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Artists' Books

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A black book spread where each page contains 3 rows of 4 bags filled with different types of fake snow.

Fake Snow Collection

Heidi Neilson, 2010.
 
Fake Snow Collection includes annotated images of 40 fake snow specimens, 17 topical readings accompanied by images of fake snow in use, and 24 samples of fake snow.
 
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Book cover with the title written in two fonts: 'web' in standard, white font and 'affairs' in yellow cursive type. The image on the cover is of a pixelated man with glasses hiding the bottom half of his face with his hand.

Web Affairs

Show-n-tell, 2005.
 
An artist's documentary of an adult video web community. In this book, Show-n-tell tells her story of being a voyeur and eventually becoming part of this community through a series of images and actual chat text. She participates in the community both as an observer and a performer. The electronic images gathered in chatrooms are transformed as photographic stills in the book. 

Glossy book cover with a background that looks like a digital-version of outer space. There are purple rings surrounded an digitally created flower-type object.

Spacebloom: A Field Guide to Cosmic Xflora

Awk Ro, 2004.
 
This book is the most comprehensive source of information on spaceblooms available to inhabitants of Earth. Colorful complex spaceblooms are catalogued in this book, one per page, with visual and written descriptions and assorted data on each bloom’s usage, habitat, hazards, and other futuristic characteristics.                                      

A book spread, the left page containing a block of text and the right an image of a man. There are two drawn lines that go across the top of both pages.

Handbook in Motion

Simone Forti, 1974.
 
Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this singular dance artist's direct and poetic writings bring a turbulent transitional era to life. Arriving in New York in the early 60's from California, she brought with her a series of pieces that proved to be a serious influence on the development of "postmodern" dance in years to come.                                                                                                                               

Book spread on black, glossy paper with each page features two columns of colorful images.

8-Ball Almanac: 10 Years of 8-Ball

Hayley Earnest, Em Brill & Kingsley Hopkins, 2023.
 
A collectively told oral history of 8-Ball Community, an organization of people who seek to nurture a community of art through the creation and maintenance of free and accessible platforms of expression. 8-Ball Almanac acts as both a retrospective of the decade since the community's conception and a guidebook for those who wish to cultivate a community like this one.


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