BOOK LIVE! update – FULL PROGRAM
8th – 9th June 2012
London South Bank University – K2- Keyworth Street, London SE1 6NG (Map)
Spread the word and book your place.
Early bird rate applies until 7th may
View BOOK LIVE Program / View BOOK LIVE synopsis
International symposium & live events:
Bringing together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating ‘on the page’ work. The purpose of this event is to examine the current ‘transforming’ and ‘expanding’ of the page rather than its virtual disintegration.
Co chaired by Emmanuelle Waeckerle and Richard Sawdon-Smith.
Keynote speakers:
Joan Fontcuberta Photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture (SP)
Sharon Helgason Gallagher Founder / Director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK (US)
Special event:
John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’ performed by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag (GER), produced by Wandelweiser
List of participants:
Andrej Blatnik (SVN) / Sarah Bodman (UK) / Marco Bohr (UK) / Chris Burnett (US) / Daniela Cascella (UK) / Amanda Couch (UK) / Polly Christie, Lisa Chadwick, Natasha Caruana & David Rule (UK) / Arnaud Desjardin (UK) / Barnaby Dicker & Matt Hulse (UK) / Annabel Frearson (UK) / Peter Jaeger (UK) / Paul Jeff & Laura Jenkins (UK) / Susan Johanknecht & Katharine Meynell (UK) / Marcus Kaiser (GER) / Sharon Kivland & Nick Thurston (UK) / Michael Mack (UK) / Didier Mathieu (FRA) / Romi Mikulinsky (AUS) / Christoph Nicolas (GER) / Paula Roush (UK) & Maria Lusitano (SWE) / Mark Sanderson (UK) / Andreas Schmidt (UK) / David W. Speck (UK) / Seekers of Lice (UK) / Paul Soulellis (US) / Stefan Szczelkun (UK) / Rahel Zoller(UK)
Full Conference
Early Bird Rate: £150/£65 concessions
Standard Rate: £200/£100 concessions
Single Day
Early Bird Rate: £80/£35 concessions
Standard Rate: £120/£55 concessions
Performances only
Saturday 9am to 9pm: £15/10 concessions
Early Bird Rate available from 1 April 2012 until 7th May
Registration: www.lsbu.ac.uk/business/training.shtml#BookLive
A collaboration between the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at LSBU and bookRoom Research Cluster at UCA Farnham
BOOK LIVE! update – registration open
Early Bird Rate available from 1 April 2012until 7th May
Registration: www.lsbu.ac.uk/business/training.shtml#BookLive
BOOK LIVE!
8th - 9th June 2012 - London South Bank University - K2, keyworth street, SE1 6NG London
International symposium and related live events / download booklive flyerposter
Keynote speakers
Joan Fontcuberta Photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture (SP)
Sharon Gallagher Founder / director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK (USA)
Special event:
John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’ performed by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag (GER), produced by Wandelweiser
List of participants (in alphabetical order)
Andrej Blatniik (SVN) / Sarah Bodman (UK) / Marco Bohr (UK) / Chris Burnett (US) / Daniela Cascella (UK) / Amanda Couch (UK) / Polly Christie, Lisa Chadwick & David Rule (UK) / Arnaud Desjardin (UK) / Matt Hulse & Barnaby Dicker (UK) / Annabel Frearson (UK) / Peter Jaeger (UK) – Paul Jeff & Laura Jenkins (UK) / Susan Johanknecht & Katharine Meynell (UK) / Marcus Kaiser (GER) / Sharon Kivland & Nick Thurston (UK) / Michael Mack (UK) / Didier Mathieu (FRA) / Romi Mikulinsky (AUS) / Christoph Nicolas (GER) / Paula Roush (UK) & Maria Lusitano (SWE) / Mark Sanderson (UK) / Andreas Schmidt (UK) / David Speck (UK) / Seekers of Lice (UK) / Paul Soulellis (US) / Stefan Szczelkun (UK) / Rahel Zoller(UK)
Full Conference
Early Bird Rate: £150/£65 concessions
Standard Rate: £200/£100 concessions
Single Day
Early Bird Rate: £80/£35 concessions
Standard Rate: £120/£55 concessions
Performances only
Saturday 9am to 9pm: £15/10 concessions
For more information contact Annie Mitchell, event administrator ; amitchell4@ucreative.ac.uk
BOOK LIVE! deadline is now closed
We have received over 50 submissions from a whole range of academic and non academic book experts; makers, readers, publishers, distributors, collectors, writers… We can safely say that the two days of presentations and readings of BOOK LIVE!
on the 8th and 9th June will be an exciting and inspiring event.
The selection process will be complete by the end of February and we will be announcing details of participants, content and schedule shortly after.
The Early Bird Rate will be available from 1 April 2012, when registration opens, until 1st May 2012, after which the standard rates apply.
