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Land|Slide TALKS Join us over wine for a series of artist talks from our artists-in-residence. Free (donations welcome). Frank Havermans (the Netherlands) and Xu Tan (China) Friday 2 November, 5-7 pm ING Presentation Room, CSI – Annex, 720 Bathurst St, Toronto map   About the Artists FRANK HAVERMANS studied Architectural Design at the Hogeschool voor [...]

Public Access PAC and PUBLIC Journal present: Slavoj Žižek, Arthur Kroker, and Brenda Longfellow + Until the End of the World by Wim Wenders. When: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, September 29, 2012 Location: Toronto City Hall – Council Chambers Facebook Event Page Nuit Blanche Project Page Three world renowned philosophers consider the profound ecological and economic [...]

45: Civic Spectacle Edited by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher Launch: Monday, 25 June 2012, 6-8 pm Bar Italia, 2nd floor ­­­­582 College Street, Toronto The event includes the screening of Ryan Stec’s Bright Lights: Big City throughout the evening. Pick up your copy for $12 before the issue hits newsstands (regular $15). Facebook event [...]

Select issues are 1/2 price until Monday 7 May. Sale price available only at our Big Cartel shop.

We’ve completely revamped our Editorial and Advisory Boards and are delighted to welcome this new group of artists, scholars and curators. Editorial Board Members Ariella Azoulay, Bar Ilan University, Israel Ian Balfour, York University, Toronto Bruce Barber, NSCAD, Halifax Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths, London Simon Critchley, The New School, New York Sean Cubitt, University of Southampton, [...]

Subscribe to PUBLIC by May 15th, 2012 for your chance to win a $200 gift certificate on books from Art Metropole, redeemable in person or online at their extensive website.

Join us for the launch of 44: Experimental Media on January 16th in Toronto at the Gladstone Hotel, from 6-9pm to pick up a copy of our new issue, and meet the editor and contributors. The event is taking placing at Early Monthly Segments #35 and will feature rare screening of J.J. Murphy’s Print Generation. [...]

Great news for all scholars and researchers! Starting January 2012, Intellect will be overseeing PUBLIC’s distribution to institutional subscribers. They will offer the printed edition of the journal, as well as online subscriptions–something PUBLIC has never before been able to offer. Have a look at our page on the Intellect site! We will update and [...]

PUBLIC cordially invites you to celebrate its newest publications and to the premiere of “THE LEONA DRIVE PROJECT,” a film by Kyath Battie, Philip Hoffman, Pouyan Jafarizadeh and Janine Marchessault. Come have a look at traces from the exhibition, meet contributors, artists, and the Public Access Collective, and pick up issues and subscription over some [...]

Now available is the limited-edition stand-alone catalogue for The Leona Drive Project, featuring an alternate cover with photography by Robin Collyer. Find it in the BOOKS section.

*Christine Davis, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, 2008. Endura Metallic Print, 18 x 24 inches PUBLIC is growing and we need your support! Subscribe and/or donate between now and August 31st for your chance to win a print by Christine Davis (value $2,000)*. A one year subscription is only $20, and gets you [...]

Starting with our next issue (43: Suburbs), PUBLIC will be distributed in Europe trough Central Books. So if you would like your bookshop or museum/gallery store to carry PUBLIC, please ask them to order copies through Central Books! We hope this makes PUBLIC more accessible and easier to find for all of our European readers. [...]

Buy 1 get 1 free, but only until Sunday. Our next issue is in production (43: Suburbs + Leona Drive Project Catalogue) and we need to make some room! Until this Sunday May 8th, buy 1 issue get 1 free when you order online (or buy 2 get 2 free, etc.). Simply check out with [...]

Good news for our readers in the US! PUBLIC will now be easier to find in local bookshops and newsstands with issues arriving in the coming weeks. Have a look at our list of stockists, and if a favourite store doesn’t carry us please ask them to order PUBLIC through Ubiquity Distributors. Happy reading!

We are excited to show you around. Here are some of the highlights: We created a new online archive using the Open Journal System (thank you Andrea Kosevic!) so you can browse  and download 20+ years of PUBLIC articles. We added much more information for all the issues, including full tables of content. We’ve included [...]

Join us for the launch of 42: Traces on Monday, 13 December 2010 at 8pm Annex Live 296 Brunswick Ave (at Bloor St) Toronto Pick up your copy for just $10. Light food will be served.

Join us for the launch of issue 41: Gardens on June 1, 6-9pm at: Mobile Media Gallery CJ Bldg Atrium Loyola Campus, Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St W., Montreal GARDENS is… Edited by Erin Despard and Monika Kin Gagnon and includes 24 essays, artworks, gardens by Broken City Lab, Adrian Blackwell+Jane Hutton, Gilles Clement, Heather [...]

PUBLIC is part of the International Experimental Media Congress in Toronto, April 7-11, 2010! Stop by the PUBLIC table on the Open Screening nights on Thursday April 8th and Friday April 9th at the Music Gallery to pick up back issues, subscribe, or sign up for notifications about the upcoming special issue devoted to the [...]

Join us for Mourning the Suburb: A Symposium on Dwelling, in Transition on Friday 5 March from 10:30-6:30pm at Prefix, 401 Richmond St W, Toronto. Keynote presentations by John Archer (11am), Beatriz Colomina (2pm) and Alberto Perez-Gomez (4pm). Tickets at the door ($10/speaker and $25/all day. Student discount $5/speaker and $15/day)