Liza Daly: A Physical Book (2017)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · book
“A Physical Book makes a digitized book ‘physical’ by rendering it in a simulated space where properties like gravity, friction, and velocity all apply. The program randomly perturbs the letters, then takes a snapshot at a point in time, re-assembling the images into a new, ‘un-digitized’ book.
The raw, uncorrected scanned text of The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich (1909) is re-imagined as this 251 page (50,964 words) book.”
Self-published in November 2017
[500] pages
via author, HT derek beaulieu
Jindřich Štyrský: Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream (1933/1997)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · collage, dreams, eroticism, sexuality, surrealism
Jindřich Štyrský (1899–1942) was a painter, poet, photographer, collage artist and editor. A founding member of The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia he edited Erotická revue that included illustrations by well-known Czech artists and had an imprint called Edice 69 (Edition 69) where Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu, a portfolio of 10 erotic surrealist photo-collages, appeared in 1933 as its sixth and final volume. Štyrský believed that in pornography he had found a destabilizing medium that could be used to subvert established social and artistic norms. Bohuslav Brouk, a psychoanalyst affiliated with the Czech surrealists, contributed an afterword in which he commented forcefully on the subject of pornography as art. Despite its small run of 69 copies, the book is now considered a masterpiece of Czech Surrealism.
This new edition contains 12 collages, two of which were edited out from the original.
New edition
With an afterword by Bohuslav Brouk
Publisher Ubu Gallery, New York, 1997
35 pages
via Oh Top Book Photobooks
PDF (low res, 5 MB)
See also collection of 21 collages in Centre Pompidou
Mikel R. Nieto: Dark Sound (2016) [Huao/Basque/Spanish/English]
Filed under artist publishing, sound recording | Tags: · ecuador, environment, field recording, oil
“The book contains “Ecopolitik”–an introduction as an epilogue by José Luis Espejo, a letter to the Huaorani people, two research texts and one bertso, descriptive texts and photos of recordings, a possible chronology, a glossary, a compilation of several texts with testimonies, reports and declarations from different people, groups, institutions, and publications in reference to the impact—direct or indirect—of the noise from the oil industry during its various phases of development on the people, the environment and the fauna.”
The book is supplemented by a CD containing 34 recordings in one track.
Publisher Gruenrekorder, Frankfurt/M., 2016
Anti-copyright
ISBN 9783000523700
175 pages
via author