3. BULLETINS OF THE SERVING LIBRARY is a composite printed/electronic publication that follows a direct line from Dot Dot Dot, the semi-annual journal founded in 2000 and published by Dexter Sinister.
The “bulletins” that make up each issue will always be first published online as PDFs here at www.servinglibrary.org over a six-month period, then assembled, printed and distributed separately in Europe (by Sternberg Press with Motto Distribution) and in the U.S.A. (by Dexter Sinister). Each collection will constitute a semester's worth of loosely-themed material, with its constituent PDFs grouped together on the website.
The PILOT issue was intended as an expansive statement of intent, broadly concerned with Libraries, Media, and Time (though not necessarily in that order); #2 emerged from a course we ran at The Banff Center in the Summer of 2011 titled “From the Toolbox of a Serving Library,” and mostly circles around Education; while #3 doubles as a catalog-of-sorts to "Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language," a group exhibition at MoMA (New York) from May 6 to August 27, 2012, and is preoccupied with the more social aspects of Typography. Issue #4 circles around psychedelia, although a lo-fi, black-and-white flavor and emerged from the exhibition Dexter Bang Sinister at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.
New bulletins are posted to this website as and when they are ready. If you’d like to be told when a new season is complete, and the printed version available, you can join our mailing list Open-Reading-Group..
*Meanwhile* individual copies of the Bulletins may be now purchased online through our Internet Book Shop . . . and subscriptions are here.
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The “bulletins” that make up each issue will always be first published online as PDFs here at www.servinglibrary.org over a six-month period, then assembled, printed and distributed separately in Europe (by Sternberg Press with Motto Distribution) and in the U.S.A. (by Dexter Sinister). Each collection will constitute a semester's worth of loosely-themed material, with its constituent PDFs grouped together on the website.
The PILOT issue was intended as an expansive statement of intent, broadly concerned with Libraries, Media, and Time (though not necessarily in that order); #2 emerged from a course we ran at The Banff Center in the Summer of 2011 titled “From the Toolbox of a Serving Library,” and mostly circles around Education; while #3 doubles as a catalog-of-sorts to "Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language," a group exhibition at MoMA (New York) from May 6 to August 27, 2012, and is preoccupied with the more social aspects of Typography. Issue #4 circles around psychedelia, although a lo-fi, black-and-white flavor and emerged from the exhibition Dexter Bang Sinister at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen.
New bulletins are posted to this website as and when they are ready. If you’d like to be told when a new season is complete, and the printed version available, you can join our mailing list Open-Reading-Group..
*Meanwhile* individual copies of the Bulletins may be now purchased online through our Internet Book Shop . . . and subscriptions are here.
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