FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009
10:30 am
Empirical Experience: The Artist, Information, and the Book
This session explores the use of data in the construction of artists’ books: The accumulation of information, its management, and concurrently its potential mismanagement, have been templates for artistic interrogations of the perimeters of the real, the document. In the age of the internet, with more than 1,001 wikis of unstable veracity ready at one’s fingertips for any conceivable topic, the artist’s book, exploring and mimicking the book form as a vessel of knowledge, becomes a rich counter-consciousness of existing cultural forms. Jacqueline Hassink and William E. Jones, two artists that visually communicate data-gathering activities, present their information and evidence in conversation with like-minded moderator Bernard Yenelouis.
Matthew Carson, organizer
Bernard Yenelouis, moderator
Jacqueline Hassink
William E. Jones
2:00 pm
Furthering the Critical Dialogue
This session continues with a key theme from the 2008 conference: the state of artists’ books criticism. Exemplifying diverse approaches to criticism, speakers will discuss 2-3 artists’ books each, with one book in common among them. Panelists will not discuss the ‘state of artists’ books criticism,’ per se, but instead will focus on engaging in a critical evaluation and discussion their selected artists’ books.
Tony White, Indiana University Libraries, moderator
Clifton Meador, Columbia College
Michelle Strizever, University of Pennsylvania (PhD candidate in English)
Sarah Hulsey, Montserrat College of Art
4:00 pm
Is Print Really Dead? Artists (Still) Making Books
Electronic publishing has become a reality, and we’ve all heard predictions that the book (as we know it) is threatened or will one day disappear. It is quite obvious that the digital explosion has affected most industries, from publishing to the art world, and even our own lives. Yet amidst this “revolution,” creativity, ideas, and style are still thriving and artists continue to use the book format to display their art in new and unique ways.
Carol Rusk, moderator
Paul Schiek, TBWbooks
Stacy Wakefield Forte, Evil Twin Publications
Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön, The Holster
For biographies of the Conference presenters, see here.
10:30 am
Empirical Experience: The Artist, Information, and the Book
This session explores the use of data in the construction of artists’ books: The accumulation of information, its management, and concurrently its potential mismanagement, have been templates for artistic interrogations of the perimeters of the real, the document. In the age of the internet, with more than 1,001 wikis of unstable veracity ready at one’s fingertips for any conceivable topic, the artist’s book, exploring and mimicking the book form as a vessel of knowledge, becomes a rich counter-consciousness of existing cultural forms. Jacqueline Hassink and William E. Jones, two artists that visually communicate data-gathering activities, present their information and evidence in conversation with like-minded moderator Bernard Yenelouis.
Matthew Carson, organizer
Bernard Yenelouis, moderator
Jacqueline Hassink
William E. Jones
2:00 pm
Furthering the Critical Dialogue
This session continues with a key theme from the 2008 conference: the state of artists’ books criticism. Exemplifying diverse approaches to criticism, speakers will discuss 2-3 artists’ books each, with one book in common among them. Panelists will not discuss the ‘state of artists’ books criticism,’ per se, but instead will focus on engaging in a critical evaluation and discussion their selected artists’ books.
Tony White, Indiana University Libraries, moderator
Clifton Meador, Columbia College
Michelle Strizever, University of Pennsylvania (PhD candidate in English)
Sarah Hulsey, Montserrat College of Art
4:00 pm
Is Print Really Dead? Artists (Still) Making Books
Electronic publishing has become a reality, and we’ve all heard predictions that the book (as we know it) is threatened or will one day disappear. It is quite obvious that the digital explosion has affected most industries, from publishing to the art world, and even our own lives. Yet amidst this “revolution,” creativity, ideas, and style are still thriving and artists continue to use the book format to display their art in new and unique ways.
Carol Rusk, moderator
Paul Schiek, TBWbooks
Stacy Wakefield Forte, Evil Twin Publications
Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön, The Holster
For biographies of the Conference presenters, see here.