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Reinventing Paper: Interview with Nick Georgiou Part I

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Discovering inventive ways to use paper is no easy task. Its very simplistic nature fills it with both promise and challenge. After the consolidation of music and film throughout the digital age, Nick Georgiou reacted by mastering the medium of paper. Helen Soteriou: Who is Nick Georgiou? Nick Georgiou: He is blades to papers, eyes to cameras, and fingers to glowing screens. When did you start producing artwork made out of paper and why? During the beginning of this decade –like most people, I saw my entire music and film collection shrink into my computer. I started getting my news online and began interacting with paper in a very different way. Books and newspapers are becoming artifacts of the 21st century. Whatever we used to read off paper, we’re now reading off digital screens. Our way of interacting with text is changing. My work is not only about the decline of the printed word in today’s society but its rebirth as art. I just saw an ad for Amazon’s digital reader, the Kindle, which reminded me of the earlier ipod ads. Instead of "a 1000 songs in your pocket" its “books in 60 seconds.”