Yip was founded by
artist and publisher Ben Van Buren, in 2016.
We realize projects that use choreographic writing
to establish feeling connections
between users and authors
on the level of
their texts.
CONTACT:
YonkersInternationalPress at gmail
Times Square Books
TIMES SQUARE BOOKS is an open invitation to publish ANYONE who works in Times Square.
Since 2017, Times Square Books has...
—published 15 titles.
—held numerous sales events in Times Square.
—established itself as the premier imprint between 42nd and 47th, 8th and 6th.
In 2021, after a covid inspired hiatus, the series has returned with a new mission: to produce readings, art shows, and guided tours. All in Times Square. For more, check back here... :)
TIMES SQUARE BOOKS is a practice in RE-MEMBERING Times Square.
b00k.xyz Residency Space
b00k.xyz
is a residency space
in printed matter. Residencies last aproximately 3 months and result in a group showing of work in PDF and Print-On-Demand formats.
b00k.xyz is currently run by Ben Van Buren and Camila Malenchini
In addition hosting artists in residence, b00k.xyz hosts .GALLERY a new space for browser-based creations.
In 2019, Ben and Camilla were honored to be invited to present b00k.xyz at Hacklab O1, an internationally renowned hacker space located in Zagreb, Croatia.
For more: visit b00k.xyz
The Book is Someone to Touch Workshops
It is now possible to publish books for free.
Does that change what they mean?
This workshop has two themes that it moves back-and-forth between.
1: Publishing
This workshop aims to impart a basic understanding of the freely available digital tools that may be used to format, publish, and distribute books via the internet. We will begin with an overview of the history and current state of Print On Demand services. Next, we will proceed to learn a variety of methods for formatting and making PDFs—the crucial file for all net-based book making—including some very basic HTML/CSS. By the end of the workshop each participant will be able to publish and offer for sale worldwide a 6”x9” black-and-white paperback book of their very own.
2: Group Writing
Throughout the workshop the group will engage in periods of timed writing under specific conditions. This will help us to both practice group attunement, and to witness our own habits and assumptions with regards to how we write. The conditions under which the group will write will undergo both formal ("write a play") and material ("write while touching another person") variations. These conditions are not intended to overwhelm the writer, but rather to move the group towards an experience of collective authorship.
For Whom?
For you(m)! This workshop draws from experiences in publishing and performance practice, but experience in either of those two domains is not at all a prerequisite for participation. You might enjoy this workshop if: you want to learn how to make books for little/no money; you are interested in alternative approaches to documentation/archiving; You want to experiment with alternative approaches to writing alone or in a group… and more, and more!
And finally.....
If you are curious to dive deeper into the ideas presented in this workshop a free PDF course reader will be available on the date of the workshop. The working table of contents of the course reader is as follows:
—Excerpt from “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides”, 2008, Anne Carson
—Excerpt from “The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood”, 2018, by Angelo Plessas
—"The Insistence of the Material: Theorizing Materiality and Biopolitics in the Era of Globalization", 2016, Christopher Breu
—“The Grain of the Voice”, 1967, Roland Barthes
—“New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design”, 1922, W. A. Dwiggins
—Designing for Print with CSS, 2015, Rachel Andrew
—Interview with Olia Linalia from “My Boyfriend Came Back From The War: online since 1996”, 2016, HEK publishers
—Excerpt from “Grid Systems”, 1981, Josef Müller-Brockmann
—“Program of the First Working Group of the Constructivists”, 1921, by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova
—“The Magazine as a Medium: ASPEN 1965-1971”, 2011, Gwen Allen
—Interview with Cory Archangel from “All The Small Things”, 2017, Cory Archangel
—“Publishing as Artistic Practice”, 2017, Annette Gilbert
—“The Museum, its Meaning and Mission”, c. 1880s, Nikolai Fedorov
—Interview with Abe Linkoln, 2017, rhizome.org
—“Mel Bochner, Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art”, 2017, James Meyer
—“The Intentional Fallacy”, 1954, Wimsatt and Beardsley
—Excerpt from “The Elements of Typographic Style”, 1992, by Robert Bringhurst
—“Art and Poetry: The Cubo-Futurists,” 1980, Roman Jakobson
—A Girl Made of Language: Martine Neddam’s Mouchette, 2016, Michael Conner
—Excerpt from “Meaning in History”, 1949, Karl Löwith
—"Art and Objecthood", 1967, Michael Fried
—"Avdey Ter-Oganyan: Toward the Object 1992, 2017, Ekaterina Degot
—Excerpt from “Orchesography”, 1589, Thinot Arbeau