:: 8 November 2006 :: Free Press Extended!
The Free Press library is enjoying an extended run at Röda Sten. While the main installation has ended, Röda Sten has invited the library to stay on until Röda Sten's winter closing Dec 3. Stop by and borrow a book!
:: 15 October 2006 :: Books Released!
Yesterday Free Press spent the day releasing books into city's bookstores and libraries.
See lots more pictures here.
:: 13 October 2006 :: Last Weekend! Set Books Free
It's the last weekend of the show at Röda Aten - join Free Press on Saturday morning to set books from the free press library free in the bookstores and libraries of göteborg. Details here.
And check out all the latest free press news.
The deadline for sending manuscripts for this round of Free Press books is this Sunday, October 15.
:: 20 September 2006 :: Hello Sweden
Free Press is having a great time in Göteborg - thanks to everyone here for a wonderful welcome.
See more pictures from the installation.
We have lots of texts in the publication process, but we would still love to have yours! [english] [svenska]
Or you can just add a single word, to be part of next edition the Free Words Forever book - we'll be making another edition at the end of the show with all the words people have added in the gallery and online. Plus, your word will go up on the gallery wall.
:: 3 September 2006 :: Books are Here
As I am about to leave for Sweden to set up the installation at Röda Sten, new texts are being added to Free Press every day, and the first few books are already back from the printer. If you're in Göteborg, mark your calendars for the opening at Röda Sten on september 16. Almost simultanously, Free Press will be a web presence in this year's glowlab Conflux (sept 14-17 in New York).
The first books are in the libary, ready to download, print and read, and dozens of texts are still in the publication process. So far there are analyses of gender and new media (beate zurwehme), full length discussions of contemporary anarchist thought and radical ecology (Jeff Shantz), texts generated by participatory web projects (annie abrahams, free words), cartographic definitions (kanarinka), film theory (Chris Clarke), altered classics (Chris Clarke, Sarah Jacobs) as well as novels, stories, geneologies, dissertations, dada writings, spiritual notes, and manifestos.
See the first group of finished books here.
:: 1 August 2006 :: Welcome to Free Press
This summer and fall you are invited to contribute to the creation of an open-access publishing house, a "Free Press," to be launched at Röda Sten contemporary art center in Göteborg, Sweden. A project of artist Sal Randolph, Free Press will accept all kinds of writing from the public; contributions in any language can be as short as a single word or as long as an encyclopedia and can include manifestos, statements, documentations, studies, stories, recipes, poems and whatever you can imagine.
"Even in the age of the internet, book publishing is a walled garden where editors and commercial interests filter out most of what is written," says Randolph. "To publish is to 'make public,' and the published materials of the world create their own kind of public space, a city of books where readers and writers are citizens. Free Press aims to open up access to that public space. Like any city, Free Press is bound to include both ugliness and beauty, though the definitions of each will certainly differ."
All participating manuscripts will be published as printed books in the Free Press series, available in the project's library and reading room at Röda Sten, where events and discussions will also take place. Additional copies will be placed on shelves in local bookstores and libraries. Readers will be able to download copies from the website and order them at cost from an internet book printer.
The Free Press exhibition will take place from September 16 - October 15, 2006 at Röda Sten.
Call for Participation
Free Press is looking for writing of all kinds - any language, any style, genre or subject matter, experimental or traditional, unpublished or previously published.
Manifestos, artists statements and conceptual/experimental texts are especially welcomed, as well as writing about gifts and gift economies, open systems, freedom of expression, censorship, surveillance, intellectual property, the commons & the public domain, anarchy, cooperation, political philosophy, alternative economies, public space, urbanism, situationism & psychogeography, conceptual, performance, and participatory art, graffiti and street art, distributed creativity, social software, virtual worlds, open source, happenings, the 1960s, the future, utopian and postutopian visions.
All material included in the Free Press project will be released under Creative Commons licenses which will allow the texts to be printed and freely shared.
Deadlines: Texts will be accepted through the Free Press website starting August 1, 2006 continuing through the end of the exhibition on October 15. However, if you wish your text to appear as a book in the gallery, please allow for publication time (2-4 weeks) and send it as soon as possible. If you want your book to be there at the opening (September 16), send your text now!
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