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(BYRNE, DAVID). Byrne, David. Göttingen, GERMANY & New York: Steidl & Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Die-Cut Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 96 color illustrations, with a DVD laid in. "For more than a year David Byrne has been employing the ubiquitous sales and presentation program Microsoft PowerPoint as an art medium. "E.E.E.I (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information)" is a book of images and essays, plus a DVD which plays five of his PowerPoint presentations accompanied by his own original music. The book component contains a dozen new exploratory texts and a whole lot of bold, graphic images created with the help of the software program's built-in tools and visuals - not to mention the fun of plastic overlays and nifty foldout pages. And you may ask yourself, what is this about? It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audiovisual form - using a medium in a way that is different, and possibly better, than for what was intended. It is about appropriating a contemporary, corporate staple and making something critical, beautiful and humorous with it." A brand new, most handsome example in the publisher's still shrinkwrapped printed die-cut slipcase, as issued. 3-88243-907-6 Inventory Number: 026577