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PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot

Edited by Dunja Nešović

The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors with an aim to collectively explore the omnipresent, yet somehow often overlooked, screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship and vision. As the screenshot travels through networks and is stored away safely in the depths of our hard drives or cloud depositories, a collection of written and visual works featured in PrtScn unpacks these digital movements, freezes and many points (and pixels) in between.

Apart from its print (and PDF) edition, PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot also features a small collection of moving image works that can be visited on this link. More information about the publication is here.

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