After the photo-copy

As Olle Essvik and Lars Kristensen suggest, their book Dead & Alive: Reflections on Media / Art is a result of trying to capture the disparate nature of dead media and to present it in yet another edited collection, but within a different casting form. To pursue their book project, they invited a range of international authors including Joanna Zylinska, Sarah Cook, Jesper Olsson among others, who bring different perspectives and approaches to artistic practices, media sociology and technological speculation. At first glance, these disparate contributions to the book might seem out of step, or sometimes even in collision, with each other. In the authors’ words: “Readers of the book will no doubt find this disparity frustrating, or even irritating, but hopefully also exciting and dynamic. Art and technology can intertwine in many different ways, and we wanted to highlight this nature.“