Author: Thomson, MungoThis volume documents eight short stop-motion animations by Los Angeles–based artist Mungo Thomson that use reference encyclopedias, photobooks, how-to guides and production manuals as their raw material. The project imagines these books being scanned by a high-speed robotic book scanner of the type used by universities and tech companies to digitise libraries, and proposes such a device as a new kind of film-making apparatus. Thomson exploits the dualities of the digital and the analogue, the video and the book, the automated and the handmade, binding them each together. The videos feature soundtracks by Andrea Centazzo and Pierre Favre, Laurie Spiegel, Sven-Åke Johansson, Lee Ranaldo, Ernst Karel, Pauline Oliveros, Adrian Garcia and John McEntire. The New York Times called 'Time Life' a “thrilling accomplishment, adding a new chapter to the long conversation about photographs, mechanical reproduction and ways of seeing.”ISBN 9781949172898. Karma Books, New York. hb. 400 pages. 182 colour ills. 26.7 x 24.1 cm.available
