Paper Cuts

Guest : Aurora Diaz Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on February 12th, 2021 Aurora Diaz is an art worker and ceramicist hailing from New Jersey| New York. She founded and was creative director of the Bettys, an experimental art collective that ran from 2014-2020. thebettys.com @bettycrit.club

Guest : Paul Shortt Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on January 31st, 2021 Paul Shortt received his MFA in New Media Art from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute. He has participated in over 80 group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. His works engage the public in physical interactions and c...

Guest : Nicholas Hurd and Sarah Lopez. Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on October 15th, 2020 Radix Media is a worker-owned printer and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. They publish new ideas and fresh perspectives, prioritizing the voices of typically marginalized communities to get to the root of the human experience. Radix started out as a commercial print shop...

Guests : Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on August 12th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Julie Sheah is a graphic artist whose drawings explore the horrors and curiosities of otherwise ordinary subjects. She has a keen interest in the surreal and absurd and is an avid connoisseur of puns. As...

Guests : Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press (Rachna Soun and Caroline Kim) Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on August 5th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Athena Naylor is a cartoonist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Washington, DC. Through comics, Athena considers what makes the mundane meaningful a...

Guest : Stephen Grebinski Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on April 14th, 2020 Stephen Grebinski ’s work concerns itself with reimagining and activating the memories and desires embedded in archival and found photography that is often clouded by camp and nostalgia. His books and works on paper tangle together queer bodies, architecture, and the persistent baroque...

Guests : Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve Recorded on July 29th, 2020 in collaboration with Transformer as part of the E17: Zines program. Ayana Zaire Cotton is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, technologist, and educator, visualizing and collectively crafting a post-work future. Her practice is rooted in black feminist, pedagogy...

Guest : Anna Bugbee Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on April 6th, 2020 Anna Bugbee is the founder of Goldbrain Press , a collaborative publishing project producing interactive hand-made book and print works using a variety of media. After graduating with a degree in printmaking she worked for three years at a fine-art screenprinting studio in Brooklyn that is now...

**This episode originally aired on Clocktower Radio in 2016** ROAD, READ, BLOG, FEST, PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE Guest :  Sonel Breslav Host : Christopher Kardambikis Recorded in Brooklyn, NY Blond Art Books: Established by Sonel Breslav in 2012, Blonde Art Books is a Brooklyn based organization dedicated to promoting self-published art and poetry books through exhibitions, publications, book fairs,...

Guest : Paige Landesberg Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 11th, 2020 in Brooklyn Paige Landesberg is a Brooklyn based artist who creates interdisciplinary artworks and curates public programming. She is committed to the idea of multiples and making work that is portable, accessible, multi-use and therefore pragmatic. In addition to her object practice, as an art-worker,...

Guest : Leslie Diuguid Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on March 10th, 2020. Du-Good Press was established in spring 2017 to offer a collaborative and fresh approach to screen printing across the arts.  Focusing on a new wave of rising contemporary artists across multiple platforms, Du-Good Press offers hand screen-printed fine art editions of emerging and mid-career artists. &nb...

Guests : Matt Davis and George Wietor Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair. Matt Davis is the founder and director of Perfectly Acceptable Press , a Risograph print studio and publishing house in Chicago. Besides doing contract printing for artists all over North America, Perfectly Acceptable publishes 8-10 titles per year spanning th...

Guest : Eric Von Haynes Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 16th, 2019 at at the Chicago Art Book Fair. Eric Von Haynes is conceptual artist and printmaker who founded Flatlands Chicago in 2007, focused on producing publications and other printed ephemera for artists worldwide. Flatlands aims to be a community-minded space for artists to create, inspire and share ideas. flatl...

Guests : Nicole Killian, Danielle McCoy, Gonzalo Guerrero Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Adriana Monsalve Recorded on April 12th, 2019 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and September 21st, 2018 at the New York Art Book Fair nico fontana is the publishing initiative of Nicole Killian , concerned with a queering of language, objects, bodies, and spaces. Nicole Killian’s work uses graphic d...

Guests : Mary Tremonte of Justseeds // Darin Klein & Friends Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Produced by Jake Nussbaum and Clocktower Radio Recorded on February 12th, 2016 at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair // Originally presented by Clocktower.org Darin Klein & Friends : With an ever-expanding network of friends and collaborators, Darin Klein curates and organizes dynamic and engaging...

Guests : Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on August 16th, 2019 at Free Verse Farm & Apothecary in Chelsea, VT. Free Verse Farm is a co-creation of Taylor Mardis Katz and Misha Johnson , two artist/farmers with a passion for growing, eating, and sharing delicious and nourishing food and herbs. They are a small herb farm and apothecary in Chelsea...

Guest : Bill Boichel Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 26th, 2019 at Copacetic Comics in Pittsburgh, PA. Bill Boichel has been a fixture on the Pittsburgh comics scene for over forty years (absent 1982 to 1984, when he served as the director/manager of the exhibitions program at Pittsburgh Filmmakers ).  Primarily engaged in comics retail, most notably as the owner/operato...

Guest : Jim Rugg Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on July 24th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. Jim Rugg is an Eisner and Ignatz-award winning comic book artist, book maker, illustrator, designer, and cat dad. Books include Street Angel , the PLAIN Janes , Afrodisiac , Notebook Drawings , Rambo 3.5 , and Supermag . His YouTube channel Cartoonist Kayfabe will make you love comics even more! In...

Guest : Imin Yeh Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at Carnegie Mellon University on July 17th, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA. Imin Yeh is based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is an interdisciplinary and project-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and participatory events. Recent exhibitions include university galleries at Ithaca College and the College of New Jersey, San Jose Museum of A...

Guest : Mad Mohre Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded in Mad’s VW Beetle on March 14th, 2019 in Michigan.  Mad Mohre is a mechanically-minded visual artist and designer concerned with play, surveillance, privacy and speculative feminism. She is the founder of Millimetre Press, a residency program housed in a restored Victorian studio for artists curious to explore limited editions t...

*FROM THE ARCHIVES* Originally aired on Clocktower Radio in 2016 Guest : Louis Brawley Hosts : Christopher Kardambikis and Jake Nussbaum Recorded in Brooklyn, NY In 2000 Louis Brawley was living, working and showing in New York City. With two solo shows under his belt, he started traveling a lot. Then he left the city in 2005. At that time he opted to conduct an experiment by living without a base...

Guest : Colleen Itani and Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson of TZF and Alexa Turnbull of Seether Bookstore Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 23rd, 2019 at The Bark . Tallahassee Zine Fest is an all inclusive festival allowing the Tallahassee community to showcase self published books and a variety of other types of printed matter. TZF is a platform for the DIY community and merges...

Guest : Denise Bookwalter Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on February 22nd, 2019 at the Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University .  Denise Bookwalter works in a range of print media including traditional and digital processes, artist’s books, installations and dimensional prints. Her artists’ books utilize old and new print technologies to create collaborative arti...

Guest : Jan Voss Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 22nd, 2018 at Boekie Woekie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  Boekie Woekie , books by artists, began paying rent for a tiny space in downtown Amsterdam on January 1st, 1986. It was then seen by its 6 founders (artists from 3 countries living in Amsterdam) as a shop for their own publications. After the first 5 years and som...

Guest : Jo Frenken Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on November 19th, 2018 at the Magical Riso conference held at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. Jo Frenken is an artist, designer, and tutor connected to the Jan van Eyck Academie ever since he started as a participant in 1977.  He served numerous print-related roles as well as teaching at the Academy of Arch...