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Michael Stipe with Douglas Coupland: Our Interference Times: A Visual Record
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Product Description 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. Review 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 [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 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 Stipe’s new photography book, Our Interference Times: A Visual Record... is scattered, with photographs of things too diffuse to be circumscribed. But it follows a sequence, and storylines of a sort start to coalesce after you flip through a few times―even if still more than a little elusively. -- Andy Battaglia ― ARTnews ...this experimental book draws from Stipe’s personal images and photography to explore the intersection between what the authors describe as the analog and the digital. It’s an abstract concept illustrated through pixelated images, moiré patterns, and screenshots. ― New York Magazine: Strategist The book offers a smattering of mostly unresolved shots, including pixelated pictures of old prints, phone snapshots of architectural oddities and studio assemblages, plus video stills and computer-rendered portraits. Although it is a disparate group of subjects, pattern do emerge. ― Artnet A hefty tome that explore[s] the dissonance between the analogue and the digital... -- Miranda Sawyer ― The Guardian
