Olle Essvik
Vindstädningen/The Attic Price: 350 sek (small size, edt. 90: 53 swe/37 eng), 450 sek (big size, edt 20: 10 swe/10 eng)
“The storage space in the attic carries traces and marks of previous tenants – a cross hanging from a beam in the ceiling, paint stains on the floor and a pair of old skis, at some point left behind – the door adorned with numbers and a padlock, protecting against intrusion and baring witness of an owner.”
“There is no more space and a cleaning is necessary to make room for new things. Most of it has been packed in brown boxes and bags, of which I no longer remember the contents. Squeezed in between the boxes and the bags are items still waiting to be organised. Ending up here are the things that were rejected or that belong to another time, hidden away but none the less a part of my story and my life, a collection – a spare saucepan, a tennis racket for future matches, chairs awaiting guests. A remarkable number of the objects have never been used, and will eventually be replaced or thrown away.”
YOU ARE HERE!
Jonas Örtemark & Hanna Östergren
Andliga och spirituella dimensioner av verkligheten, nya landvinningar i rörelsen mot det osynliga: kemi och psykologi, spöken och politik. Vi graviterar mot ett smutsigt mörker och några scener blir synliga: vart är vi på väg ?
Anna Nygren
Pyssel Pris 250 kr
Boken PYSSEL består av:
2. en kalkering/avritning av Annas första litterära alster ”Min sagomix 2000” – det gick inte att göra en inscanning, och tänker att jag istället ritar av varje sida, tänker att det också är något med avritandet som jag älskar, att kopiera, som i ett kloster innan tryckpressen, och valet av vad som kopieras för hand.
Det tvådelade verket är placerat inuti en slöjdpåse, eventuellt tillsammans med Surprise.
PYSSEL.
Hidden Books / Unerasable Characters I
Price: Tool + random selection of prints: 22 euro + shipping, Tool (use link below to print yourself): 20 euro + shipping /
This DIY book is a part of the artwork Unerasable Characters I, by the Hong Kong-born artist coder and
white paper protest ” and “blank paper revolution ” , the book is meant
Winnies art project recevied 2023 the well known digital art prize, Prix Ars Electronica!
https://siusoon.net/projects/unerasablecharacters-i https://gitlab.com/siusoon/unerasable-characters-i
Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927
Fredrik von Zweigbergk
(edt. 64 SWE/ 64 ENG)
Price: 150 kr
The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age
Price: 45 euro/450 sek + shipping
The title of the book, The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age , is a reference to the exhibition “The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age”, curated by Pontus Hultén for MoMA in 1968, highlighting how technology was influencing art at a time when mechanical machines were increasingly replaced by electronic and chemical devices. Through its selection of contemporary art works the exhibition thus came to function as a recording of technological history.
I never got to see the exhibition since I wasn’t born at the time, but a couple of years ago I came across a curious book with a tin cover. The book was published in connection to the exhibition, and the history recorded between its covers ends at approximately the same time that early computers start to make their way into the art world. In the fifty years that followed, art came to be marked by a digital presence.
It was that book, along with an interest in dead media, and a curiosity for art aided by algorithms, that sparked the idea for The Computer as Seen at the End of the Human Age.
Here you will encounter new works by a selection of artists, specifically invited to use algorithms/AI to contribute to a continuous, self-reproducing, anachronistic, machine aided recording of history. A way to preserve, revise and/or comment upon digital history from the vantage point of present-day technology or through the lens of imagined future media, perspectives and technologies.
The works have been created specifically for the book. Some are based on works by other artists, made in another era, repurposed for our time and technologies. Others are based on redundant technologies, revived and given new functions. Some adopt a critical or political approach to the algorithm and its impact on society. Several utilize it as an opportunity to create unique works for each separate copy of the edition. Thousands of files eventually compiled into 200 unique books, each with a different cover and different contents – generated, aided or influenced by algorithms.
Participating artists: Geraldine Juárez, Cornelia Sollfrank/Winnie Soon, Mishka Henner, Shane Hope, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Rosa Menkman, Rosemary Lee, Olle Essvik, Evan Roth, Jonas Lund, Darsha Hewitt, Carl-Johan Rosén, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter and Jacek Smolicki.
Editor: Olle Essvik
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Nils Olsson
Det handlar i lika hög grad om tillvaron i en post-digital skriftkultur, som om identifierandet av redaktionella aspekter hos historiska texter.
