RELEASE: DEEP DREAM, Sara Goodman / Virtual Printed Matter

Sybil Press is proud to release: Sara Goodman's (Chicago) Deep Dream , a long form poem, which reads like a mystical vision of the fall of the empire of Geocities and the rise of the technocratic polis. Goodman sings of web 1.0 nostalgia, and the dromological urge and lust of the postinternet FOMO, and the tiring terrors of knowing too much, with flashes of flesh and blood.

JOIN US AT VIRTUAL PRINTED MATTER for a free performance and reading via ZOOM. Follow this Link https://sybilpress.pmvabf.org

Along with Sara we will be joined by Beatrice VS, a metal fabricator and performance artist based in Detroit. Originally from New York, she has trained extensively in butoh and house dance. She was a company member of the Vangeline Theater and has performed solo and in various collaborations across the US and in Europe. She is currently making work as part of interference//, a collaboration with multimedia artist Sara Goodman. 

Tonight they will showcase Red Lily Void with dance by Beatrice VS., sound design by Joey Meland, glitch treatment by Sara Goodman, and spoken word from Void Speak by both Sara and Beatrice. 

Sara Goodman is a poet and new media artist interested in the way hardware, software, and interfaces influence us as humans from the micro to the macro level. They are continually grappling with their own complex relationship to technology and have a daily practice of writing collaborative poetry with friends as well as artificial intelligence as a way to explore these relationships. They like setting up systems they can interface with that continually loop and deviate over time. Sara is the co-founder of the New Media collective S H R I N E and one half of AV Duos Interference//, ethereal_interface, and uuskhy + SIFI.  In these duos their role is: curator, visualist, and Glitch poet. Sara aims to create a psychedelic experience for their audience. A space where color, texture, and landscape can help the mind relax and expand with easier access to extra dimensions. 

http://saranaomigoodman.squarespace.com
@saranaomigoodman

Call For Submissions: Pigeon: a radical animal reader no. 3: SPIRIT/UAL ANIMALS

Pigeon is a radical animal reader published by Sybil Press. We seek new, experimental, creative essays, text art, word games, and other literary works for issue 3 on the subject of “spirit/ual animals.”

We understand animal in the larger sense, from the human and non-human animal to the monarch butterfly and invisible microscopic worlds. We are open to speculation on cosmic life and artificial intelligence and philosophical, psychological or political animals.

In terms of spiritualism: we seek a hybrid discourse surrounding animal beings and being animal in ritualized, mystical, mythic and religious forms and spaces which can be interwoven with representation and/or exploitation and/or empowerment of otherness, gender, identity, and the natural or unnatural environment.

In the spirit of “no gods; no masters,” contrarian paradigms and interdisciplinary critiques are desirable: no clichés; no sloganeering.

Please e-mail a 300 word abstract as a PDF with contact information to pigeon@sybilpress.org by May 31st, 2021. Subject line: animal 3 abstract.

Half of all sales of Pigeon will be donated to animal welfare/rights/liberation organizations, with the remaining half used to cover costs and the making of subsequent issues.

RELEASE: CQDE: a feminist manifestx of code-ing (2020)

Sybil Press presents CQDE: a feminist manifestx of code-ing

CQDE: A feminist manifestx of code-ing written by Alejandro T. Acierto and KT Duffy speculates on the nature of collaboration through queer-feminist frameworks within creative coding environments. Situated within ongoing conversations of care and accountability, this text draws from restorative justice models and intersectional feminist praxis to outline a new logic of care within techno-collaborative spaces.

Acknowledging the nature of violence that often permeates relationships within creative coding contexts, educational environments, and the broader tech industry, this manifestx presents alternatives that establish new orientations of thinking, doing, making, and being. Offering a series of speculative toolsets for the implementation of techno-collaborative feminist praxis, CQDE calls into question the relationships between human and machine.

CQDE: A feminist manifestx of code-ing by alejandro t. acierto and KT Duffy between Chicago, Nashville, and Ann Arbor, 2019-2020. Designed by Vitalii Emelianov in Chicago IL and Pittsburgh PA,2020. Edited by D Rosen in Chicago IL, 2020. Printed via risograph by Clown Kisses Press in Richmond VA, 2020. Handbound by Jillian Gomez in San Antonio TX, 2020. Sybil Press 2020 and CQDELAB. Typefaces include Ivar Fine, Apfel Grotezk. Printed on paper Williamsburg offset 60# and Cougar 80#.

8x5.25”, 41 pages / softcover / handbound

Buy now $28 / Only 50 copies available in our bookstore

PIGEON no 2: Animals On Screen Now Available / Call for Submission no. 3

Pigeon: a radical animal reader no 2 is now available.

Featuring an international group of writers and artists engaging in the subject of “Animals on Screen”: “animal” here is always taken broadly, expressively, and bodily. From screen representations of nature in horror film, to post internet media collages, cultural and racial expectations, and more, #pigeonradical features poetry, short story, theory and more. Hand bound with screenprinted cover and limited edition poster by Jillian G. Gomez; interior text and graphics risograph printed by @clownkissespress of Richmond, VA

Thank you to all the contributors @vasiabakogianni @angelocolavita #timothyfurstnau @cicamuseum @soozgonzalez edited / illustrated by Norberto Gomez, Jr. #print#printmaking #book #bookarts

About: Pigeon is "being animal." It is a creative and experimental approach to studies/theories Re: #veganism #poshumanism #animalstudies #queerstudies #fashion #aesthetics #feminism and much more. Short stories, poetry, text art, academic and speculative fiction by a diverse group of artists and writers.

