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\BOOK\ byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices

byproduct examines artist's projects whose artfulness lies in building micro-worlds within other non- artworld systems. While parasitically reliant on the socioeconomic structure and symbolic order of other dominant systems, these artworks ­ or “byproducts” — exploit loopholes, surpluses, and exceptions in order to affirm individual agency and complicate the mechanisms of their dominant “host.” As pivots or turning points between art and other sectors, these works function as carriers for meaning across disciplines. While responding to 20th century precedents that investigate the relationship between artists and industry, 'Byproducts' suggests these outlines and vocabulary for evaluating relevant analytic criteria such as the outcome, duration, retention of a critical voice, assimilation or reconciliation, etc. As a book responding to the emergent genre of ‘interventionism’ in contemporary artists' practices, byproducts shifts focus away from the artist's singular, anarchic gesture and instead towards the integration of art into everyday life.	Editor: Marisa Jahn Preface: Stephen Wright Publishers: YYZBOOKS & REV- Release Date: Fall 2010 Contributors: A Constructed World Tejpal Ajji Paul Ardenne (translated by Emmanuelle Day with Lisa Larson Walker) Artist’s Placement Group (Barbara Steveni/John Latham) Grant Arnold Au Travail Gina Badger & Adam Bobbette Claire Bishop Larry Bogad Vincent Bonin Andrew Boyd John Seely Brown Maureen Connor Joseph del Pesco Peter Eleey Kent Hansen/democratic innovation Luis Jacob & Mr. Peanut (Vincent Trasov/John Morris) Michelle Jacques Janez Jans¹a Tomas Jonsson Billy Klüver, Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.) Michelle Kuo Lev Kreft Adam Lauder Kristin Lucas Camille Turner Mammalian Diving Reflex (Darren O’Donnell/Natalie de Vito) Steve Mann N.E.Thing Co. (Ingrid Baxter, IAIN BAXTER& ) Kathleen Pirrie Adams Reverend Billy (William Talen/Savitri D.) John R. Searle Michel Serres Felicity Tayler Merve Unsal Pauline van Mourik Broekman & Josephine Berry The Yes Men Support: YYZBOOKS, Canada Council, Artexte (Montreal), MIT Media Lab Tangible Media Group, Luke Lozier (Bibliopolis)	Press: "Notes on the Potential and Limits of Embedded Insurrection" - a conversation by Sophie Le Phat Ho & Marisa Jahn. Esse Magazine, (2010, no.68) "Refresh": Kristin Lucas on The Multiplicity of the Self" - a conversation with Kristin Lucas and Marisa Jahn (Spring 2010). dpi no. 17 (nmagazine).