Full Conference
Early Bird Rate: £150/£75 concessions
Standard Rate: £200/£100 concessions
Single Day
Early Bird Rate: £80/£35 concessions
Standard Rate: £120/£55 concessions
Performances only
( Saturday 9am to 9pm; ‘Empty words’ and other durational readings)
£15/10 pounds concessions
extended deadline
BOOK LIVE! – DEADLINE EXTENDED to 13th february 5pm
(on account of Christmas break and numerous requests)
Book live!
International symposium and related live events at London South Bank University - 8th – 9th June 2012
a collaboration between the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at LSBU and bookRoom Research Cluster at UCA Farnham.
The event will bring together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating ‘on the page’ work. The purpose of this conference is to examine the current ‘transforming’ and ‘expanding’ of the book rather than its virtual disintegration.
The conference will include international guest speakers from the broader world of publishing, photography and experimental writing
as well as short presentations of book works and a series of live experimental and durational ‘readings’.
The two keynote speakers are Joan Fontcuberta (photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture from Barcelona) and Sharon Helgason Gallagher (founder and director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK in New York). There will be a performance of the full twelve hours of John Cage’s Empty Words (first published in1979 by Wesleyan University Press) by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag (Germany), coinciding with the release of the complete recording by Editions Wandelweiser.
CALL FOR PAPER AND PRESENTATION max 25 minutes
Call for papers, presentations, panels and ‘readings’ dealing with (but not limited to) the following themes and research questions;
- How has digital technology allowed the book to expand its boundaries, both in space and time?
- Innovative convergence of traditional craft skills and advanced technologies in the making, reading, archiving or disseminating of books.
- Interdisciplinary experiments that addresses the cultural translations between traditional skills and advanced technologies.
- Explorations that reconsider the contemporary or future role of the book socially, culturally, politically.
- Innovative or disastrous explorations and transgressions of ebook readers.
- What do we gain and lose with on screen ‘reading’?
- How is conventional publishing adapting to fast changing digital economy?
- What has become of collecting in our digital culture?
- What is knowledge now that computers can provide and keep everything?
- High culture versus digital culture
Beyond the conference we will be bringing together papers and other contributions as a publication in its own right; an interesting survey of current thinking and innovative practice informed by both the themes and the findings of the conference. Edited and designed by bookRoom press, and published by RGAP.
Deadline for abstracts: 13th February 2012 – Decision sent before end of february
Please send abstracts to Emmanuelle Waeckerle (ewaeckerle@ucreative.ac.uk)
Submissions from doctoral students and early-career postdoctoral researchers are encouraged, as well as
submissions from non-academic publishers, collectors, artists, writers and thinkers.
Conference Co-Chairs
Richard Sawdon Smith
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
FULL RATIONALE and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES on pdf below.
CALL FOR PAPERS – PRESENTATIONS – READINGS – BOOK LIVE! SYMPOSIUM
Book live!
International symposium and related live events at London South Bank University - 8th – 9th June 2012
a collaboration between the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at LSBU and bookRoom Research Cluster at UCA Farnham.
The event will bring together theorists, researchers and practitioners to stimulate a dialogue across disciplines on the ability of the book to keep up with digital culture and the emergence of new modes of writing, of photographing, of reading, or archiving and of disseminating ‘on the page’ work. The purpose of this conference is to examine the current ‘transforming’ and ‘expanding’ of the book rather than its virtual disintegration.
The conference will include international guest speakers from the broader world of publishing, photography and experimental writing
as well as short presentations of book works and a series of live experimental and durational ‘readings’.
The two keynote speakers are Joan Fontcuberta (photographer, artist and all-round critic of contemporary culture from Barcelona) and Sharon Helgason Gallagher (founder and director of D.A.P and ARTBOOK in New York). There will be a performance of the full twelve hours of John Cage’s Empty Words (first published in1979 by Wesleyan University Press) by Sylvia Alexandra Schimag (Germany), coinciding with the release of the complete recording by Editions Wandelweiser.
CALL FOR PAPER AND PRESENTATION max 25 minutes
Call for papers, presentations, panels and ‘readings’ dealing with (but not limited to) the following themes and research questions;
- How has digital technology allowed the book to expand its boundaries, both in space and time?
- Innovative convergence of traditional craft skills and advanced technologies in the making, reading, archiving or disseminating of books.
- Interdisciplinary experiments that addresses the cultural translations between traditional skills and advanced technologies.
- Explorations that reconsider the contemporary or future role of the book socially, culturally, politically.
- Innovative or disastrous explorations and transgressions of ebook readers.
- What do we gain and lose with on screen ‘reading’?
- How is conventional publishing adapting to fast changing digital economy?
- What has become of collecting in our digital culture?
- What is knowledge now that computers can provide and keep everything?
- High culture versus digital culture
Beyond the conference we will be bringing together papers and other contributions as a publication in its own right; an interesting survey of current thinking and innovative practice informed by both the themes and the findings of the conference. Edited and designed by bookRoom press, and published by RGAP.
