David Byrne
Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information
Alemanha, Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003
27.5 x 35.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3882439076

“For more than a year I have used the ubiquitous sales and presentation program PowerPoint as an art medium. This book of images and essays also contains a DVD which plays five of these pieces accompanied by original music. The book itself contains a dozen new written pieces and a lot of beautiful (subjectively speaking) images from the PowerPoint pieces that feature plastic overlays, foldouts, and a whole lot more. But what is it about?

“It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audio visual form using a medium in a way that is different and possibly better than what was intended. It is representing one thing by another thing, the other thing not the first thing and neither thing resembling the second thing.” From the artist.

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/17125/