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Teaching, Talks/lectures, Writing, Press/features, Collections, Residencies, Competitions/awards, Fairs, Exhibitions, Professional, Affiliations, Education

Teaching

• Ithaca Text Image, Visiting Faculty, Summer 2019
• Urgency Lab, one-hour workshop, NY Tech Zine Fair, School for Poetic Computation, December 2018
• Urgency Print Lab, one-day workshop, MoMA PS1 Book Space, August 2018
• RISD Global, “Artistic Practice in Public Space,” summer course, July 2018
• Triple Canopy Publication Intensive, one-day Urgent Archives work session, June 2018
• Concordia University, Global Emergent Media Summer Institute, workshop in Salemi, Italy, July 2017
• RISD Global, “Artistic Practice in 24-Hour Light,” summer course, June 2017
• Virginia Commonwealth University, guest critic MFA graphic design, April 2017
• Parsons, The New School, guest critic BFA thesis visual communications, April 2017
• Open Set Summer School, Printed Web workshop in Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2016
• Rhode Island School of Design, Assistant Professor in Graphic Design, full-time faculty 2016–ongoing
• Rhode Island School of Design, Assistant Professor in Graphic Design, term appt 2015–16
• Rhode Island School of Design, adjunct instructor in Graphic Design & Graduate Studies, Spring 2015
• Rhode Island School of Design, adjunct instructor in Graphic Design, Spring 2014
• Purchase College, adjunct instructor, Design, Fall 2013
• Cornell University, guest instructor, Department of Architecture, Fall 2008
• Guest critic at numerous institutions, including Merz Akademie, UCLA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Michegan State University, Parsons The New School, CUNY Baruch College, Columbia University, Cornell University

Talks/lectures

• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Prada Mode / Document Journal, Art Basel Miami, December 2018
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Boston University, November 2018
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Boston Art Book Fair, October 2018
• Insights Design Lecture Series, Walker Art Center, March 2018
• “Scratching the Surface,” Podcast interview with Jarrett Fuller, January 2018
• The Cybernetics Conference, featured speaker, November 2017
• “Forever and a Day: Archiving Performa,” Symposium at NYU for Performa 17 Biennial, featured speaker, November 2017
• “Practice and / or / as Project,” Conversation with Joe Potts, “Positive Space” podcast, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (CAA), October 2017
• “In Conversation: Paul Soulellis and Allison Parrish,” Eyebeam In Conversation series at Babycastles, NYC, August 2017
• Concordia University, GEM Summer Institute, featured speaker, Salemi, Italy, July 2017
• “Show us what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.” Featured speaker, b-side Assemblies, Portland, England, June 2017
• “Notes on Feeds,” Interrupt 4 at Brown University, featured speaker, April 2017
• Wikipedia Day, featured speaker for art panel, January 2017
• 3D Additivist Cookbook launch, Printed Matter, NYC, featured speaker & panelist, December 2016
• Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, MoMA PS1, NYC, featured speaker, September 2016
• Conceptual Poetics Day, Berlin, featured speaker, June 2016
• Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, featured presenter, June 2016
• Michigan State University, Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, April 2016
• Art Directors Club of Tulsa, March 2016
• Code-X book launch, Printed Matter, featured speaker, November 2015
• Werkplaats Typografie, talk with Constant Dullaart at MoMA PS1, September 2015
• Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Germany, “Digital Culture” series, invited speaker, June 2015
• Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, talk and workshop, June 2015
• Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France, lecture and workshop, June 2015
• New Museum, digital publishing talk and panel discussion, April 2015
• “Theorizing the Web,” featured speaker, NYC, April 2015
• “Performing Publishing,” Interrupt 3, Brown University, featured speaker, March 2015
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talk, March 2015
• “Hypersalon,” Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL, featured talk, December 2014
• Printed Web 2 launch and artists’ panel, MoMA Classroom at NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, September 2014
• BBC Radio Solent, interview, 23 June 2014
• Jacksons Gallery, Isle of Portland, England, artist’s talk, June 2014
• International Center for Photography (ICP), NYC, guest speaker, March 2014
• Printed Web 1 launch and artists’ panel, Printed Matter, NYC, April 2014
• Printed Web 1 launch and artists’ panel, RISD & The Design Office, Providence, RI, March 2014
• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, guest critic and talk, January 2014
• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, guest critic and talk, January 2014
• “Resistance: Scenes from a designer’s counter-practice,” Build Design Conference, Belfast, North Ireland, featured speaker 2013
• Rauði Klefinn, reading, Skagaströnd, Iceland, August 2013
• The Book Affair, featured speaker, 55th Venice Biennale 2013
• Artist’s talk, Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, May 2013
• London2012 Cultural Olympiad, Weymouth, England, reading and talk, August 2012
• “BookLive!” at London South Bank University, featured speaker 2012

