Flora Miranda I Am Digital

Karien Vandekerkhove Dear Light, dearest dearest Light

A digital entity that takes on physical identities

‘I Am Digital’ takes you on an intimate journey through Flora Miranda’s extraterrestrial world of phygital identities. Explore technological storytelling, artistic haute couture creations and visions for creative fashion software. In the book, the multitude of Flora Miranda’s work unfolds in different subject areas. Enjoy a beautiful outsight of an immaterial world, an immaterial self.

Flora Miranda’s fascination with the simultaneous evolution of human behaviour and new technologies has its origins in her upbringing: born in a family of musicians and artists, she learned how painters helped their eyes with the camera obscura and photography. She saw musical instruments tweaked, like the prepared piano by John Cage.

Experiencing the shift in the digital world with home computers and the internet, the ‘digital’ became her attitude to life. Expressing, shaping, and exploring this further evolving digital identity is the role of Flora Miranda’s creations.

This book is your companion to navigate through bits and bytes. To feel strong in a jungle of hackers. It can inspire you to take things into your own hand – may it be a change of perspective on the world, may it be transformative, may it support projects you believe in, or may it help to build your own world.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Binding Hardcover

Measurements 285 x 245 mm

Weight 1,90 kg

Language EN

Number of pages 352

Book design Tim Peters

€ 70,00 - ISBN 9789464002188

Marleen Daniëls From Sarajevo To Paris

Thirty years of backstage photography in Paris and Milano Sarajevo to Paris, fashion or reportage, deciding on the title of a book is mindboggling. I call myself a documentary photographer that accidentally ended up doing fashion.

The end of the ‘80s was an interesting and intense time in world history, and a particularly creative time in the world of fashion. As a young female photographer I was interested in both worlds. I was travelling for newspapers and magazines to the fashion weeks in Milan and Paris and to the conflict zones of Lebanon and Iraq.

It was during the war in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the siege of Sarajevo that I matured in documentary photography, fortunately without being injured.

Thirty years later, when looking back, those two worlds – documentary and fashion – still define my work. Both are equally represented in my archives.

This book, of my fashion work, is the first to be published. I called it Sarajevo to Paris because sometimes I would travel directly from one to the other. These two cities had a big impact on my life.

– Marleen Daniëls

Published by Stockmans Art Books