The Library Café is Back

978-0-226-32142-4-frontcoverThe Library Café returns to WVKR (91.3 FM) January 30 at noon to feature an interview with N. Katherine Hayles about her book: How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, published by the University of Chicago Press.

“If you are presently teaching or practicing digital, or a traditional academic in denial, or just curious about the impact of digital technology in the humanities, How We Think has arrived at the right time.”  New York Journal of Books.

 

Future guests this semester include Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole on their book Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Shocken 2011) and Andrew Piper on his new book Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times (Chicago UP, 2012).

 

Podcasts of previous editions of The Library Café can be found at: http://library-cafe.org.

 

Art Library Exhibit: “S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop) – 1968”

The Vassar College Art Library Presents: S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop)- 1968.”

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At the height of the global political and social upheavals of the 1960’s, the American surrealist painter and art dealer William Copley published an unusual periodical entitled S.M.S., which informally stood for “Shit Must Stop.”  Inspired by Dada and the anti-commercial, merged-media ethos of the Fluxus movement, the publication consisted of a series of six 7 x 11-inch cardboard portfolios published bimonthly between February and December of 1968.  Each portfolio contained seven to fourteen multiples by different artists, and included works of widely divergent materials and techniques, from constructions and printed matter to photographs, prints, drawings, and sound recordings.

Includes multiples by Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein, Merit Oppenheim, John Cage, Richard Artschwager, Walter De Maria, Ray Johnson, Richard Hamilton, Dieter Rot, Yoko Ono, and many others.

On View January 23 through March 30, 2013, in the Art Library Main Reading Room.

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S.M.S Issue Number 6 1968.  Limited Edition Multimedia Art Magazine.  11 x 7 inches (Closed)

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 Roy Lichtenstein, “Folded Hat” 1968. Ink on folded Mylar. 7 1/4 x 14 inches
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Yoko Ono, “Mend Piece for John” 1968. Cardboard, paper, plastic bag, ribbon, glue and broken tea cup.

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Mimmo Rotella, “6 Prison Poems 1964-1968. Ink on Various Papers. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (variable).
“These Poems were written Clandestinely in the prison of “Regina Coeli” in Rome, during the detention of five months of the artist Rotella for posession of marijuana in 1964″.

The Library Café Returns

The Library Café, an independent, weekly radio interview program hosted by Vassar Art Librarian Thomas Hill, returns to the airwaves on WVKR (91.3 FM) this semester. The first interview, airing Wednesday, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., will be with Werner Pfeiffer, who will discuss the exhibition of his work presently on view in the Thompson Library, Van Ingen Art Library, and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center entitled: “Reexamining Books: Book Objects and Artist’s Books by Werner Pfeiffer.” The Library Café features interviews with scholarly authors, publishers, librarians, technologists, and artists about books, ideas, and the formation and circulation of knowledge. Podcasts of past interviews, along with a listing of future programs, can be found on the program website at: http://library-cafe.org.

Thomas Hill is the Digital Art Librarian at Vassar College Libraries.  Contact him at thhill AT vassar.edu.