Talk:Exe0.2 Olle Essvik

Dear Olle,

Thank you so much for introducing us to your work! I think this project brings up so many interesting questions about replication, inherent value, craftsmanship, materiality, and art. When do objects count as equivalent? What gives them their value? I find it interesting that you consider a digitized book to contain "no identity." What gives a piece of art identity? Is this a personal or aesthetic statement? As you can see, I think I have more questions than comments so far.

I will be curious to learn more about your work in person. I encourage you to engage with archival debates about intrinsic value if you have not already: http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.59.4.hw1x8758l1u11671

You also might be interested in a project at Johns Hopkins University to digitize and annotate annotations in rare books: http://archaeologyofreading.org/

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition would also be quite interesting as a philosophical framework for how to address concepts of uniqueness and sameness.

Thanks, Molly