The Book as Studio as an Idea as an Object
Victor Sira Is a Venezuela-born artist/photographer whose work has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He curated the show Photography Book Dummies at the School of International Center of 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. Sira is on the faculty at the ICP-Bard MFA Advanced Photographic Studies Program in New York, where he teaches the course The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop Process.
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Given Flowers #8
『薔薇刑』 “Barakei” (Ordeal by Roses) by Eiko Hosoe
Photograph of Yukio Mishima
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Typeverything.com - There’s nothing to fear by Brian Dettmer.
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New Hope, PA winter 2012
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dry flower and Eggleston postcard, 2012
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“Accumulation” Ryo-an ji, Kyoto, Japan 2011
龍安寺、京都 2011
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HANS BELLMER. “Poupée, variations sur le montage d’une mineure articulée,” Minotaure 6 (Winter, 1934–35)
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production,
co-organized by Andrew...
New Hope, PA winter 2012
Labyrinth: By Roberto Bolaño
They’re seated. They’re looking at the camera. They are captioned, from left to right: J. Henric, J.-J. Goux, Ph. Sollers, J. Kristeva, M.-Th. Réveillé, P. Guyotat, C. Devade, and M. Devade.
There’s no photo credit.
They’re sitting around a table. It’s an ordinary table, made of wood, perhaps, or plastic, it could even be a marble table on metal legs, but nothing could be less germane to my purpose than to give an exhaustive description of it. The table is a table that is large enough to seat the above-mentioned individuals and it’s in a café. Or appears to be. Let’s suppose, for the moment, that it’s in a café.
- The first three paragraphs of Roberto Bolaño’s “Labyrinth,” featured in this week’s issue. To read the rest: http://nyr.kr/zbsEVQ
Working Tables
Victor Sira: Class Assignments for my 2012 ICP-Bard MFA seminar on books
Atelier
Took a day trip and visited his calming and inspiring studio in New Hope, PA.
Interesting tour yesterday through the special Collections at the Brooklyn Museum Library…
Interesting tour this morning through the special Collections at the Brooklyn Museum Library…
The 2010 Annual Report is an encapsulation of my father’s life, as communicated by the calendars, slides and other artifacts in my possession.
Roman Mars - 99% Invisible-31- Feltron Annual Report
Nicholas Felton is an information designer. Since 2005, he has tabulated thousands upon thousands of tiny measurements in his life and designed stunning graphs and maps and created concise infographics that detail that year’s activities. The results were originally intended for his friends and family, but the “personal annual reports” have found an audience with fellow designers and people that really geek out on seeing lots of data, beautifully presented. In 2010, Nicholas Felton’s father passed away, and Felton decided to turn his annual report into a full biography of his father. He took 4,348 of his father’s personal records and created an intimate portrait of a man, using only the data he left behind.
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production,
co-organized by Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker Art Center and
Ellen Lupton of the Smithsonian Institution’s
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Exhibition starts from Jun 1st - Sep 3rd, 2012
@ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Covers of my book “The Desire to leave a Mark” at the ICP 2012 Winter Catalog
This January will be my fourth year teaching the seminar “The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop Process”At the ICP-Bard MFA Advanced Photographic Studies Program in New York City.
What do I teach? I teach the history of the book, construction, editing and design but the ultimate goal of the class is to ask new questions, stimulate conversations and ultimately to communicate with our communities. If you ask someone if they know what a book is? Their answer probably will be yes I know! And that will be the end of the conversation. They are using over and over again the same knowledge they have of the book to answer, but what constantly invigorates the human mind is the unknown; we aren’t animated by what we already know. I want my student to ask questions about the book that has never been asked and then I want them to make books base of these questions.
To converse is to exercise one another’s thoughts by beginning with a trivial piece of knowledge and speaking about it together. I will be happy if this class help my students anew the meaning of knowing as well as understanding, and the essential identity of communication.
apples, grapes, and a nice day
Jan 1st 2012
