Forth Estate produces compelling editions in “both traditional and technologically innovative print media.” The plate for Alex Dodge’s The Legendary Coelacanth was produced by an engraving machine; the work also includes a computer virus that accompanies each print on a memory chip. Such a gesture could seem gratuitous, but in this case the artist’s reasoning is really very thoughtful:
 
Compared to the coelacanth the human idea has merely just begun and with far more pitfalls, but our means of replication and distribution continue to evolve through spoken language, written language, the printing press, Guttenberg and so on. Read More