"Impossible and Hyperreal" is a book project by Carl Lostritto, with contributions by Viola Ago, Julie Kress and Hans Tursack. The book addresses how and why architects, artists and designers manipulate reality.
Carl writes: "The book is written for the reader who wants to make and theorize at the same time. In that spirit, the guest contributors and I aim to provoke and demystify at the same time. We write from the perspective of practice—as creators who want to influence and enable others to create—but we offer something different than tutorials. Instead, we set the stage for discourse with a series of elements that have a slippery way of existing in new or varied forms of reality. Because these elements are intertwined with (and sometimes created wholly through) the representational media that convey them, the act of unpacking, explaining, and sharing these elements is itself a project. Our methods are exposed including (and especially) those that are strange, weird, messy, extravagant and obscene. We posit that representation is speculative, and that speculation is more than a matter of what to build, but how we see and affect the world."
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Publisher: Applied Research & Design, an imprint of ORO Editions
Publication Date: April 2023
Format: Softcover
288 pages
Size: 8″ × 10”
ISBN: 978-1951541552
Typeset in TT Norms Pro, Frauen, and Ogg
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