Eaten Books
Olle Essvik at en Books)
The Eaten Book
The insect is moving over book pages, eating its way through the book, page by page in a slow animation. When the whole book has been eaten the insect moves on to the next. Thus a selection of books, important to our culture and civilisation, is disintegrated as the insects erase the lines through their movements. In the end, all that is left are small fragments of text and the traces of the insect’s movements. The animation keeps going for half a year, after which the consumed pages are printed and bound into a library of erased books with little else than the titles remaining.
Ainsects
A book from the 18th century with the title Atlas de Insectes containing detailed illustration of insects. As the book is scanned the illustrations on the opposite side of the page shine through the paper.
Titels (More titles to come..) STRINDBERG, INFERNO
CARSON, SILENT SPRING
RUSCHA, TWENTY GASOLINE STATIONS
Bruksanvisning för symaskinen Singer Victoria. / Mönster till Singer Hålsöm
Pris: 250 kr
A remake and a new version of Åke Hodells famous artists book Bruksanvisning för symaskinen Singer Victoria .
Leif Holmstrand och Jonas Örtemark
Pris: 1500 sek (inkl. porto )
Svalget är en stor experimentbok som växt fram ur en sväljande, inkorporerande, hejdlöst glupsk hållning som författarna Jonas Örtemark och Leif Holmstrand anammat under ett drygt decenniums arbete.
Halvcitat från samtidens nätgräl, recept, bloggar och ilskna diskussionstrådar har muterat, bearbetats och fogats samman med drömska visioner, förgrenande berättelser, poesi, ytterst prosaiska utspel och rytmiserade cut-up-kollage. Allt är smuts, sorg och gluphunger, allt är vackert och roligt.
Jonas Örtemarks och Leif Holmstrands föregående litterära samarbete, Darger Reviderad (Drucksache Förlag), hade liknande men mildare anspråk, och lindade dessa anspråk försiktigt kring den mytonspunne konstnären Darger och dennes imaginära flickfamilj. Den nya boken, Svalget, tror sig kunna äta upp hela den mänskliga civilisationen med sin ogenomtänkta bebismun.
Boken inkluderar en orginalteckning av Jonas Örtemark.
Mörker med glödande kanter
Kennet Klemets och Ola Åstrand
Pris: (sold out)
Svartvita fotocollage varvas med korta meningar och längre textsjok i ett mörkt, uppsplittrat och rytmiskt flöde. Ett trevande, maniskt försök att få fotfäste, att fånga och väga en omvärld som hela tiden är för nära, för avlägsen, skymd, överbelamrad eller uttömd – för att nå fram till något, en fast punkt, en insikt, en flyktig känsla av lugn och klarhet, oregelbundna andningspauser.
Boken är formgiven av rojal förlag och tillverkad för hand i en begränsad upplaga på hundra numrerade exemplar.
VIDEO
Decay
Sara Wallgren
Boken innehåller en mängd verkbilder, samt två längre texter på svenska/engelska av Getrud Sandqvist och Thomas Millroth.
VIDEO
FLUX UNTIL SUNRISE
Geraldine Juárez [100 copies]
Price: (sold out)
Flux until Sunrise is a book documenting a material exploration of our Liquid Crystal Epoque through the production of screenware and screen-glazes for ceramics. Screen-glazes use LCD screen waste from computers and smartphones as glass former component instead of silica and frits. The book includes an interview with Esther Leslie about Materialismo Mágico and screen-glaze recipes for ceramics.
Flip books from the hidden corners of the Internet
Olle Essvik
I'm looking for movies on Youtube with few or no visitors, webcams at eventless times. In most cases, I am the only visitor. Sometimes the filmmaker does not even know that the movie was uploaded, an incorrect button press. Movies that sometimes are there for a short while, disappear. Webcams from tourist resorts off season, construction sites, municipal webcams that monitor traffic or someone trying their new mobile phone.
A flashing traffic light from a webcam somewhere in Colorado, recorded 03.45.15-03.45.35 A birthday party in Sarajevo, 2 visitors 23.16.15-23.16.35 A surveillance camera outside a strip club in Thailand, 1 visitor 13.16.15-13.16.35 A gull flying past a camera in Denmark 0 visitors 13.16.15-13.16.35 A flagpole on a parking lot in Hamburg, 0 visitors 17.15.25-17.15.55
BOMBER, VIRUS, KURIOSAKABINETT. TEXTER OM DIGITAL EPISTEMOLOGI
Jonas Ingvarsson [100 copies]
Price: sold out
I boken BOMBER, VIRUS, KURIOSAKABINETT. TEXTER OM DIGITAL EPISTEMOLOGI samlas texter som har gemensamt avsikten att belysa konceptet »digital epistemologi». Utgångspunkten här är att »det digitala» inte ska förstås enbart som något som är knutet till särskilda verktyg och objekt. »Det digitala» inom till exempel humaniora är inte bara databaser och big data, topic modelling och spekulativa visualiseringar; ej heller är objekten begränsade till dataspel, andra elektroniska verk eller till litteratur och konst som explicit relaterar till datorisering eller andra digitala aspekter.
