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Anteism is a Canadian publisher working with galleries and artists to produce unique art books. Our blog showcases the books we produce and the artist books we love!

We’re hiring!

Job title: Coordinator-  Web Content Development (0124) 


As part of the "Digital Skills for Youth" Program, coordinated by Communautique, Artdeslivres is looking
for a Coordinator of Web and Social Media Marketing.
Artdeslivres /BookArt is a book printing, binding and publication services company based in Montreal. We
work with international galleries, artists, design studios & agencies to create high quality books and other
print-based project. Complimentary to our client services, we also publish artbooks Anteism Books and
operate a publication-arts gallery located in the heart of the Mile End district.
In the current context, in accordance with government directives related to COVID-19, Artdeslivres wants
to adapt the already existing programming for the 2020-2021 season and develop a new web content
distribution program. This program will aim to support artists and artistic organizations in Montreal
affected by COVID-19 and the dissemination of their work through digital platforms. This initiative will be
used to find new ways to deliver visual content.


Job Description:
- Responsible for webcasting and social media management at Artdeslivres. In close collaboration
with the clients and artists who are part of the programming, the candidate will have to develop
new strategies to adapt the content of the programming for webcasting purposes.
- On a daily basis, the participant will work with the Artdeslivres team to plan, organize, direct,
control and evaluate the design, development and updating of the Bookart.ca and Anteism.com
websites, as well as manage the organizations social media management. Among other things,
the participant will take care of research and content writing, video digitization, editing,
integration, computer graphics, uploading, management / animation of social networks.


Tasks and Responsibilities:
Management and adaptation of the 2020-21 programming:
- Coordinate relations with the various Montreal artistic organizations affected by COVID-19, and
develop strategies to adapt their project using the Artdeslivres web platform, either by live
broadcasting on the web, producing tours virtual, uploading of images and documents, etc.
- Implement the new strategies and produce a digital content deployment calendar to promote the
various events and projects during the year 2020-21.
Broadcasts and web promotion:
- Increase the visibility of the various projects of the 2020-21 program on the organizations
websites through the creation and management of content; Write and integrate content on the
various platforms, research and produce photographic and video visuals for social networks,
participate in the integration of content on the company's website, plan the content and the
deployment of newsletters.

- Management of designated communities of Anteism: create and publish content, maintain and
energize virtual communities in social networks and see to their evolution.
- Production of video content for webcasting: digitization and video editing of the video capture,
uploading with the help of the technical team.
- Explore the different distribution networks (Vimeo, etc.).
- Familiarize with SEO tools (search engine optimization tools) for promotion and artistic
dissemination.


Qualifications required:
- Proven skills in marketing and communication
- Excellent written French and English
- Working knowledge of web design


Eligibility Criteria:
- Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the internship
- A post-secondary graduate
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person who has been granted refugee status in
Canada
- Not in receipt of Employment Insurance during their internship
- Self-assess as underemployed, meaning you are unemployed, employed below your level of
education and/or hold part-time employments.
- Cannot currently be enrolled in post-secondary studies or do this internship as a credited work
experience within the context of post-secondary studies
Application deadline: 2020-10-12
Type of employment: Full-time, Temporary, Internship
Duration: Internship from mid- October, 2020 to end of March, 2021
Salary: $ 17.00/ hour
Schedule: 35-40 hours / week
COVID-19 measures: Safe place in a large office with open areas and physical distancing.
To apply, please send your resume to harley@anteism.com

Nut II - Celebrating the Female Artist Community

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NUT II Book Launch

March 24th, 2018 4-6P

at A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY)

Please join us at 4pm on March 24th, at the historic A.I.R. Gallery for the launch of NUT II.

NUT is an all women’s publication devoted to celebrating and fostering the female artist community. The project takes its name from the Egyptian sky Goddess who, every night, swallows the sun and births it anew, performing the perpetual cycle of life and death. The impetus for NUT was a desire to harness personal traumas into positive outcomes as a process of healing and renewal.

