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“Book Exchange“, 2010 by Warren Neidich.

»The Library«, 2010 with 590 soviet books by Rossella Biscotti.

»A Room of One’s Own/A Thousand Libraries«, 2006, is a compilation of all the marginal notes made by readers in the Swedish library copies of Virginia Woolf ’s 1929 pamphlet A Room of One’s Own. By Kajsa Dahlberg.

»Ex libris South Africa«, 2009 by Candice Breitz.

»Tapis de lecture«, 2000–2007 by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster .

“Unsolicited Fabrications: Shareware Sculptures“, 2009 by Stephanie Syjuco. Sculptures designed by anonymous users of Google SketchUp.

»Book Space«, 2006. 2000 white books installed in public libraries. They can be borrowed for a week and used as the guest choses. The books travel around libraries in different countries.

»Taking Time«, 2006, posters around the streets of Reykjavik city centre by Elin Hansdottir.

»Out Of Order #5«, 2005, 58 library books on shelf.

»Out Of Order #1«, 2005, installation view: 53 library books with sun bleached back covers. By Marianne Viero and Laurenz Brunner.

»After action for another library«, 1999-2003, by Tom Nicholson.

»my virtual library«,

»Bookstack« is a pile of found books whose titles play with the common phrase “A Needle in a Haystack”. The stack grows when a new title is found and takes its place on the top of the pile. By Yann Sérandour.

»Untiteld«, 2005 by Job Koelewijn.

»402 Computer E-Books« by Charles Broskoski.

»The Danville Community Encyclopedia« is an audio/visual encyclopedia containing knowledge of Danville, Illinois residents. The content was generated through inviting people to share their knowledge with the artist, and recording their conversations. The word-for-word transcriptions of their contributions of knowledge on a wide variety of topics is what forms the text of the encyclopedia. In addition, many participants chose to create drawings to go with their entry. A hardbound copy along with a listening station, is permanently installed in the Danville Public Library. By Anna Callahan.

»The Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession« is a collaborative project between artists Julia Weist and Maayan Pearl. Over a two year period, the process of deaccession (withdrawing or discarding books from a collection) was researched and documented. During a period of cross-country travel, public libraries serving the cities with the highest literacy rate for each US state were visited and their de-acquisition processes recorded.

“Bibliothek ungelesener Bücher” (library of unread books) by Julius Deutschbauer.

»The Martha Rosler Library«, 2006. Close to 10.000 books collected over a period of 40 years made available for public use.

»Library«, 2002/3 by Meschac Gaba.

»Die Offene Bibliothek/The Open Public Library«, 1991 by Clegg & Guttmann.

“Corrosion” is based on eth0, a library that is capable of sniffing a network and could be classified as a hacker tool were it not for the purpose of the library, which is auralization and visualization of underlying network data flow. eth0 allows to use the heartbeat of an underlying network in order to trigger realtime audio and video generation (and possibly a lot more). the video and audio data that is transformed, triggered, altered and spit out by corrosion comes entirely from peer to peer networks. Video: Martin Pichlmair. Audio: Thomas Grill.