Detta perspektiv har kommit att väcka ett antal frågor. Hur kan litterära former i tryckt text spegla eller relateras till en digital närmiljö? På vilket sätt skiljer sig de digitala verktygen och uttrycken under 1960-talet till vår tids ubika system – och vad kan det få för konstnärliga effekter? Är vår tids uppenbara fascination för konstens och textens materialitet en effekt av eller reaktion mot en tilltagande digitalisering? Vad har kuriosakabinett, emblem och pertinensprinciper att göra i analysen av samtida digitala uttrycksformer?
I samarbete med Rojal förlag – och konstnären och bokbindaren Olle Essvik – har själva boken utformats som ett hundratal handgjorda mediearkeologiska objekt, bland annat med bokpärmar som hämtats från kasserade böcker. Varje volym är unik.
Boken kan ses som en samling prövande och öppna essäer, målet är inte att spika upp några teser, utan snarare erbjuda ingångar till mer eller mindre spekulativa samtal om humanioras framtid.
WINDS
Jeff Olsson [120 copies]
book+poster)
SOIL
Simon Berg
Price: 300 sek
The Goldberg variation (Bach clock)
Jesper Norda
Price: 1000 sek
The Goldberg variation (Bach clock) is based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg variations. But whereas Bach’s version takes around 30 minutes to play from beginning to end, this version is stretched to 12 hours and 25 minutes. Each note in the original score is struck at even intervals, every two seconds. The rythm is evened out, the dynamics are flattened: every sense of musical direction is gone. What remains is a solemn enumeration of all the tones that make up the original piece – a kind of clockwork.
Endless Endtime
Linda Hilfling
Price: 1000 sek (sold out)
A collaboration with the Danish artist Linda Hilfing, on a ”complete index of all elements leading to the end of the world”. End Time , deviced a numerological code, through which the word ”computer” translated to the number 666, thus proving the machine to be a satanic tool for the destruction of our world.
En bok om en bild
Olle Essvik, Helga Härenstam (red)
Pris: 200 sek
The starting point for the book is a single photograph – to which around thirty different writers, poets, journalists, photographers and artists were invited to contribute their own written or visual interpretetion/comment. Those who accepted recieved an e-mail with the photo and an instruction not to spread it.
Participants:
Art & Game Obstruction
Price: 140 sek
Art and Game Obstruction documents an the exhibition of the same name, held at Skövde Art Museum in 2015 as part of a teaching collaboration between Academy Valand in Gothenburg and University of Skövde. The anthology gives the people, who took part in the exhibition, the space to elaborate their views on contemporary art and computer games. The authors range from students and teachers to artist and curators, but what unite them are questions relating to playability and contemporary art. As such the collection of essays gives a unique insight into research and creative practices located at the intersection between art and games.
Participants: Lars Kristensen, Ewa Mazierska , Graeme Kirkpatrick , Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Jenny Brusk, Thomas Oldrell, Olle Essvik , Benjamin Fallon, Robert J. Homewood, Marisa Tapper, Karin Ryding, Mathilda Bjarnehed, Jasmine Idun, Dev Karnal Fridén, Ossian Borén, Jenny Sörensen, Berith Stennabb, Iman Farhanieh and Carlos González Díaz, Minnamari Helmisaari
Untitled
Sven Drobnitza Price: 150 sek
A white book filled with pages that would be completely empty if it wasn’t for the round black ink stain on one of its shorter edges. The stain bleeds into the paper, leaving a unique mark on each page. When the book is read like a flip book the three dimensional stain turns into an animation, a growing and fading image. With the title printed on both sides of the cover the book can be read in both directions: There is no beginning and no end. The process can be repeated until the book falls apart.
Travelogue/In My Pocket
Mari LagerquistPrice: sold out
On the 19th of September 2012 I travelled to Alexandria, Egypt. In my luggage I had a camera and in my pocket a phone.
Dödens Engel
Pris: 200 sek (sold out)
The poem Dödens Engel (”The Angel of Death”) was written in 1834, during the first Swedish cholera epidemic, but wasn’t publish until five years later, the same year as the author himself passed away. The poem has since been published in a number of different illustrated editions, the latest in 1917. This edition is a scaled down remake of a publication from 1880, illustrated by Carl Larsson.
