Guest host Robin Canham is a librarian and bookbinder who serves on the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild national board.

Here and There is Everywhere

Susanne Padberg has been the owner of Galerie DRUCK & BUCH since 1994 – first in Tübingen and now in Vienna. The gallery, next door to the Freud Museum in Vienna, specializes in international contemporary book art. As a traveling book art gallerist and curator in both Europe and the United States, she has encountered a number of differences in the book art world here and there. Despite that, she addresses three aspects – collecting, mission/contents/aesthetics, and book form.

FLAG

Victoria Bean is a London based artist, writer, and visual poet, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and co-founder of Arc Editions. She is the co- editor of The New Concrete, an anthology of visual and concrete poetry in the 21st Century that features a hundred artists and writers who work across a variety of disciplines like art, poetry, graphics and literature.

Black Truffles, Vibrant Colours Set Between Black and White

Till Verclas — While still an art student in Hamburg in 1979, Verclas founded his own printmaking studio, going on to work with renowned German and American artists such as Baselitz and Twombly. Verclas works not only in printmaking, but also in large-scale sculpture in bronze, wood, and steel. His artist's books are often made as a reaction to the sculptural installations. Verclas's work can be found in public collections across Germany and the United States.

Swe Den

Thomas Milroth discusses the interaction between Danish and Swedish artists in Denmark and Copenhagen leading to an early outburst of artists' books and printed matter in the 30s, the 40's, and today. He emphasizes the book art activity in South Sweden and Denmark as well as the story of the early thoughts about an alternative space for art.

The Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artists' Books: Highlights from 25 years of working with the collection in South Africa

David Paton is currently Senior Lecture and past head of the Department (2004-2009) of Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He examines important curatorial projects and selected seminal moments from Jack Ginsberg's extensive Johannesburg-based collection of artists' books and archive of books on artists' books.

From Finland barefoot in snow

Tatjana Bergelt discusses her recent artist book From Finland barefoot in snow, a cassette with two books, edition of 4, Northern Sami / Finnish/ German languages, 2015. Focusing on the existential poetry by Sami activist Nils Aslak Valkeapää, yet deeply differing from Middle European existentialism, this artists' book project respects the very core of Nomad culture of the indigenous people of Europe in its visual form. Sami people have been relatively isolated in the very Northern part of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. They speak 10 different languages but yet still must fight for their rights of land ownership and identity.

We always try to keep it simple

Åse Eg Jørgensen, Jesper Fabricius and Jesper Rasmussen are co-editors of Pist Protta, a journal like no other. Firstly because it is rare that a Danish journal dedicated to contemporary art survives for so many years – Pist Protta is the oldest existing art journal in Denmark – and secondly, because it does not look like any other art journal. The principal rule the editors have adhered to is that no issue is to be like any previous one in either format or content. According to the co-editors' motto Pist Protta is not only to be about art, but to be art, the individual issues can be seen as a hybrid between a magazine and an artist's book.

Reflections on Diamond Leaves: Artists' Books in China Now

Marshall Weber is an artist and curator. In 2012, he co-curated the first "Diamond Leaves Triennial" exhibition at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing with Chinese artist Xu Bing.

My Mighty Journey

Gaylord Schanilek established his press, Midnight Paper Sales, in 1980.

Netting the Small Fry

Sue Anderson and Gwen Harrison have worked collaboratively to create limited edition artists' books for over ten years. Although many of their books focus on Australian historic sites and their stories, with a particular interest in institutionalization of certain groups of people, the works often reflect dramas that are universal.

Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker

Lu Jingren has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making. Live translator - Yishu Wang

Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric

Dr. Betty Bright is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and authored No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005).

Between Drawing & Printing

Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of despalles éditions with his wife Françoise Despalles.

This is the third panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource for book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.

Panel 3: "The Artist Map: Appropriation and Creation" Moderator:

Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station.

Panelists:

Doug Beube, mixed-media artist and independent curator

Martin C. Brückner, Associate Director of the Center of Material Culture Studies and Professor of English, University of Delaware

Dahlia Elsayed, artist and Assistant Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College

Katarina Jerinic, mixed-media artist and public space-based interventionist

This is the second panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.

Panel 2: "The Eco-Techno Map: Data and Online Initiatives"

Heidi Neilson, artist and founder of SP Weather Station

Panelists:

Liz Barry, urban designer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of TreeKIT, and Co-Founder and Director of Community Development at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

Ingrid Burrington, artist-in-residence at Data and Society Research Institute and fellow at Autodesk/Pier 9's Experimental Research Lab

Eric W. Sanderson, director of the Mannahatta Project, author, and Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalie Campbell, independent curator and co-founder of SP Weather Station

This is the first panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.

Panel 1: "The Socio-Political Map: Control and Power"

Moderator:

Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station.

Panelists: Neil Freeman, cartographer, artist, and urban planner Shannon Mattern, media artist and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School Lize Mogel, artist and co-editor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography

Abby Schoolman guest hosts.