Description

Insert Press, hardcover

Publication Date: February 4, 2013

Publisher Marketing: In a large format, full color, hardbound edition of 116 pages, Object-Oriented Programming offers a catalog of Katie Herzog’s exhibition at the Palo Alto Research Center and includes essays by Amelia Acker and Andrew Choate. Collecting over fifty plates and thirty installation shots, Object-Oriented Programming exemplifies Herzog’s cross-disciplinary practice of representing, producing, and deconstructing knowledge in the public sphere. Works in the show provide expressive, symbolic, and conceptual narratives of an information era, including “If I Die My Email Password Is,” “Documents (Heads You Lose),” and “Information Overload Syndrome,” among others. Herzog’s practice embodies a unique, visionary approach to painting, knowledge production, and artistic research, through a multifaceted engagement of civil service, disjunctive librarianship, and animal-assisted literacy.Katie Herzog received her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and her MFA at UC San Diego in 2005. She studied Library and Information Science at San Jose State University and currently serves as Director of the Molesworth Institute. Recent projects include a Dictionary of Textual Asylum in Basel, Switzerland, and a pop-up publishing platform for rejected research in the Quint Gallery restroom in La Jolla, CA.