{"id":1607,"date":"2013-07-10T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/07\/10\/mmmmarginalia-critical-making-garnet-hertz\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T22:28:19","slug":"mmmmarginalia-critical-making-garnet-hertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/07\/10\/mmmmarginalia-critical-making-garnet-hertz\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

mmmmarginalia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Critical Making<\/strong>,\u00a0Garnet Hertz (2013)<\/p>\n

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Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work \u2010 making \u2010 can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society. It works to blend and extend the fields of design, contemporary art, DIY\/craft and technological development. It also can be thought of as an appeal to the electronic DIY maker movement to be critically engaged with culture, history and society: after learning to use a 3D printer, making an LED blink or using an Arduino, then what?<\/p>\n

The publication has 70 contributors \u2010 primarily from contemporary art and academia \u2010 and its 352 pages are bound in ten pocket-sized zine-like volumes. The project takes the topic of DIY culture literally by printing an edition of 300 copies on a hacked photocopier with booklets that were manually folded, stapled and cut. Academic publishing is at a point in history where it deserves to be questioned, and this project proposes that a small-scale run on a photocopier by one person can have more impact than an academic monograph from a major university press.<\/p>\n

The 300 finished copies were primarily given away for free to project contributors, individuals and institutions important to them. Some of the handmade copies were traded for reviews, photographs, videos, lectures and were given to library archives. As of February 2013, approximately twenty hardcopies exist, and the project is exploring wider distribution formats that challenge the medium of academic publishing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

mmmmarginalia: Critical Making,\u00a0Garnet Hertz (2013) Critical Making is a handmade book project by Garnet Hertz that explores how hands-on productive work \u2010 making \u2010 can supplement and extend critical reflection on technology and society. It works to blend and extend the fields of design, contemporary art, DIY\/craft and technological development. It also can be thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-pV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5055,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2008\/11\/24\/souvenir-artists\/","url_meta":{"origin":1607,"position":0},"title":"souvenir artists","author":"monochromist","date":"November 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The main concern identified in the Theertha report was the overwhelming influence of the tourists\u2019 souvenir market on Maldivian artists and their work. 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