Veneer Magazine
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Veneer Magazine is a subscription-based art publication. The magazine is edited by Aaron Flint Jamison and published by MPH. Veneer is distributed domestically by Textfield . Printed quarterly both in print and published online, Issue 1 was released in 2007 and the final issue, Issue 18, will be available in 2013. Two versions of each printed issue are created, one for subscribers and one for retail outlets.The issues are produced in an edition of 1000 with 300 of that edition being reserved for subscribers and 700 available for retail. Subscriber's editions also contain additional materials.
Veneer has included contributions from contemporary artists, writers, inventors, technicians, and musicians such as Adrian Piper
, George Kuchar
, GoodiePal
, Lucky Dragons
, Elaine Sturtevant
, Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil.
Veneer is known to fetishize the materials and processes involved in each issue. Past methods have included printing on a variety of paper stocks with unique letterpress and offset techniques, bull-whipping of each individual issue, sprayfoam
, embedding of titanium
pieces, embedding of cubic zirconiums, and application of Brut Deodorant
and Chantilly Lace perfume.
Veneer has included contributions from contemporary artists, writers, inventors, technicians, and musicians such as Adrian Piper
Adrian Piper
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...
, George Kuchar
George Kuchar
George Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:...
, GoodiePal
Goodiepal
Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a controversial Danish/Faroese musician/composer wanted by the Danish police authorities for an unsolved theft from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus...
, Lucky Dragons
Lucky Dragons
Lucky Dragons is an experimental music group consisting of Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. Based in Los Angeles, California, the band are noted for their unusual sound, described as having the ability to make "'everyday sounds' become alluringly other"....
, Elaine Sturtevant
Elaine Sturtevant
Elaine Sturtevant, an American artist born 1930 in Lakewood, Ohio, has achieved recognition for her works that consist entirely of copies of other artists' works.Sturtevant turns the concept of originality on its head...
, Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil.
Veneer is known to fetishize the materials and processes involved in each issue. Past methods have included printing on a variety of paper stocks with unique letterpress and offset techniques, bull-whipping of each individual issue, sprayfoam
Spray foams (insulation)
Spray foam insulation is an alternative to traditional building insulation such as fiberglass. A two-component mixture comes together at the tip of a gun, and forms an expanding foam that is sprayed onto roof tiles,concrete slabs, into wall cavities, or through holes drilled in into a cavity of a...
, embedding of titanium
Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ti and atomic number 22. It has a low density and is a strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant transition metal with a silver color....
pieces, embedding of cubic zirconiums, and application of Brut Deodorant
Brut (cologne)
Brut is the brand name for a line of men's grooming and fragrance products first launched in 1964 by Fabergé. The Brut line would grow to include aftershave, balms, and deodorant...
and Chantilly Lace perfume.