Arnout and Michiel De Cleene - Capital Compression
Arnout and Michiel De Cleene - Capital Compression
| Author | A. De Cleene; M. De Cleene |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Roma Publications |
| ISBN | 9789464460391 |
| Idea Code | 23258 |
‘Capital Compression’ explores the poetics of blockchain. On a semiotic level, a blockchain is self-referential. It is a document documenting itself. This publication employs strategies of authentication and documentation, both photographically and discursively. A nineteen-line poem mimics blockchain technology by employing a system of hashing, encrypting the poem with each successive line and page. The history, progression, and sequence of the poem in this way becomes immutable. The poem intertwines with a series of photographs and an essay entitled “The Glow”. What erodes elsewhere, gathers here. Until carbon turns into diamond, and compression into capital.
| 24 p, ills bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English |
Roma Publications
