Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times: A Visual Record - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8862086784 ISBN 13: 9788862086783

Publisher: Damiani, 2019

Synopsis

For this second book in an ongoing exploratory series, multifaceted artist Michael Stipe has collaborated with the writer and artist Douglas Coupland on an investigation of how analog imagery is crashing on the shores of our digital future. For Stipe the signature mark of this phenomenon is the moiré pattern. Culled from Stipe’s vast archive of personal images, the book is a contemplation on the tug-of-war between pixels and halftone, between past memory and new memory and their vagaries of representation.

As an undergraduate studio art major at the University of Georgia, Michael Stipe (born 1960) studied photography and painting before leaving school upon the formation of R.E.M., the band for which he served as frontman and singer/songwriter until its dissolution in 2011. The sensibility that he began to develop during his time as an art student transferred to his spectrum of work for R.E.M., from art directing all graphic, video and stage design, to writing, composing and performance, and his iconoclastic personal style. Stipe’s visibility as a media figure in the popular culture of the 1980s and ’90s left an indelible mark on the aesthetic trends of the time, many of which have trickled down to contemporary culture.

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Review:

Stipe... has trained his eye on places where the analog and the digital intersect to form the pattern of the current moment. (Jameson Fitzpatrick New York Times: T Magazine)

[Our Interference Times] addresses [Stipe's] anxiety that digital technology is eroding people’s association with the analog world and driving a wedge between humanity and nature, between young and old. (Nick Fulton Garage)

There are a lot of regimented grids in the book, though these are often out of whack, or they’re details of something that you can’t quite work out, that you think is something different. On more than one occasion, you find yourself turning your head, wondering: What IS that?, until you see. Photographs are laid out to play off each other, with one almost chatting to its facing companion. (Miranda Sawyer Guardian)

About this edition

• Publisher: Damiani
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 8862086784
• ISBN 13: 9788862086783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200