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Paper Cuts

Paper Cuts is an exploration of the contemporary world of zines and DIY publishing. Through a series of Podcasts and live events, Paper Cuts features writers, performers, and artists who have shared their work in print, on paper, and in small editions. Zines are truly dynamic publications that have built and supported engaged communities around ideals, experiences, genres, music, politics, poetry…anything that can be printed, shared, and/or mailed. Listen to voices that would normally live in your hands and demand your eyeballs.
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Athena Naylor

Guest: Athena Naylor Hosts: Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on December 02, 2023 Athena Naylor Athena Naylor grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and now lives and works in Washington, D.C. She specializes in autobiographical comics and illustration. Her work has been featured in Nat. Brut and The Washington Post, and in 2021 she received an Honorable Mention for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) Cupcake Award. In 2023, she was a recipient of the Wherewithal Research Gra...

Dec 19, 202355 minSeason 7Ep. 91

Girls, on Film

Guest: Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza Host: Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on October 18, 2023 Girls, on Film Girls, on Film was founded in December 2017 by long-time friends Stephanie McDevitt and Janene Scelza (pronounced Skell-za). Girls, on Film is a quarterly zine about 80s films. For each issue, we discuss eight 80s movies related to a particular theme. We are currently a group of four regular writers including Dr. Rhonda Baughman and Janene’s brother, Matt, who co-writes with her ...

Nov 01, 202346 minSeason 7Ep. 90

Pittsburgh Art Book Fair Panel Discussion

Guests : Erin Mallea and Paper Buck of Tree News , Bekezela Mguni of the Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project , and Adriana Monsalve of Homie House Press. Host : Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 9, 2023 at the Carnegie Museum of Art Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the past and present of particular microcosms as entry points into larger environmental, social, and political conditions. Often public and collaborative in nature, her work manifests in a range of...

Oct 03, 20231 hr 6 minSeason 7Ep. 89

Zach Clark

Guest: Zach Clark Host: Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 13, 2023 (background friends: Paul Shortt and Louis M. Schmidt) Zach Clark is an Oakland based artist and educator. Since 2016 he has published as National Monument Press , a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists. He is one half of Chute Studio , an East Oaklan...

Aug 31, 202351 minSeason 7Ep. 88

Scott Russell Morris

Guest : Scott Russell Morris Hosts : Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on June 13, 2023 Scott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He lives in South Korea where he teaches writing and makes art. He is the creator of Magpie Zines , zines about tarot, magpies, and found meaning. He often digs through the trash. His first essay collection, Points of Tangency , is forthcoming 2024 from Cornerstone Press. You can find him online at www.skoticus.com or on Instagram: @MagpieZin...

Jun 26, 20231 hr 1 minSeason 7Ep. 87

Capital Art Book Fair Panel with Late Comeback Press, The Mirror Society Quartet, and The Print Party

Guests : Rachna Soun, Sam Fedorova (StrangeLens), Kate Fitzpatrick, and Chas Wagner Host : Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Late Comeback Press Late Comeback Press is a micropress based out of Northern Virginia and is run by three Asian-American women. Late Comeback primarily focuses on mental health and representing Asian-American culture in its most subtle, authentic light and detracts from the palatable or exotic, as depicted in Western media. We...

May 22, 202350 minSeason 7Ep. 86

Capital Art Book Fair with Phil Hutinet

Guest : Phil Hutinet Hosts : Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on March 22 and April 6, 2023 Phil Hutinet , a third generation Capitol Hill resident, is the publisher of East City Art , DC's Visual Arts publication of record, which he began in 2010. In 2012-2013, his work east of the river at ARCH Development led to the founding of the Anacostia Playhouse and the Anacostia Arts Center, the relocation of Craig Kraft's studios and the production of the 2012-2013 LUMEN8AN...

May 02, 20231 hr 5 minSeason 7Ep. 85

Lindsay Buchman

Guest : Lindsay Buchman Hosts : Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on March 02, 2023 Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher living and working in Philadelphia, PA, and Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Exhibitions of her work include the LA...

Apr 12, 202347 minSeason 7Ep. 1

Julia Arredondo

Guest : Julia Arredondo Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on September 15, 2021. Julia Arredondo is an artist-entrepreneur who is currently a Resident Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Originally from Corpus Christi, TX; Julia is heavily influenced by the small, family-based businesses she grew up around. Formally trained in printmaking and specializing in artistic forms of independent publishing, Julia founded Vice Versa Press and Curandera Press ...

Dec 20, 202159 minSeason 7Ep. 7

Corina Reynolds

Guest : Corina Reynolds Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on September 1, 2021. Corina Reynolds is the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts in New York City. At CBA, she has focused on connecting artists across distance and time through a diverse program of exhibitions, panels, conferences, and classes. Her passion for the art of the book has led her to curate exhibitions, organize conferences and panels, publish books, and teach about the book arts in the US and abroad. She h...