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The Chance Execution
Olle Essvik
Price: 150 sek
The Enemies of Books
book 125 * 190 mm[200 copies] [23 + 96 p ]
Price: Sold Out
I download the book from the Internet, https://books.google.com, Enemies of books, written by William Blades, published in 1881. A book on the decay of books. The enemies of the physical book – fire, water, gas, the bookworm, dirt, bigotry etc. A digitized book with no identity. Black letters on a white background. I buy a copy of the book from 1881. A yellowed, and stained copy. The book bears traces of a former owner, one Dr. Sarolea. Newspaper cuttings on his death and his extensive book collection. I compare the two texts, the original and the digitized copy. Using my computer I create a tool for binding books. I combine and modify traditional tools that have been used for hundreds of years and print out the components on a 3D-printer. The next day I print out another copy of the digitized book, and using the 3D-printed tool I make an exact replica of the book from 1881, in its original design. I construct a manual describing the process and upload the files to the Internet.
This is a description of a project which I begun in 2014 as an artistic development project financed by the University of Gothenburg. A project exploring digitization, human traces and the unique copy, and at the same time an act of resistance against digitization and technology. The outcome of the project was a book, presented together with the tool used to produce it.
Välkomna Finska barn!
Price: 100 sek (Sold Out)
Välkomna finska barn! (”Welcome Finnish Children!”) is a remake of a leaflet distributed to the Swedish foster parents of Finnish children who were evacuated to Sweden during the Second World War, containing translations of useful everyday words and phrases.
År med tretton månar
Kenneth Klemets
Price: sold out
Carefully revised limited edition reissue of the rare 1997 debut
Helga Härenstam
Price: sold out
Alla hjärtans dag och andra scener documents a project conducted by the artist Helga Härenstam in collaboration with the Vegahusen retirement home. On six Wednesday afternoons in the spring of 2014 the artist met up with a group of residents for a study circle in photography.
Virtuella Utopier
Olle Essvik och Joel Nordqvist
Pris: 150 sek
This book is the result of an associative, experimental collaboration. Starting from a collection of quotations – on art and technology in general and art and computers in particular – spanning from the late 19th century until our present time, we move freely between different times, ideas and visions of the future.
Olle Essvik och Joel Nordvist (red.)
Price: 150 sek
Den här datorn (”My Computer”) explores the role of the computer on the Swedish art scene from the first personal computers until today. Through long interviews, documents and art works we encounter more than 40 different artists, researchers and curators who have been working with computers and art in Sweden in the past 30 years.
Participating artists: Channa Bankier, Beeoff, Erik Berglin & Clement Valla, Jim Berggren, Donatella Bernardi, Göran Boardy, Thomas Broomé, Beck & Jung, Erik Bünger, Palle Dahlstedt, Leif Elggren, Carl Michael von Hausswolff och Ulf Bilting, Hans Esselius, Goldin + Senneby, Peter Hagdahl, Johannes Heldén & Håkan Jonson, Karin Hansson, Johan Fowelin och Åsa Andersson Broms, Lisa Jevbratt, Ann-Charlotte och Sture Johannesson, Veine Johansson, Geraldine Juaréz, Arijana Kajfes, Stefan Karlsson och Mats Olsson, Anna Kindvall, Tove Kjellmark, Raquel Meyers, Lars Midbøe, Björn Norberg, Ola Pehrson, Piratbyrån, Lina Persson, Jonas Lund, Anna Lundh, Lundahl & Seitl, Syntjuntan, Pär Thörn, Arne Kjell Vikhagen, Lars Vipsjö, Magnus Wallin, Björn Wangen, Magnus Wassborg, Teresa Wennberg, Kristoffer Zetterstrand
Återkomsten- Bilden, Skolan och Samhället 1968 - 2018
Arne Kockum, Bitte Alling Ode och Ulla Lind (red)
Pris : 200 sek
Återkomsten har sin utgångspunkt från händelserna kring 1968 på Konstfack - ett uppror och revolt som kom att bli ett paradigmskifte för den svenska teckningslärarutbildningen. Boken beskriver bildämnets förändring - från revolten 1968 till idag och består av en samling texter och minnen från tiden på Konstfack skriven av forskare, teoretiker, konstnärer och bildlärare.
Elin Liljeblad
Pris: 150 sek
A group of people walking through the pitch black August night, heading for the sea, hoping to experience the elusive ”mareel”, guided by the sole light of the photographer’s camera flash.
