institute for the future of the book field trip to the recent past

last night Printed Matter “the world’s greatest source for artists’ publications” threw open the doors to their storage space. my colleague, dan visel, and i couldn’t resist the opportunity to rummage through the bins for hidden treasures dating from the late 70s. 2 thoughts: we’re still a long way from the time when browsing an electronic archive will be anywhere near as pleasing, at least on the sensual plane; paper art may have hit it’s height in that moment with the arrival of desktop publishing and cheap xeroxing; now a lot of the energy that people were putting into the creation of paper art is likely going into e-artifacts and e-zines.

2 thoughts on “institute for the future of the book field trip to the recent past

  1. Alex

    Hi Bob – I’ve been trying to send you an email but your adress seems to bounce – can you send me an email or add me to your safe list? I’d love to chat via email about the institute
    a

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