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Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1
Published January 2012
Perfect-bound, 336 pp, 6 x 9 in.
Black and white, gatefold cover
ISBN 978-0-9847346-0-3
Design concept by Project Projects, layout and typesetting by Project Projects with Alex Lesy and Triple Canopy

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We're pleased to announce the publication of Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy. The book, designed in collaboration with Project Projects, is at once an archive of Triple Canopy's widespread publishing activities and a translation into print of projects that originally appeared in other forms. The design of Invalid Format reflects this problem: How might works produced for the screen be transposed to the codex in a way that recalls that former context, though not slavishly, and while also fully inhabiting the page? How can the form and function of interactive, audiovisual works be degraded elegantly, without disappearing entirely, in print?

Invalid Format will be published at least annually, and will be available at select bookshops worldwide as well as on Triple Canopy's website. The initial volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and literary work published in the first year of Triple Canopy's existence, documentation of public programs, and a sampling of foundational correspondence. Contributors include Lene Berg, Joseph Clarke, Rivka Galchen, Adam Helms, Sheila Heti, Dan Hoy, the International Necronautical Society, Craig Kalpakjian, Jon Kessler, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachel Mason, Amir Mogharabi, Rachel Owens, Ed Park & Rachel Aviv, the Poetic Research Bureau, John Powers, Emily Richardson & Iain Sinclair, Michael Robinson, and Diane Williams.

Distributed in North America by ARTBOOK | D.A.P., New York, and in Europe by Motto Distribution, Berlin.

With generous support from:

           
Shapco Printing, Inc. (Schulman Group), Minneapolis, MN

Triple Canopy
Erased Reflection (Screenshot), 2011
Two-color screenprint on paper
14 x 11 inches
Edition of 200 with 20 artists proofs, hand-numbered and signed on Recto
Printed by Kayrock Screenprinting, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
Created by the editors of Triple Canopy and published on the occasion of The Future Has Two Faces, a benefit for Triple Canopy, October 28, 2011.

R. H. Quaytman
Light Industry, 2011
Archival digital pigmented print with silkscreen on Museo Max paper
12 3/8 x 20 inches
Edition of 30 with 5 artist prints, signed and numbered by the artist
Published on the occasion of the campaign to support 155 Freeman

R. H. Quaytman's work incorporates abstraction and layers of diamond dust, silkscreened photographs and hand-painted trompe l'oeil, personal and art-historical narratives. Her work is on view at this year’s Venice Biennale and has been shown at the Whitney Biennial (2010) and at solo shows at SF MoMA (2010) and Kunsthalle Basel (2011).

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Matt Mullican
From Me (in Space), 2010
Archival pigment print
Diptych, each panel 17 x 22 inches
Edition of 30, signed and numbered by the artist
Published by Christine Burgin and Triple Canopy

$450

For more information, download the documentation sheet (PDF) or contact us.

For And Yet It Moves, the tenth issue of Triple Canopy, artist Matt Mullican collaborated with computer programmer Patrick Smith to create "Planetarium," a navigable scale model of the solar system. Mullican, who has worked in performance, installation, sculpture, and hypnosis, first experimented with digital environments in 1991 to create Five into One, a virtual city constructed in accordance with his personal visual vocabulary and cosmological order. Exploring that city, Mullican was transfixed by his ability to leave the earth's surface and travel into the sky, toward the stratosphere, into nothingness. (This experience of unbounded space became a leitmotif in later works.) From Me (in Space), an edition published by Triple Canopy as the companion to "Planetarium," is Mullican's schematic diagram of his relationship to space, positioning him both within and outside the solar system. The left panel of the diptych shows the planets, horizontally aligned and rendered as colored pixels in a black field, in the bright, solid palette characteristic of the artist's sculpture and cartography. On the right, Mullican charts his distance from those planets. Near the bottom of this panel, Mullican has provided a time stamp, halting the movements of these celestial bodies at the moment of his completion of the work.

Matt Mullican was born in 1951, in Santa Monica, California, and currently lives in Berlin. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Recently, his work was included in "The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009) and the 2008 Whitney Biennial; it has also been exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); Ludwig Museum, Cologne (2005); and Museu Serralves, Porto (2001). Mullican's work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the STUK Kunstencentrum in Leuven, Belgium, which will be traveling to de Appel, Amsterdam, and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Matthew Thurber
Impossible Geometries, 2010
Archival Risograph print
17 x 11 inches
Edition of 100, signed and hand-numbered on recto
Printed on the occasion of "Impossible Geometries," a benefit party for 177 Livingston, February 20, 2010

José León Cerrillo
Wrong Place, Right Time, 2009
Digital offset print
18 x 13.5 inches
Edition of 100, hand-numbered on verso

Sara Anderson (Sumi Ink Club)
Untitled, 2008
Silkscreen on paper
17 x 14 inches
Unknown Edition
Printed on the occasion of Triple Canopy's "LA Launch," June 27, 2008

The Medium Was Tedium
Gray heavy-weight tote bag made from recycled bottles

Seven Translucent Tiers
Designed by Adam Helms (after Mel Bochner)
Gray heavy-weight tote bag made from recycled bottles