Last weekend at the Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, our friends (and authors) of The Electric Information Age book and album assembled in performance mode as The Masses (DJ/composer Daniel Perlin, designer/musician Adam Michaels, and historian/performer Jeffrey Schnapp, with live keyboards by Shannon Harvey). 

The set was tight, rhythmic, and diverse, syncing up nicely with their inspirations—experimental paperbacks from the late 1960s and early 1970s which aimed to bring the ideas of contemporary thinkers like Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller to the masses. These small books were spliced and collaged into a pulsating video which was projected behind the band.

Additionally, Inventory Books introduced a very cool tote bag with some custom pockets for the book and LP.

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Instant: The Story of Polaroid is now available for Kindle. Beautiful hardcover editions are also for sale on our website.

You can hear author Christopher Bonanos on NPR’s Weekend Edition this Saturday morning, September 29. Also this weekend, get your book signed and maybe even your picture taken by the author at our table at the NY Art Book Fair.

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The NY Art Book Fair
September 28–30
MoMA PS1 

Join us at the 7th annual NY Art Book Fair, where we’ll be showing off our latest titles and giving away some other printed things. In addition to books, you’ll find zines, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and plenty of stuff that doesn’t fit into any convenient category. Check out the scenes from last year’s fair, and don’t miss it this year.

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NY Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1 Performance Dome
 
Sunday, September 30

, 1:00pm 

A multimedia collaboration between DJ/composer Daniel Perlin, designer/musician Adam Michaels, and historian/performer Jeffrey Schnapp, who have formed the group The Masses (with live keyboards by Shannon Harvey) in order to remix their recent book on experimental paperbacks, The Electric Information Age Book.

Can you dance to a book? The question was answered in the affirmative by the “first spoken arts record you can dance to”: the Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Agel record album “The Medium is the Massage.” The LP was released by Columbia Records in July 1967 on the heels of the mass market success of the first “electric information age” book The Medium is the Massage. Read more about the LP.

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