THE HYBRID BOOK CONFERENCE will bring together established and emerging artists, scholars, librarians and educators to explore a variety of topics in a series of eight panels. The Conference begins Thursday evening with an interview of Gunnar A. Kaldewey and Hedi Kyle, two artists featured in the Hybrid Book exhibition, by Steve Miller, Coordinator of the University of Alabama's MFA in the Book Arts program, followed by an opening reception for both the coinciding exhibitions. The final event will be on Saturday evening, a dinner and a critical response to the conference and fair by Roberta Fallon of artblog and Anabelle Rodriguez, a Philadelphia-based artist, curator and visual anthropologist.
Panels Include:
BOOK ARTS IN ACADEMIA
This panel will explore the unifying factors that help to define book arts as a focus of study and practice within the academy.
Moderator:
Karen Wirth, Chair of Fine Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Panelists include:
Carrie Galbraith, Instructor, City College of San Francisco and the San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco Bay area
Susan Johanknecht, Course Leader, MA Book Arts, Camberwell College of Art, London
Kyle Schlesinger, Cuneiform Press, Booklyn, NY
BOOK ART IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE
The artist’s book most often finds its audience via Special Collections or the gallery, but what happens when the artist’s book is put in the hands of the people by other means? Panelists will discuss alternative modes of both production and distribution that bring the artist’s book to different audiences and engage the book format as a vehicle for social change.
Moderator:
Barbara Dash, Special Collections Librarian, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Panelists include:
Drew Cameron, Combat Paper Project and Warrior Writers, Burlington, VT
Courtney Dailey, Mobilivre Bookmobile Project, San Francisco, CA
Amos Paul Kennedy, Kennedy Prints! A Letterpress Printery, Gordo, AL
THE FUTURE OF LETTERPRESS
What is the future of letterpress printing? Panelists will discuss the function of letterpress in contemporary art and the hybrid book, as well as how the advent of digital processes has affected and will continue to affect letterpress.
Moderator:
Peter Kruty, Peter Kruty Editions, Brooklyn, NY
Panelists include:
Betty Bright, Minneapolis, MN
Ashley John Pigford, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Delaware
Inge Bruggeman, Textura Letterpress Printing, Ink-A! Press, Portland, OR
INTERSECTION + INTERMEDIA
Several artists will present projects that elevate the artist’s book beyond its basic form by using it as a tool to explore installation, performance, research, education, historical and digital processes, sound, interactivity, and more.
Moderator:
Michelle Wilson, Rocinante Press, Philadelphia, PA
Projects include:
800,000
William Snyder, Founder and Director, The Kayinamura Foundation, State College, PA
God Bless this Circuitry
Andrew Sallee, Composer, Musician, Statistician, Kansas City, MO
Tate Shaw, Interim Executive Director, Visual Studies Workshop, Co-publisher, Preacher’s Biscuit Books, Rochester, NY
Sillis
Pierre LeBlanc, Associate Professor
Marlene MacCallum, Professor
David Morrish, Professor
Visual Arts Program, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland
MODES OF PRODUCTION: COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES
The complexity of the artist’s book often makes collaboration desirable or even necessary in producing sophisticated work that encompasses text, image, structure, and a high level of craft. Panelists will discuss multiple approaches to engaging collaborative relationships in both the conceptual and material processes of creating an artist’s book.
Moderators:
Macy Chadwick, In Cahoots Press, Oakland, CA; Lisa Hasegawa, ilfant press, Seattle, WA
Panelists include:
Steven Daiber, Red Trillium Press, Williamsburg, MA
Marshall Weber, Organik, Brooklyn, NY
Pod Post
Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Jennie Hinchcliff, San Francisco, CA
OFFSET APPLICATIONS: THEN AND NOW
What was the appeal of the offset book that made it desirable enough for artists to open their own print shops? With the introduction of self-publishing on-demand websites like Lulu and Blurb, the future of these presses is uncertain. Panelists will discuss what brought them to the process years ago, as well as the future of the medium.
Moderator:
Amanda D’Amico, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Panelists include:
Joan Lyons, Founding Director, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Patty Smith, Associate Professor, Printmaking/ Book Arts, The University of the Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Tony White, Director, Indiana University Fine Arts Library, Bloomington, IN
Joanne Paschall, Founder, Nexus Press, Atlanta, GA
THE RECIPROCITY OF BOOKS AND DIGITAL MEDIA
While digital tools have changed the face of book arts, the book itself has been alluded to throughout electronic media. Panelists will discuss the potential of digital technologies to become a book arts related medium.
Moderator:
Lori Spencer, Associate Professor, Chair of Printmaking/ Book Arts, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Panelists include:
Pattie Belle Hastings, Associate Professor of Interactive Digital Design, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Margot Lovejoy, Professor Emerita, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Sue O’Donnell, Assistant Professor of Digital Art, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA
TEXT AND THE HYBRID BOOK
Focusing on the importance of writing as a practice and form, this panel discussion will explore text in the hybrid book: as a source material or generative process, a narrative journey for both the maker and the viewer, and a destination that brings the book into conversation with other art forms.
Moderator:
Elysa Voshell, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
Panelists Include:
Robin Price, Middletown, CT
Jen Bervin, Brooklyn NY
Brandon Graham, Chicago, IL
Julie Chen, Flying Fish Press, Berkeley, CA
Please see registration page for further details.