Our goal is twofold: first to give form to a beautiful collection of great art made by women, and second, as a means of raising funds to support women globally. All proceeds generated by NUT are donated to the Global Fund for Women, an international organization whose mission is to “find, fund, and amplify the courageous work of women who are building social movements and challenging the status quo.” More info: www.globalfundforwomen.org

The book’s 5 x 7 in. format features a collection of 64 detachable high-quality prints of works on paper by women artists. A limited edition will be available for purchase at the launch and subsequently via www.nutpublication.com and anteism.

For more information please email nutlaunch{at}gmail{dot}com

Alessandra Acierno
Susan Bee
Amy Bessone
Simone Blain
Amanda Boulos
Cristine Brache
Sandra Brewster
Lex Brown
Vanessa Brown
Ginny Casey
Phoebe Collings-James
Holly Coulis
June Culp
Laura Dawe
Laura Findlay
Meg Franklin
Zipora Fried
Rebecca Gilbert
Elizabeth Glaessner
Claire Greenshaw
Vanessa Gully Santiago
Delphine Hennelly
Stephanie Hier
Brook Hsu
Kristen Jensen
Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Emma Kohlmann
Jyan Ku
Denise Kupferschmidt
Anne Libby
Aino Lintunen
Antonia Low
 

Kristy Luck
Shannon Lucy
Katie Lyle
Maya Martinez
Frances Adair Mckenzie
Maysha Mohamedi
Elisabeth Molin
Abby Mcguane
Sophy Naess
Gahee Park
Erika Ranee
Libby Rothfeld
Brie Ruais
Sarah Sands Phillips
Chloe Seibert
Mira Schor
Ellen Siebers
Lisa Signorini
Polly Shindler
Dana Slijboom
Jane Swavely
Alexandria Tarver
Camille Thomas
Winnie Truong
Jessica Vaughn
Megane Voghell
Joy Walker
Nell Waters
Kathleen White
Faye Wei Wei
Rachel Eulena Williams
Crys Yin

Machines Upon Every Flower - Can machines create art? 

A Book of artwork & poetry created by Artificial Intelligence.

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Machines Upon Every Flower questions computational creativity in the massive new field of Artificial Intelligence. This book is the result of collaboration between Anteism, visual artist Gregory Chatonsky (artist-researcher @ Paris 8) and Karmel Allison (Founder of CuratedAI.com).

By feeding a single word into Allison's Deep Gimble A.I., a poem is generated.  These poems are then interpreted by another Artificial Intelligence developed by Gregory Chatonsky, which produces artworks in response.

The result is an art book leading us to consider the artistic merit and creative potential of Artificial Intelligence.

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Simultaneously, questions arise around the nature of human creativity itself and may further lead toward its demystification.

How will art change with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence?

How will Artificial Intelligence alter the way we create and perceive artwork?  How will this new development push the boundaries of established theory and practices in the arts? This book acts as a historical document or time capsule of artificial intelligence in 2017.

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  • Beautifully letter-pressed cover by the Abricot Studio
  • Softcover, chapbook-style binding with cover flaps and silver  foil embossed title.
  • Interior printed on 100% post consumer paper
  • 15x22cm / 6x9"
  • 64 pages

Graviky Labs - Air Ink x Anteism Collaboration

Air pollution --> Ink --> Sketchbook.

AIR-INK is the world's first ink made out of air pollution. While working at MIT, Graviky Labs invented a device that captures air pollution from the exhaust of vehicles. This solid pollution is then purified and converted into safe, high-quality ink for art.

Anteism is excited to collaborate on the launch of Air Ink by producing custom screen printed sketchbooks for the kickstarter campaign. The covers of the sketchbooks will be silkscreened using Air Ink and will feature the artwork of the amazing crew En Masse.

Pickup a limited edition sketchbook and help Air Ink scale up it's production to help reduce dirty air emissions and give artists another tool to make beautiful things.

