"Megawords" Exhibition
Printed Matter, Inc.
This event has ended.
Taking its primary appearance as a magazine, Megawords has also expanded beyond the page to include a weekly internet radio show, events and performances, and a temporary storefront project space. This exhibition will offer an introduction to the entire Megawords project, including displays of all past issues, photos and work by Megawords and Megawords contributors, and other Megawords-related ephemera and inspiration. Megawords started showing up in the mail here at Printed Matter in 2005 and our staff was simultaneously intrigued and mystified. Here was a thoughtfully produced and visually engaging artists' publication that we would have been happy to add to inventory, but we discovered it was not for sale. We started looking forward to Megawords' sporadic appearance—both for ourselves and for our storefront's free cart. Started by Dan Murphy and Anthony Smyrski, Megawords has published twelve issues that have taken on varying formats from saturated color newsprint to stapled black-and-white pages to perfect bound offset printing: all given away for free. Representing the diverse interests of its many contributors, the pages of Megawords have contained subject matter ranging from images of urban landscapes and photograph's of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath to artist interviews and a facsimile vintage Stone Roses fanzine. Megawords' publishing projects an impressive generosity both in its distribution as well as its advertising-free and straight-forward editorial appearance.
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from March 05, 2010 to April 03, 2010