A new bookRoom Press publication edited by Danny Aldred and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, with a foreword by Alessandro Ludovico and endnotes by John Warwicker.
The project was introduced with a talk by Alessandro Ludovico followed by a panel discussion at the London art book fair 2014 at the Whitechapel gallery. see other UCARO entry.
Code—x brings together a selection of personal histories of the current 'transforming' and 'expanding' of the book medium with the aim to challenge the very notion of what it could be(come) in today's complex information era.
The design of Code—x within codex form represents a playful and daring twist of ink imitating pixel to render composition and design. The content is seen as a continuous scroll, cropped where screen meets paper edge. we celebrate both camps by highlighting dichotomies of edge to scroll, sequence to time and image to place.
Featuring essays, interviews and works by Delphine Bedel, Simon Cutts, Sebastien Girard, Hans Gremmen, Andrew Haslam with Rose Gridneff & Alex Cooper, Alec Finlay with Ken Cockburn, Alessandro Ludovico, Silvio Lorusso, Katharine Meynell with Susan Johanknecht, Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine, and publishing, Colin Sackett, Jodie Silsby, Paul Soulellis, Stefan Szczelkun, john warwicker (tomato), Eric Watier, Maria White, Beth Williamson, David Lorente Zaragoza.
The book is the outcome of a collaboration with Book-Lab at Winchester School of Art where it was first launched in October 2015. This was followed by the Small Publishers Fair in London on the 7th of November, then Printed Matter in New York on the 12th of November, then TABS in Berlin on 21st January 2016, then Arts Libris in Barcelona on 23rd April 2016.
CODE X is distributed in Europe by Anagram and in America by printed matters, as well as disseminated via bookRoom and Media Lab websites, book fairs and exhibitions.
