It is the reader, of course, that ultimately completes the circle. It is published by the Massachussetts Museum for Contemporary Art and the Williams College Museum of Art and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. CD-ROM for both Windows 95 and Macintosh OS platforms. Throughout Hiding , you suggest that images and surfaces are now nearly all-powerful. My hope for the book is that it works simultaneously as a critique and celebration of the ways in which surfaces function in contemporary culture.
Depth is supposed to put an end to the play of surfaces by securing their foundation.
Thus when depth disappears, surfaces become infinitely complex. I worked with the designers, Susan Sellers and Michael Rock, from the beginning of this project. Our aim was to bring the verbal and visual together in a way that allows the design to perform the argument. Even single pages are layered in ways that allow space for the reader's imagination to play. Rather than a closed book, Hiding is designed to be an a kind of interactive game.