Signal:06: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture

Description

Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the center of upheavals and revolts the world over, from the painters and poets in the Paris Commune to the poster makers and street theatre performers of the recent Occupy movement. Signal will bring these artists and their work to a new audience, digging deep through our common history to unearth their images and stories. We have no doubt that Signal will come to serve as a unique and irreplaceable resource for activist artists and academic researchers, as well as an active forum for critique of the role of art in revolution. Highlights of the sixth volume ofSignal include: Basement Workshop: The Genesis of New York's Asian American Resistance Culture Jamaa Al-Yad: An Interview with Daniel Drennan ElAwar La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Martires del 68: Thirty Years of Collective Agitation in Mexico City The Appalachian Movement Press Adhesing Uprisings, and much more. In the US there is a tendency to focus only on the artworks produced within our shores or from English speaking producers. Signal reaches beyond those bounds, bringing material produced the world over, translated from dozens of languages and collected from both the present and decades past. Though it is a full-color printed publication, Signal is not limited to the graphic arts. Within its pages you will find political posters and fine arts, comics and murals, street art, site-specific works, zines, art collectives, documentation of performance and articles on the often overlooked but essential role all of these have played in struggles around the world.

Alec Dunn is an illustrator, amateur historian, and printer living in Pittsburgh. Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, activist, and archivist. He coauthored Signs of Change and cofounder of the Interference Archive.

"Offering these graphics to generations far beyond their original audiences, this title is recommended for designers, activists, archivists, and scholars studying protest movements." --Library Journal "Signal reads like a magazine in that it consists of a number of smaller, independent articles but the loose continuity of subject holds it together as a book. As a series, this is going to be a great resource. Dunn and MacPhee are filling a void in terms of political graphics; there's a lot of material for them to cover and this is solid start." --Printeresting.org "Signal is dotted with stunning photography that will certainly reel in many people who are into unusual art. Clocking in at just under 140 glossy pages, Dunn and MacPhee do an impressive job of conveying not only what is new and relevant in political art, but also its history and its presence in the everyday." --Political Media Review "If you are interested in the use of graphic art and communication in political struggles, don't miss the latest issue of Signal." --Rick Poynor, Design Observer "Signal couldn't have arrived at a better time to reassure those of us using visual culture to enter a political discourse. " --Last Hours