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MBP Presents – Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time
September 7, 2011
Contact: Kate Abbey-Lambertz
Telephone: 718.314.8000
New York, NY – Sept 7, 2011 – In Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time, Olga Ast collects original essays and visual meditations on the nature of time. Filmmaker Phillip Adams once said, “Of all the big questions of existence… none impacts our daily lives more than the problem of time.” The notion of time has always mystified and attracted the speculation of societies and civilizations. Where does it come from? Can it be saved, stopped, suspended, or reversed? Will it ever end? In Infinite Instances, eighty contributors seek answers and provide a range of enlightening, multidisciplinary time-related studies.
The unique viewpoints in Infinite Instances come from a staggering number of fields, including architecture, journalism, poetry, physics, visual and media arts, biology, photography, engineering, film, history, music composition, writing, psychiatry, and design. Essays delve into imaginative subjects like the effect of modern technology on the experience of time, cyclical time structures and diatonic rhythms in music, and the disparity between psychological and actual age. It includes a catalog of people’s drawings of the passage of time; devices that capture a drawn record of the daily growth of plants, and a potential “time machine.” With astounding clarity, insight, and original thinking, the contributors in Infinite Instances come together to chip away at the inscrutable nature of time.
Olga Ast is a conceptual interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the connection between space, time, and information, and their impact on everything around us. In 2009 Ast organized and curated the ArcheTime conference and exhibition dedicated to exploring artistic, academic, and scientific concepts of time. The project is supported by Artspire (a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Tank Space for Performing & Visual Arts, the NYC Future Salon, EFA Project Space, WIX Lounge, and SET gallery.
Mark Batty Publisher is an independent publisher dedicated to making distinctive books on the visual art of communicating, showcasing the visual power and innovation of contemporary culture in all of its varied poses. Today, the visual comes at us from more places than ever, and its dissemination is faster and more advanced every year. Books from Mark Batty Publisher capture this acceleration on the pages of every book. Affordable, well designed, thoughtfully created, and produced to last, MBP books are artful products that readers want to hold onto forever.
Infinite Instances
Olga Ast
Pub Date: August 2011
Page Count: 240
Size: 8 x 10 inches
Format: Hardcover
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 978-1-935613-21-3
CONTRIBUTORS
David Z. Albert
Vladimir Aristov
Colleen Asper
Olga Ast
Chris Basmajian
Ilya Bernstein
Sarah Bliss
John Boone
David Bowen
Costica Bradatan
Keith Brown
Patrick Calinescu
Sean Carroll
Stephanie Clare
Hallie Cohen
Irina Danilova
Rob David
Katherine Davis
Luba Drozd
Julia Druk
Jennifer Dudley
Ula Einstein
Dan Falk
Nathan Felde
Michael Filimowicz
Christian Friedrich
Matthew Fritze
Evgeny Golovakha
Elizabeth Grachev
Christian Hawkey
Kai-Min Hsiung
Duoling Huang
Ken Jacobs
Edward Johnston
Elliott Kaufman
Aleksander Kronik
Kat Kronick
Eliza Lamb
Helene Lanois
MaryAnne Laurico
Julia Morgan-Leamon
Richard Leslie
Jeremy Levine
Francis Levy
Andrea Liu
Craig Res Morehead
Paul Doru Mugur
George Musser
Edward Nersessian
Michaela Nettell
Gary Nickard
Brandon Neubauer
Mark Norell
Satomi Orita
Eugene Ostachevsky
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Vanessa Place
Buzz Poole
Melissa Potter
Don Relyea
Glen River
Kara Rooney
Daniel Rosenberg
Anje Roosjen
Catherine Rutgers
Michael Shara
Alexie SHarov
Michael Shulman
Jesse Stewart
Linda Stillman
Debra Swack
Lisa Tannenbaum
Catinca Tilea
Camilla Torna
Vladimir Tuchkov
Ellen Wiener
Steve Witham
Peter Whiteley
Courtney Wrenn
Matvei Yankelvich
Jayoung Yoon
Norman J. Zabusky
For a review copy, more information, or to schedule an interview with the author, please contact Kate Abbey-Lambertz at 718.314.8000 or kate@markbattypublisher.com.
