Library of the Printed Web is a physical archive devoted to web-to-print

artists’ books Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that utilize the form of the book. They are often published in small editions, though they are sometimes produced as one-of-a-kind objects. Overview Artists' books have employed a ...

, zines and other printout matter. Founded by

Paul Soulellis Paul Soulellis (born 1968, Huntington, New York) is an American graphic designer, artist, and educator. His writings and work in the field of experimental publishing and network culture are cited in influential scholarly research. His publication ...

in 2013, the collection was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art Library in January 2017. The project has been described as "web culture articulated as printed artifact," an "archive of archives," characterized as an "accumulation of accumulations," much of it printed on demand. Techniques for appropriating web content used by artists in the collection include ''grabbing'', ''hunting'', ''scraping'' and ''performing'', detailed by Soulellis in "Search, Compile, Publish," and later referenced by Alessandro Ludovico. Printed Web 1

Among the 130 artists included in Library of the Printed Web are

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Mishka Henner Mishka Henner (born 8 June 1976) is a Belgian artist living and working in Manchester, England. His work has featured in several surveys of contemporary artists working with photography in the internet age. He has been described by some as a mode ...

, Clement Valla, Karolis Kosas, Lauren Thorson, Cory Arcangel, Silvio Lorusso, Angela Genusa, Jean Keller,

Aaron Krach Aaron Krach (born February 15, 1972) is an American artist, writer, and journalist currently living in New York City. Background Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated ...

, Joachim Schmid, Benjamin Shaykin, Chantal Zakari, Richard Prince, David Horvitz and

Penelope Umbrico Penelope Umbrico (born January 31, 1957) is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites. Education and career Umbrico was born in Philadelphia in 1957. She gradu ...

. Over 240 works are in the collection. Library of the Printed Web continues to grow through curatorial acquisition and artist contributions. The collection is used primarily for experimental publishing research, as a way to question issues of copyright, privacy and appropriation by artists on the internet, and as the basis for academic workshops in design and new media. The project is frequently featured at book fairs, independent publishing conferences and schools, appearing at Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Merz Akademie, Printed Matter's

NY Art Book Fair The NY Art Book Fair is Printed Matter, Inc's annual event, historically held in September or October. The NY Art Book Fair is the world’s largest book fair for artists’ books and related publications, featuring over 370 exhibitors from 30 c ...

, Offprint London, Theorizing the Web, Interrupt 3 at Brown University, The Internet Yami-Ichi, Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale Art Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography,

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and Offprint Paris. In 2013 Library of the Printed Web was featured at Theorizing the Web and The Book Affair at the opening of the 55th Venice Biennale. Special Collection

''Printed Web''
(publication)

''Printed Web'' is an artists' publication devoted to web-to-print art and discourse, published by Paul Soulellis / Library of the Printed Web. The project began in 2014 as a way to present new work by artists included in Soulellis’ Library of the Printed Web. Artists are invited to submit new or existing network-based work for the printed page. In the spirit of Seth Siegelaub, each issue is curated as a group exhibition for the printed page. Printed Web circulates primarily as print-on-demand publications, but also includes PDFs, ZIPs, GIFs, and server directories. More than 180 artists and writers have contributed to the project through issue #4. Individual issues are widely held in special artists’ publications collections and libraries, including Museum of Modern Art NY, Yale University, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Center, and NY Public Library. ''Printed Web 2'' was included in the exhibition "Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today" at Museum of Modern Art, organized by MoMA Library, featuring a project by

James Bridle James Bridle (born 1980) is an artist, writer and publisher based in London. Bridle coined the New Aesthetic; their work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one." Their work has explore ...

