Panel

This panel discussion examines the viability of the conventionally printed and published book form—monographic, serial, facsimile, high-value, low-budget, no-budget, and otherwise—as a means of artistic production in the face of the digital and mainstream cultural onslaught. At a time of mass convergence, when so much of the social experience is structured by virtual, electronic means, how might the physical and material residue of small-scale publications yet pertain as a space apart for resistance and individual subjectivity?

Participants
Gil Blank, photographer and founding editor of Influence magazine
Collier Schorr, artist and author of Blumen (2010)
Roe Ethridge, artist and author of Rockaway, NY (2008)
James Hoff and Miriam Katzeff, publishers and founders of Primary Information

The Aperture Foundation, publisher of Aperture magazine, is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to the support and advancement of photography as a fine art. In collaboration with the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons, Confounding Expectations XI is generously supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Henry Nias Foundation, the ASMP Fund, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. The lecture series has been hosted by The New School since 2001.