PrintRoom

Risograph Stencilprint Workshop
On Saturday 1 and 8 December 2012 PrintRoom offers a risograph stencilprinting workshop. During these days participants will be instructed in preparing their prints and in operating the risograph machines. Participants explore the possibilities of this printing process while producing their own projects under the guidance of graphic designer and risographer Max Senden.

When: Saturday 1 and 8 December from 11am til 6pm
Where: Van Speijkstraat 141 ( the stencil worshop is located opposite our shop/presentation space)
Price: 65,- euros for one day and 100,- euros for two days

Included in the price are a fixed amount of prints and paper for each participant. PrintRoom’s workspace is able to accommodate a maximum of 8 participants per day, so be quick to apply if you wish to participate!

For any questions regarding the workshop or to apply, please contact Max Senden: maxsenden(at)gmail(dot)com

Booksignings by:
David Galjaard, Thursday from 4 – 5
Congresco, self published & .. winner of the First Book Award, Paris Photo
congratulations David!!

Saturday from 4 – 5 Peter Dekens: Touch, Published by The Eriskay Connection

We brought back from New York a good selection of books, zines, records and journals!

20 October: Risography Workshop

On Saturday 20 October we will organize a one-day risograph stencil printing workshop. During the day participants will be instructed in the machines operation and will be able to explore the possibilities and limitations of this printing process by producing one of their own projects under the guidance of graphic designer and risographer Max Senden.

The workshop costs 65,- euros per participant and will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.. Included in the price are a fixed amount of prints and paper for each participant. PrintRoom’s workspace is able to accomodate a maximum of 8 participants, so be quick to apply if you wish to participate!

For any questions regarding the workshop, future workshops or risography in general, or to apply for the workshop on Saturday 20 October please contact maxsenden@gmail.com

SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 12 – 4 pm

Workshop by LemonMelon and PrintRoom

Presentations and round table discussion 4 – 7 pm With: AND Publishing, LemonMelon and Fucking Good Art, moderators: Delphine Bedel and Renee Turner.

‘RisOTATING Leafs’ is a risograph/stencil workshop with invited artists and designers. They will collaboratively produce one publication using strategies inspired from Surrealists, such as ‘cadavre excquis’ (in English also called the ‘exquisite corpse’), appropriation and collage.

The workshop is followed by a series of dynamic presentations and a round table discussion with participants and initiators actively engaged in the self-publishing scene. Elaborating on collaborative practices in publishing, they will highlight the various positions artists and designers take in this blazing field of independent (art)publishing.
Present: Eva Weinmayr and Lynn Harris (AND publishing, U.K.), Rob Hamelijnck (Fucking Good Art, Rotterdam),  Marit Münzberg  (LemonMelon, U.K.), Delphine Bedel (Artist, curator, director Amsterdam Art Book Fair and Mono Space Press), Renee Turner (member De Geuzen and director of the Piet Zwart Institute) and Karin de Jong (artist, director of PrintRoom).

SUNDAY 16 SEPTEMBER, 1 – 5 pm
Workshop by PrintRoom
During this workshop, you have the opportunity to work and experiment with PrintRoom’s risograph machine to produce your own project with the guidance of Max Senden, graphic designer and instructor at PrintRoom.
Everyone can sign up for the workshop by sending an e-mail to: reservations@wdw.nl.

BOOKS
Over the course of the weekend, on display and available for sale, book by the invited publishers and editions selected by: The Eriskay Connection, FW:, From Me to You Publications, Sea Urchin, Nero, Archive Books, The Green Box, BAS, ROMA, A Circular, Umool Umool, Slavs and Tartars, Onomatopee, Witte de With Publishers among others.

Various Fires in Publishing is organized in the frame of the festival ‘Wereld van Witte de With’ and continues Witte de With & PrintRoom’s on-going collaboration and exploration of the world of (art) publishing.

