More than Real: Art in the Digital Age

The publication of the 2018 Verbier Art Summit, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Michelle Kuo, collects artists’ and researchers’ responses to art in the digital age.

The volume covers digital preservation of time-based work in museums, “biofiction”, technology’s relation to the human body, and the meeting of scientific and artistic practice. Contributors include the artists Ed Atkins, Olafur Eliasson, Pamela Rosenkranz and Anicka Yi, the writer Douglas Coupland, and Karen Archey, Lars Bang Larsen, John Slyce, Dado Valentic, Paul F.M.J. Verschure and Jochen Volz. Irma Boom designed the book. It is the second volume in the Summit publication series.

Birnbaum, director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, conceived the theme for the Summit, held in Verbier, Switzerland, in January 2018. Kuo is curator and head of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The book was presented in Stockholm on 1 June 2018.