New Technology & The Future of Publishing

CELEBRATING THE DIGITAL PRESS
AT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Spring 2007

For three days in February 2007, the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities hosted a series of events designed to recognize and celebrate the many achievements of Clemson University's School of the Humanities. Throughout February and March, Clemson University Digital Press publications were on display near the main entrance of Cooper Library.

(Click on any of the images below for a larger view.)

Top left: Visitors to Cooper Library examine CUDP publications.
Top right: A view of the publications on display.
Above: CUDP Director Dr. Wayne Chapman admires his handiwork
in the library exhibit.

In Spring 2007, Cooper Library showcased Clemson's "Emeriti in Action" in an exhibit in the main lobby.

Left: Ronald Moran's poetry collection Saying These Things.
Right: Jerome V. Reel's Women & Clemson University.

PRINT STUDIO WORKSHOP
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
9:30 a.m.

The Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing and the Department of Art co-sponsoring book artist John Hilton (East Tennessee State University and Jackson State Community College), who conducted a bookbinding workshop for students and interested faculty. Hilton, who received his M.A. in printmaking from Clemson University in 2002, demonstrated different bookbinding methods, including the types of folds used to create signatures, the various stitching techniques used to bind them together, and much more. The workshop was held in the Print Studio, in Room B009 of Freeman Hall, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This was the latest in an annual series of workshops in the art of printing and book-making since the origin of CEDP. Special thanks go to Professor Syd Cross for organizing this event.

As students look on, John Hilton applies a concoction of corn starch, water, glycerine, and acrylic paint to a piece of paper to demonstrate decorative paste-paper-making techniques. (Click on image for a larger version.)

Tech Colloqium IV (Fall 2005)

The Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing (CEDP) plans a two-day seminar on “Visual Media and the Art of the Book,” which will examine various publishing technologies--ranging from a traditional letterpress project, featuring guest-artist/papermaker/book artist John Risseeuw (Arizona State University), to high-tech demonstrations of digital processes in the Class of ’41 Studio for Student Communication in Daniel Hall. Professor Risseeuw is recognized as a master of the art of printmaking in both old and new media and is acclaimed for his international, national, and regional exhibitions. This two-day colloquium is meant to foster creative exchange between faculty and students in the departments of Art and English and other constituencies. CEDP Director Wayne Chapman and MAPC Professor Teddy Fishman are the English faculty who will organize activities at the Class of ’41 Studio.

One highlight of “Visual Media and the Art of the Book” is a collaborative project between book artist John Risseeuw and Professor Fishman. Another highlight will be a workshop on the art of the Vandercook letterpress in Clemson’s Print Studio, which Professor Sydney Cross directs in Freeman Hall. Other presentations and demonstrations include projects related to the industry of Clemson University Digital Press such as the renovation of its website, electronic and digital production of its journals, programming, and other technology issues. This venue that will attract participants from across the Clemson community. And it will particularly appeal to the constituent departments of Clemson University’s new Ph.D. program in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design while amplifying the customary bond between Art, English, the Print Studio, and CEDP. We expect to coordinate thematically John Risseeuw’s activities, as much as possible, with the Presidential Colloquium 2005-2006, too, continuing the tradition of concerted outreach with appropriate centers in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

Student Review of Colloquium

Print Studio Workshop
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
2:30 p.m.

Workshop and slide presentation by Matthew Liddle, Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Art, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina.

About Matthew Liddle's work (in his words):

"I call myself a book artist even though I'm not entirely comfortable with that term. I do make things with art materials, and they are more or less like books. But when I tell people what I do they often give a blank look as they question what exactly I mean. Are you an illustrator? A designer? Writer? Printer? Bookbinder? My answer is usually an evasive "Well, yes, sort of."

Basically, I consider book arts my field because it is broad enough to encompass many of my creative interests: paper, because it is such a simple yet profound material; simultaneously ephemeral and durable, and also infinitely transformable; printing, because I enjoy the look and texture of the graphic image, as well as the magical abundance of something produced in multiple; words, as a visual experience and as a vehicle for language; and binding, because it brings together all the various elements and provides a physically interactive format for the presentation of ideas. I enjoy traditional book forms, illustrated books and the crafts associated with them, but I also find myself drawn to non-traditional book forms and invented book-like paper structures. Sometimes I have ideas and look for structures to suit them. Or I am interested in a structure and develop an idea that has an interesting relationship to it. I like the cleverness of book structures and the playfulness of folded paper arts, but I am also interested in creating work that integrates the multiple elements of image, word and material to take something as simple as a piece of paper and turn it into something extraordinary."

