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119c.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Codex 2017 Symposium - Keynote Speaker Lu Jingren has designed more than one thousand books, and is considered one of China's most influential book designers and illustrators. Lu Jingren's finest and most inventive works provide a modern response to the centuries-long traditions of both Chinese and Japanese book making.  Live translator - Yishu Wang

119b.   The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book & the Body Electric Dr. Betty Bright is a writer, curator and historian who helped to start Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) in 1985 and  authored No Longer  Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980 (Granary Press, 2005).

119a.  The 6th Biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium was held February 5-8 in Richmond, California. The Codex Foundation was conceived in 2005 by Peter Rutledge Koch, fine press printer, and Susan Filter, paper conservator, to create an environment for promoting the book as a work of art. This is accomplished by bringing together the Best of the Best book artists and fine press printers from around the world to share their work, explore new and old concepts, and to start an on-going conversation about the fate and future of the book as an essential art form.   Between Drawing & Printing Johannes Strugalla lives and works in Mainz and Paris. A visual artist and a poet, he is a co-founder of despalles éditions with his wife Françoise Despalles.

118.  Patrick Kiley and Ben DuVall collaborate at Publication Studio in Troy, New York.

117.  The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic - an artist talk and panel with Tatana Kellner and Juliana Cerqueira Leite, moderated by Corina Reynolds of Small Editions.  This event was part of the NY Art Book Fair 2016, at MoMA PS1.

116.  Yishu Wang is one of 11 Chinese contemporary book artists exhibiting at the 2017 CODEX Book Fair and Symposium.  

115.  The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts."  Current president Bexx Caswell speaks about sustaining the guild today.

114.  Kyle Holland is an artist in Cleveland Ohio; he teaches bookbinding and paper making workshops, and coordinates workshops and paper sales at the Morgan Conservatory. Elizabeth Sheehan is an artist in Brooklyn; she is studio assistant and bookbinder at Small Editions and a core instructor at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.

113.  Julia Miller is a book conservator and bookbinding historian based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  She is the author of Books Will Speak Plain and edits the Suave Mechanicals series of essays on the history of bookbinding, all published by The Legacy Press.

112.  Portable Editions was founded in 2014 by Juana Meneses + Leila A. Leder Kremer, in Miami, FL;  Carol Todaro guest hosts.

111c.  Map as Metaphor3   This is the third panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource for book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.    Panel 3: “The Artist Map: Appropriation and Creation” Moderator: Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station. Panelists: Doug Beube, mixed-media artist and independent curator Martin C. Brückner, Associate Director of the Center of Material Culture Studies and Professor of English, University of Delaware Dahlia Elsayed, artist and Assistant Pr

111b.  Map as Metaphor 2 This is the second panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.    Panel 2: “The Eco-Techno Map: Data and Online Initiatives”   Heidi Neilson, artist and founder of SP Weather Station Panelists: Liz Barry, urban designer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of TreeKIT, and Co-Founder and Director of Community Development at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science Ingrid Burrington, artist-in-residence at Data and Society

111a.  Map as Metaphor 1 This is the first panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture. Panel 1: “The Socio-Political Map: Control and Power” Moderator: Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station. Panelists: Neil Freeman, cartographer, artist, and urban planner Shannon Mattern, media artist and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School Lize Mogel, artist and co-editor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography

110.  Leah Taylor is an active freelance writer and the Associate curator of the Kenderdine Art Gallery and College Building Galleries on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Canada. The inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair features her exhibit Somewhere in the Middle with artists Amalie Atkins, Joi Arcand, Troy Gronsdahl, Ellen Moffat, and Kara Uzelman.

109.  Leah Mackin is an artist based in Pittsburgh; Esther S White guest hosts.

108.  Miami-based Carol Todaro is an artist and writer whose work often combines both activities in the form of sculptural tableaus and artists' books.

107.  Trevor Powers works with photographs, artist books, collaboration, coincidence and curatorial projects in western Massachusetts.

106.  Esther S. White curates the Northampton Print and Book Fair and publishes collaborative zines and short-run artist books as Sister Sister Books.

105.  John Cutrone, director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, in Boca Raton, Florida, speaks about the exhibit Wanderlust! - the work of John Eric Broaddus.

104.  Buzz Spector speaks about his work in conjunction with the exhibit Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.