New Criticals


Printed Web #1 presented new work by nine artists: Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Christian Bök, Clement Valla, David Horvitz, Mishka Henner, Chris Alexander, & and Benjamin Shaykin. The 64 print-on-demand newsprint pages offer up a wide view of contemporary web-to-print practice — including both photography and language-based works — by using its most common, primary techniques: grabbing, hunting and performing. Each artist was given six pages for their project, and even though I offered no direction to the artists, other than "printing the web," the publication neatly divides in half: objects (pictures, screens and things) first, and then identity (the self).