May Symposium

Sunday 23 May, 3pm
Gwyn Porter
Distribution in the digital age

The internet has of course provided new opportunities for the distribution of magazines, but being ‘distributed on-line’ in a wider sense offers significantly more: the possibility of relative independence from market demands; more heterogenous content within and between issues; voluntary, collaborative structures; and more human timeframes. Porter will discuss the online art magazine Natural Selection magazine project in terms of its non-financial nature.

Gwynneth Porter is a writer, editor and publisher living in Auckland. She is co-director of the art book publishing house Clouds and is co-editor of the art magazine Natural Selection. Current writing projects include a contribution to the forthcoming Sriwhana Spong book, Nijinsky, an essay on Rosemary Johnston’s clouds works from the 1970s for Natural Selection 7, and a book project entitled I must explode: art writing and tacticality. She is presently editing the collected writings of Julian Dashper, and a survey publication on the work of Sean Kerr.

May Symposium