More info on the participants:

Founded in 2009, AND is a platform exploring print on demand technologies to publish conceptually driven artists’ books. Photocopied or glossy printed, AND publishing defines print on demand as a method, a tool to directly and immediately interact and communicate an idea to an audience. AND publishing develops and sustains an adventurous, inquiring, creative practice without having to compromise and conform the conventions of a mass market.
AND publishing was founded by artist Eva Weinmayr, whose work addresses systems for immediate communication and ranges from interactive readings and performances to publications and films, and by artist Lynn Harris, whose work looks at dematerialized art, the digital domain, collaboration, publishing as practice and socially binding act, and methods of open production.

LemonMelon is an independent non-profit publishing project. It was founded in 2010 by Marit Münzberg, who has over ten years experience in publishing. LemonMelon’s primary means of production is a RZ 370 Risograph.The publishing platform LemonMelon is made up of e, l, m, n, o’s, reluctant to form the word Lemon or Melon. The name LemonMelon therefore intends to capture this moment of anagrammatical hesitation. Thus, LemonMelon as a form of publishing, practices this methodology of anagrammatical hesitation, aiming to form a language of publishing, read in its own fundamental ambivalence and put into communication with other – sometimes contradictory – conceptions of the word. Every publication hence aims to re-situate itself within this anagrammatical texture ie. going beyond its own intentional structure.

Fucking Good Art is both an artist collective (Rob Hamelijnck & Nienke Terpsma) and a recurrent publication on contemporary art, which manifests physically as well as on the internet. The hard-copy edition can vary from an A3-format flyer to a publication as a bound book. FGA also broadcasts its own online radio. The artists have been working in München, Berlin, Dresden, Copenhagen, Riga, Basel, Zürich, and São Paulo, where they have produced different publications of the periodical Fucking Good Art, in collaboration with local artists, film makers, architects and curators.

Location: http://www.wdw.nl/about/visit/

Witte de With center for contemporary art

PrintRoom and Witte de With wish to thank:
Festival de Wereld van Witte de With
drukkerij Tripiti and Harolds Grafik for donating paper for the workshop

3D flip book by Han Hoogerbrugge titled ‘Run Motherfucker Dance’ / edition of 100, signed and numbered.  Special introduction price: 75 euro!
First 25 copies with original, signed, felt-tip drawing: ‘I*ME’

We’re pleased to introduce to you AND, a publishing activity and platform exploring print on demand technologies to publish conceptually driven artists’ books.

One of AND’s activities presented is The Piracy Project, an international publishing and exhibition project exploring the philosophical, legal and practical implications of book piracy and creative modes of reproduction. This is a collaboration with Andrea Francke,

During their presence in Rotterdam, Lynn Harris and Eva Weinmayr will host a workshop in which the participants use code as language.
We will also offer artists, designers and writers to consult AND for the production of their own publications.

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This three-day workshop is a creative collaboration with our everyday digital devices (laptops, voice recorders, smartphones, scanners, digital cameras). Tracing the glitches, flaws and corruptions that occur when a message/short story is passed through a line of devices we will explore the implicit transformation processes and their invisible background operations.
The resulting material will form the content of a publication, which will be printed on the last day of the workshop.

This experiment is based on Whisper Down the Lane, Broken Telephone, Stille Post, the famous children’s game that explores how easily information can become corrupted by errors typically accumulating in the retelling of one story. Replacing the human imagination with digital devices we will take this game to a different level.

Please send us an e-mail if you wish to participate in the workshop or would like to make an appointment for an AND consult on your book-to-be-published.
AND publications will be presented at PrintRoom until July 15^th.
http://www.andpublishing.org

Launch of PrintRoom’s A – Z, our new occasional publication.

With contributions by Stefano Calligaro, Martijn in ’t Veld, Joris Lindhout, Ruth Höflich, Faris McReynolds, Rachel Carey, Mick Peter, Ewoud van Rijn.

This programme is part of the language and Art Gallery tour of Poetry International. http://www.poetryinternational.nl

More information:

AND: “Photocopied or glossy printed, we define print on demand as a method, a tool to directly and immediately interact and communicate an idea to an audience. Due to short print runs (starting from one copy), low productions costs and almost no storage costs, we can develop and sustain an adventurous, inquiring, creative practice without having to compromise and conform the conventions of a mass market.”