The book to be released in conjunction with Tishan Hsu's exhibition recent work 2023 contains
an essay by Laura Brown that reconstructs the creative techniques he has devised and honed over
the past four decades and turns the spotlight on the early 2000s as a watershed moment when
digital image editing programs suddenly produced within seconds many of the effects Hsu had
anticipated. In a conversation with Martha Schwendener Hsu dwells on the early years of his
career and discusses his great theme: the fusion of body and technology in an increasingly
virtual world. As a creative intervention Hsu has produced a mutating series of eight title
images for the downloadable version of the book. The printed dust cover which exists only in
the analog version features all eight motifs like a preprinted sleeve for collectible cards
complete with the exact period during which they can be downloaded from the web.
