Spirit Surfing

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LINK Editions

Domenico Quaranta, In Your Computer, 2011 Valentina Tanni, Random, 2011 Miltos Manetas, In My Computer – Miltos Manetas, 2011 Gene McHugh, Post Internet, 2011 Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, 2011. Exhibition Catalogue. Texts by Josephine Bosma, Gene McHugh, Joanne McNeil, Domenico Quaranta Brad Troemel, Peer Pressure, 2011 Domenico Quaranta (ed.), Gazira Babeli, 2011. Yves Bernard, Domenico Quaranta (eds.), Holy Fire. Art of the Digital Age, 2011

Kevin Bewersdorf Spirit Surfing Publisher: LINK Editions, Brescia 2012 www.linkartcenter.eu This work is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. Printed and distributed by: Lulu.com www.lulu.com ISBN 978-1-291-02040-3

Kevin Bewersdorf is an artist, musician and actor. After playing a central role in the surfing club generation of internet artists, in early 2009 he decided to stop doing art, taking everything he did out of the web, and replacing his online archive with an empty website, purekev.com. He starred in movies, shorts and tv series, including LOL (2006) and Uncle Kent (2011), both directed by Joe Swamberg.

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ESSAYS

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> King Lear directed by Jean-Luc Godard

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> Why I Never Print My Photos (My Run-in with a Skater Mom)

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> That's Incredible!

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> Spirit Surfing

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> Jerry Seinfeld as Compared To My Mother

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> J.S. Bach Apparition (Seen While Pooping)

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> Buy My Bunny

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> Yo Picasso!

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> Victorian Village

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> Budweiser Clydesdales

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> The Longest Building I have Ever Seen

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> Stock Photography Watermarks As The Presence of God

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> The Four Sacred Logos

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INTERVIEWS

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> Interview with Kevin Bewersdorf

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> One Question Interview: Kevin Bewersdorf

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