[spectre] Review of Thomson & Craighead’s book 'Flat Earth’.

[marc garrett]

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Review of Thomson & Craighead’s book 'Flat Earth’.

Marc Garrett reviews Thomson & Craighead's recent book ‘Flat Earth’ 
edited by Sarah Cook published as part of two solo exhibitions. The 
first, Not even the sky at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany from 26 
October 2013 – 6 January 2014 and the second Maps DNA and Spam at Dundee 
Contemporary Arts, Scotland from 18 January - 16 March 2014. The book 
contains a foreword by Axel Lapp, essays by Dundee Fellow Sarah Cook and 
DCA Director Clive Gillman as well as an interview with the artists by 
Steve Rushton.

"Thomson & Craighead provide parallel insights through their artwork 
into the protocols and technical procedures governing the functions of 
networks. However, human existence and human experience has a 
relationship with these networks and, out of millions of interactions, 
evolves not metaphors but fragmented symbolisms and stories. These are 
telling us about a networked society's gaze at its mediated self. And 
this is where art can play a special role in critiquing, communicating 
and sharing the nuances of this emerging multitude." Garrett.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/review-thomson-craighead%E2%80%99s-book-flat-earth