OxTalks is Changing
On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) - Day 1
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.
Date:
18 May 2023, 14:00
Venue:
Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details:
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library & online
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address:
bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/may23/agrippa-a-book-of-the-dead
Booking email:
bookcentre@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Lucy Bayley