Deadline for abstracts: 15th january 2011 – Decision sent before 15th february
Please send abstracts to Emmanuelle Waeckerle (ewaeckerle@ucreative.ac.uk)
Submissions from doctoral students and early-career postdoctoral researchers are encouraged, as well as
submissions from non-academic publishers, collectors, artists, writers and thinkers.
Conference Co-Chairs
Richard Sawdon Smith
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
FULL RATIONALE and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES on pdf below.
Book live call for paper
Call for Submission : Antenne Books
Established in 2010, Antenne Books is a London based distribution platform for independent publishers. Antenne distributes titles on art, photography, graphic design and writing to book shops throughout the UK and Scandinavia.
We welcome submissions of published books for our distribution program. Please read the following submission guidelines if you wish to send us a sample of your project for our consideration. All received submissions are not returned.
Please also visit our website to view our current publications: www.antennebooks.com
To send information by post
. A sample of the book
. Title and author(s) of the book
. A short text about the project
. Retail price
. Edition number
. Date published
Antenne Books Submissions
3rd Floor
31 D’Arblay Street
London
W1F 8ES?UK
To send information by email
. Photographs of content, or a PDF
. Title and author(s) of the book
. A short text about the project
. Retail price
. Edition number
. Date published
Call for Submissions for bookRoom @ Small Publishers Fair
(Image: RGAP)
Small Publishers Fair
Friday 11th and Saturday 12th November 2011
Open 11am to 7pm admission free
10th Anniversary this year!
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers; together with a programme of readings and talks. With more than 50 publishers taking part there will be thousands of books and other editions to browse and buy! Admission free.
There is an opening on Friday 11th 6pm to 9pm, email invitation to follow soon. Look on the website for the full calendar of related events, talks: http://www.rgap.co.uk/spf.php
books submissions from bookRoom members for bookRoom display at the fair
To remind you of the criteria
- On the page or bookwork existing as multiples or small edition. Size between A6 and A4, and of reasonable price, no expensive one off as it will have little chance of selling. Do contact me if you have work that falls outside of this criteria, we can discuss ways of including it.
- Limited editon of single page or poster work that can be displayed in the bookRoom A3 portfolio . All single page or poster work should be already packaged, in tube or envelope or any way you wish. For some of you the packaging is part of the work itself. Do provide an extra copy for the portfolio.
- A maximum of 5 copies of each work should be sent to us in Farnham, UK before Thursday the 10th November.
herebefore submitting your work and to ask any questions.
bookRoom at Whitechapel Book Fair 2011
The London Art Book Fair is an annual event devoted to international art publishing. The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events.
The bookRoom is on level 1 main gallery, table 57
The London Art Book Fair 2011 will take place at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 23-25 September 2011.
Book Launch: Anthony Luvera: Residency
2.00-4.00pm, bookRoom, stand 57 (Free)
The bookRoom hosts the launch of the publication Residency by Anthony Luvera. This book encompasses photographs made over a 16 month period by the artist and people who have experienced homelessness living in Belfast. Residency consists of a series of large-format Assisted Self-Portraits, landscape images of Belfast and documentation of Luvera’s working practice through photographs and production polaroids, and features essays by Dr Anthony Downey (Sotheby’s Institute) and Dr Colin Graham (NUI, Maynooth). Published by Belfast Exposed Photography.
bookRoom at Belfast Photo Festival 2011
The Belfast Photo Festival is a biennial, which is Northern Ireland’s first major photographic event celebrating some of the finest national and international contemporary photography and visual culture.
Belfast Exposed (Photo-Book Lounge) Friday 05 August, 2:45pm
In this talk, Emmanuelle Waeckerle who is co-founder/director of Book Room, (University of Creative Arts London) will talk about their efforts to engage with cultural, artistic and creative production through debate and dissemination of on the page works. She will also be sharing her wealth of knowledge and insight into the various ways in which the book, the magazine and other on page works provide a vehicle for the spread of photographic, graphic and text based work.
Photography and The Book panel discussion chaired by Richard west, editor of Source magazine
Belfast Exposed (Photo-book Lounge) Saturday 06 August, 11:30am
This panel explores the impact of digital technology and online distribution on the practice and process of making photography books, whether they be commercial, independent or self-published. Also being discussed will be what the foreseeable future is for the photo-book.
Speakers include: Emmanuel Waeckerle (Book Room), Anna Pfab (Schilt Publishing) and Teresa Preira (Blurb).
4th – 14th August 2011.
http://www.belfastphotofestival.com/events/talks/149-bookroom
bookRoom at Whitechapel Book Fair 2011
The London Art Book Fair presents the work of individual artist publishers, galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing houses, rare book dealers and distributors alongside a wider associated programme of talks and events.
The London Art Book Fair 2010 took place at the Whitechapel Gallery on the 24-26 September 2010.
