Artists' Books Conference

PARTICIPANTS

Barbara Bader, PhD, University of Oxford / Bern University of the Arts

Stuart Bailey, Artist and graphic designer; member of the Dexter Sinister collaborative; Co-Founder, Dot Dot Dot

Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art, City University of New York Graduate Center

AA Bronson, Printed Matter, Inc.

Bill Burns is an artist from Toronto, Canada. His work concerning drugs, animals and safety has been exhibited around the world including recent projects at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Bienal del Fin del Mundo in Ushuaia, Argentina. He has published dozens of books and multiples including Bird Radio with Verlag Walther Konig in Cologne (2007) and The Flora and Fauna Information Service: 0.800.0.FAUNA.0.FLORA, with the ICA in London (2008). His editions are included in numerous collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain in London, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Art Institute in Chicago and the MoMA in New York. He has been a member of Art Metropole in Toronto for several years and is currently president of its board.

May Castleberry, Editor of Contemporary Editions, Museum of Modern Art

Alejandro Cesarco is a Uruguayan artist living in New York. Some recent solo exhibitions of his work include Once Within a Room at New Langton Arts, San Francisco (2008); Retrospective, a body of work created in collaboration with John Baldessari at Murray Guy, New York (2007); and Marguerite Duras’ India Song at Art in General, New York (2006). He is also Director of Art Resources Transfer, a New York based non profit dedicated to establishing broader access to the arts through publishing and the free distribution of books to public libraries and schools in underserved communities nationwide.

Luc Derycke started as a publisher with Imschoot, uitgevers where, together with Kaatje Cusse and later Cornelia Lauf, published art and artists’ books until 1992. He also designed many of these publications. After 1992 he was, as Les éditions La Chambre, a book packager and designer, and published a number of books with Catherine de Zegher and Ilya Kabakov. From 1996 he concentrated on graphic design, only occasionally publishing a title under the LD imprint, with a.o., Wim Delvoye and Gabriel Orozco. In 2000 he took up publishing again under the MERZ imprint, until in 2005 he thought his publishing activities would best be served by a non-profit organization that he could share with others in the field. MER. Paper Kunsthalle now operates as a catalyst for book projects that do not claim to be artists’ books to the full extent, but still are, as art exhibitions, carriers of art, with all that entails. MER calls itself a Paper Kunsthalle, and tries to initiate, develop and support art exhibiting within the book medium.

Dexter Sinister is the compound name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. Recently described as “pamphleteers,” in 2006 Dexter Sinister established a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side in New York City. Sarah Crowner—a New York-based artist who has made and distributed numerous artists’ books and books about art— became involved with Dexter Sinister the same year. The workshop is intended to model a “Just-In-Time” economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This involves avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity. Dexter Sinister's recent projects include on-site productions at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Based in New York City.

Deirdre Donohue, Artist, writer, and educator; Stephanie Shuman Librarian, International Center for Photography. Dierdre's first Manhattan solo exhibition opens January 2009 at the New York Public Library's Art Wall. She worked from 1985-2000 at The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has written about photography, art, and fashion. She teaches at Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science

Jason Fulford is a photographer, graphic designer, and co-founder of J & L Books. He has lectured at the Corcoran College of Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art, LACMA, Mass Art, P.S.1, SVA, Wesleyan University and Yale University. He is also a contributing editor to Blind Spot. Fulford’s photographs have been featured in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and on book jackets for Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Terry Eagleton, Ernest Hemingway and Richard Ford. Monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), and Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006). He lives in Scranton, PA.

Bettina Funcke is a New York-based writer who recently completed her first book, Pop or Populus: Art between High and Low (Winter 2008). She is Senior Editor U.S. of Parkett and has realized collaborations with Robert Frank, Christopher Wool and Wade Guyton. She edited Continuous Project 8 (2006), which brings together writings by artists, philosophers, and critics. This summer she co-founded Leopard Press, which just released its first book, How to Disappear in America by Seth Price.

Margaret Glover, Librarian, New York Public Library, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

Joseph Grigely, Artist

Yuichi Hibi, Photographer

Darius Himes, Publisher, writer, artist

Milan Hughston, Chief of the Library and Museum Archives, Museum of Modern Art

Matt Keegan. Keegan’s work has been exhibited at venues such as Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, D’Amelio Terras, New York, White Columns, New York; Wallspace Gallery, New York in collaboration with Leslie Hewitt; and Sculpture Center, New York. He also organizes exhibitions with the curatorial initiative, Public-Holiday Projects, and is co-publisher of the annual publication North Drive Press.

