Armin Linke and Peter Hanappe

Phenotypes/Limited Forms

Contrary to the common “Don’t Touch – Just Look” approach, the exhibition Phenotypes/Limited Forms encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequences and print them in the form of a fanfold. All exhibited images are part of the photographer Armin Linke’s archive.

This publication acts as an extension of the interactive exhibition and social experiment; it analyzes the 30.000 sequences selected by the public. Algorithms help understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor and how the visitors named their personal selection of images.

The format of Phenotypes/Limited Forms asks for the visitors’ contribution and only with the help of their involvement the work of art is whole. Essays by curators and art historians discuss the subject on a theoretical level while examining the aspects of participation and emancipation as well as the question of the autonomy of images.

Contrary to the common “Don’t Touch – Just Look” approach, the exhibition Phenotypes/Limited Forms encourages visitors to pick their favorite subjects out of a total of several hundreds of displayed photographs, rearrange them, name their sequences and print them in the form of a fanfold. All exhibited images are part of the photographer Armin Linke’s archive.

This publication acts as an extension of the interactive exhibition and social experiment; it analyzes the 30.000 sequences selected by the public. Algorithms help understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor and how the visitors named their personal selection of images.

The format of Phenotypes/Limited Forms asks for the visitors’ contribution and only with the help of their involvement the work of art is whole. Essays by curators and art historians discuss the subject on a theoretical level while examining the aspects of participation and emancipation as well as the question of the autonomy of images.

Author(s): Armin Linke, Peter Hanappe, in collaboration with ZKM | Karlsruhe and Sony Computer Science Laboratories

With contributions by Estelle Blaschke, Wilfried Kuehn, Vittorio Loreto, Doreen Mende, Peter Weibel

Design: Laure Giletti and Gregory Dapra

18 × 26,5 cm, 7 × 10 ½ in

364 pages, 2700 illustrations

paperback

2018, 978-3-03778-575-1, English
CHF 45.00

Armin Linke

Armin Linke is a photographer and filmmaker whose work analyzes the formation, the “Gestaltung” of our natural, technological, and urban environment, perceived as a diverse space of continuous interaction. His photographs and films function as tools to heighten awareness of different design strategies. Through working with his own archive as well as other media archives, Linke challenges the conventions of photographic practice, whereby the questions of how photography is installed and displayed become increasingly important. Through a
collective approach with artists, designers, architects, historians, and curators, narratives are procured on the level of multiple discourses. Linke was Research Affiliate at MIT Visual Arts Program Cambridge, Guest Professor at the IUAV Arts and Design University in Venice, and Professor of Photography at the Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design.

Peter Hanappe

Peter Hanappe studied electronic engineering at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on real-time music and sound environments at Ircam (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris). As a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris he worked on new modes of content creation and distribution that involve the participation of (online) communities. His work currently focuses on projects in the domain of sustainability. Hanappe was involved in setting up a collective system for monitoring noise in urban environment (NoiseTube), and in building critical components for large-scale climate simulations in collaboration with the U.K. Met. Office. Most recently he founded the P2P Food Lab to experiment with new technologies for agroecology and community-based food systems.