BiblioTech: ReReading the Post-digital Library

BiblioTech explores the changing role of the library, reading, writing, and publishing in a post-digital age. It documents exhibitions and events held at Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool and NeMe, Limassol and brings together a diverse array of new work by contemporary artists and writers. The publication asks: What is the library-as-institution in the context of advanced AI language tools, new forms of text and image processing, and the increasing spread of publishing technologies into our lives? How might the library evolve within the next phases of digitisation entangled with issues of climate change, mental health, social justice, and automation? Collectively, this is a book about books, libraries, readers, writers, and the mediums of communication that will define our future. “A wonderful collection: it might be about the transformation of libraries, but it is even more so about the post-digital cultures at large. It offers analytical accounts of transformation of the cultural politics of knowledge but also creative insights with an ethical and aesthetic twist: how to cultivate such read- write communities that reinvent our ways of thinking and doing with technology.” – Professor Jussi Parikka, Aarhus University, author of A Geology of Media “A visual / verbal feast with images from exhibitions, essays by noted scholars and explorations of the different versions of hybridity on display as digital technologies intersect with traditional print books in the enclosed and extended architectures of modern libraries. Highly recommended for anyone interested in modern libraries and their transformations in the digital age.” – Professor N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University, author of Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts “A teeming, lavishly illustrated document of the ways in which contemporary artists, collectors and thinkers have responded to the space and idea of the library. It is frequently surprising, and always thought provoking.” – Professor Adam Smyth, Balliol College, Oxford, author of The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives