Currently Offered Lectures

Optimum equipment for lectures includes slide, videotape and Internet projection. Lectures are adaptable for classroom to theatrical sites and are available in workshop, residency, and course formats. A hands-on display of artist books and related materials follows each presentation.

Booklyn in the House

An introduction to the Booklyn Artists’ Alliance and a discussion of Booklyn’s relationship to the art and library worlds. Includes: a look at individual and collaborative artist bookmaking processes ranging from medieval workshops to contemporary practice, and presentations of CD-ROMs, slides, video and Websites of interdisciplinary work and exhibitions involving artist books and literature.

The New Book; Book Craft Tradition meets Do It Yourself Youth-Pop Culture

The traditional Craft enclaves had always been exclusive (monasteries), now anyone can gain access to centuries of craft knowledge. Fine art printing is being used for disposable literature and traditional bindings are used as Trojan horses for post-modern book works. Computers and press systems are now taught to a literate, copier friendly bunch of students raised on punk music, providing the confluence between hardcore craft and the D.I.Y. culture which has birthed the ‘zine and the artist made book. The lecture explores this confluence and includes a survey of artists’ books, comics, ‘zines, graphic novels and other printed matter with discussion of their historical context and interrelations.

Pages on the Walls; Printed Matter and Culture Jamming

Culture jamming; is the creative manipulation of advertising and public signage in order to critique consumerist or authoritarian messages. This workshop examines billboard manipulation, graffiti, murals, posters, stickers, ‘zines and other print and text forms of interest to book and print makers that re-negotiate the use of public space and private property.

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