Participants

Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process, involving taxonomies, cartographies, organizing of knowledge, and transitional technologies mediating the analog and virtual. Aranda lives and works between Berlin and New York, Backstrom and Lyon work and live in New York City.

Interrelated interests exist across the fields of: information theory / systems theory / taxonomy / OCR technology / cartography / linguistics / discursive structures / Dewey decimal system / translation / read/write culture / compression strategies / profile vs portrait symbiogenesis

common room is an architectural practice, publishing imprint, exhibition space, and collaborative platform based in New York City and Brussels. common room is comprised of architects Lars Fischer, Todd Rouhe and Maria Ibañez, and graphic designer Geoff Han.

David Horvitz is a New York-based artist whose work shifts seamlessly between the Internet and the printed page. His participatory practice, which often involves close collaborations with other artists and web-based audiences, considers strategies of information circulation and the impermanence of digital artifacts. Horvitz has been included in group exhibitions at Art Metropole, Toronto; the Or Gallery, Vancouver; New Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London, and Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley.

Jenny Jaskey is a writer and curator based in New York. Recent exhibitions include Haim Steinbach, The Artist’s Institute, New York (2012) and Jutta Koether: Mad Garland, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2012). She is co-editor with Christoph Cox and Suhail Malik of an upcoming publication on the ‘speculative turn’ in philosophy and aesthetics published by Sternberg Press.

Christian Philipp Müller lives in Kassel and Berlin. Since 2011, he has been Dean at the School of Art and Design, Kassel. His solo exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (2007) and the Kunstverein München, Munich (1992). Müller has participated in dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), Manifesta 7 (2008), and documenta 10 (1997) and was Austrian representative at the Biennale di Venezia (1993).

The Serving Library is a cooperatively-built archive that assembles itself by publishing. It consists of 1. an ambitious public website; 2. a small physical library space; 3. a publishing program which runs through #1 and #2. BULLETINS OF THE SERVING LIBRARY is its house organ, produced as a composite printed / electronic publication released first online as PDF electronic downloads at www.servinglibrary.org over a six-month period, then assembled, printed, and distributed two times per year in the United States and Europe. Each issue of the journal assembles around a loose theme.

The Serving Library, Inc. was established as a 501c3 corporation in the State of New York by Stuart Bailey, Angie Keefer, and David Reinfurt in 2012. Its non-profit status is pending.