The 'Zine

So I'm seriously interested in getting this going, and really getting to work on it once school stuff dies down.

I just want to reiterate some of the ideas I had for the publication on the blog for all to see:

- A showcase of local KC artists, but not necessarily limited to such.
- An emphasis on photography, because of the fact that not many publications (especially around here) are heavily involved with the medium in that sense.
- That being said I also really want other mediums represented, and especially think some creative writing would be nice. (maybe even response pieces from other artists based on some of the work going into the magazine.
- I'm not sure how often we can get this out, especially with most of us still having another year of school left. I'm thinking maybe quarterly for now?
- We need to try to get some sort of sponsorship to help pay for all the costs involved with this. Grant writing may be a possibility, talking to local artist coalitions and foundations, and other kc businesses who may be interested in promoting work like this.
- Also the first series of these will most likely not be printed at nearly the quality I would prefer, but it shouldn't deter us from its creation. Even if we have to do newsprint starting out.

Anyways feel free to add to this list or whatever.

I think this could be an amazing group effort though.

Alex: I really like this idea as well. I'm keen to be involved. I also had a thought when Brandon mentioned the responses from artists or whoever to work in the zine that the format that ummm i think its "Black" zine uses is pretty cool. They have the articles written about the person writing the previous article...does that make sense? so we could all kinda feed off each other too, and other artists etc. Dunno. just an idea.

Collecting for the Collective.

So no one has really done much collective wise. Things have been busy and we all understand.

Lydia and I have been chatting extensively about ideas that we could do for shows. In our discussions we have mentioned appropriating our works together so we can show work and kind of let the collective actually "BECOME SOMETHING"

At KCAI people have been bitching about not having any gallery shows in the PD/F space. We thought that we experiment with collecting mass amounts of a certain media and displaying them all together, along with a joint statement. For example i have an obsession with Cell phone pictures and picture-mailing. So we could all individually print cell phone images and the collaboratively curate a show out of them. Another example could be test prints or practice images, this way people in other medias (graphicdesignBencoughcough) could submit pieces as well. (This is a great way that our foreign members can actively participate too.)

We have come up with some other ideas that could be used as well but pending on feedback to this post, this idea can be pursued more in depth.


ALSO! We have discussed that the publication idea zine, fliers ect... should be better thought out over the summer.

eh. thats all.

Yo! I like this idea of collecting a big bunch off stuff (cell phone images etc) and curating them into one big show. I also love the idea of collecting lots of peoples tests and scraps and proof sheets. Sometimes these ( or a lot of them) can be better/cooler/awesomer than a finished polished work. Again just putting in my 2 cents but yea. I am planning to send you guys stuff in the next few weeks by the real live physical mail...so it may be a collection of things for this sort of idea. yea. Alex.

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