Fine Art and Photography

In Alison Marchant's Kingsland Road, London—East, the artist hung her mother's petticoat on an old washing line in a basement of a derelict house in London's East End. The work existed as a temporary site-specific artwork and as a photographic work exhibited in the ...

In Alison Marchant's Kingsland Road, London—East, the artist hung her mother's petticoat on an old washing line in a basement of a derelict house in London's East End. The work existed as a temporary site-specific artwork and as a photographic work exhibited in the ...

We are pleased to announce Code—X, a new bookRoom press publication edited by Danny Aldred and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, with a foreword by Alessandro Ludovico and endnotes by John Warwicker.
Code—X, brings together a selection of projects and personal histories of the current transforming and expanding of publishing and the book medium with the aim to challenge the very notion of what it could be(come) in today's complex information era.
The way we share information is undergoing a huge transformation. Content is no longer fixed to a page, it can be user generated, open source or shared between different reading platforms. This disruption has challenged the very concept of the book as it has been accepted since the Gutenberg Revolution of the 1450s. 2010 marked the tipping point of the switch from print to pixel with more published online than on paper and this digital turn brought about new modes of making, reading and disseminating published works as well as new questions about formats, tools, content, collaboration and distribution.

The design of Code—X within codex form, proposed by studio 3015, represents a playful and daring twist of ink imitating pixel to render composition and design. The content is seen as a continuous scroll, cropped where screen meets paper edge. We celebrate both camps by highlighting dichotomies of edge to scroll, sequence to time and image to place. Featuring essays, interviews and works by:
Delphine Bedel, Simon Cutts, Sebastien Girard, Hans Gremmen, Andrew Haslam with Rose Gridneff & Alex Cooper, Alec Finlay with Ken Cockburn, Alessandro Ludovico, Silvio Lorusso, Katharine Meynell with Susan Johanknecht, Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, AND Publishing, Colin Sackett, Jodie Silsby, Paul Soulellis, Stefan Szczelkun, John Warwicker (Tomato), Eric Watier, Maria White, Beth Williamson, David Lorente Zaragoza.
276 pages. RRP £20.00 – ISBN 978-0-9576828-3-2
available from http://www.book-lab.org/codex.html

The books is the outcome of a collaboration with Book-Lab at Winchester School of Art where it was first launched in October 2015. This was followed by the Small Publishers Fair in London on the 7th of November 2015, then Printed Matter in New York on the 12th of November 2015, then TABS in Berlin on 21st January 2016, then Arts Libris in Barcelona on 24th April 2015
http://www.thebookroom.net/code-x-paper-ink-pixel-and-screen/

This publication brings together a selection of the University's current research. The contributions foreground areas of research strength including still and moving image research, applied arts and crafts, as well as emerging fields of investigations such as ...

PRAELUDERE
2013 - current

- Every footprint is a song...the song of life...painted on the sand...painted in air…(Nanao Sakaki 1976)

“ PRAELUDERE is on my table, and open, accompanied me into the new year. I like to read these pages, to think about, scores and poems. And to think, that what looks more like a score is a poem and vice versa. (Jürg Frey 2014).

PRAELUDERE (ballades form the 20th century) consists of a set of four verbal scores that can be activated inside or outside, sitting, standing or walking, alone or with others, with or without instrument.
Sitting still somewhere, with the PRAELUDERE score to map where I am, what I see / hear / feel, using drawing, writing and voice to express and preserve that fleeting experience.

A body of work (videos, prints, artist books, performances) using as a prompt the fact that in French une ballade is both a walk and a song. Writing and walking are understood here as simultaneous acts of marking and reading (space).