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					VG Bild-Kunst 2008
	home events works : ink : just : ume : ima flue (k) – Hybrid Lifeforms : * to bernardo to são paulo / / research workshops cvs contact		ink is an interactive installation which derives from five inscriptions found in five printed books from five centuries. Handwritten by explorers, lovers, book owners, soldiers and authors, the book inscriptions express the wish to individualise printed, mass-produced books. The inscriptions form their own history of books. The inscriptions are taken from a Bible, a copy of the Arabian Nights, a Songbook and books about Natural History and Botany. ink is an installation with five glass bulbs – partly filled with blue ink – suspended from the ceiling. When the visitor approaches the bulbs, they start to rotate. The rotation causes a layer of ink to form on the inner side of the bulbs. As the bulbs rotate the handwritten inscriptions become visible inside the bulbs due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision. The blue ink is a reference to handwriting (and its loss) and the light characters refer to the digital age (its interchangeability and transience). The light shapes the book inscriptions due to an optical illusion as a comment on virtuality. The inscriptions are given to the visitor individually. The visitor's presence causes the gesture of handing over the inscription again. With kind support from the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, the City of Edinburgh Council, the National Library of Scotland, the Library of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sheena & Ross and New Media Scotland.		ink.pdf