Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
Bulletins of the Serving Library
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David Reinfurt, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, et al.Vincenzo Latronico, Angie Keefer
Media Theory
BULLETINS OF THE SERVING LIBRARY is a composite printed/electronic publication that follows a direct line from Dot Dot Dot, the semi-annual journal founded in 2000 and published by Dexter Sinister. The "bulletins" that make up each issue are first published online as PDFs at www.servinglibrary.org over a six-month period, then assembled, printed and distributed separately in Europe and in the U.S.A. Each collection makes up a semester's worth of loosely-themed material, with its constituent PDFs grouped together on the website.
Bulletins of the Serving Library #11 Bulletins of the Serving Library
Lucas Benjamin, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Umberto Eco, et al.Emily Gephart, James Langdon, Tamara Shopsin, Amy Sillman, Dexter Sinister, T.E. White, Angie Keefer, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, [2 More...]
PublisherThe Serving Library2016
This issue is both *in* and *about* COLOR. Starting with ISSUE #10, we have reduced our format and we are printing in all of the available inks. The issue was published in time to inaugurate (finally!) our first physical space for The Serving Library in a storefront on the north side of the majestic India Buildings block in the heart of Liverpool's once-colorful mercantile district. Bulletins around the edges of color come courtesy Lucas Benjamin on a green screen, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey on ephemera, Umberto Eco on conditioning, Emily Gephart on a poetry hoax, James Langdon on kitchen cabinetry, Tamara Shopsin on swimming ...
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, David Reinfurt, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, et al.Angie Keefer, Lucy McKenzie, 9mother9horse9eyes9 , Jocelyn Penny Small, Mathew Kneebone, James Langdon, Robert Wyatt, Jumana Manna, [6 More...]
This issue comprises various outlooks on "perspective." This might be taken to mean something as specific as a particular opinion or as general as an axonometric projection; in short, different ways and means of looking at the world. And so we find Vincenzo Latronico attempting to get in touch with E.T., a collection of Lucy McKenzie's illusory quodlibets, a conversation between Jumana Manna and Robert Wyatt on art and ethics, a timely analysis of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" by Sarah Demeuse, along with other points of view from Mark de Silva, Jocelyn Penny Small, Abigail Reynolds, James Langdon ...
Executing Practices DATA Browser
Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Magda Tyżlik-Carver, et al.Yuk Hui, Roel Roscam Abbing, Femke Snelting, Peggy Pierrot, Geoff Cox, David Gauthier, Susan Schuppli, Winnie Soon, [13 More...]
PublisherOpen Humanities Press2018
This collection brings together artists, curators, programmers, theorists and heavy internet browsers whose practices make critical intervention into the broad concept of execution. It draws attention to their political strategies, asking: who and what is involved with those practices, and for whom or what are these practices performed, and how? From the contestable politics of emoji modifier mechanisms and micro-temporalities of computational processes to genomic exploitation and the curating of digital content, the chapters account for gendered, racialised, spatial, violent, erotic, artistic and other embedded forms of execution. Together they highlight a range of ways in which execution emerges and ...
Fabricating Publics DATA Browser
Bill Balaskas, Carolina Rito, Terry Smith, et al.Steven Henry Madoff, Forensic Architecture, Christine Ross, Gregory Sholette, Emily Rosamond, Carolina Rito, Ferry Biedermann, Nat Muller, [10 More...]
Truth Politics
This book explores how cultural practitioners and institutions perceive their role in the post-truth era, by repositioning their work in relation to the notion of the "public". The book addresses the multiple challenges posed for artists, curators and cultural activists by the conditions of post-factuality: Do cultural institutions have the practical means and the ethical authority to fight against the proliferation of "alternative facts" in politics, as well as within all aspects of our lives? What narratives of dissent are cultural practitioners developing, and how do they choose to communicate them? Could new media technologies still be considered as instruments ...
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Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David Reinfurt, Sarah Demeuse, et al.Shannon Harvey
Publisherdos-dos.org2017
Exhibition Display
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and David Reinfurt focus on the Scott Burton furniture-like objects in a larger group show and use it to consider objects as tools for thinking, the impact of museum display in undoing tensions between form and function, models and fossilized sketches, and the correlation between idea and cost or scale.
