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anntiqdm publicatiom of the Avant Gardes of the 20b ARTIST BOOKS centwy, focusing on the sides and seventies: concept, minimal, land art, meIpovera, happe~ngsmd flm, maill NEWS art, pop art, Vienna Aho~sm,Situationism, Dada, Sumedisrm, ek. PnclualeB Specid representa~oasof sontemporsaay book art aa8 tbe Rmcha, Gerkard Wichkr, Si 52"* FranMw& Book Fair, 18 - 23 October 2080. For the %chard Tuttle, J.L. Byas, M. first time in its history, Fair will provide Eva Messe, DoddJudd, Carl Andre, George Brecht,Daniel a special forum for c art in Wle 3.1, Sprri, Andy Warhol, Dieter RotHa, Jackson Pollock, Bill which will become "Book Art Square7', a place where the Bollinger, Lee Bontecw etc. Searches can be made from the pubEc will enjoy an indep& view of the world of field of Visual Ant Collwtiom, e~bitionpaactice and letterpress-pBinted works, painters' books, a.x%slg books and theory, monographs and especially ephemera, underg~ound book objects. This eve and related materid. Contact Peter Below, lhrt Base. BucNDmcMKunst Inc in Support of Contemnporary The town of Mells in County Meath, Ireland is exerting Contemprary Book Art", an errPlibition ofworld-wide book increasingpressme to be allowed to exhibit the renowned art, "Book Art News Fonun," an overview of offerings from Book of Kells at its supposed place of origin. They are nearly 75 presses and book artists from 14 Merent to bansfom a local codouse into an exhibit hail countries; "One Hundred Words from the 20" century," the book and is considering legal action if its showcasing original examples ofthe ways in which book art request to obtain the work on loan is rehsed by Trinity can interpret text Wo~pXcdly.In addition there will College Dublin, where the Book of Kells lhas resided since be7'Internatiod Book Art'' and "The MstBeautihl Books the 17" century. of Gemany". Poland, the fair's specid guest cornthy, will e during the spring when the Book of be featured in an exhibition ofartists' books, painters' books Kells was transported from Dublin to Canberra, Australia, and book objects. Arion Press of San Francisco will also Trinity College has been bombarded with pages from the present what is possibly the last handset and book-press- national press about never lending the book again. But produced Bible. A CD-ROM available from Bartkowiak Kells is striving to prevail. form book art will show the life's work of Jo Gutenberg. The postcards, created by over 150 artists, Carol B;a&om has been awarded the Bogliosco Fellowship which makeup the"Mai1-&-Actiony' homage to Gutenberg for the fall of 2000. She dlbe artist-in-residence at the will also be on display. For more infomation see Bogliosco Center, located just south of Genova from 12 www.bnc8adruckkunstt~1e or e-mail to September - 27 October, where she will be designing a new i~fo@~bnchdmckhnst.de book of architechLPd drawings and pop-up paper towers ed with a miniature incandescentbulb embedded in The Columbia College Chicago Cemter for Book & Paper the spine. The resulting edition will be printed in the spring Arts has moved to 1104 So. Wabash, 2ndflr., Chicago, IL of 2001 at the University of the Art's Borowsky Center 60605. Phone: (3 12)3446630, fax: (3 12(344-8082, e-mail: (Philadelphia), with the help of a faculty Venture Fund B0ok&lPape~.@;~0~m8ii.~01~m.eduand website: grant. kt~ll:/l~~~~.colum.ed~n/centrp.rs~~a Nonthwest Bookfest -A Cdebration of the Written Word The Minnesota Center for Book Arts has moved to Open will be held on 21 and 22 October at the Stadiwn Exhibition Book, a facility which oftem them 50% more space (4,000 Center in Seattle, Washington. More than 220 booksellers, sq. feet). The increase in space allows for more studio area, publishers, and zine presses will exhibit. The event will also a larger exhibition gallery, library, reception area and retail include book arts exhibitions and demonstration. For more shop. New spaces include a darkroom, classroom and information, see: httn:/~.n~hookfest.~rdab~~t/ storage for the Book Arts cooperative members, and a second paper studio. The new address is: 1011 Washington Love Letter to Gutenberg Book Art Students' Ave., Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415 Competition Results. 3 books have been produced by the winners themselves in ]Main2 (letterpress + offset) in an Art Base, Leyendeckerstr. 