Book

Networked Futures

Edited by Bob Bicknell-Knight

Published by IsThisit?, 2021

I have an essay on the therapeutic qualities of cartoons and the weird experience of time during lockdown, alongside three interiews with artists Morehshin Allahyari, Corey Hayman, and Jonathan Monaghan in this fantastic book edited by Bon Bicknell-Knight, produced to coincide with an exhibtion of the same name. More from the publisher below…

“The book includes artwork, alongside newly commissioned essays and interviews  from 17 artists, writers and collectives including Larry Achiampong, Morehshin Allahyari, Allyssia Alleyne, David Blandy, Stine Deja, Corey Hayman, Tamara Kametani, Keiken, Maria Mahfooz, Kumbirai Makumbe, Rene Matić, Jonathan Monaghan, Mimi Ọnụọha, Emily Phillips, Jamie Sutcliffe, Wade Wallerstein and Richard Whitby.

​The physical manifestation and culmination of a six-month programme of online exhibitions running between the 31st October 2020 and 17th April 2021on the predominantly digital platform isthisit?, the programme included four exhibitions, and involved thirteen artists and collectives, as well as commissioned texts by four writers whose essays and interviews with the exhibited artists are published here for the first time.

The six-month programme revolved around the idea of networks, exposing and exploring the underlying architecture of our daily lives whilst investigating the social, political, digital and hierarchical networks that we reside within. Each exhibition focused on a different area of our networked selves, from reflecting on the commodification and colonisation of people, places and objects, to speculating on a fabricated future where Earth’s climate has collapsed and lives are lived through different hyper-connected digital worlds.”

You can pick up a copy here.