Herzog, Katie: Object-Oriented Programming (HB)

Insert Press, hardcoverPublication Date: February 4, 2013Publisher Marketing: In a large format, full color, hardbound edition of 116 pages, Object-Oriented Programming offers a catalog of Katie Herzog's exhibition at the Palo Alto Research Center and includes essays by Amelia Acker and Andrew Choate. Collecting over fifty plates and thirty installation shots, Object-Oriented Programming exemplifies Herzog's cross-disciplinary practice of representing, producing, and deconstructing knowledge in the public sphere. Works in the show provide expressive, symbolic, and conceptual narratives of an information era, including "If I Die My Email Password Is," "Documents (Heads You Lose)," and "Information Overload Syndrome," among others. Herzog's practice embodies a unique, visionary approach to painting, knowledge production, and artistic research, through a multifaceted engagement of civil service, disjunctive librarianship, and animal-assisted literacy. Katie Herzog received her BFA at the