Artist books, podcasts, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, bulletins, broadsheets, newsletters, chapbooks, comics, zines, recordings, printed ephemera, editioned objects, and multiples of all kinds are again proliferating in contemporary art; this studio seminar is the place to start. Press Print > Press Play is for anyone who wants to start publishing now. What are the processes that comprise artists' book publication? How do we foster published works from creation, to editing, and design, to production and distribution? Are you making books for the moment, the archive, the undercommons, or the coffee table? Like many emerging publishers, we will collectively define our pathway(s) through this improvisational yet demanding practice, testing and making it up as we go along. We will sample widely from publishing theory and criticism, all the while working towards skillful technical orchestration of materials and ideas in the artists' book form. We will work across formats - not posing analogue and digital as a binary, but instead as an endless loop increasing access and shifting the values of cultural production. Self-publishing remains an act of political autonomy, liberation, and personal survival. Against the threat of censorship and amidst and the endless ping-pong of market co-option and criticality, publishing and collecting books is also a fiercely defended labour of love. This class draws equally from Bay Area artist book and print histories, canon-breaking precedents by trans, queer, Black, Indigenous and POC publishers, and the exuberant resurgence of DIY and self-publishing and podcasting in contemporary art. The Spring 24 class trips will include Embodied Press: queer abstraction and the artists' book and CODEX International Artists' Book Fair and Symposium. The guest artist workshop will focus on image-based papermaking for artists' books. Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.

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