The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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One of the more esoteric books in my library is MCV which i picked up from The Library of Babel thanks to Christian Bök. 'Christian Bök has rediscovered volumes in the hexagonal tenements of the Library of Babel. The ﬁve books conform to the speciﬁcations described by Borges: 410 pages, with 40 lines of text per page and with 80 characters of text per line. Each of the original editions has appeared in print, limited to 25 copies for sale, after which the books have vanished forever.' I am happy to own one of the few physical copies Christian made of MCV. I also like that MCV suggests to me MVC (Model View Controller), the well-known software and programming pattern. Digital copies of the 5 books can be found here. https://www.umlautmachine.net/writings/the-library-of-babel

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👀 Available for pre-order! U N B O U N D by Karel Martens ROMA 492 / 216p / 17 × 24 cm / € 39.80 Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ upcoming solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The publication brings together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades-long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances between being an artist book and a catalog. With texts by Thomas Castro, curator of the exhibition, and Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum. Pre-order here: https://www.romapublications.org/Roma251-500.html

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Ways of Being Alive, Baptiste Morizot, 2022 Rethinking our relationships with other living beings

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Diagrammatic Writing, Johanna Drucker, 2023 The semantic system of graphical relations The graphical expression of semantic relations

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'Alice & Bob After Clay' - by Joan Heemskerk With this book Heemskerk expresses her fascination for quantum computing and for language, building upon her decades-long work both individually and as half of the duo JODI (with Dirk Paesmans) Softcover, published in 2025 https://underbelly.nu/product/joan-heemskerk-alice-bob-after-clay/

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gm✦ Despite the noise of the outside world, I still insist on seeking something beautiful.

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An essential collection of Robert Smithson's key essays and interviews. This is art writing at its best, and at its most experimental, poetic, and conceptual. What to say other than these are my favourite pieces of writing by any artist, period. 'Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.' More impression in comments.

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Arriving in your mail box talk soon.

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Individualism - Petra Schulze-Wollgast, 2021 12 dry transferred TypoGraphics Mimeo printed on old computer listing paper in an edition of 50 copies Could have posted this in either /visual-poetry or here in the /the-library Petra Schulze-Wollgast is the wonderful soul behind PSW press, which specialises in 'artistic publishing with outdated printing techniques' and releasing predominantly visual poetry collections. As usual, more impressions in the comments. https://www.psw.gallery/

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Hello Fluo, a collection of creative coding visuals printed in Quadrifluox, curated by Mekit Studio and 70magenta. Published by @vetro. Feeling jealous, printing with special inks is a blast. https://vetroeditions.com/products/hello-fluo

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E.T. Manning - "Wernher bon Braun", 1978 From Computer Graphics & Art, Feb 1978 (PDF availiable at https://www.are.na/block/11375199)

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After Michaux by Benjamin Dumond An esoteric exploration of type design cross pollinated with asemics. Limited edition of 52. Published bu Plainform.

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A Brief History of Lines | Tim Ingold This is the French edition. Exists in English. A fascinating and profound investigation into language and form from an anthropologist’s point of view.

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Creative Archive (CA) #280 - "Design Experiments" In-depth interview, published in CA (Creative Archive, 디자인 매거진) #280, covering a curated selection of my artworks and some stories and inspirations behind them -- english version coming soon to @paragraph DESIGN MAGAZINE CA 280 p 30 - 57 CABOOKS Independent Publishing, Seoul, Rep. of KOREA 2025

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