Dec 12, 202140 minSeason 7Ep. 6

Candor Collective with Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer

Guests : Matt Austin and Melanie Bohrer Host :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on August 10, 2021 Matt Austin designs, produces, and publishes projects motivated by systems of care. He is currently a founding member of the Candor Collective , a designer with Em Design Studio , and maintains a consistent newsletter about his work. Formerly he was a co-owner of Candor Arts , part of the founding group of LATITUDE , and taught many courses on artist books and photography at SAIC and other in...

Sep 07, 20211 hr 4 minSeason 7Ep. 5

Alex Belardo Kostiw

Guest : Alex Belardo Kostiw Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on June 1, 2021. Alex Belardo Kostiw is a graphic designer, artist, and educator. Her practice deals in poetic and iterative elements, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms. Like dense knots, her publications invite interactive, intuitive reading—even as they resist full unravelling. By exploring ambiguities of language, her work is a liminal space for feeling out complicated realities of identity, hu...

Jul 13, 20211 hr 6 minSeason 7Ep. 4

Corners Studio

Guest : Hyojoon Jo Hosts :  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded at Corners, CC in Seoul, South Korea on March 4, 2021. Corners Studio is a Seoul based office for graphic design of Daewoong Kim and Hyojoon Jo founded in 2012. Our practice focuses primarily on creative direction and visual communication strategies through typography, conceptual and content-related approaches. Our work includes formats such as prints, posters, publications, exhibitions, signage, marketing materials, websites and ...

May 17, 202145 minSeason 7Ep. 3

Aurora Diaz

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

Mar 08, 20211 hr 10 minSeason 7Ep. 2

Paul Shortt

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 conversation that examine everyday experiences and cultural norms often in humorous ways through book...

Feb 02, 202146 minSeason 7Ep. 1

Radix Media

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 in 2010, and expanded into literary publishing in 2017. The collective is currently made up of Lant...

Dec 28, 202056 minSeason 6Ep. 6

E17: Julie Sheah and Evyan Roberts

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 a first-generation Taiwanese-American, growing up in rural Texas gave her an odd sense of humor that...

Nov 16, 20201 hr 1 minSeason 6Ep. 5

E17: Athena Naylor and Late Comeback Press

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 and how big stories reside within small, everyday events. Alongside her self-published collections of...

Oct 20, 202046 minSeason 6Ep. 4

Stephen Grebinski

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 impulses of desire. From mid-century physique magazines to Liberace’s home decor, the excess and hom...

Oct 05, 202053 minSeason 6Ep. 3

E17: Ayana Zaire Cotton and Jennifer Lillis

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, mutual aid, open source philosophy, labor, and black aesthetics research. This research has manife...

Sep 21, 20201 hr 11 minSeason 6Ep. 2

Anna Bugbee

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 known as Powerhouse Arts . In 2018 she left NYC in search of nature and settled in Salt Lake City, ...

Sep 07, 202041 minSeason 6Ep. 1

ROAD, READ, BLOG, FEST, PROMOTE, DISTRIBUTE

**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, talks, and online exposure. Most recently, Blonde Art Books has organized exhibitions and events at...

Aug 16, 202026 minSeason 1Ep. 33

Paige Landesberg @ Miriam

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, Paige acts as the Curator of Books and Public Programming at Miriam , a new artist-run gallery and a...

Jun 01, 202045 minSeason 5Ep. 10

Du-Good Press

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.  Artists are selected by Du-Good Press’ intimate team of advisors, curators and founder and master...

May 19, 202049 minSeason 5Ep. 9

Perfectly Acceptable Press + Issue Press + NARC

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 the genres of comics, artist books, and essay with an emphasis on narrative and craft. Matt is the co-...

May 04, 202048 minSeason 5Ep. 8

Flatlands Press

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. flatlandspress.com...

Apr 19, 202036 minSeason 5Ep. 7

#LAABF2019

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 design, publishing, video, objects and installation to investigate how the structures of the internet...

Apr 04, 20201 hrSeason 5Ep. 6

LA Art Book Friends with Mary Tremonte and Darin Klein

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 exhibitions and arts programs, simultaneously creating, collecting and promoting artists' publicatio...

Apr 03, 202038 min

Free Verse Farm & Apothecary

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, Vermont specializing in naturally-grown tisanes (herbal teas), culinary herbs, medicinals, and her...

Mar 21, 20201 hrSeason 5Ep. 5

Bill Boichel and Copacetic Comics

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/operator of BEM: The Store and The Copacetic Comics Company , he has also organized comics-centric events, ...

Mar 08, 20201 hr 10 minSeason 5Ep. 4
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