Online Presentation by Rich Dana
Thursday, January 23rd at 6:30 pm PST <-- Note earlier start time
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Before there was social media, even before photo-copied zines, artists and writers found ways to publish their creations using stencil prints (mimeographs) and dye-transfer prints (hectographs). Developed during the industrial revolution for copying documents without the use of a printing press, these quick and cheap techniques have been used by Avant Garde artists and poets, political dissidents and underground publishers since the 1800s. In Rich Dana’s talk, he will explore the history of pre-Xerox copier technologies and how contemporary artists and writers are using them to publish small editions of zines, chapbooks, prints, and flyers free from the constraints of the publishing industry.
Rich Dana is a copier artist and founder of Obsolete Press. He is an adjunct instructor at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and project organizer of UI Libraries’ Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Author of Cheap Copies!: The Obsolete Press Guide to DIY Mimeography, Hectography and Spirit Duplication, Rich has been on a quest across the country to collect, restore, distribute and instruct with these machines.
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