ABCEUM (2014)

32-page newsprint publication
Digital printing
Loose folio sheets
14 in. x 20 in.
Edition of 100

ABCEUM was a collaborative project by ABC (Artists’ Book Cooperative) that re-imagined the museum as a book installation. Each “room” or department of the museum was a print-on-demand artist’s book of a different size and material. Assembled, the 22 self-published books constituted a variable floor-plan which visitors could explore. The ABCEUM publications launched at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair in 2014. Special museum display cases were constructed for the project and it went on to be exhibited at (and acquired by) various institutions, including Brighton Photo Biennial, Offprint Paris, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, and Bavarian State Library.

My contribution was not a room at all but the museum’s presence on the network, which I imagined as NEW MEDIA, a 32-page print-on-demand newsprint publication that documented the first 420 videos posted to YouTube by the user Webdriver Torso. A copy of NEW MEDIA is held at Museum of Modern Art Library (LPW S673 A12n) as part of the Library of the Printed Web acquisition.

ABC contributors to ABCEUM: Erik Benjamins, Eric Doeringer, Fred Free, Oliver Griffin, Mishka Henner, Tanja Lažetić, Jonathan Lewis, EJ Major, Mocksim, Louis Porter, Andreas Schmidt, Travis Shaffer, Paul Soulellis, Wil van Iersel, Duncan Wooldridge, Hermann Zschiegner.