Jaffe Center for Book Arts - Zine week!

Great to see Future Fantasteek! No.14
celebrating zine week at Jaffe Center for Book Arts in July.

Future Fantasteek! No.17 'Photoshop Yourself Happier'

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.17 is ready to go in the envelopes.
This issue is called Photoshop Yourself Happier

To read the whole thing...
http://www.futurefantasteek.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/future-fantasteek-no17.html

Zineopolis visits Hastings

It was great to meet all the new Illustration for Screen Art  and Graphic Design for Digital Media degree students at the University of Brighton's Hastings Campus on Monday!

I took a selection of lovely zines from the Zineopolis Art-Zine collection and gave a lecture about the collection and how we define an 'Art-Zine'.
In the afternoon I ran a workshop with Paul Burgess (their Course Leader) and we explored the idea of 'GOOD and BAD' through a folded-sheet zine workshop. Here are some images of the day.

NEW Thematic Compilation - 'Computers, Apps and Smartphones'

I've put together a thematic compilation, from all the previous issues of Future Fantasteek!, about our relationship with technology. Computers, Apps and Smartphones celebrates our miserable incompetence in the face of computer error messages, incomprehensible alert boxes and smart phone requests about their operating systems - that we simply can't help them with.

Available as an Online Book only at the moment, but I may make a print version later.

I'm also writing a paper about this thematic compilation that will be available here when it's finally finished.

Future Fantasteek! now in Shadek-Fackenthal Library, USA

Copies of Future Fantasteek! Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8, and 16 have just joined the zine collection in

the Shadek-Fackenthal Library at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Hurrah!

Future Fantasteek! will be making an appearance at the first Beirut Zine Festival in June

Future Fantasteek! will be making an appearance at the first Beirut Zine Festival, which will be on the 18th June at 18:00 in UTC+03. Artscape Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon.
After the festival Future Fantasteek!  will join the Artscape zine collection - super.

For more details, see the Artscape Poster and link below:
https://www.facebook.com/BeirutZines

The British Library are going to archive Future Fantasteek!

Great news! The British Library are going to archive my Future Fantasteek! for the future
...how fantasteek.

The British Library would like to archive the following website:

http://www.futurefantasteek.blogspot.co.uk/

The British Library would like to archive your website in the UK Web Archive. The UK Web Archive was established in 2004 to capture and archive websites from the UK domain, responding to the challenge of a ‘digital black hole’ in the nation’s memory. It contains specially selected websites that represent different aspects of online life in the UK. We work closely with leading UK institutions to collect and permanently preserve the UK web, and our archive can be seen at http://www.webarchive.org.uk/

Future Fantasteek! on show in Russia 1st August - 30th September

The RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books exhibition is about to move to a new location.
The Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Saratov, Russia.
1st August - 30th September 2014

I am showing Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15

Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin. Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. Artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities.

Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist’s book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.

The international project "RUKSSIAN Artists' Books' aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.

British artists: Alice Potter, Andy Parsons & Glenn Holman, Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Caseroom Press/Scottish Poetry Library, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Duncan Bullen & Jamie Crofts, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Iain Biggs & Josh Biggs, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, Joan Ainley, John Bently, John McDowall, J P Willis, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Liz Jackson, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.

Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.

Pavel Kuznetsov Museum, Radischev str., 39, Saratov 410000, Russia

http://www.russianmuseums.info/M1381
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The information at the start of the Exhibition in 13th March 2014.

I am delighted to have been invited to exhibit three issues of Future Fantasteek! Nos. 12, 14 and 15 as part of the following international exhibition.

RU^KSSIAN Artist’s Book

Artist’s Book in the UK and Russia

International Project

(Following text from Sarah Bodman - curator).

Organisers: 
State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve «Tsaritsyno», Moscow
International Association «Kniga Khudozhnika», Moscow

Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK.

Curators: Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin, 

Place: Tsaritsyno State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve, Moscow

Date: 13th March – 18th May 2014

Concept: Artists’ books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. All artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities. Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist's book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.

The international Project “RU^KSSIAN Artists’ Books” aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the artist's book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.


British artists: Angie Butler, Anwyl Cooper-Willis, Barrie Tullett, Charlotte Hall, Christopher Robinson, Craig Atkinson, Elizabeth Willow & David Armes, Guy Begbie, Hazel Grainger, Helen Douglas & Thomas Evans, Jackie Batey, Jeremy Dixon, John Bently, John McDowall, Julie Johnstone, Les Bicknell, Nancy Campbell, Otto, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, Sarah Bodman, seekers of lice, Simon Goode, Simon Le Ruez, Sophie Loss, Stephen Fowler, Susan Johanknecht, Theresa Easton, Tom Sowden.

Russian artists: Nikita Alekseev, Tatiana Antoshina, Vasily Vlasov, Sergei Vorobyov, Viktor Goppe, Emil Guzairov, Aleksander Dzhikiya, Mikhail Dronov, Igor Zadera, Mikhail Karasik, Valery Korchagin, Nikolai Krastchin, Viktor Lukin, Kira Matissen, Valery Orlov, Peter Perevezentsev, Mikhail Pogarsky, Sergei Romashko, Aleksander Savelyev, Dmitry Saenko, Aleksander Svirsky, Vera Khlebnikova, Evelina Schatz, Sergei Shutov, Gunel Yuran, Sergei Yakunin.

Download the Exhibition Catalogue here...
http://www.pogarsky.ru/cgi-bin/foremanel.pl?mod=books&a=books&id=291

Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue NOW available for ipads

NEW ibooks version of Future Fantasteek! Mini-Tour Catalogue.
Free to download for ipad.

