a few zines

at last, out loud

A couple technical snafus had to get worked out, but finally, a recording of the January 8 A Few Zines panel at Studio-X is online.

Catch the dulcet tones of moderator Kazys Varnelis, listen to Luke Bulman on shopdropping tactics for publishers, Mark Shepard on digital media, Felix Burrichter on making architecture sexy and entertaining again, and myself waxing poetically about anarchist print shops in Berkeley and the smell of fresh ink. Stephen Duncombe gives a fantastic paper on zine culture as a foil to pervasive capitalism and how that changed with online publishing. It's good stuff.

Download it here.

And mark your calendars for the Boston panel, Grafting, Publishing as Practice, on March 6.

so long soho, we're beantown bound

This is the last week to see A Few Zines: Dispatches from the Edge of Architectural Production at Studio-X. The show closes on Saturday, February 28. There's been so much good feedback: artist Karen Finley took her students, Abitare blogged us, as did the Architects Journal.

On March 6, A Few Zines remounts at pinkcomma gallery in Boston.

New Englanders rejoice. A whole new opening-night panel, entitled Grafting: Publishing and Practice, kicks off the exhibition. And, watch out, I'm moderating this line-up.

Grafting: Publishing and Practice comes at a time when the economic crisis is wreaking havoc on both the architecture and publishing professions—shelter magazines closing, new construction stalled out. Speakers from a wide range of architectural media: blogs, journals, zines, and magazines, will look at the state of architectural media, consider its role in practice, and explore future publishing models.

Braulio Agnese, Architect magazine
Chris Grimley, over,under
Ryan McClain, ArchitectureMNP
Quilian Riano, Archinect.com
John Southern, Sumoscraper and Urban Operations Studio

Opening Event
Friday, March 6, 2009
Panel Discussion 7 – 8:00 pm
Exhibition Party: 8 – 10:00 pm

pinkcomma gallery
81B Wareham Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118