Field Guide to Bugs & Metamorphosis is a new book that explores 'bugs' in two ways: as technical glitches, processes and aesthetics stemming from visual errors in digital technologies, and in the more obvious way as actual insects, with themes such as swarming, webbing, symbiosis and extinction. It is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg in Spring 2025.
The book provides critical insights into contemporary networked and machine-based photography. Using the locus of photography, the book and exhibition both examine how what might initially be perceived as an error can act as a creative and critical agent, simultaneously.
Following the play on the double meaning of a bug – as a glitch and as an insect – the book is designed as a field guide, including an introduction by Nina Mangalanayagam and Louise Wolthers, as well as essays by Cathryn Klasto, Peter Nielsen, Majken Overgaard, Peter Ole Pedersen, Tintin Wulia and Joanna Zylinska.
Art & Theory Publishing, 268pp, 9cm x 19cm, illustrated paperback, English text