History of Magic - Alison Blickle

In her first book with Anteism, History of Magic, Alison Blickle relates a connection we all share with nature, our ancestors and the unseen worlds around us.  Strength, fearlessness and Sisterhood emanate from these images,  inducing pattern recognition and a sure sense of interconnectivity.

Paired with excerpts from writings on ceremonial magic by 19C French Occultist Éliphas Lévi,   Blickle delivers a genuine Mythos in this timeless body of work.

Below is a look-book with example pages from History of Magic. Purchase a copy of the book.

Augmented Reality For the Arts

Anteism's AR•BOOK is an augmented reality platform which allows for video, animation and 3d holograms to be viewable from the pages of a book.

Frances Adair Mckenzie's new book Glossed Over and Tucked Up is the most recent augmented reality project utilizing AR•BOOK. The following video showcases Mckenzie's new book as well as a 3D hologram/pop-up by sculptor Glen LeMesurier.

A Seat At The Table - Solange Knowles

Anteism & BookArt had the pleasure to work with Solange Knowles, her team and Sony/Columbia to produce a handmade limited edition hardcover book of lyrics and photographs for the surprise launch of the new album "A Seat At The Table".  This rare book was delivered to the first 86 people who subscribed to the artist's newsletter. To the thousands of subscribers that missed the first 86 seats at the table, checkout the book online at solangemusic.com

 

 

Never Print This - Anthony Lister

Australian provocateur Anthony Lister graffitis his own polaroids in this book of art, scribbling symbols from his unconscious over the spontaneous imagery he's captured of the people and scenes in his life. This work is intimate and revealing. More than ever, in his words, it's "like being a soldier because I have to be hard as fuck to fall in love with these things and let them go.”

Caia Hagel, excerpt from Never Print This
"Climbing long ladders and slinking over concrete surfaces in cities across the world, fiercely, like the colourful protagonists of his visions, with cape on, spray cans under arm, goggles secured tightly; artist Anthony Lister is on a divine mission: the fight, for all of us, against the zeitgeist’s big villain, a saga that he calls 'the war of creativity on reality'.”

Details:

Size 8"x11" 
28 pages
Softcover
Edition of 300
Purchase

Limited (50) edition contains 1 of 2 signed prints by Anthony Lister.

More work by Anthony Lister
anthonylister.com

CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Tim Georgeson
GuerrillaPop+MediaLab

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WORDS
Caia Hagel

LAYOUT
Hotel Sport
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Frances Adair McKenzie Augmented Reality Art Book

Glossed Over & Tucked Up - New Media Art Live On The Pages Of A Printed Art Book

Disembodied limbs, fruit and inanimate objects play a role in a weird, theatrical world, brought to life in a new book utilizing augmented reality. The second augmented release by Anteism showcases the brilliant work of new media artist Frances Adair McKenzie.

Checkout the Creator's Project Interview, Inside Frances Adair Mckenzie's Erotic Glam GIF Book

Get involved in the creation of the Glossed Over and Tucked Up augmented art book.

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Tall Tales a new book by Caitlin McDonagh

Traditionally the idea of a ‘Tall Tale’ is a story that has fantastical events and unbelievable circumstances. Some are exaggerations of real events. Stories that fascinate and are meant to be shared, while being passed along between listeners. ‘Tall Tales’ is a series of work that explores the importance of storytelling and how information changes as it is shared between us. 

This limited edition book is available only through OuterSpace Gallery 

The beautiful augmented artworks of Takeshi Mukai

Here's a look at the work of Takeshi Mukai @ARART, who is helping with the Scorpion Dagger Book's augmented reality features!

