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This publication was conceived as an extension of Assembling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Stephen Perkins, the curator of the exhibition and the editor of the catalogue writes the following introduction, "This catalogue is a documentation for an exhibition of assembling magazines that took place at Subspace, Iowa City, during September, 1996. The call for submissions was circulated among the correspondence art network and the exhibition was comprised of 38 titles from 15 countries, a small number of assembled books, two audio compilations and assorted artists' magazines, books and catalogues. Many contributors submitted statements about their publications and others offered articles and histories on particular aspects of assemblings. Also included in this catalogue are interviews with editors of four of the periodicals in the exhibition. I'd like to thank all the participants who contributed so generously and were instrumental in creating an exhibition that reflects the spirit of collaboration and exchange that is so central to this international networking community....

Scope and Contents Back cover: The experimental art and poetry of the last half of the twentieth century offers a glimpse of the emerging networked culture that electronic devices will make omnipresent. Craig J. Saper demarcates this new genre of networked art, which uses the trappings of bureaucratic systems-money, logos, corporate names, stamps-to create intimate situations among the participants. In Saper's analysis, the pleasures that these aesthetic situations afford include shared special knowledge or new language among small groups of participants. Functioning as artworks in themselves, these temporary institutional structures-networks, publications, and collective works-give rise to a gift-exchange community as an alternative economy and social system. Saper explains how this genre developed from post-World War II conceptual art, including periodicals as artworks in themselves; lettrist, concrete, and process poetry; Bauhaus versus COBRA; Fluxus publications, kits, and machines; mail art and...

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This assembling was produced by compiling the "favorite visual poems" by the invited contributors. Each poem is accompanied by the poet's own explanations of the works on a facing page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reprints a section of Jake Berry's Brambu Drezi, an experimental novel held by the Sackner in manuscript form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.