Monday, November 3, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Printed Matter Class Update
Hey folks. A Printed Matter recap :
- 2x one-page works for collective book due October 21
- moleskine notebooks due October 21
- begin to think about a proposal for your independent project, to be discussed on October 21
- next week we'll meet in Academy #208 @ 1pm
- please go to the Khyber on Saturday October 18 to become a member for $5 (= sweet deal)
- submit a bookwork of your choice to the Member's Selection Library at the Khyber by Wednesday November 12
- fun fact : there's a free photocopier at the Anchor Zine Library. You can even bring your own fancy paper and go nuts
Friday, October 10, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
pecha kucha tuesday
Hi everyone, Maeghan here. Just a reminder that we'll be doing the pecha kucha slideshow in class on Tuesday, so if you haven't sent me your images yet, please do so by tomorrow (Monday) afternoon. Looking forward to seeing everyone's work!
(image source)
Friday, September 26, 2014
September 29th
–October 6th Visual Resources Exhibit Vitrine
NSCAD Library 5163
Duke Street Halifax, B3J 3J6
Artists Book Curator
Coloured People Ed
Ruscha Chosen
by David Constable
House Les Levine Chosen
by Jessy Watson
Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys Chosen
by Laurel Wagner
Short Stories
Robert Rauschenberg Chosen
by Aiden Holmans
100,000 Minutes
James Lee Byars Chosen
by Jacob Irish
I’m Thinking of a
Number Micah Lexier Chosen
by Julie Hall
Displacement Lawrence
Weiner Chosen
by Julie Hall
Worldline 1969-71 William
Vazan Chosen
by Matt Harrison
Variable Piece 4:
Secrets Douglas Huebler Chosen
by Jack Wong
Eating Through Living Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin Chosen by Cortney Foster
Foolscrap Telfer Stokes
Chosen
by Abby Bent
Standarts , A.
Penck
Chosen by Ali O’Sullivan
Tagliches Kleinzeug Arnulf Raigner Chosen
by Brandon Hollohan
Azonic I & II
Bill Mitchell Chosen
by Bruce Barber
Una ragnatela seguito
da Avec Chosen
by Maeghan Banks
l’Arcature Ie avec l’Arcature II
Daniel Buren
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Alexander Rodchenko
Printed Matter Artist of the week
(b St Petersburg, 23 Nov 1891; d Moscow, 3 Dec 1956).
Russian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. He was a central exponent of Russian Constructivism, owing much to the pre-Revolutionary work of Malevich and Tatlin, and he was closely involved in the cultural debates and experiments that followed the Revolution of 1917. In 1921 he denounced, on ideological grounds, easel painting and fine art, and he became an exponent of Productivism (CONSTRUCTIVISM) in many fields, including poster design, furniture, photography and film. He resumed painting in his later years. His work was characterized by the systematic way in which from 1916 he sought to reject the conventional roles of self-expression, personal handling of the medium and tasteful or aesthetic predilections. His early nihilism and condemnation of the concept of art make it problematic even to refer to Rodchenko as an artist: in this respect his development was comparable to that of Dada, although it also had roots in the anarchic activities of Russian Futurist groups
(b St Petersburg, 23 Nov 1891; d Moscow, 3 Dec 1956).
Russian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. He was a central exponent of Russian Constructivism, owing much to the pre-Revolutionary work of Malevich and Tatlin, and he was closely involved in the cultural debates and experiments that followed the Revolution of 1917. In 1921 he denounced, on ideological grounds, easel painting and fine art, and he became an exponent of Productivism (CONSTRUCTIVISM) in many fields, including poster design, furniture, photography and film. He resumed painting in his later years. His work was characterized by the systematic way in which from 1916 he sought to reject the conventional roles of self-expression, personal handling of the medium and tasteful or aesthetic predilections. His early nihilism and condemnation of the concept of art make it problematic even to refer to Rodchenko as an artist: in this respect his development was comparable to that of Dada, although it also had roots in the anarchic activities of Russian Futurist groups
14 authors in search of a character
This week we will invite the rest of the class to become authors of this blog!
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Alphabet Bomber
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
PRINTED MATTER ARTIST OF THE WEEK
Our Printed Matter artist for the week is John Heartfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heartfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heartfield
Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
PROJECT 1 THEMES
If you are having difficulty thinking of how to begin your first project for the Printed Matter Class here are some suggestions for page works that you may submit to the group publishing project:
1) Mind over matter
2) Seeing is believing
3) Personal structure
4) Space, time and matter
5) A visual paradox
6) Whatever….
A Printed Matter work by Newfoundland artist Matthew Hollett with text suggested by Bruce Barber
1) Mind over matter
2) Seeing is believing
3) Personal structure
4) Space, time and matter
5) A visual paradox
6) Whatever….
