Blurred Library

Writer: Tate Shaw
Photographer: Doug Manchee
Publisher: Kyle Schlesinger
Contributor: Emily McVarish
Contributor: Janet Zweig
Profiled artist: Dieter Roth
Profiled artist: Keith Smith
Categories: Reference / Essays

Reference no.:R/Sha.T-man.D/16.00

Book title:	Blurred Library
Published by:	Cuneiform Press
Year made:	2016
Place made:	USA
Original:	Yes
Dimensions:	140 x 175
Binder:	commercial binding
Physical description:	paper back
Further information:
"Right now I find it very easy, perhaps even my default position, to doubt a book's totality; how finite and closed off it seems, how unconnected it can feel from the rest of the world. This stems from the present preset setting, the new automaticity running within me—and even more so, probably, those of college age who are now embodying this shift toward access, collaboration, and creativity—which is digital, the internet, smartphones, the cloud, the desire for constant connectivity. it's easy to forget that everything in the world is connected already and you don't necessarily require wireless to know how. But it's for our consciousness to show what these connections are. In the end, I guess that is all I'm trying to do here with this sliver of a collection of writings, this mix of metaphors relating book artworks: to provide some access to connections I've made and to collaborate and be connected to you, who in turn may find come creative connections of your own." Tate Shaw (from the Afterword) Also having contributed: Ward Tietz, Jody Zellen