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 Publishers Weekly: "From hypertext to visual/kinetic text to writing in a networked and programmable media, there is a tangible feel of arrival in the spelled air" of on-line poetry. In Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries, Loss Pequeno Glazier (The Parts), professor and director of SUNY Buffalo's esteemed Electronic Poetry Center (wings.buffalo.edu/epc), theorizes on the practices and potentials of this inchoate medium-cum-venue. Tracing this 21st-century electronic evolution of poets' "awareness of the conditions of texts" to 20th-century experimental poetry, Glazier delineates the Wild West of formal innovation (e.g., interactive poetries; "books" whose contents can be constantly reordered) and explores the inevitable changes this will precipitate in content. The book is part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series edited by poet-critics Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer.Redriff Books: In Digital Poetics, Loss Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and...

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 is a scholarly work which analyzes the artist book in several contexts including the book as idea and form, early 20th century avant-garde books, the codex, the book as a visual form, books as verbal exploration, and the book as document. The Sackner Arcvhive is mentioned in a footnote and as a major source of Johanna Druckers collected works. Drucker provides classification of artist books through headings and examples throughout this book but omits listing them in a tabular form for easy access. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.