A Printed Matter work by Newfoundland artist Matthew Hollett with text suggested by Bruce Barber
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
FIRST CLASS
Enjoying the first Printed Matter class with many students. Soon to break up before our meeting in the Visual Resources Library
Friday, September 5, 2014
LUCY LIPPARD ON PRINTED MATTER
Lucy Lippard interviewed by Julie Ault on the topic of Printed Matter
Printed Matter Interview
Printed Matter Interview
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Several good bookmaking websites on Blurb which do have associated costs www.blurb.ca/video/booksmart-intro
Monday, September 1, 2014
ASSIGNMENTS
PRINTED MATTER ASSIGNMENTS:
Project 1
5-10 page works suitable for reproduction in a limited
edition Printed Matter Class book, journal or magazine. This may be published through an online
publisher such as Blurb http://www.blurb.ca and many be exchanged with a West Coast printed matter
Group at UBC a class taught by Garry Neil Kennedy and Cathy Busby.
Project
2 (n.b any one of the following)
a) A ‘zine’ (5 copies minimum) or a unique or limited
edition artists book (30 pages max)
b) This may take any form or process related to Printed
Matter: Postcards, poster, announcement
card, video, audio or DVD package promotion brochure or business card.
You may use on line or other DIY resources according to your
skill set to produce these works.
Independent Projects
(2 – 3 projects
An independent printed matter assignment (approved in
consultation with the instructor).
Students will maintain a journal or workshop folder and
present it with their final other work for evaluation and discussion with the
instructor. Students will receive a Printed Matter Cap and may join the
Facebook group Language into Art https://www.facebook.com/groups/197813450347877/
or perhaps a soon to be formed Printed Matter closed group from which we could
make a Facebook book.
Course text on Library Reserve: Artists Books: A Critical Anthology and Source Book:
Edited by Joan Lyons, Peregrine Smith Books Visual Studies
workshop NY.
Useful Printed Matter Websites
Printed Matter NYC https://printedmatter.org
Art Metropole http://www.artmetropole.com
Art text http://artexte.ca
MOMA Artists Books Collection http://www.franklinfurnace.org/research/moma-FF-artist_book_collection.php
NSCAD Library Archive Artist Books http://nscad.ca/en/home/libraries/special-collections.aspx
COURSE DESCRIPTION
NSCAD University
Media Arts Division
Introductory Printed
Matter MDIA 2100 (3 Credits S.)
Instructor Bruce Barber bbarber@nscad.ca
Office Phone # 902 494-2981
T.A. Meaghan Banks
Tuesdays: 1.00pm-5.00pm
Venue: D500 Boardroom and other venues as required.
Calendar Description:
The student will engage in a series of short projects that
reflect the range of both avant-garde and popular production of unlimited
edition works. These projects will introduce the student historically and
practically to serial and narrative constructs and documentary image text
formats, the artists’ book-as-object, “mail art” (postcards, broadsides), DIY
and independent web publishing. A seminar component each week will discuss
historical precedents for these activities as art.
Print, n. an
impression; a mold or stamp; a mounded pat of butter; exactitude of plaiting,
crimping, or setting, printed state; printed characters or lettering; an
edition; a printed picture, a newspaper, a positive from a negative, a printed
cloth; a plaster cast in low relief.
Print, v.t. To
press in to impress, to mark by pressure, to impress on paper by means of type,
plate or blocks; to produce or reproduce by such means; to cause to be printed;
to produce from a positive to a negative, or from negative to a positive
(photo)
Print, v.i. to
practice the art of printing, to publish a book; to yield and impression, or
give a positive etc.
Matter, n. that
which occupies space and with which we become acquainted by our bodily senses;
that out of which anything is made; material; subject of material or thought,
speech, writing, dispute etc.
Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary
Printed Matter
the title of this Intermedia course represents both more and less than the sum
of its parts. The history of the avant-garde in which printed matter reveals
its signal forms has revealed an emphasis upon the interrelationships between
the rival arts: visual art, literature, poetry, theatre, music, dance and film;
and within visual art the competition between painting, printmaking,
photography and design. The locus of this emphasis has often coalesced around
the antagonistic relationship between word and image and the reproducibility of
the work of art as an implied route toward increased social and political
efficacy.
PRINTED MATTER
WELCOME TO THE PRINTED MATTER ClASS WEBLOG
THIS BLOG IS PRODUCED BY NSCAD'S PRINTED MATTER CLASS FALL 2014 AND WILL BE USED FOR SOME INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP DIGITAL PUBLISHING PROJECTS
AND FOR POSTING READINGS, LINKS TO INTERESTING SITES, FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS, VISITORS ETC.
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