Phenotypes/Limited Forms

Armin Linke's installation »Phenotypes/Limited Forms« explores ways of making his online photo archive publicly accessible. As an interactive Internet project, »Book on Demand«, his photo archive was already presented as part of »Utopia Station« at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Linke's online archive contains photographs of locations in Nigeria, China, Cyprus, of the G8 Summit in Genoa, a NASA base in California, and of documenta in Kassel, Germany. »Phenotypes/Limited Forms« is not so much about a museum-like reconstruction of a technological and virtual process (book on demand), it is rather a poetic transfer. »Phenotypes/Limited Forms« leaves the virtuality of the Internet in that its spatial design for the exhibition transports the process of actively engaging with pictorial knowledge into a physical space.

This artwork is the result of collaboration between Armin Linke, Wilfried Kühn, the ZKM | Karlsruhe (Peter Weibel), and the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris (Peter Hanappe).