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COULD AI MAKE A ZINE? An Interdisciplinary RoundtableZines, self-published booklets, have long been considered a subvers...
10/24/2025

COULD AI MAKE A ZINE? An Interdisciplinary Roundtable

Zines, self-published booklets, have long been considered a subversive medium. As zines enter the digital age, they offer us a vocabulary to examine another transgressive tool: Artificial Intelligence. The juncture of zines and AI asks us to reconsider how we define both mediums and it inspires us to further scrutinize our relationships to community, creativity, and the material world.

This event includes an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion featuring experts in information sciences, computer science, art, and media. Following the discussion, participants will have the opportunity to make zines using traditional and digital materials.

Ryan Cordell ( + Dpt. of English)
Karrie Karahalio ()
Phillip Kalantzis Cope ()

October 29th - 1PM to 2:30PM
Room 220, Main Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois. (+Zoom)

Register to attend: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/933293053

Join us at CU Small Press Fest 2025!
Find us this weekend at Table 26, among 40+ independent presses, artists, and zine ...
10/06/2025

Join us at CU Small Press Fest 2025!

Find us this weekend at Table 26, among 40+ independent presses, artists, and zine makers celebrating small-press culture.

🖊️ Signing Schedule
12–1 PM — Nathan Pearce — Bins, Bales & Batteries 
1–2 PM — Ciel Baptiste — En Plein Air 
2–3 PM — Ryan Searl — Primary Wires

📍 Saturday, Oct 11 · 11 AM–4 PM
📍 The Lincoln Square Mall, Urbana, IL

Free and open to all!

📷✨ New Release: En Plein Air by Ciel BaptisteInspired by the 19th-century practice of painting outdoors, this zine trace...
09/29/2025

📷✨ New Release: En Plein Air by Ciel Baptiste

Inspired by the 19th-century practice of painting outdoors, this zine traces the rural landscapes of central Illinois through film photography. Waterlogged fields, termite-ridden barns, the symmetry of phone lines and cornrows — fleeting images of a region both present and fading. Their debut zine, En Plein Air, gathers images of rural Illinois and fragments of their Midwest Gothic series, evoking the quiet afterlife of an agricultural past.

Edition of 100 — out now.

👉 immaterialbooks.com/store/p/en-plein-air

Brian O’Neill’s “A Desert Transect” is SOLD OUT! Part visual ethnography, part sonic document, the book traced Phoenix’s...
09/25/2025

Brian O’Neill’s “A Desert Transect” is SOLD OUT! Part visual ethnography, part sonic document, the book traced Phoenix’s fragile infrastructures and desert urbanism through daily journeys across its transit routes. Look out for new formats and future “transects” to come.

We had a great time at the ! Hope to see you all again next year!
09/12/2025

We had a great time at the ! Hope to see you all again next year!

Untitled, Lukasz Wierzbowski (2014) From: “BETWEEN US: THE DIALOGUES OF HUMAN REPRESENTATION”Take the link in our profi...
09/02/2025

Untitled, Lukasz Wierzbowski (2014)

From: “BETWEEN US: THE DIALOGUES OF HUMAN REPRESENTATION”

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Looking forward to Small Press Fest!!
09/01/2025

Looking forward to Small Press Fest!!

Looking forward to the Cincinnati Art Book Fair at the historic Carnegie building in Covington — Sept 6-7. This artist...
08/25/2025

Looking forward to the Cincinnati Art Book Fair at the historic Carnegie building in Covington — Sept 6-7. This artist-run fair brings together books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, prints + zines from artists across the Midwest and beyond.

We’ll be there with new releases and surprises from the Fields of Vision series (and artists!) ✨ Come say hi! ✨

From “Bins, Bales & Batteries,”
08/20/2025

From “Bins, Bales & Batteries,”

✨ Call for Entries – Blurred Horizons: Fields of Vision 2025 ✨The second edition of Fields of Vision turns its gaze towa...
08/18/2025

✨ Call for Entries – Blurred Horizons: Fields of Vision 2025 ✨

The second edition of Fields of Vision turns its gaze toward the shifting practices of contemporary photography. How are artists today reframing familiar terrains and narratives while still working in dialogue with the region’s deep visual and cultural histories?

This call seeks contemporary voices working from inside—whether geographically, emotionally, or conceptually—to engage with its evolving realities. In doing so, we ask: What new focal points emerge when we blur the edges between past and present, fact and fiction, documentation and imagination? How do shifting tools and technologies shape not only what we see, but how we see—and who gets to speak?

We invite work that tests the limits of what constitutes a photographic practice—whether through digital manipulation, moving image, archival intervention, artificial intelligence remixing, or hybrid forms—while remaining rooted in the landscapes, communities, and visual cultures of Central Illinois. How can such approaches reveal overlooked perspectives, challenge inherited tropes, or complicate established visual grammars?

📅 Apply now to be part of Blurred Horizons, curated by Tim Hale.

👉 https://www.immaterialbooks.com/fields-of-vision-2025

📸 Flickr Friday | We LOVE Flickr, the photo communities it has helped forge, and the people we have met. On “Flickr Fri...
08/15/2025

📸 Flickr Friday |

We LOVE Flickr, the photo communities it has helped forge, and the people we have met. On “Flickr Friday,” we share one image from our Immaterial Books Flickr group.

Untitled, Morocco (2016), Sasha Kurmaz From “Natures: Landscapes of Human Intentions” (2nd Edition)Take the link in our...
08/13/2025

Untitled, Morocco (2016), Sasha Kurmaz

From “Natures: Landscapes of Human Intentions” (2nd Edition)

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