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The Terminator Line
1991

64 pages, 29 x 21 cm

back to > BOOKS LIST 		"Orchestrating typography, fragments of maps, labels, advertisements, messages, photographs and street signs to evoke a landscape of quotation, controlling the mixture of the recognisable and the mysterious to perfection....The Terminator Line's story touches a tender nerve despite its humour and adsurdity, picking at our awareness of environmental threats and self-destructive forces, at out attempt to blind ourselves by focusing on the mundane."

Cathy Courtney ART MONTHLY

The Terminator Line was launched in New York at Printed Matter at Dia and in London at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. At both events the Cine-film 'Outtakes-The Terminator Line' was projected.		 A narrative of urban paranoia.
Terminator Line: dividing line between day and night. 24 hours in New York with Mr Emerson. Schizophrenia and altered perception. Early versions of the book were photographic. Finally it became stripped down, layered with typography manipulated on photocopiers and fax machines to achieve a visual fluidity. Text as image. Free flowing typography.
X-ray the streets.

exhibited at
1998 'Artist/Author, Contemporary Artists' Books' USA touring the American Federation of Arts.
1995 Artists Books, the Tate Gallery, London.
1994 Looking at Words Reading Picture tour.
Artists Books, The Minories, Colchester.
1993 Work Turn, tour.
Contemporary British Artists Books, Scarborough. Contemporary British Artists Books, Hardware Gallery.
1990 Original Copies, MOMA Tokyo, Royal College of Art.
1989 Curved Space, London.
Electrographies, Hardware Gallery.
British Artists Books, Arthur Anderson.
Echtzeit, Kassel Kunstverein.
Paper, Amics, Tokyo.
2 Biennal Internacional de Electrografia y Copy Art, Valencia.
Air Mail, Air Gallery, London.
1988 Bound Image, Milton Keynes, Spacex, Nigel Greenwood, Artsite.
20 Years of British Art from the Sackner Archive, BASS Museum, Miami, Florida.

1987 Recontres Autour de la Revue Luna-Park, Centres Georges Pompidou.
British Artists Books, Center for the Book Arts, New York City. New Artists Books, Galeri TV, Malmo, Sweden.
1986 British Art & Design, Vienna.
Artist as Publisher, Crafts Council, London.
Artists Books, University of Nevada, tour.
1985 Copyart Biennale, Barcelona.
1983 Christies Inaugural.
British Artists Books, Atlantis Gallery.
1983 Xerographies 1977-83, Galerie J et J Donguy, Paris.
1984 New Media 2, Malmo Konsthall, Sweden.
Bookworks, London.
1982 Ars + Machina, La Maison de la Culture de Rennes. Xerographers Gallery, London.
Paris Biennale. 
1981 New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Arts.
1980 Ecritures, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris.
Groupe TZ 85, Institute Audio Visuel, Paris.
1978 Other Young Contemporaries, London.

appeared in these articles
2002 Jakes Progress, Liz Farelly, Blueprint.
Undercover Magazine, Belgium. 
1986 Clever & Its Art, Sarah Howell, Observer magazine p50.
Jake's Thing, Abigail Frost, Crafts no82, p28-29.
1982 Litterature Pictographique, Marc Dachy, Art Press Aug. Ticket, Michele Roberts, City Limits Jan 1.
Ticket, Micheline Wandor, Time Out Jan 15.
Artist/Photocopier, Nicola Gooch , South Western Star London. Artist Photocopier, Peter Holt, Evening Standard Ad Lib July 6.
1981 Ruth, Roses & Revolvers, Working Proof no1 p7-8.
1980 Escape from the Press Gang, Jake Tilson, Radical Illustrators no38. Catalogues, books and monographs

featured in these books
1998 Artist Author, Cornelia Lauf Clive Philpot, American Federation of Arts, DAP.
1997 Investigations in Cities 1977-1997, (monograph), Museo Internacional de Electrografia,Cuenca,Spain, Atlas.
1996 Typographics 2 Cybertype, Roger Walton, Hearst Books. 1994 Fax Art, Booth Clibborn Editions.
Artists Books, Minories.
Looking at Words Reading Pictures, Open Editions.
1993 Montage, Phaidon.
1992 Work & Turn, Open Editions.
1991 Typography Now, Rick Poynor, Internos Books.
The Graphic Edge, Rick Poynor, Internos Books.
New Typographies, PIE Books, Tokyo.

1990 Original Copies, RCA Canon UK.
1988 20 Years of British Art, Sackner Archive, Miami, Florida. Echzeit, Kasseler Kunstverein.
Copyart Biennale, Valencia.
Bound Image, tour UK.
1987 Britsh Artists Books, Center for Book Arts, New York City. New Artists Books, Galerie TV , Malmo.
1986 Artist as Publisher, Crafts Council, London.
1984 New Media 2, Malmo Konsthall.
1983 Graphique Production, autrement dit, Paris.
1982 Ars + Machina, La Maison de la Culture de Rennes.
Britsh Artists Books, Atlantis Gallery.
World Art Atlas Project, Wellen Belgium.
1980 Ecritures, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris.