This class puts special emphasis on printed publications, offering photographer and designer-led publications as a component of the artist book and photo book genres; operating as a polyvalent sub-category of art publication. The projects can act simultaneously as documents, archives, exhibition spaces, distribution vehicles, artist multiples, platforms of exchange, and sculpture, among other roles. This course offers both practical and theoretical approaches to publishing as an extension of the artist book and monograph, drawing strong links between these forms of publishing and artist-driven cultural initiatives developed in the 1960s and 70s that sought to democratize and complicate institutional relationships within the art world. The class will make use of the books in ECUAD Library's Artists' Book collection, and Vancouver Art Book Fair (July 4-6, 2025), along with examples of international artist publishing imprints as points of conversation. Students will learn a number of print and production methods used in book publishing, and be asked to think critically about what techniques, genres, and design considerations are most pertinent to their own practices.
- Teacher: Vicky Lum
- Teacher: Jonathan Middleton