Model as Painting

Model as Painting Pieter Schoolwerth May 2019Sequence PressTexts by Molly Warnock, David Geers,Pieter SchoolwerthDesigned by Tiffany MalakootiSoftcover w/ flaps, 300 x 230mm232 pages, 204 color imagesISBN 978-1-7336281-2-9 One of the clear characteristics of our digital age is that in it all things, bodies even, are generally suspended from their more or less stable material substance. This increasingly spectral state of affairs is the effect of mostly invisible forces of abstraction that can be associated with the digitization of more and more aspects of human experience. We as living beings are now confronting a structural split between the substance of things and their generic, virtual double. Concretely speaking, one can point to everyday phenomena as manifestations of this unsettling development: coffee without caffeine, or food without fat, for instance, are expressive of this mode of abstraction/extraction, but also money without currency, love without bodies, and soon follow