Zineopolis: Art Zine Collection
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
As the curator of Zineopolis-Art-Zine collection at the University of Portsmouth, I set the aim of the collection to archive and reflect the diversity of thought and talent that exists outside the traditional publishing arena. Zines are one of the few areas left where creative people can speak without censorship to an audience beyond the gallery. This makes the world of zines new and exciting as well as challenging, with Art-Zines especially-the tactility and aesthetic of the self-published artifact is an important consideration. Commercial art is changing rapidly, with over reliance on clip-art images and images that exist to simply dress-up yet another advert. The nature of production, often cheap and quick, means these Art-Zines reflect the thoughts and hopes of the day (quite literally). Zineopolis is located within the School of Art and Design so it was a deliberate choice to focus upon image-heavy zines, although we have examples of poetry-zines, personal-zines and fan-zines. The emergence of zines across the USA, Europe and beyond means that contrary to popular thought, younger people (the most populous producers) have plenty to say about the world they find themselves in, and not as passively as one may expect. The culture of zines shows us that people do still have opinions, it also shows us that traditional conduits for sharing thoughts are probably not as accessible as we’d like to think. The Zineopolis collection seeks to archive and celebrate the self-publishing boom. Zineopolis is primarily a non-virtual collection where items can be handled and flicked-through, many have novelty items, unusual packaging, unconventional bindings, or unusual materials, this collection (although archived online) is sensorial delight in the ‘pysical’.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | University of Portsmouth |
Media of output | Online |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2017 |
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Outputs
Future Fantasteek! No.13: wanna buy a Feejee mermaid?
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Future Fantasteek! No.19: Death By Email
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
R'UK'SSIAN artist’s book: artist’s book in the UK and Russia international project
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Future Fastasteek!
Research output: Other contribution
Satirical zines about computers, apps and social media: art-zines from the Zineopolis Collection
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Computers apps and smartphones: Future Fantasteek! - Thematic compilation from issues Nos.1-16
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Future Fantasteek! Inktober 2016
Research output: Other contribution
Future Fantasteek! #17: Photoshop Yourself Happier
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Future Fantasteek! #16: whatever you want cannot be found
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
R'UK'SSIAN artist’s book: artist’s book in the UK and Russia international project
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Future Fantasteek! #14: Unexpected item in bagging area
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Future Fantasteek! #15: Here comes another one
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
Future fantasteek! the first 10 Years
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
The Zineopolis Zine Collection and Future Fantasteek
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Re:2008 Touring Artists' Books Exhibition.
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Projects
Zineopolis: Art-Zine Collection
Project: Other
Prizes
Zineopolis Selected for inclusion in the LIbrary of Congress Research Collections
Prize: National/international honour
ID: 6540085