Scratching the Surface: Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey Scratching the Surface
Jarrett Fuller, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey
PublisherScratching the Surface2018
Systems Design
Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey is a designer, writer, editor, and publisher. He co-founded Dot Dot Dot with Peter Bil'ak in 2000 and began working with David Reinfurt, under the name Dexter Sinister, in 2006. Along with Reinfurt and Angie Keefer, he's the co-founder and publisher of The Serving Library. Late last year, he was appointed Head of Design at the ICA in London. In this conversation, Stuart and I talk about his early design career and working with Richard Hollis, the relationships he sees between design and writing, and how his career is influencing his approach to his new job.
The Serving Library Annual 2017/18 Bulletins of the Serving Library
David Reinfurt, Angie Keefer, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, et al.Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Lauren Mackler, Tauba Auerbach, Jack Self, Chris Evans, Valentina Desideri, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Adrian Piper, [11 More...]
PublishersThe Serving LibraryRoma Publications2017
Artist Writings
Political Populism
Newly published by ROMA Publications in a yearly format, this inaugural issue of The Serving Library Annual is realised in collaboration with Public Fiction, a journal and exhibition-maker based in Los Angeles. Public Fiction's next project, which runs broadly concurrent to this new Annual's lifespan, is named The Conscientious Objector — a multifaceted endeavour commissioned by West Hollywood City Council that unfurls in parts from September 2017 to April 2018. These bulletins have been conceived as one part: they deal with acts of civil disobedience and other forms of resistance, particularly in view of the relationship between entertainment and power. Contributors ...
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Vincenzo Latronico, et al.David Reinfurt, Anna Della Subin, Minae Mizumura, The Annotated Fall, Emily Wilson, Vincenzo Latronico, David Osbaldeston, Joseph Grigley, [9 More...]
Twice a year since 2011, The Serving Library has assembled a set of individual "bulletins" on a common theme, made PDFs available to download for free at www.servinglibrary.org, and simultaneously published them in print as Bulletins of The Serving Library. Last fall we started to turn on a yearly cycle instead, uploading the new batch of files throughout September, and releasing a half-as-frequent-and-twice-as-big print edition in collaboration with Amsterdam-based Roma Publications. This year's Annual is guest-edited by Italian novelist and translator Vincenzo Latronico and explores how *translation* is fast becoming a significant site for the negotiation of identities and power dynamics ...
Bruno Munari, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, et al.Vincenzo Latronico, David Reinfurt, Giovanni Anceschi, Thom Andersen, Paola Antonelli, Leonor Antunes, Justin Beal, Eugenia Bell, [41 More...]
PublishersThe Serving LibraryRoma PublicationsCorraini Edizioni2019
The 2019/20 issue of The Serving Library Annual is entirely devoted to the late Italian designer, artist, inventor and polymath Bruno Munari. The core of the annual is the first English translation of Obvious Code, the 1971 collection of Munari's own writings, sketches and poems about his own work, published by arrangement with Corraini, who issued the book's anastatic edition in 2017. It includes iconic design objects such as the Abitacolo, ground-breaking artworks such as his 1952 series of hand-made projection slides, and little known rhymes about the art market, as well as an original piece from his "unreadable books" ...
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Vincenzo Latronico, et al.David Reinfurt, Søren Andreasen, Atelier E.B, Tauba Auerbach, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Justin Beal, Harry Beck, Tom Benson, [53 More...]
This year's Annual is published in tandem with a long-term installation of The Serving Library's collection of (mostly) framed objects at 019, an artist-run exhibition, performance and work space in a former welding factory in Ghent, Belgium. Apparently, the sole common denominator of the objects in the collection — which range from paintings, photographs, and record sleeves, to a can of green paint, a German car license plate, and an ouija board — is to have appeared as illustrations in an issue of The Serving Library Annual or one of its immediate antecedents, Bulletins of The Serving Library or Dot Dot ...
Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Vincenzo Latronico, et al.David Reinfurt, Robert Wiesenberger, Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Canal Street Research Association, Tamara Colchester, Laura Coombs, Anuja Dhir, [15 More...]
Architectural Space
Border Regimes
Technofeminism
The genesis of this issue of The Serving Library Annual was a pre-pandemic proposal for a group show at the Clark Art Institute, themed on the meander. That project evolved into the two-person exhibition Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander (16 July – 16 October, 2022). The line that animates both, however, continues indefinitely. The Serving Library Annual 2022/23 includes contributions by Yuji Agematsu, Tauba Auerbach, Canal Street Research Association, Tamara Colchester, Laura Coombs, Anuja Dhir, Lauren Elkin, Jason Fulford, Anthony Huberman, Julije Knifer, Philip Ording, Federico Pérez Villoro, Emilie M. Reed, Eden Reinfurt, Ab Rogers, Laurel Schwulst, Mindy Seu, Tamara ...