Between the continuous global pandemic and all-consuming digital world, it is as though we are stuck in a loop in the world of the internet. Shumon Basar, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Douglas Coupland’s book The Extreme Self: Age of You, is what speaks about the unending world of the internet.

The book talks about these ideas in aphoristic prose that feature more than 70 imageries curated from artists, photographers, technologists, and musicians across the world including regional names including Raja’a Khalid, Rami Farook, Stephanie Saade, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and the artist collective GCC Group. Consisting of 14 chapters, the book has a dynamic design by Wayne Daly and Claire Lyon.

Released last month, The Extreme Self follows the authors’ 2015 book The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, which deals with questions about our future in a world where technology keeps fast-tracking beyond our means to grasp it.

As the book has got its hold, it has also been turned into an art exhibition, with Obrist primarily in charge of selecting the contributors. The exhibition, titled ‘Age of You’, is on view at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre until August 14.

The book that has been turned into an exhibition is made mostly from vinyl board prints of its pages spread out across two galleries. The exhibition highlights are the commissions and video installations, such as Trevor Paglen’s eerie Behold These Glorious Times! which shows a gush of machine-learning images fed to computer systems to help them recognise objects and emotions.

The exhibition also has computer-generated audio clips of famous figures reciting popular songs – Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears or Barack Obama quoting The Notorious BIG by Vocal Synthesis.