What’s an eBook?
eBooks are shareable paper books that are free to download, print and make up. Proboscis, an artist led studio in England that specializes in digital media, created the “DIFFUSION Generator”. It allows people to produce eBooks that can be printed on any home printer. The eBooks bridge analogue and digital media by taking the reader away from the computer screen and engaging them with the handmade.
Using Proboscis’ Diffusion Generator, the LLAMA artists and others connected to the project will be making eBooks and posting them on this page. The eBooks will include high-quality images and/or text by the author. Instructions on how to fold the printout to make a book are integrated into each publication.
LLAMA Project eBooks
Canto: a collection of wishes by Joyce Majiski (March 2010, in English)
Visit DIFFUSION’s page for Canto to download free.
For the Voz/Voice exhibition in Whitehorse (2009) I invited viewers to participate in my installation Canto; 10 etched copper cylinders which turn like prayer wheels. Each wheel related to an endangered species, space or culture. Viewers were asked to add their “wishes or prayers” and this eBook is a compilation of the notes they left in each wheel. Images printed from the etched copper plates before they were rolled into the cylindrical wheel appear alongside the notes.
.
.
.
Estado de presencia by Cristina Luna (July 2009, in Spanish)
Visit DIFFUSION’s page for Estado de presencia to download free.
English
Estado de presencia provides a brief look at some of the reflections that have guided Cristina’s creative process. Essentially it is about the language of painting in relation to her passion about the planet: its origin, animals in danger and those already extinct and life in general.
Cristina Luna was born in Mexico City in 1963. She studied music at the National Conservatory and holds a Bachelor’s degree in art from “La Esmeralda”, school of painting, sculpture and engraving. In 1994 Cristina was selected for the seventh biennial Rufino Tamayo and in 1995 participated in the Puerto Rico Biennale. That same year she was invited to be artist in residence in Villa Montalvo, Saratoga California. Cristina moved to San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca in 2001, where she currently lives and paints. Cristina has had 16 solo exhibitions and has been involved in several group exhibitions both in Mexico, United States and Puerto Rico.
Spanish
En este pequeño libro se muestran en forma breve algunas reflexiones que han guiado mi proceso creativo: esencialmente el lenguaje de la pintura relacionado con el gran interés de la vida en el planeta: su origen, sus extinciones y sus seres.
Cristina Luna nace en la Ciudad de México en 1963. Cursa estudios de música en el Conservatorio Nacional y realiza la licenciatura en Artes Plásticas en el área de gráfica en la escuela de pintura, escultura y grabado “La Esmeralda”. En 1994 es seleccionada en la Séptima Bienal Rufino Tamayo y en 1995 participa en la Bienal de Grafica de Puerto Rico. En ese mismo año es invitada a realizar una residencia artística en Villa Montalvo, en Saratoga California. En el año 2001 Cristina cambia su residencia de la Ciudad de México al pueblo de San Agustín Etla, Oaxaca donde pinta actualmente. Cristina ha tenido 16 exposiciones individuales de las cuales y ha participado también en diversas exposiciones colectivas tanto en México, Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico.