Future Fantasteek! issues 14 and 15 now on ibooks

I've just made Future Fantasteek! Nos. 14 and 15 available to view on ibooks via an ipad.
You can download both issues for free from itunes.

On itunes (if you search 'Jackie Batey' ) you'll also find an interview I did with Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis earlier in the year for their 'Secrets' exhibition.

Issue No.14
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/future-fantasteek!-no.14/id681350675?mt=11

Issue No.15
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/future-fantasteek!-no.15/id681188775?mt=11

Future Fantasteek! No 15 OUT NOW

Softback zine laser printed in black & white on cream and blue (for a boy) paper.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Manilla cover in laserprint black with hand-pulled yellow sérigraphie screen print.
Brighton, July 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.15 Here Comes Another One
What's been happening in the BIG WIDE WORLD... Who cares!
Look at the BABY that'll take your mind off things, the Wefare State can cope with one more...

Still free to libraries and zine collections, email me: bateyjackie@gmail.com
Also available to buy online: http://www.freewebstore.org/storepage1952940.aspx

Read on Issuu NOW...


This issue will soon also be available from the ibook store ...

Here's issue no.15 'Here Comes Another One' being printed.

For a change I printed the cover using a 30yr old serigraphie  (French children's mini screen print toy).

It prints a bit erratically (or maybe that was me) using cut out paper stencils.

Here's how they came out, I printed yellow on brown wrapping paper, after laser printing the black first.

Project 2013 - Cafe Royal Books

Future Fantasteek! issues No.13 and No.14 are being shown as part of Project 2013.

http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/project/international-communication-project/

"You are invited to the preview of the 2013 Project.
Books, photographs, and drawings from over 20 countries sharing common themes of communication and dissemination will be displayed at Hanover Project - the University of Central Lancashire. To mark the event I am publishing a series of books: Words, Drawings, Photographs, and Publications. These titles will be launched at the preview event. Words is a collection of essays by leading practitioners and researchers - Sarah Bodman, Jörg Colberg and Lawrence Zeegen. The preview will be preceded by a talk, arranged by Dr Mat Gregory. from Turner Prize winning artist, Martin Creed.

Tuesday April 16th.
Talk: 3.00pm
Foster Building, Lecture Theatre 3, off Kendal Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Spaces are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis.
Preview: 4.30pm - 7.00pm

Install - open for public viewing but partial exhibition 11.04.13 - 08.05.13
Full exhibition 16.04.13 - 03.05.13 10.00am - 5.00pm Monday - Friday

Hanover Project, Hanover Building, off Bhailok Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. Refreshments will be available. More details about the 2013 Project, and other Café Royal Projects can be seen here. Both events are funded by the Contemporary Arts Development Group."

Text from Cafe Royal Website.

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.14 OUT NOW

Softback Zine printed in colour on cream paper. 

A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Day-glo cover in either pink, orange or green with day-glo star sticker.
Brighton, Feb 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.14 Unexpected Item in Bagging Area
So, why the long face? Have you been eating something suspicious... Damp Flat Products obviously deny everything and unlike Tesco - we're NOT SORRY. BUT, cheer-up! The economy is still circling-the-drain and Americans still like shooting each other (SHOCK), and everyone else wants to blow each other up - from and Xbox. Fancy some Soylent Green?
Still free to libraries and zine collections, email me: bateyjackie@gmail.com
Also available to buy online: http://www.freewebstore.org/storepage1952940.aspx

You can now read Future Fantasteek! No.14 at the following locations:

Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, UK

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL, USA

Texas A&M University (TAMU), Bryan, TX, USA

UK non-literary publications, 1914-present, The British Library, London, UK

Colorado College Special Collections, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

INIVA - (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK

Library, London College of Communication, London, UK

Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Library, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Bedeteca de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Reed College Library, Portland, OR, USA

Booklyn (zine collection), Brooklyn, NY, USA

Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH , USA

The Library Hereford College of Arts, Hereford, UK

Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, USA

Paper Cut Zine Library, Cambridge MA, USA

Eton College Library, Windsor, UK

Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, USA

Book Arts & Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, USA

National Art Library, Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Biblioteca Municipal Josep Badia i Moret, Barcelona, SPAIN

Duke University, Durham NC, USA

Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK

Project 2013, Cafe Royal Zines, University of Central Lancashire, UK

The Culture Archive, Brighton, UK

And it's also available to purchase in the Bookarts Bookshop, London, UK

or buy online from me directly here...http://www.freewebstore.org/Damp-Flat

Brighton Illustration: Then, Now, After…

‘Brighton Illustration: Then, Now, After…’ 

opens to the public from: 18 January to 14 February 2013

at the University of Brighton Gallery at the Faculty of Arts in Grand Parade, Brighton UK

I was invited to show some of my Future Fantasteek! artzines as part of this exhibition, celebrating graduates and lecturers from the Illustration course at Brighton. I studied Illustration BA, MA and PhD there... back in the day. (Future Fantasteek! issues 7,9 and 13 bottom middle of case)

The show had various themes, I was in with The Storytellers along with some of my tutors from back then: Alan Baker, Justin Todd and Chris McEwan.

  

Excerpt from website...
Top illustrators return to Brighton.
A star-studded line-up of the nation’s top illustrators has come together for a unique exhibition at the University of Brighton. All of the artists either graduated or worked at the university and they include Sir Quentin Blake CBE, who illustrated Roald Dahl books; Raymond Briggs, who illustrated The Snowman book; and award-winning children’s books illustrator Emily Gravett.
Curators of the exhibition “aim to reflect on the diversity of work originating from the Illustration studios at Brighton over the last 40 years, celebrating achievements and highlighting the possible direction illustrative practice may take in future.”
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/media-arts/news/top-illustrators-come-to-brighton