27, 50825 K61n 1 Cologne, edition of 500 copies each. There will also be a bilingual Germany. ph. 0221-546 14 33 / Fax 0221-954 19 83 catalogue (English and German) with texts by international announces Art Base book Research, specialized in book artists and book arts teachers and with pictures of all books shown in the exhibition at the Gutenberg Pavilion in and more talks by Gianni Baretta, Alberto Boschi and Mainz fkom September 22 till October 29,2000. You can Liliana Dematteis. find detailed infonnation, including pictures of the winners" books, as well as infonnation on how to subscribe, on Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from hfto//www.rmtenberpoaviIIon.de Your subscription will the Brenda Forman Collection appeared at the University help to finance the competition. This report comes from of Virginia Alderman Library from 12 May -18 Aug. Prof. Ulrike Stoltz, (organizer of the competition and a 2000.hKp://www.lib.vireinia.edu/e~xhibits/~o~u~ member of the book artists group "Unica T") Following are short descriptions of the 3 winning books Experiments in the Future of Reading through 7 and of the catalogue. From a large number of entries from September at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, four continents an international jury chose the 3 winners CA: developed by the RED Group at Xerox Palo Alto Kelly WellmanlMadeleineZygarewicz;PhotographsXochitl Research Center (PARC)as an interactive exhibition Oliva Body of Text (Mills College, Oakland, USA; Prof. exploringwaysreading might evolvevia new technologies -- Kathy Walkup) a collection of loose sheets in a cloth-bound including a table top book with pages which turn portfolio; letterpress + offset (duotone)japanese paper and when it tilts, a Reading Eye Dog which combines Optical matt coated paper 25,5 cm x 20,5 cm; 28 pages. Subscription Character Recognition (OCR) and speech synthesis in a price (until 22.9.2000)$5 1,-(afterwards $62,-) "lovable reading companion"; a reading wall; and "Walk-in Shin-Young Chung. Der BriefK6nig Sejongs an Johannes Comix." At the very back of the exhibition space The Gutenberg aus dem Jahr 1449 (King Sejong's letter to Artist's Book Studio, in collaborationwith the San Francisco Johannes Gutenberg from 1449) (Hochschule der Bildenden Center for the Book, was a complete artist's workshop Kiinste Hamburg, Deutschland; Prof. Wans Andree)scroll in including a Xerox digital color printer, a computer- tong (cardboard box) ; letterpress, two colors one sheet rice controlled laser cutter from Univkrsal Laser Systems, an paper (the letter) and printing paper (the information leaflet) Apple computer fully loaded with Adobe software, and a 60 cm x 39 cm (scroll); 45 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm (Tong) work bench with bookmaking tools and various sorts of Subscription price (until 22.9.2000)$26,-(aftenvards$36,- artist Daniela Deeg /Cynthia Lollis 15. June 1999/July 27, 1999 supplies. Love Letter to Gutenberg (Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, USA; Prof. Rick Johnson) Boekie Woekie of Amsterdam (the amazing artist book concertina without hard covers in a portfolio or box; cooperative and shop) opened the Dieter Roth Akademie in letterpress + Offset (duotone);JapanpapierJjapanesepaper 40 Basle during the Art Fair from 6 May - 1 July 2000 with the cm x 27,5 cm; 18 Seitenlpages Subscription price (until collaboration of Henriette van Egten, Eggert Einarsson, 22.9.2000)$41,-(afterwards $ 51,- ) Kristjan Gudmundsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Gnnar Exhibition Catalog: Love Letter to Gutenberg Helgason, Dorothy Iannone, Gisli Johannsson, Bernd .Ausstellungskatalog/exhibition catalogue. Ulrike Stoltz Koberling, Petw Kristjansson, Rainer Pretzell, Bjorn Rolh, (ed.) Every book is illustrated in four colors as well as Runa Thorkelsdottir, Andrea Tippel, Jan Voss, and Tom described..Apart from that, the catalogue contains texts by Wasmuth. With printing, a conference and now a catalog teachers of book art, as well as short texts by international available, you can also see what the Dieter Roth Akademie book artists, thus connecting the competition with the accomplished. There is photo documentation, reproductions internationalbook arts scene. Texts in English and German; of exhibitions of the work ofDieter Roth with 100 pages, the hardcover; offset, four colors ca. 19 x 28 cm; ca. 96 pages. price is 40 Swiss Francs to Dieter Roth Akademie, St. Subscription price (until 22.9.2000)$ 16,-(afterwards $20,- Johanns-Vorstadt 1912 1 Postfach 111, CH-4004 Basel, )For subscriptions, please mail to Switzerland. Projektbuero Gutenberg 2000, Charlotte Loebner cllarlotte.lwbner@;flr-mainz.de Artist-designed Booksbop at Dia:With the opening of its fall season, Dia Center for the Arts will unveil a Some Recent Exhibitions significantly expanded artistdesigned bookshop and reading A remarkable exhibition of artists' books and concrete, room. Created by Los Angeles-based artist Jorge Pardo as visual and sound poeq from 1950 - 1975 was held recently an element in his installation Project, Dia's new bookshop at the Biblioteca Civica di Novi Ligure from 8 July - 5 will feature 700 linear feet of shelves filled with volumes August 2000. Curated by Liliana Dematteis and Giorgio exploring art since 1945 - with special emphasis on the Maffei, the exhibition included talks by Lamberto Pignotti, artists of the last tJuee decades whose work Dia has long Piergiovanni Castagnoli and Giorgio MaiTei, as well as supported and their predecessors.