(I am the moderator for this symposium next week; I hope to see some site visitors there!)

ARTBOOK specializes in new books on art, photography, architecture, design and critical theory.  Founded in 2008 as a sister company of Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., ARTBOOK is the online host of the complete D.A.P. catalog and operates the bookstore ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS 1 in Long Island City.  In addition, ARTBOOK runs occasional pop-up stores at temporary, site-specific venues like Art Basel Miami Beach and The Armory Show New York. Visual Studies Workshop is a nonprofit arts center with a graduate program for photography, film/video, and artists’ books in Rochester, NY.

ARTBOOK @ VSW will be open for the month of July 2010, to coincide with VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium, the 2010 Visual Studies Workshop Summer Institute, and the exhibition “52/52+ by skúta.”

VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium, July 1-3, 2010, addresses a new production generation as an effort to expand the potential for books-as-art.  VSW’s Photo-Bookworks Symposium is a series of presentations on exemplary photo-bookwork projects by American and international photographic artists, publishers, and historians including Theo Baart, Jason Fulford, Susan kae Grant, Gregory Halpern, Jeffrey Ladd, Nathan Lyons, Ron Jude, Mike Mandel, Stephen Marc, Cary Markerink, Danielle Mericle, Alec Soth, Alex Sweetman, Anne Wilkes-Tucker, and Chantal Zakari.  VSW’s Summer Institute consists of intensive one-week courses in Photography, Artists’ Books, Film, Video, Digital Imaging, Web Design and more.  The VSW Gallery will house the exhibition 52/52+ by skúta, a multi-media installation of 52 of the artist’s books made over 52 weeks which functions as a library, an archive, a catalog, a collection, and a retrospective.

ARTBOOK @ VSW will offer a diverse range of titles to compliment the highly curated selection of artist books for sale at the Workshop year-round, with a focus on photography, film, and digital media.  In addition, ARTBOOK @ VSW will feature books from the many participants in the Photo-Bookworks Symposium, as well as artist books by skúta.

ARTBOOK @ VSW
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street Rochester
New York 14607
phone 585.442.8676
www.vsw.org


ARTBOOK @ VSW BOOKSIGNING SCHEDULE:

July 1

1:00 PM  - Ron Jude, signing copies of Other Nature (The Ice Plant Press)

5:00 PM - Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari, signing State of Ata (Aperture)

July 2

12:30 PM - Jason Fulford signing copies of Raising Frogs for $$ (The Ice Plant) and Crushed (J+L Books).

5:00 PM - Theo Baart and Cary Markerink signing copies of Nagele Revisited: A Modernistic Village in the Polder (NAi Publishers).

July 3

1:00: PM - Alec Soth signing copies of Niagara Falls (Steidl)


PHOTO-BOOKWORKS SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:

June 28-29, Workshop: Artist-Conceived Books for Digital Production with Scott McCarney
June 30, Workshop: A Book of Photos or a Photo-Bookwork with Douglas Holleley
July 1
9:30 AM, Welcome and Introductions, Tate Shaw, Director of VSW
10:00 AM, Francois Deschamps on Drones, VSW Press
11:00 AM, Danielle Mericle on Seneca Ghosts, A-Jump Books
12:00 PM, Ron Jude, A-Jump Books
1:00 PM, lunch
3:00 PM, Stephen Marc
4:00 PM, Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari
5:00 PM, Interior Monologue by Elisabeth Tonnard exhibition reception, Booksmart Studio
8:00 PM, “Robert Frank: An American Journey” including “surprise attractions” at the Dryden Theater, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film

July 2
9:30 AM, Jason Fulford, J&L Books
10:30 AM, Gregory Halpern on Omaha Sketchbook, J&L Books
11:30 AM, Jeffrey Ladd, Errata Editions
12:30 PM, lunch
2:30 PM, Susan kae Grant
3:30 PM, Theo Baart and Cary Markerink, Ideas on Paper, on Snelweg, Memory Traces
6:00-9:00 PM exhibition reception for “52/52+” by skúta

July 3
9:30 AM, Anne Wilkes-Tucker in conversation with Alec Soth
11:00 AM, Alex Sweetman in conversation with Nathan Lyons on his epic four-book photo sequence
12:30 PM, Closing commentary by symposium moderator Carla Williams

July 5-9, Workshop: Mapping the Unconscious with Susan kae Grant

For more information about the VSW Photo-Bookworks Symposium please contact:

Tate Shaw, Director
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, New York 14607

585.442.8676 x102
tateshaw@vsw.org
www.vsw.org

For more information about Artbook and D.A.P. please contact:

Alexander Galan
Director of Communications
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
155 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013

212.627.1999 x211
agalan@dapinc.com
www.artbook.com