Writing

• “Search, Compile, Publish,” appears in Publishing Manifestos, Michalis Pichler, ed., MIT Press, forthcoming spring 2019
• “The Post As Medium,” essay in The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics, New Museum, Michael Connor, ed., January 2019
• “Publishing Needs to Get More Radical,” A conversation with Annette Gilbert in Kunstforum International, Germany. Sept, 2018
• “Urgent Archives,” essay in Public, Private, Secret (Charlotte Cotton, ed.), Aperture, 2018
• “Search, Compile, Publish,” 2013 essay appears in Publishing Manifestos, Michalis Pichler, ed., May 2018
• “Sanctuary,” essay included in Safe, a pavillion curated by Christopher Clary for The Wrong Digital Art Biennial, January 2018
• “Rozendaal: The Path to Abstraction,” text accompanying the presentation of intotime.com as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, Dec. 2017
• “Performing the Feed,” published in Rhizome’s Special Seven on Seven 10th Anniversary Magazine, May 2018 & Delivered at The Cybernetics Conference, NYC, November 2017
• “Merging with the Network,” interview with Eva and Franco Mattes accompanying the presentation of Life Sharing as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, Oct. 2017
• “Notes on Feeds,” September 2017
• “Occupying Plöger’s Library,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, January 2017
• “Carrying, embeddedness, printedness. Window-in-the-page. A grand assembling,” 3D Additivist Cookbook launch at Printed Matter, December 2016
• “The Download: Dennis Cooper’s GIF Novels,” Rhizome, November 2016
• “The Download: Technologies of Care,” Rhizome, October 2016
• “Artist Profile: Lorna Mills,” Rhizome, September 2016
• “Artist Profile: Travess Smalley,” Rhizome, July 2016
• “The Download: Incantations for the Birth of a Network,” Rhizome, May 2016
• “The Distributed Monument: New Work from Moreshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation Series,” Rhizome, February 2016
• “After the Hook-Up, An App,” Rhizome, December 2015
• “The Download: sorry to dump on you like this.zip,” Rhizome, November 2015
• “The Printed Web,” Google Span Design Conference publication, November 2015
• “The Printed Web,” Code X, Book Room Press, London, November 2015
• “Making Public,” June 2015
• “L’image inframince,” May 2015
• “Digital Publishing, Unzipped,” Rhizome, April 2015
• “Performing Publishing: Infrathin Tales from the Printed Web,” Hyperallergic, December 2014
• “Performing Publishing,” The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2014
• “The Printed Web,” newcriticals.com/the-printed-web
• “Resistance (Scenes from a designer’s counter-practice)” at counterpractice.tumblr.com
• “Search, Compile, Publish: towards a new artist’s web-to-print practice,“ 2013
• “The Generosity Echo,” Communication Arts, Jan/Feb 2013
• “Design Humility,” The Manual #3, Fiction Press, 2012

Press/features

• “Paul Soulellis turns the internet into tangible art,” interview in Document Journal, December 17, 2018
• QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK featured in AIGA Eye on Design magazine, Issue #3, December 2018
• Books and Ideas After Seth Siegelaub, Sternberg Press, The Center for Book Arts, 2017
• “Totgesagte Leben Länger: Das Gedruckte Buch Im Postdigitalen Zusammenhang” (The Dead Live Longer: The Printed Book in the Postdigital Context) by Franz Thalmair, Kunstforum #243 (Austria): Postdigital 2. Issue edited by Franz Thalmair
• “Library of the Printed Web: The Guy Who Makes Art Out of the Internet,” Vice Magazine, Feb 2017
• “Screen Life and Shelf Life: Critical Vocabularies for Digital-to-Print Artists’ Publications,” David Senior and Sarah Hamerman, Art Libraries Journal, 2016
• “The Space Between 0 and 1: Printmaking and Digital Technology in Portland,“ Matthew A. Coleman, Art in Print, July–August 2016
• “Library of the Printed Web,” Artzines, October 2016
• “Publishing as Artistic Practice,” Annette Gilbert, Publishing as Artistic Practice, Sternberg Press, 2016
• “A Conversation with Paul Soulellis,” Kate Palmer Albers, Circulation | Exchange, 2016
• “Paul Soulellis (ed.): Printed Web (2014– ),” Monoskop, January 18, 2016
• “Paul Soulellis: Scenes from a Designer’s Counterpractice,” Ariela Gitlen, Elephant Magazine #25, 2016
• “2016: The Year According to Paul Soulellis,” Walker Art Center, December 2016
• “Our 5 Dirtiest Discoveries from Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair,” The Creators Project, 2016
• “Critical Making at the Edges,” Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, eds., Visible Language 49.3 (December 2015)
• “10 Must-Read Art Essays from November 2015,” Artnet News, 12/15/15
• “Turning Pixels into Print: An Interview About the Printed Web,” Hyperallergic, September 2015
• “Poor Media on Demand: All the Files of Printed Web 3,” Rhizome, May 2015
• “Required Reading: Paul Soulellis on Experimental Publishing,” Rhizome, February 2015
• Kenneth Goldsmith, “The Artful Accidents of Google Books,” The New Yorker, 12/5/13
• Joachim Schmid, Else Magazine (Elysée Lausanne), Switzerland, “The Operators’ Invisible Hands,” November 2013
• Duncan Wooldridge, “The Continuing Evolution of the Photobook,” Elephant Magazine (London), Winter 2013
• “Stampatori di internet,” Rivista Studio, Italy, June 2013
• The Book is Alive, Research Group for Artists Publications. (RGAP) / bookRoom, England, 2013, “Weymouths”
• West Space Journal, Issue 1, Winter 2013, Australia, “Library of the Printed Web”

