient, Milan, Skira, 2003;
4Flight, Milan, a+mbookstore Editions, 2002; MENDE, Doreen,
Selective Knowledge (cat.), Athens, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought/ Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 2008.
Peter Hanappe studied at the University of Gent, Belgium, and at the University P. et M. Curie and IRCAM in Paris. He wrote his PhD thesis on real-time music and sound environments. Peter Hanappe is currently continuing his research on new modes of content creation and distribution at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.
INTERVIEW
José Roca: The web seems to be the natural environment for a new form of book that exists in latency, its potentiality of associations being materialized by the choice of the viewer / visitor. Why the need to materialize it further as a regular book, where the logics of experiencing it are somewhat limited by the format, its materiality and conventional sequence of reading?
Armin Linke: I think that the physical experience is not limiting but extremely interesting instead; it is this physical experience that triggers the thinking about the production and the distribution method.
Maybe the final production of the book is not even so important, but the fact that through the physical presence of the original photographs (in which the public can browse in a much more intense way than on a website) you get aware about the images.
It is a way to trigger an awareness in the audience, a way where the quality of association and participation that are found in a software interface and the quality of the physical presence of an original image in a show live together.
José Roca: In your travels around the world you have used photography and video to document architecture and its social landscape. This documentation is now extensive and intense. How to mediate the archive so it becomes “usable”? Is accessibility the main issue when it comes to accumulated information, or are you concerned about a more active role of the viewer in the shaping of your archive?
Armin Linke: It is not so much the accessibility that interests me but rather the different layers of reading that are potentially in each picture.
The more “reading layers” an image has, the more interesting it is. The viewer gets to be almost an archaeologist of the present – where time and dimensional scale are dissolved – and puts together his / her own narration by looking at the pictures not only for their documentary content but also for poetic details.
José Roca is a colombian curator, Artistic Director of the Philagrafika 2010. He lives and works in Bogotá and Philadelphia.
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