No 2: Edited, illustrated and page layout by Norberto Gomez Jr. in Baltimore Maryland, 2019-20. Screenprinted cover and handbound by Jillian Gayle Gomez in San Marcos/San Antonio Texas, 2020. Risograph printing by Clown Kisses Press in Richmond, Virginia, 2020. Typefaces include: Gill Sans, Baskerville, and Helvetica. Sales support animal rights / welfare orgs.

Purchase here: http://www.sybilpress.org/bookstore/pigeon2

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PIGEON NO 3: THEME: “Spirit Animals” ABSTRACT DEADLINE JAN. 1st 2021

Pigeon is a radical animal reader published by Sybil Press. We seek new, experimental, creative essays, text art, word games, and other literary works for issue 3 on the subject of “spirit animals.”

We understand animal in the larger sense, from the human and non-human animal to the monarch butterfly and invisible microscopic worlds. We are open to speculation on cosmic life and artificial intelligence and philosophical, psychological or political animals. In terms of spiritualism: we seek a hybrid discourse surrounding animal beings and being animal in ritualized, mystical, mythic and religious forms and spaces which can be interwoven with representation and/or exploitation and/or empowerment of otherness, gender, identity, and the natural or unnatural environment.

In the spirit of “no gods; no masters,” contrarian paradigms and interdisciplinary critiques are desirable.

Please e-mail a 300 word abstract as a PDF with contact information to pigeon@sybilpress.org by January 1st, 2021. Subject line: animal 3 abstract.

Half of all sales of Pigeon will be donated to animal welfare/rights/liberation organizations, with the remaining half used to cover costs and the making of subsequent issues.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PIGEON A RADICAL ANIMAL READER NO2

Call for submissions, Issue No. 2, 2019 #pigeonradical

Theme “Animals on the Screen”

Pigeon is a new radical animal reader published by @sybilpress . We seek new experimental, creative essays and literary works for issue 2 on the subject of “animals on the screen.” We understand animal in the larger sense, from the human and non-human animal to the monarch butterfly, and we are open to speculation on cosmic life and artificial intelligence. In terms of screens: we seek a hybrid discourse surrounding #animal beings and being animal in the networked age from #television, #film, the #postinternet, holograms and virtual reality to other forms of representation and exploitation of otherness, gender, identity, and the environment, for example.

In the spirit of “no gods; no masters,” contrarian paradigms and interdisciplinary critiques are desirable.

Please e-mail a 300 word abstract as a PDF with contact information to pigeon@sybilpress.org by January 1st, 2019. Subject line: animal2 abstract.

Half of all sales of Pigeon will be donated to #animalwelfare/rights/liberation organizations, with the remaining half used to cover costs and the making of subsequent issues. #posthuman #vegan

@Chicago_Art_Book_Fair

Pleased to announce @SybilPress will participate in this year's #ChicagoArtBookFair

@WarshipZine Release #SanAntonio #TX

Sybil Press is tabling during the release party for @WarshipZine's #DavidBowie issue. https://warshipzine.wordpress.com

@LCXBrownsville Latino Comics Expo 2018 #TX

“The Latino Comics Expo is a comic convention dedicated to showcasing Latino creators and Latino-themed works. Join us February 3 & 4 in Brownsville, TX at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art!
Visit our website for tickets.”

https://www.lcxbrownsville.com

Donation: Friends for Life #Houston #Texas

Due to devastation Hurricane Harvey wrought #Houston, #SybilPress has just donated $500 to @friends4lifeorg, a #nokill shelter in #htx. As part of our mission and in honor of our friend, Sybil, we continue to support animal welfare orgs and the tireless, amazing services they provide to those non-humans in need. Thanks to everyone who has grabbed something from #sybilpress recently, aiding in these totals.

#Boston #ArtBook Fair 2017

#SybilPress has been selected to participate in this year's Boston Art Book Fair.

Call for Submissions: Pigeon: a radical animal reader

Call for submissions, Issue No. 1,  2018

Pigeon is a new radical animal reader published by Sybil Press. We seek experimental, creative essays and literary works on the topics of animal rights, liberation, veganism, environmentalism, post and transhumanism, to name a few. We understand animal in the larger sense, from the human-animal to the monarch butterfly, and we are open to speculation on cosmic life and artificial intelligence.  In the spirit of “no gods; no masters,” contrarian paradigms and critiques are desirable.  Pigeon is a hybrid discourse surrounding animal beings and being animal in the networked age.

Consider Giorgio Agamben’s critique of the anthropological machine and the caesura between human and animal; or media representation of carnism and the Sexual Politics of Meat, described by feminist-vegetarian Carol J. Adams; as well as the intersectionalism espoused by Marjorie Spiegel in The Dreaded Comparison; and what place does the animal have among the cyborg?; we may also ask, as Jacques Derrida does, “Since so long ago, can we say that the animal has been looking at us? What animal? The other. I often ask myself, just to see, who I am—and who I am (following) at the moment when, caught naked, in silence, by the gaze of an animal, for example, the eyes of a cat, I have trouble, yes, a bad time overcoming my embarrassment. Whence the malaise?”

Please e-mail a 300 word abstract as a PDF with contact information to pigeon@sybilpress.org by Halloween, October 31st, 2017. Subject line: animal abstract.

Half of all sales of Pigeon will be donated to animal welfare/rights/liberation organizations, with the remaining half used to cover costs and the making of subsequent issues.

#Goth Party #SanAntonio #Texas Wed. Aug. 23 8–12

Join us @brickatbluestar this Wednesday 8-12 to grab some books and prints at this celebration of "life & dark." Donations during the event will support battered women's shelter and sa pets alive and our sales will benefit the American #honeybee protection agency