Kim Anno’s Art Lab students explore an expansion of the function of the library as a site for art and design using research elements, codes, signs, and images present in the library itself. How does the pursuit of knowledge include studio practice?
The beauty of an edition is that it can be shared like a zine and distributed more easily to more people. Time is spent on designing one, then printing up and binding many. The goal was to design a book in an edition of 20 copies that could be reproduced easily. The content was open, but the books had to incorporate two lines of lietterpress printing and one of the vintage photoengravings from the CCA archive. These books are the result of that assignment and are the first letterpress printed projects made by the Bookworks students, Spring 2015.
A show of art and performance put together by Kim Anno's Art Lab (undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studio class). Students from this class explore an expansion of the function of the library as a site for art and design using research elements, codes, signs, and images present in the library itself. How does the pursuit of knowledge include studio practice? Meyer Library on CCA's Oakland campus became a laboratory and an exhibition space for creative experiments. And a live staged reading of a play was presented in the Simpson Library on the San Francisco campus.