Editors: Nina Mangalanayagam, Louise Wolthers
Assistant Editor, Image Editor: Christoffer Vikström
Text: Cathryn Klasto, Nina Mangalanayagam,
Peter Nielsen, Majken Overgaard,
Peter Ole Pedersen, Louise Wolthers,
Tintin Wulia, Joanna Zylinska
Publishing Editor: Johanna Widlund Crisman
Graphic Design: Waters Löwenhielm
2025, English, softcover
268 pages, 9 x 19 cm
ISBN: 978919887058
The book explores "bugs" in two ways: as technical glitches, processes and aesthetics stemming from visual errors in digital technologies, and as insects, with themes like swarming, webbing, symbiosis, and extinction. Field Guide to Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography provides critical insights into contemporary networked and machine-based photography. Using the locus of photography, the book and exhibition both examine how what might initially be perceived as an error can act as a creative and critical agent, simultaneously.
Following the play on the double meaning of a bug – as a glitch and as an insect – the book is designed as a field guide, including an introduction by Nina Mangalanayagam and Louise Wolthers, as well as essays by Cathryn Klasto, Peter Nielsen, Majken Overgaard, Peter Ole Pedersen, Tintin Wulia, and Joanna Zylinska.
Works by artists: Taysir Batniji (PS/FR), Mónica Alcázar-Duarte (ME), Olle Essvik (SE), Henrik Håkansson (SE), Jake Elwes (UK), Nina Mangalanayagam (SE), Joana Moll (ES), Rashaad Newsome (US), Josèfa Ntjam (FR), Kristina Lenz and Alex Simon Klug (DE), Amalie Smith (DK), Clare Strand (UK), Hope Strickland (UK), Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert & Alexa Achilleos (CY), and Sheung Yiu (HK/FI).
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Bugs & Metamorphosis: Glitching Photography, 7 February 2025 – 4 May 2025 at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg.