Delphine Bedel

hard copy editions will be presented by PrintRoom (NL) at the Why do you Publish art book fair in Beirout, 98 Weeks, 02-05 February 2012

By Pauline Beaudemont, Vianney Fivel, Ilse Fresh, Adrien Guillet, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Anne Le Trotter, Suzanne Perrin, Maya Rochat and a special edition by Delphine Bedel. Designers: Marc Hollenstein, Nicolas Leuba, (list to be completed).

Editions to be released in May 2012.

PrintRoom, Rotterdam, March, (date and time to be confirmed.). PrintRoom is a new presentation space and shop dedicated to artists’ publications based in Rotterdam.

Operating as an independent platform for artists, designers and small publishers from all over the globe we explore and present the various positions possible within the field of artists’ publications. We follow new developments, discuss, collect and invite people for talks and presentations. All this we share with a broad audience.

PrintRoom started out in 2003 as a travelling and growing collection of artists’ publications. It has now a home base from which it will keep on travelling and meet new audiences and contributors. The collection comprises of various material: from lusciously designed, full colour publications to simply photocopied zines, but all is tied by the fact that publishing is used as an art strategy, autonomously and artistically.

The hard copy editions are now available at the wonderful photo bookshop of Musée de l’Elysee in Lausanne.

Review on hard copy by Caroline Engel in the next issue of Zeroquatre.

Review by Colin Pantall on the new photobooks publishers, with hard copy, SPBH, Little Brown Mushroom, Ditto Press and more. Check the upcoming BJP January issue!

‘Perhaps one spring’ review by Ismael Abdallah of Florent Meng’s book ‘Préambule. Alinéa H’. Mashallah News is a blog written by journalists, bloggers an designers from all over the Mediterranean sea and beyond. http://mashallahnews.com/?p=5524

Monospace Press, Amsterdam (co-publisher hard copy) Delphine Bedel, collection editor: info [#] hard-copy.org

HEAD – Genève (co-publisher hard copy) Press Information & photos: Olivier Gallandat.  olivier.gallandat [#] hesge.ch Tel +41 22 388 51 19. hard copy editions are available at the University’s reception desk. Copies are available for press review.

hard copy editions are now available at Art Metropole in Toronto, Pro QM and Motto in Berlin & Zurich, Ommu Athens, Theophile’s Papers in Brussels and Paris, San Serriffe, Amsterdam, Archigraphy,  Geneva University of Art and Design, Musée d’Art et d’histoire in Geneva, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, PrintRoom Rotterdam and soon at Self Publish Be Happy online shop!

Book fairs: 2012, Why do you Publish, Beyrout; 2011, Miss Read, Berlin, Offprint Paris, Amsterdam Art/Book Fair 2011, 2010, Salon Light #7 Paris.

(Photo by Maya Rochat)

Colin Pantall’s Blog with review of hard copy and Maya Rochat’s editions.

Hard Copy is seeking designers for the 2011-12 editions, who are interested in artist books, innovative editorial and critical design practices and typography. Prior experience with printed matter required.

Hard Copy is an innovative research and publishing platform that aims to reflect on artist books and printmaking, central to emerging artistic and design practices. Initiated in 2009 by artist, curator and tutor Delphine Bedel, this three-year practice and theory-based project is conceived for the Master of Fine Arts WORK.MASTER at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD).

Hard Copy explores the space of a book and formats of display, editorial concepts, extended printing techniques, graphic design and typographic researches. By publishing artist books and multiples and curating exhibitions, workshops and lectures series with keynote speakers (Seth Siegelaub, Clive Phillpot, Bruno Ceschel, Joel Vacheron, Daniel McClean, Dexter Sinister, etc), hard copy aims to contextualize and expand this research historically and theoretically.

Designers will be chosen according to the artist projects by the Hard Copy team. Each publication is the product of a collaboration with an artist, a graphic designer, a typeface designer and the editors/tutors. The designers, based in Switzerland, will attend the monthly Hard Copy sessions at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), as well as individual meetings with the artists.

If you are interested by the project please mail us. Please send documentation of your work in print as PDF, as well as a link to your  website. Due to the many submissions, we will only mail back if you are invited for an interview.

Proposals must be received by December 15, 2011.

Further info: www.hard-copy.tumblr.com and info [[#]] hard-copy [[dot]] org

This information is subject to updates and changes.

The Amsterdam Art/Book Fair conferences ‘Multiple Future’ online now. All you wanted to know about the future of artists books! Check for videos updates on our FB page.

MISS READ will comprise of a selection of about 80 international publishers and artists. The festival will provide an overview on artistic publishing and present a selection of the most active contributors in this field, providing them with the opportunity to present their program to a wider public in Berlin. Moreover the festival offers a large program of lectures, performances and talks. The program is organized in collaboration with Axel John Wieder (Pro qm) and Alexis Zavialoff (Motto). Open: Fri 3-9pm, Sat 3-9pm, Sun noon-7pm.

Offprint Paris / Le Bal,  Saturday 12 November, 12 am. Lectures & Talks ‘Artist as Publisher’: political and esthetical meaning of publishing activism by artists. Discussions and presentations by artists from ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative Mishka Henner and Elisabeth Tonner, Delphine Bedel (Hard Copy/HEAD - Geneva University of Art and Design), Stephen Gill (Nobody), José Pedro Cortes (Pierre von Kleist), Erica Overmeer (O Book Publisher), Erik Van der Weijde (4478Zine). Moderator & curator: Yannick Bouillis.

