Southdown College - Guest Speaker

I gave a guest lecture for A' Level students about 'Lovely Zines, the Zineopolis Collection and why not just go and make one'. Showing examples from the Zineopolis collection including issues of Future Fantasteek! I started the Zineopolis collection and now curate it as well as doing the website.http://www.zineopolis.blogspot.co.uk/p/f.html

The Ministry of Books - Exhibition

Guest exhibiter on behalf of The Ministry of Books - December 2008 - January 2009
Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK. Reboot was chosen to travel with this guest show.

Visual Diaries - Sketchbook Project

Visual Diaries - The Space Gallery, University of Portsmouth 3rd-14th November 2008
Invited artist as part of a rotating sketchbook project.

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/news/visdiary/visdairy.htm

To see more about the Visual Libraries project visit:

http://www.visuallibraries.com

Cheltenham Illustration Awards - Guest Speaker

The title of my talk was - The Zineopolis Zine Collection and Future Fantasteek

"A one day Symposium that explores autonomous career pathways for Illustration graduates and professionals. We have a distinguished line-up of speakers, who are all keen to discuss the proposal that illustrators will only find creative satisfaction through self-expression and creating work that is meaningful to them, and not dependent on short-lived trends or dictates of the graphic design industry. The Symposium will take place at Pittville Studios, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham on Wednesday the 15 October 2008, and will coincide with the presentation ceremony of the second Cheltenham Illustration Awards." Flyer copy

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.5

ISSUE FIVE : OCTOBER 2008
...Credit Crunch Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, with colour center pages, includes a tipped-in dubious banknote and rubber stampped flies. staple bound. A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bright pink card cover with yellow dots. 
Issue Five: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

The credit crunch issue looks at liars, not using your brain and spotting fakes. There's free money from the bank of Future Fantasteek included as a worthless free gift. The Damp Research Facilities answer these questions: Why are people so nasty to each other ? Is greed really the future? How many of us have eaten from the Tree of Stupidity ? Can genetically enhanced monkeys with clipboards replace office staff? And could octopus DNA enable you to work longer hours? More pointless questions to ponder in a disappointing world...


To see the whole zine follow this link
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future5/index.htm

Damp Flat Website gets Archived by the British Library

 The UK Web Archive is a corpus of websites selected by leading UK institutions for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK, for the benefit of researchers. Snapshots of each title, known as instances, are taken at suitable intervals. The archive is free to view and has already collected over 4,000 selected websites since it was set up in mid-2005. Websites are either selected by subject specialists within the participating institutions or have been successfully nominated for archiving. 
The partners are; The British Library:The National Library of Wales: JISC: Wellcome Library:National Archives 

Damp Flat Books has been selected and is now being recorded regularly, view various snapshots here: 
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/target/9404540

B* *K - Exhibition

B* *K an exhibition of book-inspired artworks at the London Print Studio gallery
425 Harrow Road, London, W10 4RE, United Kingdom
Exhibition 11th July - 27th September 2008
Private view 10th July, 6.30 - 8.30 pm

Included in this exhibition is: Future Fantasteek - The Sick-o issue, No.4 Feb 2008

AHRC Artists’ Books Seminar - Guest Speaker

1 - 8th May 2008 The seminar was called: How are artists using and investigating new media for publishing?
School of Creative Arts, Department of Art and Design,
University of the West of England Bristol, UK

I will be giving a presentation on the 8th May called: Using the internet for showing and marketing artists' books. To see the slides that accompany the talk click here...

Re:2008 Touring Artists' Books Exhibition

Exhibition curated by the we love your books collaboration between Melanie Bush, Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, The University of Northampton, UK and Emma Powell, Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, De Montfort University (Leicester), UK.

All books were based on re word(s). For example: release, remote, reject,reassemble etc. 

Wonderful books were submitted from book artists and students from all over the world
including: Finland, The Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Australia, Italy, Canada, Hong Hong, Hungary,
Germany, Portugal, Sweden and USA.

• 12th – 29th May 2008, The Gallery, The University of Northampton, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK.
• 14th July–14th August, Artworks MK, Milton Keynes, UK 
• 5th-14th November 2008, University of Portsmouth , CCi Space, Eldon Building, Portsmouth, UK

Reboot is on show. As part of the Portsmouth show there ar also another 3 exhibitions:

Visual Dairies - This was a sketchbook project with staff and students.

Zineopolis - I curate the zine collection at the University and selected zines are being shown,
Future Fantasteek! Issue No. 5 is being premiered at this venue.

The Ministry of Books - The University of Portsmouth has recently started an artists' books collection curated by Dr Maureen O'Neill. You can visit the site here...