Ruscha Rip-off, Rip-out

Author: Sowden, T
Publication: Afterimage, the journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 37, No. 6
Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop, NY
Date: 2010
URL Links: www.vsw.org/ai/issues/afterimage-vol-37-no-6

Abstract:
A Portfolio by Tom Sowden as part of the special section on photo-bookworks in Vol. 37, No. 6 of Afterimage, the journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, published by Visual Studies Workshop, NY. The photo essay details a selection of the books he has collected for an exhibition project co-curated with Linda Newington to be held Winchester School of Art in January 2011. Published in Afterimage online, the journal of media arts and cultural criticism 2010

Artists’ Books in the Digital Age

Author/Co Author: Sowden, T.
Name of conference: Doverodde Book Arts Festival
Place: Doverodde, Denmark,
Date: 9.05.2009
Paper Presented by: Tom Sowden
URL Links: www.bookarts-doverodde

Abstract:
Tom Sowden was invited to present a public lecture on Artists’ Books in the Digital Age, concentrating on how digital technology has improved the production of artists’ books, at the first Doverodde Book Arts Festival to be held in Denmark in May 2009 (attendees c.50). Alongside the talks the festival hosted public artists’ books exhibitions: Ø island (8th May - 25th June), workshops & demonstrations of book arts and crafts / music and story-telling / bookcafé / reading corner (visitors c. 350). For the Ø island exhibition, Bodman and Sowden produced a collaborative artist’s book (Ø - Cherry Blossom Island Tree) that was kept for the collection of the new Book Arts Centre in Doverodde. A documentary video on the production of the book, which was made en-route, can be viewed on the UWE Book Arts website – along with the talks and information.

Discussions at the festival, over workshops with an exhibiting Danish book artist Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck, who utilises hand cut elements in her work led to a successful application in 2009 to the AHRC for a grant to explore laser-cutting for book artists: Paper Models: investigating laser-cutting technology to develop new artists' books and paper-based creative practice for arts, crafts and design, commencing March 2010. Ambeck will visit CFPR for a week-long residency in June 2010, as one of the three case study artists for this AHRC project. Sowden has been invited back to Denmark for the second Doverodde Book Arts Festival in May 2010, to produce a new collaborative book for exhibition and present a talk on laser-cutting for book and paper artists.

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