A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing
(non)material text featured as an installation titled ‘See words, shift thoughts’ in the ‘See words, ______’ exhibition curated by Typeclub, coming soon at the Centre for Communication Design, Hong Kong Design Institute. Artist statement: (non)material text is a miscellany of thoughts that explores the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing, made public …
Apparently the seed for this project was already planted 20 years ago. Posting something this old poses the risk of making a fool of myself, but I’ll do it anyway. This was from one of my grad projects when studying at Emily Carr. I proposed that ‘text’ is always ‘virtual’ (non-material?), and that it is …
Although the author has long been dead, the author still carries some sort of aura (authority?) perhaps, to have something in print or in wide circulation. Or does authority lie in the publisher who holds the resources necessary to get one’s work out there, or indeed the editor or reviewer who decides whether the work …
(non)material text experiment number 0.0The first 20 hours of the blog as a PDF publication
What if we take some text that’s obviously not finished and not coherently edited and present it in a way that looks as if it were proverbially ‘published’, or to actually get it published? What happens then? Does it still constitute a ‘work’?