Fascicle

Experience Bundled. Initiated 2010; Reconsidered for 2014

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“A book is . . . a phenomenon of space and time and dimensionality”

Dick Higgins

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The Book as Intermedia by Dick Higgins

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Via MIsha Kominek:

The latest book installment of the LDN series by Antony Cairns has taken the term Digital Photobook to new extremes. Using recycled old e-book tablets, Cairns has hacked into the software of the computer within the tablet and made it possible to view the entire archive of imagery he has created for his London by night work. You can do this through selecting a chapter / title on the main contents page that you are confronted with when unlocking the E-ink tablet from its LDN EI cover page screensaver. As you flick thru page by page each image is composed by the shifting pixels of the Electronic Ink screen.

Not only has the software of the E-reader been hacked but also the hardware has taken a significant bruising and remodelling, each book has been customised with a new back attached and unwanted parts like the keyboard covered and deemed redundant for the purpose.

Handmade limited edition of 200 / This is a self published books / contains 244 images / 2 reviews of previous work / 1 interview with the artist / 2 essays by Ian Jeffrey /

Each tablet has same contents but physically may differ in shape and look.

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Sprawling Paper Nervous Systems Cut into Repurposed Books by Barbara Wildenboer

Barbara Wildenboer produces sculptures pieced together from delicately cut books, thin strips of paper splaying out from each book's spine. Wildenboer's found books are often ones containing maps, atlases, and scientific subject matter, sometimes using images from the book as central e

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One or Two Last Random Photobook Links and Resources for 2014

Virtual bookshelves by Josef Chladek; not all photobooks but a goodly assortment of interesting, well-documented volumes.

Photobookstore.co.uk's Vimeo page of over 1300 photobooks

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The 2014 Holiday Round-up

It begins with:

Time Lightbox's "Best Photobooks of the Year"

Humble Art's 17 Top Photobooks of the Year

American Photo "Best Photobooks of the Year 2014"

Tim Clark from 1000Words: "The Best Photobooks of 2014"

Photo-Eye Blog Best Books 2014

Matthew Carson / ICP Library's 10 Photobooks from 2014

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***sigh***

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Reading 'involves factors not usually acknowledged ...The ergonomics, the haptics of the device itself. The tangibility of paper versus the intangibility of something digital.' The contrast of pixels, the layout of the words, the concept of scrolling versus turning a page, the physicality of a book versus the ephemerality of a screen, the ability to hyperlink and move from source to source within seconds online—all these variables translate into a different reading experience.

Maria Konnikova discusses scientific and pedagogical concerns about the nature of online reading v. reading the printed page (Thanks, NewYorker.com)

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How we read online. Or Eye-tracking the Informavore

And how to write for online readers: /spoiler alert/ use bulleted lists; occasional links for emphasis and draw the reader is; catchy headlines in bold ...

Not a how to but an analysis of the form and the resulting reading habits being formed

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Who better to use in defense of monopoly: George Orwell, but of course!

Amazon.com corporate doublespeak at its best ... 

You really think they'd know better.

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• Writers and editors call out Amazon but will it matter?

• Inside Amazon's battle with Hachette

• Amazon - Hachette dispute heats up

and just for fun: Amazon v. Google battle over the future of the internet (and ultimate control of all knowledge)

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A website not updated in some time (but who am I to talk) ...

See reference and brief summation of Germano Celant's essay (or most of it) on that most licentious library, Google Books.

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Never forget your ISO 216 paper sizes again. A T-shirt brings together standard formats used in both fashion and graphic design, 2d to 3d, material to paper.

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In Defense of Dots: Meditation on 4 Color Printing Process

 A photograph is a universe of dots.

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Created by Tauba Auerbach is the 8 x 8 x 8-inch hard-back book illustrating the RGB gradient in a page-by-page format. Using a digital offset print on paper

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"Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books is a group exhibition featuring approximately 120 works from OTIS Millard Sheets Library’s Special Collection of 2,100 artists books dating from the 1960s to the present.  The Otis Artists‘ Book Collection is one of the largest in Southern California. It houses a wide range of works representing every genre of artists‘ books by such luminaries as Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, and Ed Ruscha, as well as significant works from major centers of production like Beau Geste Press, Paradise Press, Printed Matter, Red Fox Press, and Woman‘s Studio Workshop. A foundational strength of the collection is its holdings of artists books made in the 1960s and 1970s—a time when this material was often not collected by libraries because so much of it was hard to define, catalog and house. The exhibition also includes a reading room showcasing new work produced by OTIS students in the Fall 2013 semester."