The hard copy editions are presented at the book fair.

Editions hard copy 2011, sélectionées par Théophile’s Paper

Martina-Sofie Wildberger ’ Mon Petit Alphabet’

Johanna Viprey ’ J’aime a peu pres la nature’

Martina-Sofie Wildberger ’ Mon Petit Alphabet’

THEOPHILE’S PAPERS
est un projet de sélection et de diffusion, de différents supports d’éditions (magazines, revues, fanzines, journaux…) fonder à Bruxelles en mars 2011 lors de Pa/per View. Retrouvez Théophile’s Papers à Abilene à Bruxelles et maintenant chez Artisan Social Designer à Paris.

ARTISAN SOCIAL DESIGNER
est un nouveau concept store consacré uniquement aux pratiques artisanales contemporaines. Implanté dans le 3 ème arrondissement de Paris, Artisan Social Designer est conçu comme un observatoire des formes actuelles où se croisent art contemporain, édition, mode et design.

Artisan Social Designer
68, rue des Gravilliers
75003 Paris
contact@artisansocialdesigner.fr

theophilespapers@gmail.com
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hard copy will be available at OMMU Athens!

OMMU is a distribution service based in Athens, Greece. We are dedicated to circulating and promoting books, zines and periodicals oriented towards art, design, architecture and fashion from all over the world, mainly in the territory of Greece. Our catalogue is primarily constituted of self-published items and all kinds of different projects on paper; we aim to introduce all this body of Greek and international production in selected creative spaces.

The bookshop is located in the center of Athens, showcasing the latest in self-published editions, as well as a diverse number of magazines, monographs, exhibition catalogues, artist books & zines. The planning of our space has also been a very important part of our project, as we are mainly interested in creating a place where different disciplines can blend together. The displays have been designed especially to carry and highlight all kinds of publications, while there is room for activities like book launches and open discussions. By creating a living space we attempt to connect it with everyday life practices that will increase all possibilities of creative development in Athens.
A second bookshop is located at THE BREEDER gallery, where we have created a selective display of our inventory. The new location will function as a space of presentation of contemporary publishing activity to a wider audience.

Founders
Marina Legaki
Tasos Gaintatzis

OMMU
Emmanouil Benaki 79                                   
10681 Athens, Greece                                  
+30 210 38 00 575

Tuesday – Friday: 12:00 – 20:00                    
Saturday: 12:00 – 16:00

Live broadcast of the booklaunch of hard copy at Centre de la photographie, Geneva, 3.11.2011, 18.00–21.00. LapTopRadio is a real nomadic radio: broadcasting irregularly on the internet with a most simple setting: a laptop with a modem connected to the mobile-phone network. If there is a mobile connection, we can broadcast. The old dream of independent pirate radio (but now on the internet) is coming true.

LapTopRadio is an experimental structure exploring the possibilities of radio networking and streaming, which seek to counter or supplement forms of public broadcasting through creating unique forms of collectivity.

At the same time we want to question and understand the parameters of radio’s historical, medial and aesthetical status, the notion of place, corporeality, social exchange, and the politics of information. What are the ideas behind concepts from modernist “Wireless Imagination” to “Radical Radio”? This radio is a collective project, initiated by Laurent Schmid; it is linked to work.master,a MFA-studies programme at HEAD Genève, Geneva University of Art and Design.

Maya Rochat: ’ Ma tête a couper’. Design Jeremy Shorderet. Schedule here: www.offprintparis.com/?page_id=552. More info there: www.mayarochat.com and there www.theletter.ch

Photography: Maya Rochat, Ma tête à couper, Hard copy 2011

NEAR Swiss Association for Contemporary Photography. NEAR has been created in Lausanne in January 2009 to promote contemporary photographic images nationally as well as internationally. NEAR associates artists / photographers as well as professionals in the fields of art and of image in general : art historians, art critics, curators, collectors, museums, editors, medias… Dorothée Baumann, Florent Meng et Maya Rochat are member of NEAR. http://www.near.li/html/news.html

Thursday 3rd November, 9.30-12.30, HEAD-Geneva, CH. Workshop about self-publishing with Bruno Ceschel and Delphine Bedel, and the Hard Copy artists. (This event is not public) selfpublishbehappy.com

Bruno Ceschel is a lecturer in Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, London, a writer and curator. He is also the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy, a organization aim to promote and study self-published photobooks.

Self Publish, Be Happy since 2010 has organized events at The Photographers’ Gallery, ICA and Whitechapel Gallery in London, OffPrint in Paris and at Flash Forward Festival in Toronto and Boston and its library/exhibition toured various photography festivals in the Summer 2011. SP,BH will publish its first book titled SPBN – Self Publish, Be Naughty in October 2011. Previously Ceschel worked on the 2008 edition of the Brighton Photo Biennial, as book editor at Chris Boot Ltd, and was associate and creative editor at Colors magazine. He has curated exhibitions at Fashion Space Gallery and HotShoe Gallery in London. Ceschel is now working on his first book titled Dissident Desires – Identities in Contemporary Photography that will be published by Aperture in 2012.