Brian Kennon is an artist based in Los Angeles. He is the founder and publisher of 2nd Cannons Publications, and author of such books as Cindy Shermans I'd Like to Fuck (2003) and Black and White Reproductions of the Abstract Expressionists (2002).

Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Book Curator, Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries

Dr. Cornelia Lauf, Universita Iuav di Venezia, Venice

Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian, Brooklyn Museum of Art

Emily Larned, Red Charming; President, Booklyn

Leigh Ledare, Photographer

Esther Levine, Photographer

Elisabeth Long, Co-director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library; Editor, Journal of Artists' Books, Columbia College Chicago

Susan Meiselas is a photographer and filmmaker. Her publications include Carnival Strippers, Pandora's Box, Encounters with the Dani, El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers, and Chile from Within. In 1997, she completed a six year project curating a hundred-year photographic history of Kurdistan. Integrating this historical, documentary photography with her own work, Meiselas published Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History along with the related website www.akakurdistan.com. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize (1994). In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Her retrospective opens at ICP in September.

James Mitchell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Image Library

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Curator and critic

Clive Phillpot, Director, Fermley Press

David Reinfurt, Artist and graphic designer; member of the Dexter Sinister collaborative; Editor, Dot Dot Dot

Sara Reisman is a New York-based curator whose book-related exhibitions include The Book as Object and Performance at Gigantic Art Space (2004) and The Only Book at the Center for Book Arts (2006). Her other recent exhibitions include Ethnographies of the Future at Rotunda Gallery, Human Resources presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2008), Star Systems: Bjorn Kjelltoft and Shana Moulton at Fordham University's Center Gallery (2007), and Float at Socrates Sculpture Park (2007, 2005, and 2003). In 2004-2005 Reisman was the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art, at the University of Pennsylvania where she taught Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating. The following year she was the 2005–2006 Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum where she contributed research and writing for the exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century (2008). As Curatorial Consultant for Public Art at the Queens Museum of Art, she organized four community-based public art commissions and the exhibition The Center of Everywhere (2008). Reisman is also Associate Dean of the School of Art at Cooper Union and the director of Percent for Art at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Jane Rolo lives and works in London. During the 1970s and 80s she worked freelance as a bookbinder, and co-founded Book Works in 1984. During her time as Director at Book Works she has commissioned well over one hundred artists’ books, including works by Tacita Dean, Cornelia Parker, Jimmie Durham, Jeremy Deller, Susan Hiller, David Shrigley, Adrian Piper, Thomas Hirshhorn, Joseph Kosuth, Mike Nelson, and Frances Stark.

Emily Roysdon is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her work is invested in language, memory, collectivity and the processes of history and she uses video, photography, text, and performance to that aim. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR. Roysdon’s work has been shown at Participant, Inc. (NY); Generali Foundation (Vienna); Art in General (NY); Studio Voltaire (London); and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Her videos have been screened at Whitechapel Gallery (London); The Kitchen (NY); and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her writings have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Cabinet, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, and ANP Quarterly. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. She is currently a resident at the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS).

Joachim Schmid has long used artists' books (among many other art forms) to reinvent documentation. His ongoing series Bilder von der Straße (1982–) assembles photographs found on the street, unearthing repressed histories for public consumption and re-interpretation. His recent book Tausend Himmel (1995) is similarly intimate yet public: hypersensitive to noise, the artist photographed the sky whenever he heard a helicopter; the resulting document evokes today's "quiet" but potentially invasive surveillance.

David Senior, Bibliographer, Museum of Modern Art Library

Victor Sira is a Venezuela-born artist who studied at the International Center of Photography in New York City. He is recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Mosaique Fellowship from the Minister of Culture of Luxembourg, the Andrea Frank Fellowship, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He also received the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship Grant for Humanistic Photography. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, including the Rencontres d’Arles 2005 and the show De l’Europe in Luxemburg 2007.

Buzz Spector, Artist, critic, and professor of art, Cornell University

Jennifer Tobias, writer; Librarian, Reader Services, Museum of Modern Art; Ph.D. Candidate, City University of New York.

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Artist

Tony White, Head, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University

Matvei Yankelevich, Ugly Duckling Presse