LI-MA's library brings together a growing collection of publications by artists, collaborators, and scholars working across media art and digital culture. Through this series we occasionally highlight titles from the shelves that continue to inform, question, and expand these discussions. This time we turn to Digital Folklore, edited by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. The publication celebrates the vernacular web that institutions usually overlook – the glittering GIFs, tiled backgrounds, under-construction signs and homepage maximalism of the amateur internet – treating the everyday user not as a problem to be designed away but as the web's most prolific and inventive author.
According to rhizome.org: "This playfulness, and cohesiveness, makes a great vessel for persistent and at times rigorous analysis of online life, which itself has always been rooted in exploration, discovery and excitement, and benefits from complimentary conveyances (especially when things get technical!).“
Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
Designed by Manuel Buerger
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