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Homo Futurus is a term coined by the Conceptual Artist Barbara Rosenthal at her New Year's Eve party on the cusp of 1982.
It first appears in text as "Homo Futurus might not be human," in September of that year in her handwitten Journals, In the ensuing decades, many of her works have developed within the theme.
All of Rosenthal's works have been publicly exhibited, reviewed, published and publicized.
and then in print in her interactive gray blank book game,"Homo Futurus," 1982, (eMediaLoft Press)
and then in the book of texts, prints and photographs, "Homo Futurus," 1986 (Visual Studies Workshop Press)
These comprise books, prints, button pins, hand-out cards, performance texts, photographs, interactions, installations,
spoken word CDs,a chapter within her novel "Wish for Amnesia,"
and occassional use as a nom-de-plume in literary publications.
Elements are available for purchase at the outlets below or
contacting eMediaLoft.org
HOMO FUTURUS WALL WORK, BOOKS and SPOKEN WORD CD, VIDEOS
PHOTOGRAPHS, PRINTS, INSTALLATIONS, WRITINGS AND PERFORMANCES.
books and CDs on sale at Printed Matter, NYC
Two vintage suites of an edition of three of this 41-segment piece comprising electrostatic prints on 20 lb white bond in archival plexiglass box frames
are available as full unit wallworks, as shown.
Provenance: Carlo Lamagna Gallery, NYC, 1987; Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2017: $80,000.
Also available are separate unframed vintage prints f
rom the suite of 41, in additional editions of ten 11x17 ($2500 each) and ten 8.5x11 ($1500 each),
as well as several vintage Artist's Proofs and Working Materials (details and prices vary).
For a limited
time, contemporary digital prints of this suite are also available: 8.5x11 ($500); 11x17 ($700)
(left) Consignment Contract between the artist and gallery to exhibit
Homo Futurus Wall Work and offer it for sale, 1987.
(right) Review in Arts Magazine by Ellen Handy of
Homo Futurus Wall Work and other art in the Carlo Lamagna Gallery show.
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Homo Futurus Wall Work and twelve of Rosenthal's eight-four volumes of Journals (in the glass case and playing on the video) the Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2017
HOMO FUTURUS BOOKS
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HOMO FUTURUS BLANK BOOK by BARBARA ROSENTHAL eMediaLoft Press, NYC, 1982
1 printed page, 70 blank pages, 5-1/2” x 8-1/2,” perfect-bound, printed spine, gray and black cover.
A blank book, this is the forerunner of Homo Futurus, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986.
Instructions in HOMO FUTURUS Blank Book direct purchaser to “do whatever you wish; ʻpass it on;ʼ ʻwrite or produce images in it;ʼ send it back to Barbara Rosenthal for correspondence, exhibition, etc., or back to Printed Matter to be sold again, etc.” An interactive forum for sharing ideas. Respondents include Paul Zelevansky, Ray Johnson and Stephen Jay Gould. BUY from Printed Matter, NYC ($20):"Homo Futurus," 1982, (eMediaLoft Press)
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(left) Note from Paul Zelevansky preceding his interaction with Rosenthal in two volumes of HOMO FUTURUS Blank Book.
(right) Letter from Stephen Jay Gould upon receiving a copy of HOMO FUTURUS Blank Book.
HOMO FUTURUS by BARBARA ROSENTHAL, ISBN 0-89822-046-7, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1986
48pp. 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" smythsewn, printed spine, varnished black, white and cyan cover, offset.
37 surreal photographs, 26 trompe l'oeil overlays, 34 pages of continuous journal-form entries as texture-to-be-read.
"Private, public, social and universal materials from news sources, literature, science and personal archives mix in unified visual-verbal double-page images to reveal a philosophical perception of art and humankind. "The third book in Barbara Rosenthal's trilogy with Clues to Myself and Sensations, Homo Futurus could be thought of as 'Clues to Ourselves." --Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella BUY from Printed Matter, NYC ($25}: "Homo Futurus," 1986 (Visual Studies Workshop Press)
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Open cover of Homo Futurus, 1986, depicting the Homo Futurus Surreal Photo Suite inside, reproduced from 35mm gelatin-silver photo editions.
The sense of one book existing through another is meant to allude to the nature of this second Homo Futurus (1986) being an outgrowth of the first (1982).
The texts inside are transcriptions of pages from Rosenthal's Journals between the years 1982-1986; the Surreal Photos are portfolios produced during those years,
and the appropriated news collages are clippings from the media of the years
that specifically allude to her concept of Homo Futurus.
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Spreads from the artist's live-reading volume of Homo Futurus, 1986, with the passages she reads aloud highlighted in yellow.
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(left) Review of Homo Futurus, 1986, in Umbrella Magazine by Judith Hoffberg.
The "Clues to Ourselves" that the reviewer, Judith Hoffberg, refers to is an allusion to Rosenthal's first book ever published, Clues to Myself, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1981.
(left) Review of Homo Futurus, 1986, in Score Magazine by Laurie Schneider.
HOMO FUTURUS SPOKEN WORD CD and VIDEOS
this website section of CDs and DVDs under construction. See Printed Matter distributors for more info at this time.
(left) Homo Futurus performance video stills from (top) How Much Does the Monkey Count and (bottom) News Wall
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CD design for Compact Audio Disc of Homo Futurus (Readings From) ($ 25).....
HOMO FUTURUS PHOTOGRAPHS
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Four of the twenty 35mm full-frame gelatin-silver photographs reproduced in fine half-tone within the book.
As a suite of 25, they were first exhibited at the Fourth Street Photo Gallery, NYC, in 1986.
Vintage editions of six 11x14 gelatin-silver photographs are available from eMediaLoft.org ($1800 each)
This portion of the website is stil under construction. Please check back for more of the photo images.
HOMO FUTURUS PRINTS
this website section of 41 prints under construction. See above for installation photo and prices for individual prints.
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