The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were embossed heavy paper with letters, lines, and symbols.
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The next chapter to this book?—Matt Mullican’s interactive project for Triple Canopy, “Planetarium,” in which readers navigate a scale model of the solar system.
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“Don’t read this book. / Travel by train. / Get a good education.”
A 2011 calendar by Martin Borst and Johannes Tolk is comprised of poems constructed from phrases in an English language coursebook that the artists found in the garbage. More garbage books are found on their website, linked above. -ds
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Triple Canopy editors Alexander Provan and Peter J Russo discuss “the book as content management system” with Project Projects’ Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michael, in this podcast: “How to Print an Internet Magazine.”
Plus: The Believer on Invalid Format!
Until recently, Triple Canopy has been an exclusively online publishing affair, unique in its art-slanted editing and web-fitted writing projects. Last week, the editors released Invalid Format a beautiful, old-fashioned print anthology of material from their first four web issues, including writing and art by Jon Kessler, Ed Park + Rachel Aviv, Jesse Ball, Sheila Heti, Sumi Ink Club, Rivka Galchen, Roberto Bolaño, Adam Helms, and a slew of others. If you enjoy art, writing, or the internet, try it out. -Ross Simonini
“Astronomical” is a scale model of our solar system in twelve 500 page volumes printed-on-demand. On page 1 the Sun, on page 6,000 Pluto. The width of each page equals one million kilometres.”—
For another interactive, scale model of the solar system, see Matt Mulican’s ”Planetarium,” in Triple Canopy issue 10, where you can navigate freely in space.
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“Invalid Format is among the most artful new attempts to reinvent the Web by the codex, and the codex by the Web.” —The New York Times
Upcoming release events for Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy
Passive Recreation
A salon with Triple Canopy and the Paris Review
The New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street, New York, NY
Wednesday, January 18, 6:30 p.m.
$10, tickets are sold out
RSVP for waitlist: events@nysoclib.org
The New York Society Library holds its third annual salon, featuring food and wine, conversation, visual presentations, and readings. Editors of Triple Canopy and the Paris Review will discuss literature old and new, on the page and on the Web. Triple Canopy will present its first literary—or not not literary—issue, Counterfactuals. Editors, along with contributor Tan Lin, will read and play audio and video selections from the issue. They will speak to Triple Canopy’s effort to cultivate new forms of literary work online and to undermine generic conventions. They will also present Triple Canopy’s first book, Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, which explores how works produced for the screen might fully inhabit the page.
How to Print an Internet Magazine
An Evening with Triple Canopy and Project Projects
McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY
Thursday, January 19, 7–8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
How to print an Internet magazine is the problem addressed by Invalid Format. Triple Canopy editors Alexander Provan and Peter J. Russo will read selections from Invalid Format and discuss its genesis and form with the book’s designer, Prem Krishnamurthy, and Adam Michaels of the firm Project Projects. Krishnamurthy and Michaels will, in turn, discuss how Project Projects makes productive use of the tension between new and old print technologies and design conventions in its work, which ranges from exhibitions to pamphlets, websites to catalogues.
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Our friends at Project Projects have made some soft-core, I mean soft-cover, pornography out of the book we did together. Rated X for invalid.
More on Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume One.
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Dalibor Martinis. Osoba na slici: nije/može biti/je = Person in photo: is not/could be/is Dalibor Martinis. Zagreb: Podroom, 1976.
In each spread of this artist’s book, Martinis paired a photograph of himself (at left) with a blurred photograph (at right). In the space given, he manually traces part of his profile to deduce whether or not the photographs are a match.
The exhibition “Scenes from Zagreb: Artists’ Publications of the New Art Practice,” organized by David Senior, is on display at MoMA Library through February 17, 2012.
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