Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
In the summer of 1992, readers of the magazine Details could read the following book review about an upcoming artist’s book:
‘Agrippa’s temporal dislocation will likewise multiply: if Macintoshes aren’t around in thirty years, some collectors will find themselves the owners of a rare, expensive, unreadable book.’
— Gavin Edwards, ‘Cyber Lit’, Details (June 1992, p.134, Bodleian Library MS. 7981, fol. 3).
Over 30 years after the launch of Agrippa, a self-destructive collaborative book project by the publisher Kevin Begos Jr, the writer William Gibson and the artist Dennis Ashbaugh, join us over two consecutive afternoons to explore the fate of Agrippa’s copies in library collections, the place of artists’ books in book studies, and the intersection of analogue and digital in the field of material texts.
This symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual DF McKenzie Lecture, to be delivered by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. It is presented by the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book and the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts.
