GLOBALE: Armin Linke, The Appearance of That Which Cannot be Seen

ZKM_Atrium 1+2, September 5, 2015 – January 31, 2016
As part of the exhibition »Reset Modernity«: 16 April - 21, August 21, 2016

ISBN: 978-3-9590-5070-8

Editors: Joerg Bader, Andreas Beitin, Philipp Ziegler

Publisher: Spector Books, Leipzig, 2017

Text: English

thread-sewn brochure in a gatefold cover with dustjacket, 30 x 20 cm, 395 pp., 350 colour images

For more than twenty years, Armin Linke has been photographing the effects of globalization, the wholesale transformation of infrastructures, and the networking of the post-industrial society via digital information and communication technologies. His photographs show that the modern world is a massive profusion of data, where the material infrastructures, consisting of computer centers, data highways, and server rooms, are largely invisible.
For The Appearance of That Which Cannot Be Seen, Linke invited scientists and theoreticians to examine his picture archive. Ariella Azoulay, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Mark Wigley, and Jan Zalasiewicz made a selection of images and in the process opened up Linke’s photos to a variety of different readings.

Texts: Ariella Azoulay, Lorraine Daston, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Mark Wigley, Jan Zalasiewicz

Concept: Armin Linke, Linda van Deursen, Jan Kiesswetter, Alina Schmuch
Graphic design: Linda van Deursen, Jan Kiesswetter
Texts: Ariella Azoulay, Lorraine Daston, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Mark Wigley, Jan Zalasiewicz