Methods & Practice

The artist-produced publication Methods & Practice emerged from the course of the same name at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, in which students explored the reproduction of their own works and archives. Their shared modus operandi was a handheld scanner—used as an extension of the hand, as an interface between the analog and the digital, and as a means of image generation.

Not only artistic works were scanned, but also a wide variety of materials, ranging all the way to entire rooms and architectural elements. Errors, shifts, and unpredictable results arising from the error-prone handling of the scanner became a productive component of the method and the starting point for further artistic decisions within the book’s pages. Thus, the publication became a space for experimentation, where reproduction is understood not merely as repetition, but as an ongoing process of change.

With contributions by Noah Schaub, Marcia Schmidt, and Jurij Hartman.

This publication is the result of the "Methods & Practice" course taught by Bouchra Khalili and a workshop led by Thomas Geiger. The graphic design was created by Astrid Seme. This publication was made possible through the support of the Artistic Strategies Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.