(left to right, top to bottom) iMac G4; The James Diamond Collection of Home Movies WAC 9.5 16mm BW; Eric Luken 13 JonBenéts; Nov 10 1991 1/8”=1”– 0”; Cho—Fro; Canon AP200; Hanging Out; Elizabeth Peyton Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 2008; Galleries 4, 5, 6; Pantone Cool Gray 10C; John Baldessari I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art…

1. What music were you into before you became ELLEN LUPTON? 2. Who were your heroes before you became ELLEN LUPTON? 3. What were your obsessions before becoming ELLEN LUPTON? 4. What were your dreams before you became ELLEN LUPTON? 5. What were you reading before you became ELLEN LUPTON? 6. What did you use to collect before you became ELLEN LUPTON? Ellen Lupton’s prolific career spans the realms of…

1. What music were you into before you became EXPERIMENTAL JETSET? The Cramps(1), Suicidal Tendencies(2),  The Zombies (3) , The Beatles (4),  The Specials(5),  Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (6), Prince (7),  Japan(8) , The Pixies (9). 2. Who were your heroes before you became EXPERIMENTAL JETSET? 3. What were your obsessions before becoming EXPERIMENTAL JETSET? Drawing, reading, skateboarding, punk music; Horror; Drawing, reading, making…

While at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair last fall, I was fortunate enough to catch David Reinfurt at the Dexter Sinister booth for a brief chat about the conception of DS and about a project they produced for a conference on contemporary artists’ books commissioned by the Art Libraries Society of New York. “It originally started out as a project for the Manifesta Six Biennial, which was…

1. What music were you into before you became PROCESS TYPE FOUNDRY? Eric Olson: Coalesce, MC5, Converge, Fabric, The Faces and John Adams. Nicole Dotin: I think I’m still listening to it. 2. Who were your heroes before you became PROCESS TYPE FOUNDRY? Eric: I don’t have any heroes. Nicole: I am inspired by the exceptional actions of others, but I don’t have any heroines. 3. What were your obsessions before…

In conjunction with the exhibition Text/Messages, the Walker and mnartists.org hosted Multiples Mall, an artist book fair for the Twin Cities (hopefully to become an annual event). We thought it was a good occasion to actually collaborate with each other and so after batting around a number of ideas, we settled on something resembling a labor of love: four pamphlets dedicated to four people who for…

Given the Walker’s dive into new media (this blog being a case in point) it may surprise some readers that the venerable Walker library is only searchable though an old-fashioned card catalog system. In a hallway between the library and the archives live three or four hulking pieces of furniture, which hold thousands of cards, records for each book. These somewhat esoteric index cards, punched with…

This catalogue documents the Walker Art Center’s exhibition The Last Picture Show, which surveys artists’ alternative uses of photography from the 1960s to the early 1980s. During this time artists were redefining their relationship to the camera and to the media through explorations that were often published in art magazines and self-published journals of the time. Taking its cue from these types…

Here is a small sampling of brochures from the Regis Dialogues and Film Retrospectives, curated by the Film/Video department at the Walker since 1990. The brochures had a variety of formats before 1995, when P. Scott Makela and Santiago Piedrafita created the current template.  We have several of these loose templates for recurring projects (like this) — specifying a size, a few folding variations, or…