Collections

• The Museum of Modern Art Library, NY
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• International Center of Photography Library
• Getty Research Institute Library
• Otis College of Art & Design Millard Sheets Library
• Amon Carter Center Museum of American Art, Research Library
• Haverford College
• Princeton University Library
• Harvard University Fine Arts Library
• Savannah College of Art and Design
• Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Columbia University Libraries
• MICA Decker Library
• Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College
• Hochschule Hof, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften—Fachhochschule Hof—Bibliothek
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Walker Art Center Library
• Tufts University, Tisch Library
• Yale University, Beinecke Library, Sterling Memorial Library, Haas Arts Library
• New York Public Library
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library Special Collections
• Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Cornell University Library
• Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — Hirsch Library
• Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
• Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
• Hochschule Hof, Germany
• Weymouth College, England
• The John Cage Trust, Bard College
• Black Mountain College Museum

Residencies

• Internet Archive, January 2019
• ArtCenter South Florida, January 2018
• Dispersed Holdings, NYC, Reading Residency, December 2016
• Attention Lab at Mildred’s Lane, July 2016
• Nes Artist’s Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, Summer 2013
• American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, January–February 2011

Competitions, awards

• AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers, 2012
• Print Center’s 86th Annual International Photography Competition, Semi-Finalist, 2012
• Graphis Poster Annual, Gold Award, 2009

Fairs

• NY Tech Zine Fair at School for Poetic Computation, 2018
• Boston Art Book Fair, 2017–18
• Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, 2012–2018
• Offprint Library Arles (France), works featured, July 2016
• 6th Annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair, Baxter St Camera Club of New York, curated by Anouk Kruithof, June 2016
• Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery, 2014–16
• Internet Yami-Ichi New York, 2015, 2016
• Offprint London at Tate Modern, 2015
• Offprint Paris at École des Beaux Arts, 2012, 2014
• The Book Affair at Venice Biennale, 2013
• Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at MoCA, 2014

Exhibitions

• Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum, 2018
• p0es1s—post-digital, Kunst Tempel, Kassel, Germany, Documenta 14, September 2017
• Trust and Believe, curated by Nora Khan and Sam Hart, Eyebeam, NYC, April 2017
• Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography Museum, Charlotte Cotton, curator, NYC, June 2016
• Publish or Perish, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, April 2016
• Variable States: Print Now, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR March 2016
• Mall No. 2, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by DrawDown Books, January 2016
• Installation of ABC’s ABCEUM at Offprint Paris, November 2014
• b-side Multimedia Arts Festival, Portland, England, 2014
• Brighton Photography Biennial, Brighton, England, October 2014
• Undefined by Design, Lorimoto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
• Either/And, “Archiving on the Line,” National Media Museum, UK, 2014
• Due North, Philagrafika Projects at Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, 2014
• Printing Out the Internet, (Kenneth Goldsmith, curator), Labor Gallery, Mexico City, 2013
• Directed, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2013
• Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany 2013
• Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery, NYC 2013
• Mishka Henner: Precious Commodities Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2013
• ABC Installation, Mews Project Space, London, England, 2012
• b-side Multimedia Arts Festival, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, 2012
• Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 2012
• Revisiting Black Mountain College 3: John Cage’s Circle of Influence, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2011
• Graphic Virtuosity: Architectural Posters from the Robert G. Hill Collection, University of Toronto, 2007

Professional

• Soulellis Studio, founder 2001–current
• Mercurylab, co-founder 1998–2001
• Futurebrand, designer 1996–98
• Donovan and Green, project manager/designer 1993–96
• The Brooklyn Museum, project manager 1991–93
• Studio Pendleton-Jullian, designer 1989–90

Affiliations

• Rhizome, contributing editor and curator, 2015–present
• NEW INC at the New Museum, mentor 2015–17
• NEW INC at the New Museum, inaugural member 2014–15
• ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative, 2012–present

Education

• The Cooper Union, “Principles of Type Design,” 10-week course, 2013
• SVA, “Type and Design” in Italy with Louise Fili and Steven Heller, 2-week course, 2010
• Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, B.Arch., 1990

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