{"product_id":"melissa-anderson-the-hunger-film-writing-2012-2024-copy","title":"Marco De Mutiis \u0026 Rea Grünenfelder (eds): Shadow Creatures","description":"\u003cp\u003eDISTANZ Verlag, 2026, softcover, 292 pages, 22x 30 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFrom nineteenth-century spirit photography to AI cryptids, \u003ci\u003eShadow Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e explores the specters embedded in algorithmic images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecters haunt digital images: algorithmic creatures loom in photorealistic video games, cryptids nest in datasets, and AI prompts bring ghostly figures to the scene.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etraces a long arc from the spirit photography of the nineteenth century to today’s algorithmic phantoms to illustrate how images can conjure up beings that inhabit our personal, social, and political subconscious. It redirects our gaze from the promises of light to the shadows in which the spectral and nonhuman inform our perspectives on images and our shared visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing work by artists such as Cihad Caner, Sheung Yiu, and Nina Davies, this catalogue illuminates how algorithmic processes engender distinctive ghostly apparitions that blur the boundaries between code, imagination, and projection. The book design extends this exploration, engaging with the tension between what appears real and what remains unseen. With essays by curators Rea Grünenfelder and Marco De Mutiis, as well as by Matteo Bittanti, Deirdre de la Cruz, Dortje Fink, Arianna Forte, Bogna Konior, Sophie Publig and Mikkel Rørbo, Johny Pitts, Shih-Lun Chang, Shannon Taggart, Jon Uriarte, Günseli Yalcinkaya, and Sheung Yiu.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60172928024960,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/9783954768745.jpg?v=1792581568","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/melissa-anderson-the-hunger-film-writing-2012-2024-copy","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}