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Brian Dettmer’s work is more dissection than art. Some of his pieces have an almost unsettling, anatomical aura to them which creates a macabre sense of forensic appeal. As the discussion intensifies over what eReaders will ultimately mean for the book publishing industry, there’s at least one man who will know what to do with the stacks of books left orphaned by the new electronic paradigm. 

“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.

“The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge.”

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The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time