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CALL FOR CONTENT——
3/10/10
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“For centuries a small number of writers were confronted by many thousands of readers. This changed toward the end of
the last century. With the increasing extension of the press, which kept placing new political, religious, scientific, professional, and local organs before the readers, an increasing number of readers became writers—at first, occasional ones. It began with the daily press opening to its reader’s space for “letters to the editor.” And today there is hardly a gainfully employed European who could not, in principle, find an opportunity to publish somewhere or other comments on his work, grievances, documentary reports, or that sort of thing. Thus, the distinction between author and public is about to lose its basic character. The difference becomes merely functional; it may vary from case to case. At any moment the reader is ready to turn into a writer. As expert, which he had to become willy—nilly in an extremely specialized work process, even if only in some minor respect, the reader gains access to authorship...Literary license is now founded on polytechnic rather than specialized training and thus becomes common property.”
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter Seiner Technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / 1936) ——Walter Benjamin
About: The Center For Book Technology (CFBT) is interested in how texts, images, and content are displayed and presented to readers. While exploring relationships of: author and designer, author and content, author and reader, designer and author, designer and content, designer and reader. The CFBT is soliciting content for a study into how and what the reader reads into a text. This project is interested in design's relationship to its content, and content's relationship to design. A project conceived while maintaining a Visiting Research Professor position at the University of Illinois, Urbana—Champaign.
All content presented to the CFBT will be introduced to a predetermined set of rules that will facilitate all design direction. Image will be represented through Internet based searches, text set at a constant size, page format and size universally the same. The result is a designed ‘conversation’ which places work contained within the CFTB as both collaborative and malleable Internet authored content. The CFBT is seeking national and international work to be produced within this framework.
The CFBT has established a press to handle all printing, binding and production. All works will be individually printed in small—run editions. One copy will be provided to the author, and one remaining with the CFBT.
Submission Rules: Preferred submissions would be writing based, but the CFBT will accept design, illustration, and photography. All work does not need to be unique to the CFBT—previous work will be accepted. All work will be part of the Center For Book Technology Library. All editions will be located within the Library.
In addition to the physical copies, there will be available downloads of editions. Each author will be asked to complete an author entry on the CFTB wiki to continue their printed pieces digitally.
Production of work: All work will be individually finalized as a bound book. All work will be produced on a Brother black and white HL-5340D High Speed Laser Printer, and HP 2100m Laser Printer. All pieces will be bound in the Library Binding method. One copy will be provided to the author, and one remaining with the CFBT.
Entries: Please send all work directly to the email address: info@centerforbooktechnology.com images at least 180dpi; page dimensions are 7in. x 10in.; longest dimension sizes are 10in tall x 14in wide (one spread); If too large for email please send via yousendit.
Deadline: TBD
