CONSIDERING THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART

2009 Symposium

The second biennial CODEX Symposium, was scheduled from Monday February 9th through Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at the Berkeley Art Museum. Artists and writers presented their work and critical views in the atmosphere of a world class book fair and an old fashioned western rendez-vous.

Keynote Speakers

Karen Bleitz
listen to The Mechanical Word, from the Kinetic Portrait series

Antoine Coron, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
lecture: Publishing Artists' Books in France

Ron King, Circle Press
listen to Full Circle

Clemens-Tobias Lange, CTL-Presse

Emily McVarish, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at California College of the Arts
listen to The Square

Tate Shaw
Tate Shaw is the director of Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.
lecture: The Placeholders

Lawrence Weschler, Writer, Artistic Director of the Chicago Humanities Festival