ARART website: http://arart.info App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/arart/id594400399?l=en&mt=8 ARART museum: http://arart.info/museum/ ARART is an application that breathes life into objects. When overlaying ARART onto a well-known masterpiece, a new story will unfold, as if time trapped inside the painting has been stirred alive. By overlaying the camera of a mobile device onto objects, the ARART-system will detect images and objects that are registered and will display an animated image on top of said object. Enjoy a whole new experience by overlaying ARART onto various objects from all around the world. Planning: Kei Shiratori, Takeshi Mukai Software Development and Graphic Design: Takeshi Mukai Software Development Support: Junpei Wada, Masayuki Akamatsu Motion Graphics: Younghyo Bak Motion Graphics Support: Yutaka Kitamura, Inhye Kim, Kaori Yamakawa Sound Design: Kei Shiratori

What is an augmented book?

An augmented book looks and feels like a traditional book. Using a specialized app and tablet/phone the viewer can trigger multimedia such as animations by viewing the book through their device’s screen. Checkout the Scorpion Dagger Augmented Book.

Use of the Augmented Reality in the new Scorpion Dagger book

Scorpion Dagger Augmented Book of .GIF Animations

What is an augmented book?

An augmented book looks and feels like a traditional book. Using a specialized app and tablet/phone the viewer can trigger multimedia such as animations by viewing the book through their device’s screen.

With this technology we bring the printed pages of James Kerr's Scorpion Dagger book to life. View his hilarious .gif animations through the screen of your phone while flipping through a finely crafted collectable art book. Help make it happen!

Vojtěch Kubašta paper engineer and pop-up book designer

Beautiful pop-up books and innovative paper engineering by Czech artist Vojtěch Kubašta 

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When the communist government nationalised the entire publishing industry in 1948, Kubašta had to search for new venues to market his artistic talent. He was involved in designing advertising materials for Czechoslovak products abroad. He created three-dimensional cards that advertised porcelain, sewing machines, pencils, Pilsner beer, sunglasses, and other products. Every Christmas season, he designed and illustrated a new crèche in which he captured the Czech traditional Christmas setting. In 1956, he designed his first fairy tale pop-up bookLittle Red Riding Hood. Kubašta offered this pop-up book to the Prague-based ARTIA publishing house for publication. ARTIA was a state-owned foreign trade corporation.

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During the years that followed, Vojtěch Kubašta's three-dimensional books made him the publishing house's best-known book designer and illustrator. His pop-up books have been published in 24 different languages and 35 million copies have been sold. Today, original editions of his illustrations and books are sought after by collectors from around the world.

Ken Carbone Curiously Curious Journals

The importance of artist journals and sketch books 

Journals are one of the most important tools for an artist/scientist/musician... to slow down and capture inspiration. The ideas generated may not be ready for development but can be re-discovered at a later time. The Curiously Curious journals of Ken Carbone are a perfect example. After witnessing the private journals of Paul Gauguin, Carbone began creating journals for his ideas and the happenings around him. Carbone uses a basic store bought journal and transforms the book by adding a leather cover which he customizes using leather dyes.

Artist Book Submission - Homeward Bound Zine

Over the years Anteism has been sent a bunch of great art books and zines. We appreciate people sharing their work with us and want to highlight these past and future submissions. We will be showcasing these books/zines on our blog. The most recent submission is ...

A zine about train art and skateboarding in the gateway to the interior of British Columbia

Homeward Bound is a half page art zine focusing on railroading and skateboarding with a mix of original illustrations and photography by S.W. Blake.

• Colour stock cover 
• Grayscale printing 
• 32 pages 
• 8.5 x 5.5 inches 
• Staple bound

Pick up a copy of Homeward Bound

Submit your art book or zine to the library.

If you are interested in sharing your art related book or zine please send a copy to the address on our contact page.  We make every effort to showcase the titles we feel our readers will enjoy. All donated submissions will remain in a public art book library which is exhibited through OuterSpace Gallery

An Art Book From One Piece of Paper

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We would like to share a method for artists to create their own unique art books, utilizing only one piece of paper. Eddie Martinez's Art Book, SEEKER was created with this method. This artist book was screen-printed on a large sheet of paper, hand folded and cut in a way that folds into a book. 

The video below shows a step-by-step process how to make your own art zine.

Screen-printing the large sheet that would be later folded down into the SEEKER book.