Art in the Age of Anxiety:

“This book is FOR and OF our times…You don’t expect a catalogue to move you physically and intellectually, body and brain, but this one will; as much as it is about a technology, it is also about human touch. At a time when it is difficult to be together, Art in the Age of Anxiety clarifies how technology binds us together and binds us apart. Touch this book! It will bring you closer. It may even make you cry.”Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Artist and Activist  “Who isn't anxious these days? Art in the Age of Anxiety offers a sweeping account of how it feels to inhabit the manifold crises of our technologized present. More than an exhibition catalogue, it is a compendium of proposals, confessions, conversations, and key words – all of them concerned with mapping the contemporary condition and, more importantly, searching for ways to survive within it.” Erika Balsom, Critic and Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London “Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Art in the Age of Anxiety is a highly stimulating read that successfully expands the concepts of both exhibition space and catalogue. The reader continues and enhances the dialogue started by a show that opened as the world moved into a state of collective anxiety. Framing documentation of the artworks included in the physical exhibition are contributions by leading thinkers and artists — from Douglas Coupland and Cory Arcangel to Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Aruba Khalid — that ponder topics such as the future of money, genetic analysis, and software personae as well as loss and grief. The book's associative openness of reflection makes it an indispensable companion to understanding the art of our time and its future paths.”Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art; Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, The New School