. ''Printed Web 3'' was an open call and launched on the front page of

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and at Offprint London in May 2015, featuring work by 147 artists. ''Printed Web 4'' was a co-publication with International Center of Photography and featured in the exhibition "Public, Private, Secret," curated by

Charlotte Cotton Charlotte Cotton is a curator of and writer about photography. She has held positions including Head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Head of Programming at The Photographers' Gallery, London, ...

in June 2016. The text "Folding the Web" by Michael Connor, artistic director of

, was included in ''Printed Web 4''. ''Printed Web 5: Bot Anthologia'' features algorithmic media: bots, feeds, streams, and other autonomous projects. It was presented at Eyebeam and Interrupt 4 at Brown University.

Artists included in ''Printed Web'' publications

''Printed Web 1'' (January 2014)

* Joachim Schmid *

* Christian Bök * Clement Valla * Jason Huff * Mimi Cabell * Kenneth Goldsmith * Hito Steyerl * Benjamin Shaykin * Christopher Alexander *

* David Horvitz * Amperamp Press

''Printed Web 2'' (December 2014)

Constant Dullaart Constant Dullaart (born Leiderdorp, 7 March 1979) is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator.James Bridle James Bridle (born 1980) is an artist, writer and publisher based in London. Bridle coined the New Aesthetic; their work "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one." Their work has explore ...

* John Zissovici * Cheryl Sourkes * Brian Droitcour *

Tan Lin Tan Anthony Lin is an American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor. He defines his work as “ambient" literature, which draws on and samples source material from the Internet and popular culture to address issues involving plagiarism, copyrig ...

* Angela Genusa *

Webdriver Torso Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on 7 March 2013, the channel began upl ...

Rafaël Rozendaal Rafaël Rozendaal (born 1980) is a Dutch-Brazilian visual artist currently living and working in New York City. He is known as a pioneer of Internet Art. BYOB Rozendaal founded BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer), an open source exhibition concept. The ...

* Cory Arcangel

''Printed Web 3'' (May 2015)

* Open call: 147 artists
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* Silvio Lorusso

''Printed Web 4: Public, Private, Secret'' (June 2016)

* Wolfgang Plöger *

Lorna Mills Lorna Mills is a Canadian net.art and new media artist who is known for her digital animations, videos, and GIFs. Mills has done work in other mediums such as installations. Her work explores how "the notion of public decency is anachronistic" He ...

Molly Soda Amalia Soto, known as Molly Soda, is a Brooklyn-based internet performance artist. Soda works across a variety of digital platforms, producing selfies videos, GIFs, zines, and web-based performance art, which are presented both online and in ...

* Travess Smalley * Angela Genusa * Eva and Franco Mattes *

Anouk Kruithof Anouk Kruithof (born 1981) is a Dutch artist whose exhibitions and books merge social, conceptual, photographic, performance and video. Kruithof has had published, or self-published, a number of books of her work (including ''Happy Birthday to Yo ...

Elisabeth Tonnard Elisabeth Tonnard (1973) is a Dutch artist and poet working in artists' books, photography and literature. Biography Tonnard was born in Leerdam and has a master's degree in literature from Radboud University Nijmegen (where she also taught), a ...

* Christopher Clary * Michael Connor

''Printed Web 5: Bot Anthologia'' (March 2017)

Included 30+ artists who make bots, feeds, streams, and other autonomous projects. *

Ian Cheng Ian Cheng (born March 29, 1984) is an American artist known for his live simulations that explore the capacity of living agents to deal with change. His simulations, commonly understood as "virtual ecosystems" are "less about the wonders of new t ...

*Jason Ronallo * Anders Hoff *Brent Watanabe *John Emerson *

Allison Parrish Allison Parrish is an American poet, software engineer, creative coder, and game designer, notable as one of the most prominent early makers of creative, literary Twitter bots. She was named "Best Maker of Poetry Bots" by ''The Village Voice'' i ...

* Mario Klingemann *Colin Mitchell *Chris Novello * Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Julien Deswaef * John Cayley *Matthew Thomas *Joana Moll * Darius Kazemi *David Lublin *Bob Poekert *Ash Wolf *Sean S. LeBlanc *Eugenio Tisselli V. * Gregor Weichbrodt *Everest Pipkin & Loren Schmidt *Derek Arnold

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