zine – PLAZM

Plazm’s Josh Berger in Serious Accident

magdalen — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:35:22 +0000

Joshua Berger, art director of Plazm magazine, was in a bike accident in Portland eleven days ago. He has been in trauma wards at hospital ever since, and is making steady improvements. However, he has sustained considerable Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) that will likely take months of recovery. Perhaps years.

Please keep Josh and our family in your thoughts, wishes, prayers, meditations, whatever it is you’re into. We’ll update this site with more info and ways to get involved, and send things out on the Plazm newsletter (sign up at plazm.com top of page) & facebook page.

Visiting is still very limited. We’ll let you know as things kind of open up for more visitors.

With love to all the amazing friends & collaborators Josh has out there,

Tiffany
(josh’s wife / plazm co editor / etc.)

Image: Josh working on his Collateral Damage ongoing art piece at Place. At some point he’ll be able to tell me the photo credit.

Plazm to participate in De Zines exhibition, Barcelona Spain. Opening 29th of June

Joshua Berger — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:45:00 +0000

‘De Zines’ is an attempt to reflect and catalog contemporary editorial creation within independent publications today and how this work relates to the current social, cultural, and political environment. Around 400 international publications have been gathered from established magazines to handmade ‘zines and a selection of experimental magazines.

In a time of constant technological evolution and immediate access to information through the electronic network, paper, as a media for the dissemination of culture and information, seems destined to disappear. However, the number of small, independent publications continues to grow. Digital and analogue can coexist, and, in fact, can serve vastly different purposes. While digital is immediate and global in its distribution, analog is selective, tactile, and durable.

‘De Zines’ posits that independent publications—descendants of punk, Dada, the Situationists, and the Fluxus movement, among others—will remain a vital part of the future of media for some time. The exhibit is articulated as a consultation room, a space that does not only creates traffic but a place to stay. To “create networks among people with a similar vision in a global and plural world.”

Inéditos 2010

La Casa Encendida

29 June to 29 August 2010 / Room A

Ronda Valencia, 2

28012 Madrid – Spain

T +34 902 43 03 22

La Casa Encendida is open from Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the year except national and Community of Madrid holidays.

Liminal: An Examination of Graffiti in Tokyo

ianl — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:03:00 +0000

I recently self-published a 32 page zine that covers the scope of Tokyo street graffiti to coincide with a lecture I did recently for the Artalking series of contemporary art gatherings in Tokyo.

The zine features an illustrated essay in English about Tokyo graffiti while simultaneously operating as a sort of “birdwatching guide” to help readers identify different graffiti writers’ work.

Liminal was printed in an edition of 125 and each is hand-numbered. You can pick one up for $12.00 postpaid (shipping included) via Paypal to ian(at)ianlynam.com or email me.