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ON THE UPGRADE

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On the Upgrade is the publishing series of or-bits.com that explores the relationship between artistic production and distribution online and print publishing. The projects within the series look at processes of translation of artistic material which, originally created for a website, migrate to a different site, taking up different forms and formats, in print. On the Upgrade considers the possibilities, limitations and characteristics inherent in the movement between sites of creation, display, dissemination and engagement in relation to the increasingly broader notion of publishing. It also functions as an offline archive of material and artworks firstly presented on or-bits.com that, with each new project, respond to the site-specificity of the chosen print format, a format conceived as an expansion of the original site of display, its source (our website).

On the Upgrade started in September 2011 within or-bits.com off-site activities such as gallery exhibitions, events and workshops.

 
 

On the Upgrade — September 2011
With limited edition artworks by Patrick Coyle, Benedict Drew, Jamie George, Tamarin Norwood, Damien Roach and David Rule
Published by or-bits.com
Designed by Ken Kirton Studio, London
Screen printed postal box with 21 mixed labels, 47 x 31.5 x 2.5 cm
Text set in Matrix font
Edition series of 50, signed and numbered on reverse

Available for purchase here
 
 

On the Upgrade — WYSIWYG
May 2013
With artworks by Jamie Allen, Renee Carmichael, David Horvitz, IOCOSE, Michael Kargl, Sara Nunes Fernandes, Julia Tcharfas, Maria Theodoraki and Richard Sides
Published by or-bits.com

Designed by Studio Hato, London

Perfect bound colour A5 paperback book, 14.8 x 21 cm, pp.116
Printed by Lulu.com
ISBN 978-0-9576741-0-3
Available for purchase on Lulu and selected bookshops

PDF version, pp.120
ISBN 978-0-9576741-1-0
Available for purchase on Lulu