How does one put a flow of information on paper ? Poptronics, the platform of hacktive cultures, is about to celebrate ten years of online information with a 272-page book.
Wrong-footing the mandatory evolution of the digitally-mutating press, Poptronics chose print to reinvent the archive. Founded by critical journalist Annick Rivoire and a team of authors, critics and artists, the online platform has been resisting the mantras of present time — social media, accelerationism, big data, selfie-zation — since 2007. They have defended autonomous practices online, observed and criticized the evolutions of culture and the information society, and de-compartmentalized and hybridized various practices (open source, circuit bending, sound art, indie video game, hacktivism, net art, noise...). For its tenth anniversary, under the artistic direction of Christophe Jacquet aka Toffe and the editorial direction of Annick Rivoire and Matthieu Recarte, Poptronics has imagined a collective archive drawing from the 2,500 articles published on poptronics.fr. This digital raw material has been entrusted to artists of the French digital scene. Agnès de Cayeux, Albertine Meunier, Christophe Jacquet aka Toffe, David Guez, Nicolas Frespech, Optical Sound, Pierre Giner, Roberte la Rousse (Cécile Babiole and Anne Laforet), Systaime, Trafik and Vincent Elka (un)built the archive by recreating it.
The result : a mutant, transgender and resolutely contemporary object.
Editeurs / Editors : Matthieu Recarte et Annick Rivoire
Contributeurs / Contributors : David Guez, Albertine Meunier, Agnès de Cayeux, Systaime, Roberte la Rousse (Cécile Babiole et Anne Laforet), Nicolas Frespech, Trafik (Pierre et Joël Rodière), Pierre Giner, Optical Sound (Pierre Beloüin et P. Nicolas Ledoux), Vincent Elka (Ana Vocera, Lokiss) et Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe
Direction artistique / Art director : Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe
Caractères / Typefaces : « TRESGROSTEXT », « Poptype » et « Times New Roman PS »
Traduction / Translation : Cherise Fong
Relecture / Copy editing : Sarah Ahnou
Edition bilingue / Bilingual edition : Français, English
21 x 29,7 cm
272 pages
Couverture / Cover : Cartonnée / Binder’s case
Pages intérieures / Inside pages : Magno Gloss 130 g
Reliure / Binding : Dos carré cousu collé / Section sewn
Quadrichromie + argent et fluo / Four-colour + silver and fluo printing
Jaspage argent / Silver edge gilding
Impression / Printing : PBtisk, Příbram (République tchèque)
Photogravure / Photoengraving : Ombre & Lumière, Lavaur
Première édition / First issue : 800 exemplaires / copies
Coédition Poptronics et Tombolo Presses
Décembre / December 2018
ISBN : 979-10-96155-10-1
