Modern gods
By: Sam Winston
Publisher: Space Studios
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Dystopias in literature; Chemical elements in art; Technology in art; Cell phones in art; Clocks and watches in art; Books and reading in art; Memory in art
Description: "Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace ... 18 June-20 October 2013 ... [B]rought together a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru with 20 original commissions from leading graphic designers, illustrators and typographers to create a multidimensional story. The way we read books is changing. Memory Palace explored how a story might be imagined in a different format--as a walk-in book. Hari Kunzru's story is set in a future London, hundreds of years after the world's information infrastructure was wiped out by an immense magnetic storm. Technology and knowledge have been lost, and a dark age prevails"--Victoria and Albert Museum website, viewed on January 27, 2016.
Notes: Cover title.

Limited edition of thirteen copies with four artist's proofs, signed and numbered by the artist.

"This book charts the conception and production of the artwork Modern Gods. The work originally formed part of a larger exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum"--Unnumbered page 1.

"Each copy is accompanied by 3 Korean Jokja scrolls. The book is digitally printed with archival pigment ink onto 145gsm Zerkall paper. Body text set in Akzidenz Grotesk and Andale Mono. The scrolls are digitally printed with archival pigment ink onto 44gsm Kozuke white Japanese paper. Book design by Sam Winston, Andrea Evangelista and Haein Song. Binding by Haein song at Book Works, London"--Colophon.

Consists of a single sewn signature booklet in a three-flap paper wrapper and outer mylar sleeve, as well as three scrolls. Scrolls are held between wooden poles, with ribbon closures. Each scroll features the name of an object (a SIM card, a watch, and a book, respectively), followed by a list of chemical elements making up that object, followed by a dystopian description of that object from the world created by Hari Kunzru for "Memory palace". At the center of each scroll is a design by Sam Winston. Each design consists of roughly the appropriate number of chemical symbols to make up the object being described. The book describes the conception and production of the scrolls, with text and color illustrations. The artist has signed the verso of each scroll in pencil.

Housed in a cloth-covered box (32 x 61 cm.), with Memory palace (book), 3 scrolls, and a dvd, as issued.

This is artist proof 4 of 4, with artist signature.