‘I Am Digital’ takes you on an intimate journey through Flora Miranda’s extraterrestrial world of phygital identities. Explore technological storytelling, artistic haute couture creations and visions for creative fashion software. In the book, the multitude of Flora Miranda’s works unfolds in different subject areas. Enjoy a beautiful outsight of an immaterial world, an immaterial self.
Flora Miranda’s fascination with the simultaneous evolution of human behaviour and new technologies has its origins in her upbringing: born in a family of musicians and artists, she learned how painters helped their eyes with the camera obscura and photography. She saw musical instruments tweaked, like the prepared piano by John Cage.
Experiencing the shift in the digital world with home computers and the internet, the ‘digital’ became her attitude to life. Expressing, shaping, and exploring this further evolving digital identity is the role of Flora Miranda’s creations. This book is your companion to navigate through bits and bytes. To feel strong in a jungle of hackers. It can inspire you to take things into your own hand – may it be a change of perspective on the world, may it be transformative, may it support projects you believe in, or may it help to build your own world.
The Team
Annelies Desmet - Co-author
Annelies Desmet is a philosopher, an academic, a writer and an artist. Someone who sees, thinks, writes, and acts, sometimes saying no to the way the world turns, sometimes poking others to share her ‘amor mundi’. She recently published her first collection of essays ‘Wensen doe je beter luidop’, pondering the relationship between man and technology.
Antonia Seierl - Co-author
Antonia Seierl was born in Salzburg in 1995, where she grew up with her sister Flora Miranda. During her studies in Sociology and Political Science at the University of Vienna, she started to work in the music business as a PR-manager and has also worked in PR for Flora Miranda. Since 2021 she has been working as a culture journalist for Austrian National Television, always having a close watch on innovative developments in music, fashion and art. Besides her career as a journalist, Antonia Seierl also researches in visual communication. Her focus in all of her fields of work has always been the digital space - in culture, media and society
Tim Peters - Book designer
Is a multidisciplinary designer and creative consultant based in Antwerp. With his first projects rooted in graphic design, he later challenged his creativity and technicality to sharpen his skills in diverse mediums. Since 2016 he is combining and experimenting with typography, cgi, and motion design to express his aesthetics. In his practice he produced visual identities, 3D art, campaigns, and exhibition designs for a variety of brands, agencies, and institutions operating in art, culture, fashion and music. He has worked with Atelier 11, Café Costume, Dries Van Noten, Eastpack, Modemuseum Hasselt, Pukkelpop, V&A & C-mine, Wouters & Hendrix, among others.
Bruno Devos - Publisher
Bruno Devos has been active in the publishing and printing world for 30 years, as managing partner at Stockmans Art Books and Hopper&Fuchs, where he curates art books, photography books and architecture books. In parallel he also curates art projects on an international scale. Recent book projects include partnerships with William Kentridge, a series of Fifty One Publications and books with Ren Hang Estate, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Guillaume Bijl, Peter de Cupere, Filip Vervaet, Oxiea Villamonte, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Pascal Van Loenhout, Aviel Cahn/OperaBallet Vlaanderen, Modemuseum Hasselt and MoMu Antwerp, among others.
Texts by Flora Miranda, Annelies Desmet, Antonia Seierl, Alec Empire, Katharina Van Sand and Karl Baier and more.
Images by Ronald Stoops, Laetitia Bica, Bohdan Bohdanov, Carlota Guerrera, Athos Burez and more.
Design by Tim Peters
Published by Bruno Devos / HOPPER&FUCHS, produced by Stockmans Art Books
352 pages, hardcover, 2.5 kg, 29.5 cm x 25 cm
◇ Released in 5 formats ◇
The physical, printed book
A single edition NFT digital book
An edition of the book with sculptural covers as collectors item
An NFT package of physical book, digital artwork and scarf
An NFT package of physical book, digital artwork and art print
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