Working On My Novel by Cory Arcangel
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Working On My Novels is a book by Cory Arcangel. In this book Cory Arcangel lists re-tweets that he posted on the twitter account Working On My Novel.
This book is the collection of a digital project conducted by Cory Arcangel. A meta project based on tweets talking about book release. The release of the book is therefore ironic even more than the project of Cory Arcangel is a project based on tweets so digital information then to give them a paper format is an interesting approach with which Arcangel plays.
He plays with this meeting between the digital and the physical, a meeting that can offer an aesthetic in between, on the other hand Cory Arcangel comes to make a cover that does not let appear the digital aspect of the project with a title with a classic typeface – in this case Baskerville – is very common in the world of publishing.
Editing a digital project in this way is an interesting idea, as is the choice to go through a publisher like Penguin is also interesting, and ironic: to propose a digital project and to illustrate the cover with a pencil drawing and a title with a black serif typeface is nothing else. Cory Arcangel never uses this kind of design, he is known for digital works and not for pencil drawings on paper.
This cover with this title and this typeface would illustrate a book written by all these people who tweet about their advanced book.
What does it feel like to try and create something new? How is it possible to find a space for the demands of writing a novel in a world of instant communication?
Working on My Novel is about the act of creation and the gap between the different ways we express ourselves today. Exploring the extremes of making art, from satisfaction and even euphoria to those days or nights when nothing will come, it's the story of what it means to be a creative person, and why we keep on trying.
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