More about Matthew Liddle (PDF)

A Colloquium on the Media of Publishing:
Reading, Writing and Editing (AY 2002-2003)

THIS YEAR'S APPROACH: A CLUSTERING OF EVENTS ON LITERARY PUBLISHING

This Year's Tech Colloquium, on The Media of Publishing: Reading, Writing, and Editing, is the end of a trilogy that began in 2001, with New Technology and the Future of Publishing, followed in 2002 by The Future of New Technology in the Arts and Humanities. The Media of Publishing also marks the beginning of an alliance between the CEDP's literary journal, The South Carolina Review, and the English Department's poetry and fiction reading series, including the Richard J. Calhoun Distinguished Lecturer, supported annually by SCR's Editor Emeritus and co-founder, Professor Emeritus Richard J. Calhoun. The alliance between CEDP and English has been there since the first colloquium, with help from the South Carolina Humanities Council and the South Carolina Arts Commission (both in support of the reading series and the Art Department's Print Studio Workshops and lectures on artist's book production). But refocusing the alliance began in October 2002 with SCR's first-ever sponsorship of award-winning poet Vivian Shipley, Editor of The Connecticut Review. (See SCR's new "Writers' Nook" page, accessed on the South Carolina Review On-Line Library Web site.

April 9-10, Clyde Edgerton, Richard J. Calhoun Lecturer-A Reading and Writing Workshop. Time for the public reading: 7:30 p.m. Place: Vickery Auditorium. Contact Assistant Professor Keith Morris for details (864-656-3543; km@clemson.edu). Reception following. Workshop the next morning.

Clyde Edgerton was born May 20, 1944, in Durham, North Carolina to parents who were among the first in their families to leave the farms on which they were raised. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a BA in English education in 1966. He later received his MAT and PhD (in Curriculum and Instruction) from the same university. His decision to become a writer did not come until May of 1978, when he heard Eudora Welty read one of her short stories on television. Since then he has published seven novels: Raney, Walking Across Egypt (which was made into a movie starring Ellyn Burstyn in 2000), The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, In Memory of Junior, Redeye, and Where Trouble Sleeps. Six of these novels are set in Listre, North Carolina, a fictional town based on the North Carolina town of Bethesda where Edgerton was raised. In addition to being a novelist, Edgerton has taught in both high school and college, and he is also sings, plays piano and banjo in The Rank Strangers Band. He is now Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington.

April 10, Melvin Sterne, Tech Colloquium Keynote Speaker-"On Offense for the Book"-- introduced by CEDP Director/CUDP Editor Wayne Chapman, on "Our Years Transitioning to Recognized UP Status," followed by an hour of on-line project demonstrations, then another hour for interested faculty to meet on the focus area niche Digital Publishing and Media. Time for the public events: 1-3:30 p.m. Place: Hardin Hall Auditorium, Clemson University. The focus area meeting will take place in Room 230, Hardin Hall, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Contact: Wayne Chapman (864-656-5399; cwayne@clemson.edu).

Melvin Sterne graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington. He is now completing graduate studies in creative writing at the University of California, Davis. He has published several works of fiction and poetry in various journals, including a long short story in The South Carolina Review (forthcoming Spring 2004). His story "Bread" won the 2001 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award; he has also received several other awards. Melvin Sterne is the founder of the Mild Horse Press and, perhaps more notably, Carve Magazine, which is an exclusively electronic publication with a readership of over 5000 per month. His presentation speaks to issues raised by novelist William Gass on new technology and the future of the book. He will also illustrate some of the features of his journal and press. For more information about Carve Magazine or the Mild Horse Press, visit http://www.carvezine.com/. His paper is being published by Clemson University Digital Press in the essay anthology Literature and Digital Technologies: W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, and William Gass, ed. Karen Schiff (2003).