Death Design Data (Paperback)

Ginevra Petrozzi

ISBN 10: 9493382125 / ISBN 13: 9789493382121

Published by Stichting Onomatopee, 2024

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Paperback. For millennia death has been celebrated in multiple ways and forms, defining funeral practices as the most central of all rites. Mortality does not seem to affect us until we are suddenly touched by it directly. Memento mori, in Latin 'remember you must die', is not a gloomy reminder of our human destiny, but to invigorate life. This book is an offering, as well as a gentle reminder of the ephemerality of life, split between our physical, but also our digital reality.As we live in increasingly datafied societies, in which new technologies constantly reshape relationships, lifestyles and habits, a support system that could aid the re-integration of death into everyday life is absent. How do we experience grief in a digital society? And how do we reconnect with funeral practices in a rationalist, modern reality that is void of ritual? These two questions cannot be answered separately.DEATH-DESIGN-DATA investigates the experience of death and grief in the digital era - one that is saturated with information yet finds itself devoid of rituality - and how art and design could play a role in reconciling humans with death. Ten contemporary artists and designers explore how different creative practices are able to produce new rituals in relation with death and loss and how this affects us as humans. The experiences, memories and invocations shared on these pages invite us to reconsider our mortality, and the vessels that we use to navigate life and death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death Design Data (Paperback)
• Publisher: Stichting Onomatopee
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9493382125
• ISBN 13: 9789493382121
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Ten artists offer new considerations for grieving in the digital age

In the digital era, the experience of death and grief is the opposite of that of centuries past: saturated with information, yet devoid of rituality. With this influx of media and "content," is it possible that some form of visual culture could cut through the noise in order to reconcile human beings with death? Death Design Data unites 10 contemporary artists and designers to explore how different creative practices can produce new, innovative rituals surrounding death and loss, and how they affect us. The experiences, memories and invocations shared on these pages invite us to reconsider our mortality and the vessels that we use to navigate life and death.
Contributors include: MAalex, Thomas Walskaar, Camille Wiesel, Studio GISTO & Goga Mason, Perrine De Donato, Susanne Duijvestein, Lorenzo Montinaro, Mourning School.