Tag: artists’ books
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Performative Publications
Last spring I worked on a project together with 2nd year design students Nabaa Baqir, Mila Spasova and Serhan Curti to create an alternative take on, or an artist’s book out of the article ‘The political nature of the book. On artists’ books and radical open access’, which was written by myself and Gary Hall…
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Last weekend I gave a paper at the Resurrecting the Book conference in Birmingham, organised by The Library of Birmingham, Newman University, the Typographic Hub at Birmingham City University and The Library of Lost Books to celebrate the opening of the new public Library of Birmingham in the UK. Underneath some of my notes pertaining to what I thought…
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Transmediale presentation: Paperbound – Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper
Last January Gary Hall and I presented our paper ‘The Political Nature of the Boundless Book: On Artists’ Books and Radical Open Access’, at Transmediale, as part of the panel Paperbound– Cultural Imaginaries and Practices in the Epoch of Paper, chaired by Alessandro Ludovico and also featuring Lothar Müller and Markus Krajewski. The videos of…
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Materialities of Text
New Formations recently published a very exciting new issue, edited by Sas Mays and Nicholas Thoburn on ‘Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net’. Gary Hall and I contributed an article on the political nature of the book, in which we make a comparison between the political nature of artists’ books and open…
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Online Symposium – Materialities of Text: Between the Codex & the Net
Gary Hall and I have submitted a pre-study of the paper we are writing for a special issue of New Formations to the accompanying online symposium Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net, organised by Sas Mays and Nick Thoburn. Our submission is entitled ‘(Im)materialities of Text: The Book as a Form of…